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vvuh dead People. Good God! Should this Author have 
pronounced all the nioft probable things imaginable up. 
on this our SabjedJ: could any one, be perTwaded af- 
ter this, that he had made any dircovery at ail ? Take 
a Lancet, and Lett Blood of a Dead Man if you can ; 
Is the Confequence that you never could, becaufe now 
you bring no Blood > Is it to be fuppofed, that the ftag- 
natiog Blood fliould conne out at the invifible emiflaries 
that are made by a Blifter ? Is it to be thought, that 
there can be any hfleilion^ any Comprejfton in the VeP 
feis of a Dead Perfon > And are not all thefe the evi- 
dent and neceflary Conditions for making a Blifter > 
How is it then reafonable to think to raife a BJifter 
on any one that is dead or of what weight can 
a Gonfequence be that is founded on fuch an Experi- 
meor. 
I have made this neceffary Digrefiion to put mind you 
how llightly this matter is treated of among us and 
* to convince you that it is not only hard to fpeak up 
£0 the worth of our Subjed, and with that Particu- 
Jarnefs that both the thing and you do require 5 but that 
it demands a longer time than can be well allowed to a 
Difcourfe of this kind. You will be ftill more fatisfied 
of the Truth of this, when I tell you. That I Ihould 
have thought my felf obliged 
To prove and determine the Caufe of the Mo- 
tion of thefe Parts of Cantharides that Blifter, not 
OFily by giving a hint what they are, but with 
how much force they are brought from iht Bli- 
ftering Plaitter and driven into cur Skin, Veffels , 
I could have fatisfied you about the Nature of 
the Emiflaries they make ; how, and from whence 
the ftparated Liquor is brought between the Skin 
and 
