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it generally finds less resistance inwards, & Matter
always makes it Way out, where it finds the least Resis=
tance of the Ribs, but often goes inward & kills the Patient
Matter rather enlarges the Parts by distending, pressing
or breaking them down. Matter in the Abdomen sometimes
works outwards, but sometimes acts on the hollow Viscera,
& gets into the Stomach & Intestines, when a Patient is seiz=
ed with a Purging & Vomiting, & sometimes die. Matter
is said to be made up of the Juices & Vessels themselves. One
kind there is certainly, where there is no visible Destructi=
on of Vessels, but a thick Matter, & yet nothing like Ulcerati=
ons or Solids broken down, but from an [inspissated?] Juice of
an inflamed Surface. It seems to be owing to a Transu=
dation of the inflamed Parts, which tho' thin at first, yet by
stagnating it becomes thicker & like Pus. In a Child, the In=
testines were once laid bare, without any Ulceration of their
Surface, which were gradually covered with Matter, that
at first was thin & transuded. We have the same in the
Inflammation of the Eye, & in the [Clap?] upon the Glands, &
this is the Case in the Aptha or Thrush, The Sloughs of
this Kind only & no Breach of the Parts. Inflamed Surfaces
have the Property of giving or squeezing out a thick fluid