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tibly stinted (v/hicb may be plainly per- 

 ceived not or?Iy by bis external appearance, 

 but incessahl attempts to obtain supplies 

 without success), artificial means must be 

 adopted to solicit a due discharge of this very 

 necessary fluid, Avithout which ever}^ expec- 

 tation of the foal's o;rowth and oradual im- 

 provement must be rendered abortive. , 



This object can only be accomplished by 

 enlai o'ino- the mode and increasing the means 

 of conveying a larger portion of more nutri- 

 tious ahment into the syst-r^m : from the 

 general diffusion of which the lymphatics 

 and lacteals become proportionably distend- 

 ed, and are consequently enabled to secrete 

 and discharge a much greater quantity than 

 nature, in her more reluctant state, seems 

 inclined to bestow. 



This systematic process of nature may, to 

 the less enhghtened reader, seem matter of 

 so much ambiguity, that somev/hat more in 

 explanation may be probably required ; but 

 as abstruse reasoning and physical definition 

 (it has been before said) are not the }»urpose 

 of the present publication, every irrelative 



