50 The Farrier'^ New Guide. Chap. XII: 



cannot be carried off thro' the Pores of the Extremities, 

 in fuch Qiiantity as is neceflary, by reafon that thefe Pores 

 are not of fufHcient Capacity and Magnitude, that is to fay, 

 they are not wide enough to give Vent to fo much Matter; 

 and therefore the Dillention of the Veflels will ftill be more 

 hicreafed ; and as the grofler Excrements muft alfo be aug- 

 mented from the conftant Supplies of Food, the Guts mull 

 thereby receive more than can be difcharged in the ufual and 

 naturalWay ; but this will be eafily apprehended by any one, 

 who confiders the flow Progrefs of the Dung in the Intefti- 

 nal Tube, which is of a very great Length from the Stomach 

 to the Fundament, and is wound up into many Circumvo- 

 lutions and Turnings, as is vifible when the Belly of any 

 Creature is laid open ; and therefore when the firil Paf- 

 fages, and likewife all the Blood-velTels are thus cramm'd, 

 a Fever mult be created ; but becaufe the Oppreffion is fo 

 very great, that Nature cannot fupport it long before fhe 

 difcharges herfelf of the Burden ; therefore where -ever the 

 Nifus or Impetus is moft, there fhe breaks forth fometimes 

 like a Flood ; and if that happen to be in Sweat, the fudori- 

 fick Po: es are open, and flretch'd to fuch a Degree, that the 

 Diltemper will be quite folv'd, and all the other Pallagcs 

 made glib and eafy, fo that the Excretions of another Kind 

 begin all to loofen and fall off through their proper Duds ; 

 but if the Solution happen not to be universal, though the 

 Fever be in a Manner abated and quite gone^ yet becaufe 

 the internal Glands, but particularly thofe of the Guts, for this 

 is mofl to our prefentPurpofe, are not at all, or at lead fuf- 

 ficiently opened, therefore the hardened Excrements are no 

 ways loo'en'd irom their Adhelions, but continue fiiftned by 

 a Sort of glutinous and vifcid Matter to the Sides of that 

 Canal. But while the Dung is in this Manner pent up, it 

 ingenders a more than ordinary Degree of Putrefadion, and 

 its Acrim^ony and Sharpnefs becomes a Stimulus to the Guts, 

 and by its Vellication occalions a more than ordinary Quan- 

 tity of Liquor to be drained from the inteflinal Glands, 

 fo that the Excrements are at length caft forth by a Loofe- 

 nefs, and are difcharg'd in a very great Quantity ; and now 

 Natuie being more at Liberty by a plentiful Difcharge of 

 the Dung, the Blood is thereby put into a brisker Motion, 

 by which it dilates itfelf, and flows with more Eafe, and in 

 greater Quantity, into the fmall Veflels towards the Extremi- 

 ties of the Skin, fo that if its Texture be thin and moveable, 

 it will cither caufe an Hemorrhage at the Mouth or Nofe, 



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