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pies of Heat and Attrition being at work upon it to 
produce this EfFed, it could not fail to be brought 
about in a few Days j and the fame would happen to all 
Animals, is what is effete, corrupted or altered, fo as 
to be unfit for the Ufe of the Animal, was not con^ 
tinually carried off by the Emun^ories, and a frefii 
Recruit daily fupplied from the Prima Via ; which 
Evacuations and Supply being kept up in their due 
Quantity and Proportion, do effedually prevent all 
Putrefadion and Acrimony, and keep the Blood and 
Humours in their natural Temperature, commonly 
.(though miftakenly) called Sweetnefs. 
It is not then a Defed in the Quantity of Fluids 
which kills an Animal in Farting, but a poifonous 
Acrimony, which the Blood and Humours naturally 
contrad, for want of a frefh Recruit and equal Eva- 
cuation. Thus in chronical Dirtempers, where the 
Perfon appears extenuated and exhaurted, the Quan- 
tity of the Fluids is certainly very fmall, yet enough 
to maintain Life for fome Months or Years, ’being kept 
in fome Degree of Sweetnefs or proper Temperature, 
by a certain Proportion of Recruit and Evacuation : 
But where the Recruit is entirely fubrtraded, the 
Evacuations will be proportionally leffened : And there- 
fore the Quantity of Fluids may remain much the 
fame, but the Quality will alter, and Putrefidion 
for the Reafons above affigned murt take Place, and 
be the immediate Caufe of Death, even long before the 
Mafsof Fluids be much diminifhed in Quantity, 
in the Cafe before us. Which leads to the Anfwer 
of another Difficulty,, 
