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traded that opinion that horfcs have no glands 

 but under the fymphyfis of the chin. And I freely- 

 own that I called them fublingual glands very 

 improperly -, they are lymphatic glands that the 

 inflammation of the pituitary membrane caufes 

 to fwell, the canals of which after having 

 thrown off feveral ramifications pafs under the 

 maxillary gland and fixes under the parotid ; 

 from whence two large tubes iffue which ac- 

 company the trachea on each fide for its whole 

 length, and ends in the vena cava. 



Mr. Bourgelat, a good anatomift, ought to 

 have known this error, and to conclude from 

 thencë, that he fhould not be in fo much hafte 

 to criticife as to approve. 



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