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** not as yet been fufRciently comminuted by 

 " frequent circulations,'' His 77ieaning may be 

 poffibly right, but moft unhappily expreffed to 

 make clear his intention : to demonflrate this, 

 let us diffed the phrafeology, not afluming the 

 unpleafing talk of criticifm, but as a prelude to 

 the eftablifhment of our own fyftem hereafter 

 explained. He fays ** the blood having not 

 '* as yet been fufficiently comminuted/* that 

 is, in pbin terms, or found Engliih, not properly 

 pidverifed or reduced to powder : however, \ 

 am willing to give him credit for a meaning he 

 did not think fit to explain, and acknowledge 

 he intended to have faid (had it not fmelt top 

 ftrong of vulgarity) " fufficiently mixed/' To 

 this remark, notwithftanding its fiablimity, I 

 enter my PROTEST; and cannot avoid ex- 

 prefling furprife, that any profeflional, confide- 

 rate author, could fuppcfe the blood fhould in- 

 celfantly flow for three, four, or five years, 

 without the crajfamenium 2.ni feru?n being fuf- 

 ficiently incorporated or ** commitiuted,'' 



I will, upon the occafion, fo far fupprefs my 



refentment at this feeble attack upon the fyflem 



of circulation, as to forego the great inclination 



I feel to enlarge much more upon fo prepofte- 



T 3 rous 



