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At this time he was bled, and his arm 

 embrocated with olive oil and vinegar - 3 

 feveral antiphlogillic remedies were 

 likewife given internally, which it would 



fuffer a previous rupture, and thereby afford an 

 unnatural admiflion into their cavities. That the 

 lymphatics are the only natural abforbents, is, 

 among other ftill ftronger proofs, evident from this 

 obfervation, that all Poifons which apparently affe£fc 

 the folids, a£t firft folely on the lymphatic vefiel's 9 or 

 their glands ; whilft the venal duel:;, which have 

 been hitherto fuppofed to abforb, remain unin- 

 jured. Thus the venereal poifon, when received 

 by coition, affects the inguinal glands, through 

 which the lymphatics from the penis pafs, and 

 generates buboes. If it is received by the breaft, 

 it acts on the fubaxillary glands, with which the 

 mammary lymphatics communicate, he. And in 

 the prefent inftance, we find the Poifon of Woo- 

 rara producing a tumefaction and inflammation of 

 the fame glands, to which it .was conveyed by the 

 lymphatic veffels from the finger, and in which it 

 was ■ arretted. Thus the Poifon was refufed a paf- 

 fage into the fanguiferous veffels by the lymphatic 

 glands, which are wifely difpofed fo as to obftru£t 

 the entrance of almoft every thin^ detrimental to 

 health. 



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