274 ROWELLING. 



ficatioiv ill sepamtioii and extravasation than 

 the other. 



It being therefore proved nothing more or 

 less (divested of technical terms and ambi- 

 guous reasoning) than a gradual depletion 

 of the blood-vessels, divested of its sangui- 

 nary appearance, and becoming matter bjr 

 the natural process of extravasation and rare- 

 faction) let us decisively pronounce what such 

 constant evacuation can be productiye of ia 

 its effects 1 I believe I may venture to pro- 

 nounce every professor of physic or farriery 

 will perfectly agree with me, in confirming 

 it nothing more than a certain mode of re- 

 ducing the habit by drawing off a greater 

 portion of blood in every twenty-four hours,, 

 than is generated by the nutritive property 

 of the given quantity of aliment, allowed for 

 subsistence in the same space of time ; thought 

 it is, in all cases y ridiculously conceived, that 

 l)y reducing the bodily strength,you infallibly 

 subdue the predominance of disease also. 



We now arrive at the very line of dis- 

 tinction necessary to be drawn in all cases^ 



