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from fuch caufe) may be the effedl of an 

 acrimonious, impoveriflied, and difeafed flate 

 of the blood ; for the due correcfting of 

 which, proper remedies may be feledled from 

 the former vohime of this work, under the 

 different clafTes and i%eads to which they are 

 the molt applicable. 



Defiuxions of the eyes arifing from what- 

 ever caufe, whether the repletion already 

 defined, that by its accumulation diftends 

 the finer vefTels in proportion as the larger 

 are ^overloaded, and in fuch retention ac- 

 quires tendency to difeafe ; from fuch ex- 

 ternal injuries as bites and blows ; or a re- 

 laxed, defed:ive, or paralytic aifecftion of the 

 internal organs, they are all in general deno- 

 minated HUMOURS without dijlindiio7i^ and 

 phyfically treated accordingly. Hence arifes 

 a very predominant and almoft univerfal error, 

 for want of judicious difcrimination in paying 

 proper attention to the ftatc of the blood; 

 the difference and property of which have 

 been fo accurately and repeatedly defcribed, 

 that there is no opening left to admit the plea 

 of ignorance in any one cafe where it is en- 

 titled to infpecSion. 



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