strongly upon the capilaries, causes them to uncap and emit blood. It is in vain to administer the elix
vitriol, or any other astringent in this case, unless they could affect the capilaries only; but while
they increase the cause, as much as they militate against the effect, to say no worse of it, it is useless.
But to take off the tension of the vessels, this is oging to the bottom of the cause, and there will be no
emission of blood in fever, or peripneumony. There is no doubt but that the attenuation of the blood
by rarifaction renders the increased action of the arteries more capable of producing this effect.
But there is no emission of blood, simply from attenuation of that fluid. There is always some other cause
co-operating, as the increased action of the vascular system, in whole or in part, or some extravasitation
of the blood.
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