z$6 Dr. Conner to Mr. Ray. 



florid : So that Refpiration if indifpenfably neceflary 

 for Life, to be a conftant caufeof the attenuation and 

 fubtilization of the Blood ^ though the fulphur of 

 the Blood is not fuppofed by me to be the caufe of 

 this Heat, yet it is very neceflary to bridl-e and to keep 

 together the faline Principles, and to hinder them 

 from evaporating too foon till new ones are fupplied 

 by the Chyle > fo by its pliable and limber oblong Par- 

 ticles it wraps up and keeps clofe together the vo- 

 latile Principles of the Blood , that otherwife might 

 fly away. This is, Sir, in few Words, what I think 

 of this Subjeft, which I fubmit entirely to your 

 better Judgment, contending for nothing elfe but 

 Truth. 



Dr. Vaughan and Dr. Wood to Mr. R ay. 



SIR, Clonmell) April 24. 1697.. 



I Shall add a few Obfervations concerning the 27- 

 thy mains Hibernicus jlfcyron fupinum vittofum palu- 

 jire^ &c. I ordcr'd an Irijh Chirurgeon to make a de- 

 ception of the Root and a few Leaves of the Tttby- 

 mains Hibernicus^ but its Exhalations were fo very A- 

 crimonious, that he holding his Head two or three 

 times over the deco£lion, to fee how it proceeded, 

 his Face and Hands were blifter'd moft fadly. Some* 

 of the Irijh ufe this Root boiled in Milk, as a Ca- 

 thartick, whofe direful Effe£t there was a mekncho- 

 lick'lnftance of, about three Years ago, eight Miles 

 hence. A brisk young IriJUman^ who complaining 

 of a dull Pain in his left Side, which, I fup^ofe, was 

 an inveterate obftrucHon of his Spleen \ a Countrey- 

 man Quack of his gave him a Dofe of the above De- 

 co£tion , which occafion'd a violent Hypercatharfis, 

 dreadful Convulfions, and Death before ten a Clock 



that 



