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Now if an Inflammation was at all the neceflary Con- 
fequenceof thisPoifon, though the Creature recovers* 
yet there muft be fome Inflammation, greater or iefs, pro- 
duced, which muft occafion more violent and lafting 
Symptoms. But fince nonefuch appear, fince the Recovery 
is fo fudden and effedual, it is the ftrongeft and plaineft 
Argument, that there is not any Inflammation produced. 
If th z Law el- Water is adminiftred to the Quantity 
of an Ounce or more, the Creature unavoidably dies in a 
few Minutes, and upon opening him the Appearances are 
thefe. Both the Trunks of the Vena Cava, and all the 
Ramifications of the Meferaick Veins are greatly diften- 
ded with Blood. Thefe Veflels are eafily diftinguilhed 
from the Arteries, not only by the Thinnefs of their 
Coats, but alfo by the Colour which the Blood exhi- 
bits to the Eye. Now I conceive that all Inflammati- 
ons have their Beginning in the Arteries, and that they 
are produced, becaufe there is no free Paflage for the 
Blood into the Veins. But if once this Paflage becomes 
free (as in this Cafe it furely is, for we find all the 
Veins diftended with Blood beyond their natural Di- 
menfions) the Inflammation is then at an End, the Caufe 
which produced it being taken off. 
Moreover, the Fad laid down, that the Veins are pre- 
ternaturally diftended with Blood, does neceffarily con- 
clude, that the Arteries are not diftended with it, and 
confequently that there cannot be any Inflammation - r 
for if the Quantity of Blood is encreafed in the Veins, 
it muft be proportionably diminifhed in the Arteries. 
To what has been faid, we may add the following 
Obfervation y viz. that if there was any Inflammation 
produced by this Poifon, it ought t® appear moft re- 
markable 
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