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Appearances fo highly gratifying (and thofe 

 produced in a few hours by experiments new 

 and uncertain) afforded me the heft encou- 

 ragement to exert every endeavour that could 

 tend to crown the event with fuccefs. In 

 about an hour after the laft operation, a plate 

 of bread and milk was offered, boiled well 

 together ; fupporting the head and fore parts 

 from the ground as he lay, in hopes he might 

 be able to take a fmall portion of nutriment, 

 that would aflifl exhaufted Nature and fupport 

 the frame ; he however, after giving proof of 

 his inclination fo to do, failed in the attempt 

 from abfolute "weaknefs^ and was compelled to 

 decline it. 



Notwithftanding this failure, eveiy other 

 circum^ftance tended to convince me tlie dog 

 was in fome degree mending : confirmed, beyond 

 a doubt, where the obftacle lay, and firmly 

 perfuaded \}i\^ foundation of relief was already 

 communicated, I, for the firft tim^e, became 

 enlivened v/ith a ray of expeftation it might 

 be totally removed. To accomplilh this very 

 defirable point, I was determined no time, no 

 trouble, on my part, fliould be omitted, and 

 therefore dedicated the following night to a 



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