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continue running a confiderable time, at leafl 

 a fortnight or three weeks." In page 99, he 

 believes they may be ufeful in many difor- 

 ders, "provided there be made a fufficieni 

 number of them ,** but as to the parts of the 

 body, whether behind the ears, in the breaft, 

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

 much the fame thing ; ** for in reality, they 

 are no more than adding a number of anus's 

 or fundamefifs, fo that nature may meet 

 with them in feveral parts of the body, and 

 not be put to the trouble of going the more 

 tedious and com.mon round of circulation in 

 order for a difcharge of excrement or dung,'' 



Can it be poflibly neceflary for me to offer 

 a fingle line in apology for the introduction 

 of aflertions fo exceedingly oppofite from the 

 fam*e pen ; or a refinement of thought and 

 fublimhy of language in the latter, not to be 

 exceeded by any hypothetical reafoning or fer- 

 tility of invention ever ilTued from the prefs ? 

 The idea o{ artificial fundaments^ to fave na- 

 ture the trouble of going the more tedious 

 and common road by the anus, is not pnly io 

 truly great and inimitable ; fo very. contrary to 

 and fo far furpaffing the affertion of Osmer, 



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