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memorial by the appellation of humours) 

 to be ultimately carried off with the remain- 

 ing efforts of intestinal expulsion. 



If any farther explanation can be at all 

 required, to render this process more intel- 

 lio;ible to the dullest comprehensions, I must 

 beg permission to recommend such reader to 

 a retrospective recollection of his own sensa- 

 tions towards the concluding operations of an 

 emetic, or catliartic ; w^hen I believe it will 

 immediately occur to his remembrance, that 

 the irritation of the vessels was much more 

 severe and effectual, proved by the repeated 

 strainings) than in the preceding discharges 

 when the contents were expelled with much 

 greater ease to the patient, though less eiSa- 

 .cacy upon the frame. 



As I have just hinted, there are other dis- 

 orders, or rather advanced stages, of those last 

 described, (and for which '' brisk purges'' 

 are recommended), that require a still more 

 peculiar mode of counteraction ; as horses 

 subject to, or labouring under, inveterate 

 cracks in the heels; oosing indications of, 

 or palpable, grease ; cut^mous eruj)tio7is ; vas^ 



