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difficult of coction by reason of most opposite defects, 

 and then diluting them with a large quantity of warm 

 blood, (for we see that the quantity returned from the 

 spleen must be very large when we contemplate the size 

 of its arteries,) they are brought to the porta of the liver 

 in a state of higher preparation ; the defects of either ex- 

 treme are supplied and compensated by this arrangement 

 of the veins. 



