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terworfen, die oft fogar plötzlich eintreten, und 

 die von der Beschaffenheit des ganzen Oryanis- 



to fpread itfelf over the transparent Membranes of the 

 Mefentery. 



Die fpätern noch wichtigem Beobachtungen, welche 

 William Musgvave, Philo f. Transactions Va- 

 lum. XXII. S. 96 zur Prüfung der von Li Her aufteilte, 

 find folgende: Febr 163* J injected int" the Jeiup.um of 

 a Do«-, that had for a dar betöre but little Mead about 

 12 Ounces of a folution of Indigo in Fountain water; 

 and after thvee houvs opening the Dog a fecond time j ob- 

 (crvcd feveval of the Lacteals of a bluifh colour; which 

 upon ftretching of the Mefentery , did feveral tirocs dis 

 appear; but was inolt ealily difcerncd . wben the Mefen- 

 tery Iay loole. An Argument that the bluifh colour 

 was not propevly of the Vcii'el ; but of the Liquor con- 

 taincd in it. In few days after this, repeating the Expe- 

 riment in another Company , with the tolution of Stone 

 Blue in Fountain Water and on a Dog, that had beert 

 ltept falting 3/, hours, j faw feveral of a perfett Blue 

 Colour within very few Minutes after the Jnjection. 

 For this appeai'd fo beforc J could low up the Gut. 



About the be^inning of Marcb following having kept a 

 Spaniel falting 36 hours , and then fyringing a pint of 

 * deep Decoction of Stone Blue with common Water 

 into one of the fmall Guts; and after three hours open- 

 ing the Dog again, j faw many of the Lacteals of a 

 deep Blue colour. Several of them were cut and af- 

 forded a Blue Liquor (foine of the Decoction) run- 

 ning foith on the Mefentery. After this J examined the 

 Ductus thoracitus (on which together with other V'elTels 

 near it, J had upon my Return made a Ligature) and 

 {aw the Ufeceptaculum Cliyli and that Ductus of a Bluifh 

 colour, noi fo Eine indeed, as the Lacteals frotn the fo- 



