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siderable distance from the part immediately 

 engaged in any increase of growth both in 

 the arteries and in the returning veins." 



^ Mr. Hunter has put up in his Museum 

 several preparations to show the celerity 

 with which the processes productive of 

 union are carried on. Yet, as the effusion 

 of injection may redden parts and give 

 them the appearance of vascularity, so that 

 we are liable to be deceived, I shall not 

 refer to these preparations in evidence of 

 this fact. 



i'f»Mr. Hunter was convinced that life 

 might remain in a dormant state, in de- 

 tached parts, for sixty hours, as has been 

 mentioned in the first lectures. He there- 

 fore could not wonder at the facts with 

 respect to transplantation or engrafting of 

 portions of animal bodies with which he was 

 acquainted; yet he says that the transplanted 

 part must have life, to accept of the union, 

 because he believed, that a correspondent 

 and co-operating action was necessary for 

 its accomplishment. 



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