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puke for the devil. The horfe is faid by Clarke, 

 not to poflefs the power of expelling wind, by 

 eruftation or belching ; which, however, I know 

 by repeated experience, to be a miftake. Pur- 

 gative medicines lie an unufual length of time 

 in the body of a horfe, from the great length 

 and confiderable volume of his inteflines : 

 Bracken found the alimentary canal from the 

 cefophagus, or gullet, to the fundament, to be 

 thirty-five yards in a horfe of middling fize. 

 Salivation is faid, by the lafl-mentioned author, 

 and by St. Bel, not to fucceed with the horfe, 

 for which they alTign their reafons. 



On the head of anatomy, the pra61itioner 

 need not want ample inftruftions. Our Snape, 

 as has been obferved, made a fair chart of the 

 body of the horfe, from the defigns of the Ita- 

 lian Ruini, upon whom he improved. Ruini 

 was cotemporary with that grand conftellation 

 of anatomills, from Vefalius and Fallopius, to 

 William Harvey, who in the fixteenth and fe- 

 venteenth centuries, revived that wonderful and 

 ufeful fcience, and brought it nearly to the fame 

 ftate of perfeftion in which it is at prefent 

 found. It was at this period, the immortal 

 Harvey difcovered the circulation of the blood ; 

 unlefs the honour of the difcovery be more juft- 

 ly attributable, as the Italians afiert, to their 

 countryman, Fra. Paolo ; however that be, we 

 know that Harvey was a moft fedulous and 



laborious 



