222 BROKEN WIND. 



ftant accumulation and diftindtion, too rigid 

 for the great and neceffary purpofe of refpira- 

 tion. 



How far this probable fyftem of obftru(fl:ion 

 may come into immediate contadl with the 

 judgment of others, I am yet to learn ; the 

 conjedlure naturally arifing from a ferious and 

 attentive inveiligation of the cafe, is fubmitted 

 to public opinion, as a far more rational mode 

 of explanation than to trumpet or re-echo 

 an abfardity, that " the lungs are too large for 

 '' the cheft," or aftill greater, that ">«/feed- 

 *' has made the lungs fat,'' when a furvey 

 of the fubjed: fhall inftantly demonftrate the 

 car cafe to be evidently poor. 



Whichfoevqr conjefture may be right re- 

 fpedling the caufcy one opinion is univerfal upon 

 the curey if it originates in a natural deformity ; 

 for, fhould (according to the credulity of for- 

 mer writers) *^ the lungs be too large for the 

 *' cheft,'' or, ^' the cheft too narrow for the 

 " lungs," the efted being diredlly the fame, it 

 is not in the power of art to furnifh a cure; 

 the expence to obtain it being therefore fuper- 

 fluous, it had better be avoided. That fuch a 



defeft 



