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 of the late Teflilenci. I v 3 goe flich an Alteration : For when an/ Veifels, and chiefly the Capillaries, are (o ob- truded by Contufions, or any other MeaiiSJ that the neighbouring Parts fwell, every Phy- fician and Surgeon too, I hope, knows that difcutient Medicines and Cataplaffns will re- ilore the former Motion and Fluxility to the Blood, eafe the Pain, and diiiipate the, Tumor. I F the Blood be too fluid in the Arteries, it is apt to occafion Aneurifms, and in the capillary Veins an Ecchymofis 3 but nothing is more commonly obferved in Practice, that upon a Recovery of the Blood's due .ConfH- tution and Circulation, the obftrufted Matter in an Ecchymofis will diiiipate through the Pores of the Skin, or be abfbrbed by the refluent Blood: But when the Blood happens to be too grumous and ftagnate, a Fever immediately arifes, unlefs it be prevented by- Evacuation *, and in fuch a Diforder, every one knows that there is mofr. Danger of a SchirruSy or a Mortification. AND as it hath been already obferved, that Blood could not be drawn from the Infected by Phlebotomy, without Lofs of Strength, if not of Life, whereas the great- er Quantities of Pus were obtained by Sup- J puration