102 GREASE, 



abforded and carried into the circulation. This 

 is palpably the ftate of the cafe; and Nature, 

 faid by Bartlet to be deficient in her own 

 office, is not fo but upon compulfion ; the con- 

 llant flow of perfpirable matter to the parts fo 

 evidently obiiruded, totally overpower every 

 effort of Nature ; and, from the accumulation 

 of matter, the veffels certainly become inade- 

 quate to the tails: of conveying treble the 

 proportion for which they were intended : the 

 extremities being by thefe means overloaded 

 and diftended, the contents not only become, 

 from their ftagnaticn, putrid and corrofive^ but 

 at length, by their acrimonious quality, pGr-= 

 forate the integuments in ay^//^/ ichor -^ and, by 

 a particular fharpnefs in its cutaneous oozing, 

 gives a callofity or hardncfs to the edges of the 

 apertures, fmall as they are, conftituting, in 

 this difeafe, a greater or lefs degree of invete- 

 racy, according to the ftate and temperament 

 of the blood at the time of attack. 



The diforder having once made its appear- 

 ance, will, m its progrefs, beyond every ad- 

 miilion of doubt, be almoft entirely regulated 

 bv the fivourable or unfavourable ftate of the 

 hab:^> which muft now be more minutely 



inquired 



