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Glands, in Compnrifon to what it does through 

 the other (moftly reflilinear) Canals of our Bodies, 

 that thefe Swellings, from want of Heat, (which 

 Philofophers know confifls in Motion,) are of a flow 

 Procedure. 



I have faid thus much in relation to the Strangles, 

 which I hope may be fafhcient : For in this Chapter, 

 as well as tlie following, I fhall not trouble the 

 Reader with long Accounts of Things, whicli 

 would rather puzzle and incumber his Memory, 

 than any way tend to his Information. Therefore 

 I now proceed to fay fomething of the fpurious or 

 falfe and Baflard Str angles. 



C H A P. V. 



Of the Bajiard Strangles. 



MOnfieur Solleyfell, as well as our own Country- 

 man Mr. Markham, has accounted for the 

 Baftard Strangles in a very odd kind of Manner. 

 . Theirs Authors imagine, that when the Matter 

 cf the Strangles is imperfeftly carried oiF, there 

 remains a latent Ferment in the Blood, which, in 

 its proper Time, will agitate the Humours, and 

 caufe them, to" fail upon the fame Place where they 

 fhculd have been before call off. And this, they 

 {■yy, may fometimes happen five cr ten Years after- 

 ward, when a Korfe is ten or ^i^tctn Years old. 

 Indeed, at firfc Sip;ht, and to moft illiterate People, 

 who have no other Notion of Things than as they 

 quadrate or fuit with the outward Senfes, this feems 

 found Reafoning ; but it is all Bombafl, nonfenfical 

 Stuff : For it is well known there is no fach Thing 

 as Fermentation in the Blood, nor in any other 

 Fluid, which flows Vv'ith the like Celerity ; becaufe 

 this Celerity m.anifefily hinders that Intefline Mo- 

 tion, {o abfolutely necefTary to produce Ferm«nta- 

 tion. But really, it is no eafy Matter to fix Boun- 

 C 3 daries 



