426 ON MOLTEN-GREASE. 



cut fever al inches deep in fat ; this being of a 

 loofe and unfubftantial texture, and not firm 

 like the pinguedo or fuet, no wonder it will 

 fufe, and be fet afloat by extraordinary heat 

 and violent exertion. 



Having, in the words above, now given in 

 Italics, exprefled my felf inaccurately, from inad- 

 vertence merely, Mr. Blaine, with a commend- 

 able diligence, has not failed to lay hold of 

 the fuppofed advantage, for which he will find 

 I am under a real obligation to him. He could 

 not furely imagine my meaning to be, that the 

 horfe's blood was without coaguium ; in truth, 

 I intended to exp'refs, that the coaguium was 

 x^xtremely greafy, or impregnated with fat, a 

 Hate, in which the blood of the horfe will be 

 found, in various circumftances. 



This is one of thofe very important inftances, 

 which Mr. Blaine has chofen to adduce, in proof 

 of the vail fuperiority of himfelf and certain 

 other perfons, over our original and praftical 

 veterinary writers : but let him fpeak for him- 

 felf, and together with the new fchool, enjoy all 

 the advantages of his vi6lory. — Vol. I. p. 95. 

 Mr. Blaine fays, " It is by anatomy we know 

 that molten-greafe is no llirring up or melting 

 the fat of the body ; which has been a moll 

 grofs and dangerous error of long (landing ; but 

 that it is fimply a throwing out of coagulable 

 lymph." — " It has taught us likewife, that flrong 



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