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*^ latiom'* His meaning may be possibly- 

 right, but most unhappily expressed to make 

 clear his intention : to demonstrate this, let 

 us dissect the phraseology, not assumincf the 

 unpleasing task of criticism, but as a pre- 

 lude to the establishment of our own system 

 hereafter explained. He says, '* the blood 

 *' having not as yet been sufficiently com- 

 '' minuted," that is, in plain terms, or sound 

 English,, not properly jow/ym.zet/ or reduced 

 to powder ; however, I am willing to give 

 him credit for a meaning he did not think fit 

 to explain, and acknowledge he intended to 

 have said (had it not smelt too strong of vul- 

 garity) '■ gufficiently mijied/* To this re- 

 mark, notwithstanding its sublimity, I entex' 

 my PROTEST ; and cannot avoid express- 

 ing surprize, that any professional, consider- 

 ate author, could suppose the blood should 

 incessantly flow, for three, four, or five 

 years, without the crassarnejitum and serum 

 being sufficiently incorporated or *^ com^ 

 minuted*'' 



I will, upon the occasion, so far suppress 

 my resentment at this feeble attack upon the 

 system of circulation, as to forecjo the GTeat 



