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« not as yet been fufficiently comminuted by 

 *' frequent circulations/* His 7tiea7iing may be 

 poffibly right, but mod unhappily expreffed to 

 make clear his intention : to demon flrate this, 

 let us diffedt the phrafeology, not affuming the 

 unpleafing tafk of criticifm, but as a prelude to 

 the eftabliiliment of our own fyftem hereafter 

 explained. He fays '' the blood having not 

 *^ as yet been fufficiently comminuted," that is, 

 in plain terms, or found Englifli, not properly 

 pulverized QV 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 faid (had it not fmelt too 

 flrong of vulgarity) ^* fufficiently mixed." To 

 this remark, notwithftanding its fublimity, I 

 enter my PROTEST 5 and cannot avoid exr 

 preffing furprife, that any profeffional confidcr 

 rate author could fappofe the blood fliould in- 

 ceifantly flow for three, four, or five years, 

 without the crajfamentum znAferum being fuf- 

 ficiently incorporated or *^ comminuted/' 



I will, upon the occafion; fo far fupprefs my 

 refentment at this feeble attack upon the fyftem 

 of circulation, as to forego the great inclination 

 J feel to enlarge much more upon fo prepofte- 



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