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Hale's flatement) to. perhaps forty-five ilrokeS 

 in a minute ; a late writer on the ftrangles, fays 

 a horfe with a pulfe as high as fifty, may be 

 well, and free from fever ; but 1 have reafon 

 either to fuppofe him in an error, as that the 

 pulfe in horfes is an uncertain criterion. The 

 ftrokes may be felt by gently prefling the tem- 

 poral artery, or the ear, or the carotid arteries 

 on each fide the neck, or thofe near the heart, 

 or within the legs, and they have been found 

 during the highefl degree of inflammation, and 

 great pain, to amount to one hundred and 

 twenty in a minute. 



The old writers, who were unacquainted 

 with the circulation, and of courfe expelled 

 peculiar benefits from local bleedings, named 

 thirty-one veins in the horfes body, at which 

 he might be bled ; to wit, the two temple- 

 veins ; the eye-veins, beneath the eyes ; the 

 palate-veins, in the mouth ; the neck-veins ; 

 the plate-veins, in the breafl ; the fore-arm- 

 veins ; the fliackle-veins, before ; the toe- veins 

 before; the fide, or flank-veins ; the tail-vein; 

 the haunch-veins; the hough- veins; the fhackle- 

 veins behind ; and the toe-veins behind. But 

 as from the inceflbnt rotatory motion of the 

 blood, bleeding cannot have a partial, but 

 only the general eftecl of diminifliing quantity, 

 and of making more fpace in the veffels, it 

 matters but little, from what vein blood be 



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