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of now resorting to diaphoretics (sweating powders) ; 

 for it has been neglected so long, that tired nature, 

 being offended thereat, refuses to part with those 

 particles which occasion the greatest injury. " By 

 the urine," be it said. This way offers the same 

 difficulty, and the answer resolves itself into our 

 plan of opening the principal evacuations first. 

 See what we shall offer concerning bleeding and 

 purging in a subsequent page. So much, however, 

 seemed necessary to be advanced here, that the 

 reader, who reads straight an end, should be at no 

 loss as to what lately passed between us concerning 

 secretion and effusion at sections 2\ and 22. Of 

 all the smaller glands, the best recognised are those 

 termed salivary, situated near the jaws for the se- 

 cretion of spittle, wherewith to moisten the food 

 while descending into the stomach, and thus assist- 

 ing digestion in its first stage. The strangles and 

 vives are disorders of these glands : the swelling at 

 this part is a corresponding symptom of glanders, 

 and sometimes attends farcy. But the largest of 

 these minor glands is situated in the solids, and lies 

 within the buttock, concealed near its centre, into 

 which passes an immense quantity of blood for its 

 size ; since it is found in the dead subject most dis- 

 posed to putrify, especially when the animal has 

 been driven hard ; they then call this the kernel. 

 The three large glands (p. 93), are reckoned so 

 many organs of life, or vitals. 



29. Lymphatics are one of two species of ab- 

 sorbing vessels; the other species (the lacteals) 



