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tion, which came into my mind, of a piece of fine Cloih (which confifls 
of fa many feverai minute Hairs. callM }VGoi) was no diftouragemenc to 
this opinion* Yet I durft not be prefumpcuous as to indulge my fcif too 
much in it much lefs to venter prefently to fpeak of a thing, which feen/d 
to contradift fo many Learned Men's belief. But being reftlefs, till I might 
receive more fatisfe^ion in the thing, 1 iterated experiments over and over ; 
fome of which proved fo fuccefjful to my apprthenfion, that i was encou- 
raged in the year 1663 ♦and 1664 todifcourfe of it to feverai very worthy 
p€rhns^?LsUr,Bojl^^irH'i!lfaMpitty^ Dr mliiams, Dr, Xf^rW, Dr, 
fafpar Ncedk4m^Dr.Sanj[on^(who aftei wards fent me a Letter from France^ 
intimating the acquaintarce he h?d made with the Learned Stem^ who hath 
fince pubiilhed fomcthing of the fame Difcovery ) Mr. Daniel Cox^ and Dr 
Samuel Parker, &c, who doubtlefs cannot but remember, that then I re- 
lated to them, I found much caufe to believe, that that fubflance commonly 
call'd Tar(nihjma,V!ii% inmoft,if notinalliti Farmhjmous parts, full of 
VcffelS; however it had been imagind by all, I could ever meet with, to 
confift in great part of a fubftance, in many places void of Vefftls, defigned 
for fuch ufes, as arc above mentioned. 
Ag^inft which 1 have now further to allcdge,T .That I obferve in a piece cf 
MHlculoHs Fkfti (fo caird)eiiher raw, roftcd, or boilcd,d^£r.ihat if 1 fo far ex» 
tend it,as to make it to be feenthrough,! canCafsifting my Eyc)pcrceive it full 
of VeflTels placed as thick as is pofsible to be imagin'd;the fat if there be any, 
being firft rcmoved)there appearing then nothing but veffelsjet fo as with a 
MicrofcopeTmy be feen throughjwhen they are extended, 2.That,if any one, 
as he is at dinner, take a piece of fltib,and begin cither at the head or tail 
of a Mfi/ckJ^e may= divide it in ifjfmtum, aH along from head to taif^ 
without breaking any thing of thar,called Flcfli,onIy thefe tranfverfe Fibres^ 
that fccm to ftitch them together, and (as I ara apt to think ) pafs through 
the very Bodies of the fmalleft of them, and quite through the whole Mufcle 
up the Cutaneous porofities • fo that there is not one of thefe ducts ^ 
that run per icuiituMftem^hntWs furniflitwith a Efficient number of out- 
lets, when need requires, though too minute to fuffcr any rt/ZwfwMr/ juice 
to pafs tranfverfly (in a living Body) or any other liquor, when the Body 
is dead and cold* But to wave their ufe at prcfent, and to return to what I 
was faying, Comprefs between the fingers this bit oTfle{h,andyou fhall 
find the Juice, cfpecially if the Meat be Hot, to go before your fingers to- 
ward either end you pleafe but if you comprefs both ends, you (hall fee it 
fwell into the middle and again, if you prcfs the middle, it will run out at 
both ends. But further, fuppofe a piece of Rt{h, c^Wti Par enckjma, as 
big, or as little as you pleak, in any part of the Body, and let me prick 
it with a Needle, where you fhall appoint ; if you feel it, Iprefumcyou 
n?ill acknowledge, a N^rt/^, ora Fi^ri7//i,related to it, is touchM s If you 
feel it not, I am furc Ibme liquor cither fanguineous or other, will follow 
the Needle And from whence can that come, but out of VcfTels ? unleff 
accidcntafly 
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