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Experiments, did, in a great meafure ( for I by no means 
exclude the liquor l{efluus ) confift ot the matter lately 
taken in before the Dogs were opened } we may with good 
reafon imagine, That water, drunk on an empty Sto- 
mach, ( as it was in the fecond Cafe ) by feveral other 
§luadrupeds, and Men, as well as Dogs^ will pafs the 
Reals, not under a white co!oar,but rather Pellucid ^ and^ 
thefe ^V^J- are not uncommon amongft us; particularly 
this feejtns to hold true in thofe, who drink great quan- 
tities of Diuretic Mineral Waters, in the morning, fatt- 
ing; of which fuppofe any perfon takes, and Evacuates, 
5 Quarts, by Urine, in the forenoon ; and, with his din- 
ner, and in the afternoon, drinks 3 Pints of Bear , or 
the like fallowing that all the Chyle produced from 
what he takes in at dinner, and in the afternoon, a- 
^ounts to 2 Quarts, and that thefe 2 Quarts of Chyle are 
perfed:Iy White 3 which in all probability is not true 5 
yet, I fay, according to this favourable account ) three 
Pints of Pellucid, for 2 of white Chyle, will pafs the La- 
Heals in this perfon, in 24 hours. And what is herefaid 
of Water, is not unlikely to be true {mutatis mutandis) 
of feveral other liquors, as Wine, B^ar, &c. at leaft fo 
far as that they may not pafs white thro the LaBeals , 
which isfufficient for my purpofe. Again, \ii\\\sprin^- 
ciple be true, the third kind of thefe £:j^r/^^rm^«^j" will go 
yet farther and argue, That the whole quantity of Chyle, 
arifing from fome forts of Meat, and Drink, taken ei- 
ther at, or near, the fame tiitie; or from fome forts of 
Meat taken alone ; is not alwaies white ; for the Lableals, 
which appear'd perfectly white in the feveral Inftances 
of the third kind, were far inferior in number to thofe 
that were Pellucid in the fame DifTedions : But the pro- 
portion of the White, to the Diluted, and the Pellucid, 
Chyle , depends upon fo very many Circumftances , ( as 
the quality of both meats, and drinks ; the diftance be- 
tween the time of their being taken; and the propor- 
tion 
