I2£ Of the manifejl Signs Malignity abundantly fuificient for the Pro- duction of peftiiential Carbuncles. THE more aggravated therefore the faliue Qualities of this foreign faline Principles :fliall be, and in Proportion to the Quantities of it inimuated into the animal Fluids, the Car- buncles will break out more or fewer, fooner or later ; although as long as the peftiiential Poifbn flows in Company with other Fluids within the VeiTels, it feems more mild, be- caufe then diluted, than when feparated and thrown upon the Skin by the natural Excre- tory Power:. And this Expulfion of it feems much to be affifted by the common Tenden- cy of ferous Particles towards the Surface, and the Congrefs of nitro-aereal Particles there- with ; but nothing however is more manifeft than that when the peftiiential Poifon hath ?ot to the Surface, it exercifes its Virulence upon all the Parts it touches, and leaves cruel Marks of its Triumph behind ^ the fame as which likewife obtains not ' only from an epi- demick Peftilence, but upon drinking any poifonous Draughts. BUT it concerns us here to remove one Miftake ; For it is laid down by Dicmebrooech^ in Oppofttion to the common Opinion^ that a
