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thiit with an equal velocity : yet, what was moft remarkable 
was to fee the manifold finall arteries, which proceeded from 
the "reat one, fpread into feveral branches, and returning, 
unite ai>ain in one, which at laft poured the blood into the 
great vein: Thefe particles of the blood, are, according to 
?J. ZecivenlooeclCs portion, lo exceeding fmall, that ten hun- 
dred thoufand of them cannot make up a body as big as a 
lar^e jirain of land ; and from thence may beconjedlured, that 
fuch fmall veffels have branches and channels ^ with which if 
they were not provided, the blood-veflels in the thinnefl 
part of the tail, where they meet, would not lie crofs one an- 
other, but muft unite, which he never obferved. 
ji Bodkin cut out of a Woman'j Bladder j by il/r. Proby. 
Phil. Tranf. M° z6o. p. 455. 
T\ORC j4S Slake of 2)ublln, a lufly young woman, of a 
•^-^ fanguine complexion, and about 20 years old, being 
much troubled with a hoarlnefs, was very defirous to take a 
vomit for itj to which her friends not confenting, flie endea- 
voured to provoke vomiting by thrufting her finger into her 
throat, but that neither anfwering her defire, ihe drew an 
ivory bodkin four inches long, out of her hair, and thruft the 
fmall end forwards into her throat 5 upon which /he heaved lo 
often, as to be out of breath, and was obliged to Hand upright 
to draw Ibmeair^ which fhe did without taking the bodkin 
out of her throat, and at that inftant it flipped out of her fin- 
gers into her ftomach 5 flie found no immediate inconveniency, 
but next day about noon, ihe felt a fharp pricking pain in the 
right fide of her belly, lower than the navel ; towards evening 
fhe felt a pain nearer her right groin than before, which obli- 
ged her to go to bed, where Ihe lay refllefs all that night, by 
reafon of the excefiive pain: A midwife fearched her, and faid, 
fhe felt the end of the bodkin, but thought it was in a gut 5 
at night Mr. ^rohy was fent for, and in learching her by the 
A't'US^ he could not find it 5 but putting his finger /;/ Vagina 
Uteris he felt the bodkin 5 and becaule ihe complained of a 
difficulty in voiding urine, he ufed his catheter, and he felt it 
as he thought, in the bladder 5 but immediately trying a 
fecondtime, he could not find itj within a fortnight after, it 
was very plainly to be felt 5 and in about ten days more, after 
duly preparing her body for the operation, he attempted to 
extra(51; it, after the fame manner as the (tone from women 5 
but having introduced his Forcef^s into the neck of the bladder, 
and 
