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tute a preternatural weight upon the animal 

 ceconomy, by incumbering the infinity of 

 finer vefiels fo exquifitely concerned in fecre- 

 tion and circulation, throwing the more no- 

 ble parts of the machine into diforder ; we 

 proceed to explain the operative procefs, and 

 cffeds of Cathartic Evacuants upon 

 the general fyftem ; by which phyfical ope- 

 ration, nature becomes gradually relieved 

 from the plethoric burthen of repletion, af- 

 fecting even the moft difi:ant parts of the ex- 

 tremities, by means fo univerfally known and 

 and repeatedly defcribed, 



Pup.GiNG, in its common and fuperficial 

 acceptation with the unenlightened multitude, 

 is confidered merely as a ready and conveni- 

 ent mode of expelling a load of accumulated 

 contents from the ftomach, or excrements 

 from the inteftines ; without a relative con- 

 fideration, or fingle idea of its more remote 

 and falutary influence upon thofe parts of the 

 frame, that are in general eftimation fuppofed 

 to be very little concerned in the operation or 

 its effedls* 



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