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Objection IV. 
How the Ptilfe (liould continue full, ftrong and 
equal for feveral Days, while the Perfon was in a 
ftarving Condition, and the Blood had no Recruit 
from the Prim^ Ft^ ^ 
This indeed would be very unaccountable, if the 
Wafte of the Blood and Humours were fuppofed to con- 
tinue at the fame Height as before the Accident, and 
•the Evacuations by the Emun^ories were the fame as 
in perfed Health. In this manner the Contents of the 
Blood^FeJfels would be foon wafted and .exhaufted : 
But San^orius's Obfervations and Experiments do (hew, 
that the daily Recruits and Evacuations keep Pace with 
one another, and are nearly equal in 24 Hours in a 
healthy State : And therefore where the Recruits are 
plentiful, the Evacuations will be equally fo ; and 
where thofe are fparing the Evacuations are fmall ; or 
where the Balance is caft too much of either Side, fome 
Indifpofition or Diftemper muft follow. There is fio 
Exception from this Rule, but in Children, apart of 
whofe Nouriftiment goes to Acretion, and theEncreafe 
of their Weight: Therefore in the Cafe before us, the 
Recruit being entirely fubtraded, the Evacutions muft 
have been little, or next to nothing: And therefore the 
Quantity of Blood and circulating Humours would 
remain much the fame, and keep up the Fulnefs, 
Strength and Equality of the Pulfe for feveral Days, 
until the critical Putrefa^ion and CoUiquation of the 
Blood above-mentioned, on the fifth or fixth Day, 
rendered it unfit for a regular Circulation, and pro- 
duced Intermiflions in the Pulfe, Reachings to Vomit, 
and Hickup, all of them being local Convulfions, and 
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