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mant foon becomes perceptible; the fluids are 

 too thick, iluggifn, and heavy, for tlieir diftincfl 

 ap}5ropriations ; the lungs are firft overloaded, 

 a languor follows, to that a difficulty of 

 breathing or ihort cough fucceeds ; and, laftly, 

 the grand effort of nature difplays itfelf in 

 the difeafe before us: and that is moftjudi- 

 cioufly made in the glandular parts, where flie 

 is nearly adequate to her own Vv^crk. 



This rational progrefs of the morbid matter 

 has ever affeded me fo forcibly v/ith the idea 

 of convidion, that nothing but a judicious, 

 clear, and comprehenlive elucidation, (diveiled 

 of furmifes andconjedlures), demonftrating an 

 oppofite caufe, can ever r-econcile me to another 

 opinion. I appeal, without fubterfuge or am- 

 biguity, to the profeffional and enlightened 

 reader, whether this is not the regular procefs; 

 if this lurking vifcidity, this glutinous impu- 

 rity, is not roufed from its latent communi- 

 cation with the juices, and called into adiion, 

 by bringing the frame into fudden exertions 

 and conftant exercife, loaded (in circulation) 

 with the v/eight that has been fo long accu- 

 .mulating without interruption, from either 

 purgatives, diuretics, or even perfpiration? If 

 T 4 this 



