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into the faid artery, and faftned it with a ftrong binding of 
pack-thred* This done, 1 blew up the Langs, and fitting a 
cork totheendofthefyphon, 1 hung them in a chimney to 
dry. In a quarter of an hour they fubfided about a fixth part ; 
whereupon 1 ordered a perfon to watch them, and to blow 
them up as oft as they fubfided. Which courfe continued , 
they would not the next morning fubfidc a fourth part in three 
hours. And ("excepting three quarters of an inch diftance 
from the circumference of the lobes, where the thinnefs of 
the fubftance of the Lungs gave the external heat the advan. 
tage of a fudden paflage, and quick difpatch of drying thofc 
parts leaft furnifli't with moifture,) I did not perceivCjmaking 
a proportionable allowance for the drying of the whole fub- 
ftanceof the Lungs, any confiderable fubfiding in two days 
jmore. But upon the blowing in at the fyphon Cwhofc liga- 
ture I was now forced torenewj) I could eafily feel the Air 
to pafs through the external membranes, both on the con- 
vex and concave fides, towards the cxtr«mlty of the cir- 
cumference of the lobes 3 but moft abundantly on the con- 
cave fide. 
March y thy I carefully cut off one of the lobes, and the in- 
ward ftrudlure feemcd like a cane or dried flag when tranfver- 
fly cut ^ and, upon blowing in at the fyphon, I fancied the 
Air to come equally out at all the pores I had expofed to view* 
Whereupon 1 fixed fpittle in feveral places, and upon frefli 
blowing found multitudes of bubles, made in the denudatcd 
parts of the lobe. Immediately I made a deep tranfverfc in^ 
cifion into that lobe, and blowing in at the fyphon, I found 
the Air to come fo freely out at the larger ramifications of the 
bronchia^xhzt I could not give the lobe a confiderable rife with 
a ftrong blaft : Yet upon flopping with my fingers the larger 
paflages of the bronckiity which I had cat, I found that lobe, 
upon a frefli blaft, connderably to arife with unequal protu« 
berances (where the incifion was made,) giving no fmall fut 
picion of fome latent veficles. Hereupon 1 tyed that lobe a- 
bove the incifion, and taking off part of the external mem^ 
brane of another lobe, (having firft tyed up all the reft of the 
lobes, ^ I poured water into the fyphon, and applied a ftrong 
blaft, in hopes to have the water come forth in ftreams at all 
