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laborious experimenter, and that the tender- 

 hearted and humane Charles, his feehngs flifled 

 by cuftom, a far more mighty tyrant than him- 

 felf, furniftied the operator with deer, in diffe- 

 rent flages of pregnancy, to be cut open aUve, 

 for the purpofes of comparative anatomy. A 

 more prudent man than myfelf would flifle fuch 

 a fentiment ; but I fay, in the face of the world, 

 that if the knowledge, even of the circulation of 

 the blood," could not have been obtained other- 

 wife, than by fuch barbarous and unjuft means, 

 I wi{h from my foul it had for ever remained a 

 fecret ; and that the difcoveref himfelf, and the 

 king who miniftered to his profeffional cruel- 

 ties, (favourably, or rather fondly and partial- 

 ly, as I was ever difpofed to judge of that mo- 

 narch's charafter) had never exifted. 



Gibfon copied Snape's anatomical plates, 

 making certain improvements, which will ap- 

 pear on collation ; our latter horfe-anatomifts 

 have, generally, taken for their guides the 

 two former. Bracken, in his tranflation of La 

 Foffe, complaining of Gibfon's plates, pro- 

 mifed a new edition of thofe of Snape, with 

 annotations, to be publifhed by Ofborne, which 

 I know not whether he lived to execute. Se- 

 veral perfons, during the prefent reign, have 

 publiflied the anatomy of the horfe, amongft 

 whom Stubbs, the juflly celebrated horfe- 

 painter, and Blaine, the dog-furgeon, are the 



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