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the poiTibility of the animal oil being abforbed 

 and mixed with the lympli : — it is no lefs than 

 that of Mr. Blaine himfelf, who in Vol. II. p. 19 

 and 20, allows, that the interflitial adeps may 

 become abforbed; and that wdien ihe blood has 

 but a fmall quantity of chyle poured into it from 

 the lafteal abforbents, the lymphatic abforb- 

 ents are forced to make up the deficiency, by 

 taking up the animal oil. 



But we have not yet done with Mr. Blaine 

 on this fubjeft. I have already quoted from 

 his Firft Volume, the following extraordinary 

 piece of logic. — '' It (anatomy) has taught us 

 like wife, that fir ong phyfic is dangerous, becaufe 

 what was miftaken for fat is only the eflLe61 of 

 inflammation." Yet, in the cafe, Mr. Blaine 

 has ordered four drachms of calomel. Now he 

 teaches (p. 761) that the flrongefl horfe fiiould 

 never have more than eight drachms of aloes, 

 many being purged with four ; alfo, (p. 764) 

 that " half a drachm of calomel will operate in 

 the proportion of a drachm and half of aloes.'' 

 Thus, in a cafe wherein his knov/ledgre of ana- 

 tomy had taught him, that ftrong phyfic is dan- 

 gerous, he has prefcribed half as much again in 

 quantity, as, by his own account, the flrongeffc 

 horfe ought ever to have. Again, in the very 

 height of an inflammiation of the brain, he has 

 ordered calomel and aloes, amounting, by his 

 own flandard, to the quantity of twelve or four- 

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