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dency^or rather feem'd to afcend from the lower to the upper con- 
volution, and help toconftitute it , and fo toobferve the courfe 
mentioned; nay,rometimes would go farther than therxxt convo- 
lution, and, running under it, apply thecnfelvcs obliquely to fotne 
higher, which yet being Lna fmaller number than the reft that lay 
in the order contrary to them, did not very much hinder the diflb- 
ciarion of the main ones; which /iS'm breaking ofF, and that in 
Tome places in greater numbers than in others, would at laft (and 
the fooner if the inteftine began to grow dry , which 'twould 
quickly do) caufe the whole clufter to break off. 
tonrthly\ I obferved , thatasthemoft of thefe fibres would 
by degrees according to the order of the convolutions, infert 
ihemfelves into the next,fo fome of them would (in the faaie order) 
pafs over it, and more (fo far as I have obferved ) would run un- 
der it,and either adjoyn themfelves to fome more remote,or elude 
my fearchingby hiding themfelves under them. This infertion of 
^ thefe fibres feems to be the reafonof the amuUr fhafis, that I men- 
tioned even now, in the contrary way of feparation : FoiP, the at- 
tempting it contrary to their order, muft hinder in fome meafure 
the ready diffociation of the next convolutions u p wards jefpeci- 
ally near the fevered extremity,vvhere there is lefs refiftance of the 
adjacent parts ; the mentioned fibres ^Ko feemingfomewhat big- 
ger, and confequently ftronger, in the upper, than after their im 
fertion into the lower convolution : Though indeed 
fiV/l'^^found^thatifl began at a lower part of theinteftine,and 
try'd to unravel »pmrds,thtTe was not much more difficulty in fo 
doing, than when beginning above, I attempted it dov0nvfiArds ; of 
which the reafbnj fuppo(e,might be the tendernefs of the part oc- 
cafioned by long boiling, whereby I could not perhaps judg of the 
degrees of reniterK:y in thofe fmall fibres. In this contrary way of 
feparation too^the operation J obferv'd,would not fucce€d,unlefs 
lattempted it in the contrary order^^'/^.towards my right hand, 
S/jc/Z^/Kj when before boiling I caufed the inlideof the intc* 
ftine to be turned outward, as I did in two tryals, and afterward 
by taking off the glandulonsand vafcular coat$(which I think to 
bediftinft from one anbther^ as I faid before of thofe confifting of 
tight fibres^ and the fuppofed amul4roueSf)ende3iVOUted to unra- 
vel the fibresy I found they would come off in thecontrary order, 
viz,, from my left band toward my right; which, I conGeive,con- 
firmstheobfervationabove delivered, in regard the inteftine be- 
ing inverted, theorderoffeparation muft be fo too; though ! 
' i * found 
