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eyes (or any other complaints usually arising 

 from such cause), may be the effect of an 

 acrimonious, impoverished, and diseased state 

 of the blood ; for the due correcting of which, 

 proper remedies may be selected from the 

 former volume of this work, under the dif- 

 ferent classes and heads to which they are 

 the most applicable. 



Defluxions of the eyes arising from what- 

 ever cause, whether the repletion already de- 

 fined, that by its accumulation distends the 

 finer vessels in proportion as the larger are 

 overloaded, and in such retention acquires 

 tendency to disease ; from such external in- 

 juries as bites and bloxvs ; or a relaxed, defec- 

 tive, or paralytic affection of the internal 

 organs, they are all in general denominated 

 HUMOURS, without distinction, and physically 

 treated accordingly. Hence arises a very 

 predominant and almost universal error, for 

 want of judicious discrimination in paying 

 proper attention to the state of the blood ; 

 the difference and property of which have 

 been so accurately and repeatedly described, 

 that there is no opening left to admit the 

 plea of ignorance in any one case where it is 

 entitled to inspection. 



