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the mafs of blood and humours which 
circulate through the body, and imprefs 
upon them a difeafed character, and it is 
in this way that metaftafes take place, (Dq 
morb, univerf. tjcut. r apparat. curat, morb. 
uni vers.) f 
Morton'Iikewife makes many other ju¬ 
dicious reflections in the courfe of the 
work we have juft quoted, and fubjoins 
feveral others in his Diftertation de Cortice 
Peruviano atque virtute cjus febrifuga, It 
is here that he obferves, that poifons a< 5 t 
immediately upon the animal fpirits or 
principle of life, and that at thewery in- 
ftant the poifon is fwallowed, the patient 
is attacked with a fever of the malign 
kind, and other diftrefling complaints. 
And he Iikewife obferves, l and with pro¬ 
priety, that the adtion of topical appli¬ 
cations throws much light upon his theory. 
“ Quantum enkii cerebrum atque genus 
hervofum afficiiintur ab emplaftro de Gal- 
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