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** the Wine, are feparated ; the Lees fall to the 

 *^ Bottom, a Sort of Scum floats on the -Top, and 

 '* the Concavity of the VefTel is covered with a Sort 

 " of crufty Subilance." 



Thus far Monf. Solleyfell j who, though he was 

 one of the better fort of Farriers by way of Reafon- 

 ing, yet he was far wide of the Mark. For firft, 

 I infill upon it, that there is no fuch Thing as Fer- 

 mentation in the circulating Blood ; although I own 

 the Tranflation of Morbilic Matter in Fevers fhews 

 fomething very like it, ^oi:z. That after the Blood's 

 Ebullition, it throws off the offending Matter in 

 Tumours and Eruptions much in the Manner of the 

 Sediments of fermented Liquors. Yet, notwithftand- 

 'ing this Appearance fuits fo pat with our outward 

 Senfes, it is far from Truth j I mean, to imagine 

 that there is a Poifibility of the Blood^s Fermenta- 

 tion, (any otherwife than as I have before defcribed 

 under this Term ;) and if it only happens in the 

 Manner I have pointed out, there is no Doubt but 

 all the Effefts, fuch as Tumours, Eruptions, ^c. 

 may follow a Fever as well every whit, as if there 

 was fuch a Thing as Fermentation in the Blood. 

 Fever In my Opinion, as well as feveral who have 



^■fined. gone before me, a Fever is an augmented Velocity 

 of the Blood ; and the almoll infinite Variety of" 

 Caufes of this Diftemper, does fo diverfify its Ap- 

 pearances, and indicate fo many Ways or Methods 

 of Cure, that really it is no eafy Matter to write 

 down Rules, for the Management of Horfes ia 

 fuch Condition. However, I ihall attempt it in 

 the moft concife and befl Manner 1 am able. 



Firft then, the Blood (as all other Fluids) being^ 

 compofed or made of Liquid Parts, is therefore- 

 capable of being put into a more than ordinary 

 Degree of Motion, both by external and internal 

 Caufes. When the Caufe happens to be fimple 

 and external, as for Inllance, when the Blood is 

 violently agitated and put into a Hurry by the 

 Heat of the Sun, or by violent and excefCve Ex- 



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