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uhove himself in condition, displaying a state 

 of purity in appearance, Nature may, undei* 

 such favourable circumstances, prove herself 

 adequate to the task of absorption, and it may- 

 be again received into the circulation, no 

 ill consequences becoming perceptible ; but 

 should the vessels have been before overload- 

 ed, and the blood in a state of viscidity, 

 very great danger must inevitably ensue ; for 

 the perspirative matter, thus pre ter naturally- 

 thrown upon the circulation, after acquirhig 

 by its stagnation a proportional tenacity, 

 must render the whole system liable to sudden 

 inflammation upon increasing the blood's 

 motion to the least deiiree of velocitv. 



To the persuasive force of these probable^ 

 effects, I have long sinc>e become the greater 

 convert, by attentively adverting to the great 

 number of those horses that so suddenly 

 drop dead upon the road, in the very, next 

 stage after having undergone sxich unnatural 

 ablution. To the rational or scientific ol)- 

 server, the cause of these deaths does not re- 

 quire a momentary investigation ; the system 



of CIRCULATION, DERIVATION, REPLE- 



T10N5 and REVULSION, are too we J under- 



