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TABLE II. Giv'my the Results of Eiyht Experiments, in all of which 

 the Closure of the Renal Vein by Ligature was immediate and 

 complete. 



The facts contained in the first table having 

 established the general principle, that an obstruction 

 to the blood's return from the kidney will cause the 

 presence, in the secretion of that organ, of one or 

 more of certain substances evidently derived from 

 the minute blood-vessels of the gland, the point 

 which next presents itself for examination may be 

 thus expressed, viz. : To what, if any, physical 

 cause are we to ascribe the different results met 

 with in a number of experiments performed in pre- 

 cisely the same manner, and, so far as external 

 circumstances are concerned, under the same con- 

 ditions ? We have, by the results presented in the 

 last table, gained one negative answer to this 

 question. And I now proceed to narrow the in- 



