122 SURFEIT, 



not at all accuftomed to fearch into the ab- 

 ilrufe receffes of Nature, The blood, in its 

 greateft velocity, is fo inftantaneoufly checked 

 by ihQJlyptic injiuence of the j rigid element, 

 and the fadden contraftion of the folids, that 

 the CRASSAMENTUM, or balfamic part of the 

 tlood, becomes immediately thickened and 

 inflamed, feparating itfelf from the ferum or 

 watery part, which (being, from the inflam- 

 matory particles, impregnated with its pro- 

 portion of acrimony) extravafates itfelf 3 and, 

 by an effort of Nature, is propelled to the fkin 

 for tranfplration, where the pores (having been 

 inftantly collapfed at the time of the water's 

 taking effed) are fo clofely obftruded that its 

 fajfage to the furface is abfolutely prevented 

 and rendered impra^iicabk. This fixed, it 

 becomes united with the perfpirable matter 

 already confined there ; forming a morbid com- 

 bination) y and is, in the courfe of time^ 

 compelled by the progrefs of internal inflam- 

 mation to make its way through the Ikin ^ 

 upon which it at laft appears in a variety of 

 poRMs and diff'ercnt symptoms, afTuming 

 diftin^l degrees of malignancy, according to 

 xh^ ftatey habit y ^r\A conjlitntion of i\\Q (\ih]Q&c 

 at the time of attack. 



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