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MOLTEN GREASE. 



Is a dlforder produced in general by top 

 great, fudden, or powerful exertions, when a 

 horfe is not in proper condition : as firong and 

 fevere hunting, long and fpeedy journies, or 

 hard driving in carriages, when firfl: taken 

 from grafs loaded with impurities 3 juft out of 

 a dealer's poffeffion, full of light flatulent food ; 

 or when too full of flefh for violent exercife. 

 In fuch cafes, from the internal heat, increafed 

 circulation, and temporary inflammation, the 

 fat feated upon the membranes in various 

 parts of the body undergoes rarefadion and 

 rapid folution, making d'fcinct efforts for dif- 

 charge by the different emundories. The 

 proportion neareft the vefTels becomes abforbed 

 by the blood (retarding circulation), thereby 

 producing fome degree of fever ^ another part 

 makes its appearance with the excrem.ents ; a 

 third portion fixes upon the lungs, and ob- 

 flruds refpiration; to thefe a laxation of the 

 inteftinal contents fucceed j and laftly, a loofe- 

 nefs, or fcouring, of which we lafl treated 5 



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