3oa 



The Au- 

 thor's Ac- 

 count of a 

 Gangrene. 



A Mortifi- 

 cation, 

 what. 



Mortifica- 

 tion in old 

 Age dead- 

 ly. 



the Art of Farriertt 



CHAP. XXXVI. 



Of a Gangreney and Mortificatkn, 



MR. Gihfon defines a Gangrene to be a fudden 

 and violent Inflammation with intolerable 

 Pain, and that the fame is no other than a beginning 

 Mortification. 



Now this Defcription of a Gangrene I take to 

 be very lame, for by it one would be induced to be- 

 lieve every fudden Inflammation a beginning Mor- 

 tification. Therefore I fhall offer another Account 

 of this direful Phasnomenon. 



The Signs of a Gangrene are when the Symptoms 

 of Inflammation too fuddenly difappear, without 

 taking away the Caufe ; a dull Senfe in the Part, 

 Softnefs, Flaxidity, not rifing again if deprefs'd, 

 PuHules full of a Lymphatic or watry Liquor, fome- 

 times yellowifh, at other Times of a reddifh Colour, 

 in and about the Place inflamed. After this, comes 

 on a deadly Blacknefs of the Flefh, ^r . 



In a perfed Mortification, which Word has its 

 Etymology from Mors, Death, zxi^facio, to make, 

 the natural Juices quite lofe their proper Motions, 

 fo that they fail into a fermentative one, and there- 

 by corrupt and defiroy the very Texture of the 

 Parts ; Senfe and Motion in this Cafe are entirely 

 taken awny ; (I mean in the Limb affefled -,) there 

 is a cadaverous Smell, and a deep mortiferous Cor- 

 ruption preying upon all the adjacent Parts, even 

 to the very Sones themfelves ; a Gangrene is pre- 

 fcntly to be remedied, but a Mortification or Spha* 

 celus immediately to be extirpated> or cut away by 

 the very Roots. 



If this Diilemper happens to an- old Horfe, whe- 

 ther naturally or by Accident, it is almoft always 

 deadly ; and in Human Bodies fiom whatfoever 

 Caufe a Mortification proceeds, if the fame fall up- 

 on the A.ged, or Hydropical, Phtliyfical, or Scor- 

 butic Habits, it moftly carries Ui<; Patient off. 



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