50 The Caufes and Cure This Animal, in the hotter Seafbns of the Year, is fubje£l to be thrown into a Fever ^ which Fever, for Want of fuch free Vent through the Pores of the Skin as in a Man, critically difcharges a great deal of morbid Matter by the Glands about the Mouth, Lungs, and Parts leading there- unto: And it is very well known, that this Matter is of fuch a poifbnous Nature, that where by a Bite or a Wound otherwife made, it is infufed into the Juices of other Creatures, it will excite in them the fame kind of Diftemper. But the Dog, before this Fever, had nothing of a poifonous Na- ture in him, and therefore the Venom ge- nerated by the Fever muft be from iuch an Alteration made upon the animal Juices, as changes them from a fmooth, foft, and InolfennVe, into a fiery, dry, Simulating Nature. So that there is nothing more happens in this Cafe to the Dog, than to a Man in the higher! Degree of a malignant Fever. The fame Caufe in both generates a Poifon where there was none before, only one is more naturally vented by the Glands about the Mouth, and the other by the whole Surface. THIS
