308 TUMOURS, HOW ENGENDERED. [BOOK IT. 



seeking its way inwards, until the knife alone can 

 afford relief. At the shoulder-blade, or scapula, 

 the fibrous and membranous construction is exceed- 

 ingly strong, whence fistula in the withers. Behind 

 the noil bone, where the line 5 is intersected by A, 

 in plate I, a body of soft muscular structure inter- 

 poses between that bone and the first vertebra of 

 the neck. Look again at page 40, &c. for setting 

 on of the fore leg. Generally speaking, all swell- 

 ings of a circumscribed nature are tumours. 



Some objections which have been raised against 

 the view we have taken of the origin of this whole 

 series of diseases must not go quite unnoticed here. 

 At the very commencement of this book (page 171), 

 and without adverting to either set of controver- 

 sialists, or indeed thinking at all of the dispute, we 

 assigned a reason why the apparently triumphant 

 proof oi Mr. White, at his page 81, is no proof at 

 all, but the contrary, as to the thickness or viscidity 

 of the blood increasing with the continuance of in- 

 flammatory fever. Every writer on this subject 

 allows, that the swelling and discharge of matter 

 that frequently occurs after fever, or inflammation 

 of the whole system, denotes the crisis or termina- 

 tion of that disorder ; and insists that it must be 

 considered as but an effort of nature to throw off 

 something that is offensive to the well-being of the 

 animal. The same happens often after " inflamma- 

 tion of the liver" has been reduced ; but this kind 

 of occurrence, though it adds nothing material by 

 way of argument, leads us directly to the point at 



