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continue running a considerable time, at least 

 a fortnight or three ^Veeks." In page 99, he 

 beUeves they may be useful in many disor- 

 ders, ''provided there be made a sufficient 

 number of them \' but as to the parts of the 

 body, whether behind the ears, in the breast, 

 or under the horse's belly, he thinks it is 

 much the same thing ; " for in reality, they 

 are no more than adding a number of anus's 

 or fundaments, so that nature may meet 

 with them in several parts of the body, and 

 not be put to the trouble of going the more 

 tedious and common round of circulation in 

 order for a discharo;e of excrement oy duns''' 



Can it be possibly necessary for me to offer 

 a single line in apology for the introduction 

 of assertions so exceedingly opposite from the 

 same pen ; or a refinement of thought and 

 sublimity of language in the latter, not to be 

 exceeded by any hypothetical reasoning or 

 fertility of invention ever issued from the 

 press? The idea of artificial fundaments^ to 

 save NATURE the trouble of going the more 

 tedious and common road by the anus, is not 

 only so truly great and inimitable ; so yery 

 contrary to and so far surpassing the asser- 



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