It is now proper to apply what hath been hitherto delivered, to the
Distemper we are treating of, that from thence the Powers of Milk in
the Cure may more clearly appear. We have shewed before how the Mass
of the Blood becomes impregnated with a saline Acrimony, more or less
Acid, from a sharp and indigested Chyle, and the Powers of Digestion
weakned and impaired; whence is easily explained how the Lymph and
acrid _Serum_ is communicated to the mucilaginous Glands, and the
smallest Branches of the Arteries, so as to infect and coagulate the
Mucilage, in Proportion to the Quantity of Salts they contain. The
Fibres of the Membranes and Tendons are vellicated by the Acrimony of
those Salts, so as to occasion intolerable Pain, and affect the Nerves
to a very great Degree.