2i8 EXERCISE. 



diftinguifhing its property, or predominant, 

 tendency, much better in that condition, than 

 a ftate of liquidity as juft received from the 

 vein. If that certainty is admitted, (as I 

 flatter myfelf it will not, upon reflection, 

 be refpedlably denied) it mull: undoubtedly 

 prove, much more eligible and fatisfacSory 

 to obtain profeffional prognofl:ics in part, 

 than not to acquire any information at alL 

 This being a pofition beyond the power of 

 confutation, it is only neceffary to add a An- 

 gle remark ariling from daily practice, long 

 experience, and accurate obfervation, upon 

 the certainty of afcertaining from a minute 

 examination of the blood ivhe?!- cold, the pro- 

 portion of crassamentum, SERUM, SIZE, 

 VISCIDITY, probable inflammation or acri- 

 mony it contains; from 'all which, furely 

 diagnoftics may be rationally formed to re- 

 gulate future proceedings ; at leaft, fo I con- 

 ftantly find it in the courfe of my own 

 pradiice-; and until fuch infped:ion, by any 

 deception, fliould convince me of its un- 

 certainty and inutility, I fhall not be rea- 

 dily induced to alter an opinion founded 

 upon practical convidlion ; though I muft 



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