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All opinions hiave not only agreed, but 

 experience has eftablifhed the fad, that the 

 matter difcharged froin the rowels, is, as 

 Bracken has tirft obferved, ** as certainly 

 blood as that in the veins, baning the 

 colour." This is re-afferted by every fuc- 

 ceeding author, and can admit of no con- 

 trariety of opinion tending to cavil or con- 

 troverfy ; being a marter profefiionally fix- 

 ed beyond the poiTibility of eithen What 

 inference then is confequently co be drawn 

 from this admiffion ? Why, that every part 

 of the circulation, both in quantity and 

 quality, contributes equally to that very 

 difcharge fo ridiculoufly fuppofed to confift 

 of the difeafed portion only; when the in- 

 fertion has been as erroneoufly fixed upon 

 or near to fome particular part, co be inten- 

 tionally relieved by the partial power of fuch 

 artificial evacuation ; conftituting a fecond 

 blunder upon the palpable foundation of the 

 former. For it mull prove a difgraceful 

 proftitution of even comjnon comprehenjion^ 

 to indulge the leaft idea, that a larger por- 

 tion of craffamentum or ferum can mdi- 

 vidually undergo a greater change or red:i- 



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