42,8 ON MOLTEN-GREASE. 



torn of applying to certain difcharges, the term 

 of greafe, a cudom adopted alfo by Mr. Blaine 

 himfelf when the matter is difcharg^ed from the 

 legs. 



With refpeft to the evidence of fenfe, had 

 Mr. Blaine ever feen a horfe under the difeafe 

 of molten-greafe, he might have found, on ex- 

 periment, that part of the difcharges in queflion, 

 inflammable and liqucfiable, which are not the 

 charatiers of albumen, but of real greafe ; and 

 viev>ring the matter through the medium of ex- 

 perience, I can fee no fort of improbability in a 

 colliquation of loofe and unfubftantial internal 

 fat, by fudden inflammation, and its confequent 

 cffufion and difcharge by an unufual emun61ory ; 

 nor in the blood itfelf being impregnated, and, 

 as it were, lined with fat. 'Gibfon gives an in^ 

 ftance (Vol. II. p. 186,) which convinced him 

 (apparently incredulous before) of the poflibi- 

 bility of a horfe's greafe being melted. He 

 found " the fat melted and turned into an oil, 

 and drawn olf from its proper cells into the 

 blood vefiels." He fays farther, this difeafe " is 

 not unlike the greafy diarrhoeas that happen to 

 men;" that " the 'horfe's blood will have a 

 thick fkin of fat over it when cold ;" that " the 

 congealed part or fediment is commonly a mix- 

 ture of fize and greafe." But I have referved, 

 until the laft, that which will doubtlefs be ef- 

 teemedj on all hands, my higheil authority, for 



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