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clear to admit of a doubt. The gradual and 

 general affedion of the frame may be eafily 

 reconciled to any comprehenfion, by the idea 

 of a fingle fpark of fire giving life to a com- 

 bination of combuftibles that foon conftltute a 

 general flame. To fay the ^j^arcy is or can 

 be long partial to any particular fpot is a very 

 ridiculous fappofition ; for although the attack 

 m&y be local (the caufe being Inflammatory), 

 it mufl: foon be tmiverfal from the very nature 

 of the circulation. Certain folid parts of the 

 body may be individually afl^eded by inflam- 

 mation, but we naturally infer, from a know- 

 ledge of the circulation, one part of the blood 

 cannot imbibe a temporary affedlion without 

 a fpeedy communication to the whole. 



If, as it has been before obferved, " the 

 " Farcy is a diflemper of the blood veflTels," 

 I cannot indulge a momentary doubt but fuch 

 diflemper in the velTels muft have received the 

 full force of difeafe from the acrimonious ftate 

 of the blood itfelf ; which, by its accumulating 

 force and morbid pungency, foon exceeds the 

 bounds prefcribed by nature, making its way 

 to the furface, by a corrofion of the veflels in 

 which it was contained. The coat is raifed in 

 K 4 diiterent 



