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be as highly acid and corrofive as Oil of Vitriol or 

 Spirit of Nitre, *viz. that which is inftill'd into 

 the Blood when they fling > it is an Experiment 

 I have met with in fome Books, and made myfelf, 

 that if you put Blue-bottles, or other blue Flowers 

 into an Ant-hill, they will prefently be ftain'd 

 with red ; the reafon (which thefe Authors render 

 not) is, becaufe the Ants thruft in their Stings in- 

 to the Flowers, and inftil into or drop upon them 

 a fmall Mite of their flinging Liquor, which hath 

 the fame Effed: that Oil of Vitriol would have in 

 changing their Colour, which is a fign that both 

 Liquors are of the fame nature. 



Cafper Bartholine hath obferv'd, that where the 

 Gullet perforates the Midriff, the carneous Fibres 

 of that mufcular Part are infleded and arcuate, 

 as it were a SphinBe?" embracing and clofing it 

 fafl, by a great Providence of Nature, lefl in the 

 perpetual Motion of the Diaphragm the upper 

 Orifice of the Stomach fhould gape, and cafl out 

 the Victuals as fafl as it received it; and Peyena 

 thinks he hath obferv'd, that in ruminating Crea- 

 tures the Connection of the Gullet with the Dia- 

 phragm is far flraiter and flronger than in Man 

 and other Animals, to the end that there fhould 

 not be more than one Morfel forced out at once ; 

 for that external Sphincfter inhibits a too great 

 Dilatation of the Gullet, and doth as it were mea- 

 fure out the Morfels, and fit them to. the Capa- 

 city of the Oefopbagia, 



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