MOLTEN GREASE. 355 



trian emulation in the sporting world, from 

 the lucky possessor of a numerous stud, to 

 the more humble dependant whom fortune 

 persuades to he compuhively content with. one. 



The symptoms are in different subjects 

 more or less violent, according to the state 

 and condition at the time of attack ; varying 

 in all, either in a greater or lesser degree, in 

 proportion to the parts most affected by the 

 sudden revulsion and original cause. Where- 

 ever the solution has proved most partial, 

 the effect will become most predominant ; 

 as, for instance, upon the bowels, lungs, or 

 circulation of the blood by absorption ; in 

 the first, great pain attends the laxation or 

 looseness; in the second, great difficulty of 

 breathing from the expansion of the lungs, 

 may produce symptoms of inflammation there, 

 as explained in p. 214. And when the mass 

 of blood is generally affected, and preterna- 

 turally loaded, fever must consequently en^ 

 sue. These symptoms, as before observed, 

 all vary in different subjects ; but one is pa- 

 thognomonic or invariable in all, which is the 

 general incorporation of a greasy substance 

 with the excrements, nearly similar to the 



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