^12 PLEURISY, &c. 



*' is an inflammation of the pleura -,' but, 

 as " no ghofl need come from the grave 

 " to tell us that," we will go a little farther, 

 and, inilead of diverfifying and mutilating the 

 fymptoms to form a deceptive appearance of 

 two diftindl difeafes, I fliall clearly prove them 

 to be not only of the fcune family ^ but very 

 nearly related ; for, as the pleura is in the me- 

 dical world univerfaily known to be the mem- 

 brane immediately covering the lungs, every 

 reader may inftantly form his own judgment 

 whether the latter can become the principal 

 feat of inflammation without tXiQ pleura s being 

 proportionally afFeded by the diflienflon. I 

 have not the lead doubt but this thejis will 

 fufiiciently efl:ablifli its own weight, to prevent 

 a diverfity of opinions. 



To exclude occafion for more medical or 

 anatomical definitions than are abfolutely un-- 

 avoidable, it muft fuffice to fay, the diAinc- 

 fion between the difeafes are too nice (in this 

 animal) for certain difcriminations > either dif- 

 plays fymptoms common to both ; and, as the 

 treatment is exactly fimilar in each, no incon- 

 venience can arife from not decifively fixing it 

 upon 07ie or the other, as in general they are 



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