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not at all accullomed to fearch into the ab- 

 ftrufe receffes of Nature. The blood, in its 

 greateft velocity, is £o inftantaneoufly checked 

 by the Jlyptic injluejice of iht frigid element, 

 and the fudden contradlion of the folids, that 

 the CRASS AMENTUM, or balfamic part of the 

 blood, becomes immediately thickened and 

 inflamed, feparating itfelf from the ferum or 

 watery part, which (being, from the inflam- 

 matory particles, impregnated with its pro- 

 portion of acrimony) extravafates itfelf; and, 

 by an effort of Nature, is propelled to the jfkin 

 for tranfpiration, where the pores (having been 

 infliantly collapfed at the time of the water's 

 taking effed) are fo clofely obfl:rud:ed that its 

 pajfage to the furface is abfolutely prevented 

 and rendered impraoiicabk. Thus fixed, it 

 becomes united with the perfpirable matter 

 already confined there (forming a morbid com- 

 bination), and is, in the courfe of time, 

 compelled by the progrefs of internal inflam- 

 mation to m.ake its way through the ikin ; 

 upon which it at lafl: appears in a variety of 

 FORMS and different symptoms, aflliming 

 difl:in(ft degrees of malignancy, according to 

 the Jtate, habit, and conjlitiition of the fubje6l 

 at the time of attack. 



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