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me to obfen/e very diflindly the extremity of 

 the artery by its pulfation. 



Havirg feparated the flefh from the artery, 

 I fiit it up longitudinally, and found that the 

 little grume of clear blood was of a firm con- 

 fiftence, of a lively red, in form of a cone or 

 fugar-loaf, the bafis of which adhered to the 

 little inclofing membrane which lliut up the 

 artery v/ithout ; the point of which floated in 

 the cavity of the vefTel •, snd I further found 

 the coats grown thicker at their extremities. 



At length, in order to try whether the fuppu- 

 ration of the wound would not open the orifices 

 of the arteries again, which were juft flopped 

 up by the remedy, I let the firft horfe live, 

 which was the more vigorous of the two, un« 

 til a perfecl fuppuration was eflabhfhi^d, which 

 proved^ that it did not, in the leaft refpedt, hin- 

 der the cicatrifino; of the arteries. 



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