50 The FarrierV Neij^ Guide. Chap. XII. 



cannot be carried off thro' the Pores of the Extremities, 

 in fuch Qi_iantity as is neceffary, by reafon that thele Pores 

 are not of fufficient Capacity and Magnitude, that is to fay, 

 they are not wide enough to give Vent to fo much Matter ; 

 and therefore the Dlilention of the Vellels will flill be more 

 increafed j and as the grofler Excrements mull alfo be aug- 

 mented from the conftant Supplies of Food, the Guts mult 

 thereby receive more than can be difcharged in the ufual and 

 raturalWay ; but this will be ealily apprehended by any one, 

 who conliders the flow Progrefs of the Dung in the Intefti- 

 nal Tube, which is of a very great Length from the Stomach 

 to the Fundament, and is wound up into many Circumvo- 

 lutions and Turnings, as is vifible when the Belly of any 

 Creature is laid open ; and therefore when the firll Paf- 

 fages, and likewife all the Blood-veflels are thus cramm'd, 

 a Fever mull be created ; but becaufe the Oppreflion is fo 

 very great, that Nature cannot fupport it long before (he 

 difcharges herfelf of the Burden ; therefore where -ever the 

 Nifia or Impetus is moll, there fhe breaks forth fometimes 

 like a Flood ; and if that happen to be in Sweat, the fudori- 

 fick Poies are open, and ftrctch'd to fuch a Degree, that the 

 Diftemper will be quite folv'd, and all the other Paflages 

 made glib and eafy, fo that the Excretions of another Kind 

 begin all to loofen and fall off through their proper Dudls ; 

 but if the Solution happen not to be univerial, though the 

 Fever be in a Manner abated and quite gone, yet becaufe 

 tlie internal Glands, but particularly thofe of the Guts, for this 

 is moll to our prefent Purpofe, are not at all, or at leall fuf- 

 ficiently opened, therefore the harden'd Excrements are no 

 ways loo'en'd from their Adhefions, but continue faflned by 

 a Sort of glutinous and vifcid Matter to the Sides of that 

 Canal. But while the Dung is in this Manner pent up, it 

 ingenders a more than ordinary Degree of Putrcfadion, and 

 its Acrimony and Sharpnefs becomes a Stimulus to the Guts, 

 and by its Vellication occalionsa more than ordinary Qiian- 

 tity of Liquor to be drained from the intellinal Glands, 

 io that the Excrements are at length call forth by a Loofe- 

 nefs, and are difcharg'd in a very great Qi_iantity ; and now 

 Nature being more at Liberty by a plentiful Difcharge of 

 the Dung, the Blood is thereby put into a brisker Motion, 

 by which it dilates itfelf, and flows with more Eafe, and in 

 greater Qi^iantity, into the fmall Vellels towards the Extremi- 

 ties of the Skin, To that if its Texture be thin and moveable, 

 it Will cither caufe an Hemorrhage at the Mouth or Nofe, 



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