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confequence more blood did run thorough it,i than 
when I firft bcgan to look upon it. ' ^ 
The blood in the VeiTel N S, wherein before wa^ 
little or no motion, did now run as fwift as it did in 
any other veffel. 
The blood veffel P Q, which was fofoiall, that but 
one fingle particle of the blood could pafs through it 
iat once, and wherein at my firft view was not the lea(V 
motion to be difcerned, now alfo begun to flow 5 yet 
the particles of the blood that at firft did pafs through 
it, were but a few in number, and confequently tar 
afimder. 
Further all the blood, from P to R, was put into a 
motion, as well by being put forward, as by running 
back again, and that at each pulfation of the heart. 
With thefe fights I fpent, to the beft of my judg- 
ment, about two minutes 5 and being tired with fee- 
ing, I refted a little, and being that this little animal 
in the mean time got into a ftrong motion, I did ftop 
my fiirthep obfervation. 
So that now it doth plainly appear before our eyes, 
that the ftagnated blood, cannot only be made to 
move again by the motion of the heart, which we 
call the beating of the pulfe, nay, even in fuch a man- 
ner, that the coagulated red globules of the blood are 
uncongealed again, and affume their firft figure. And 
therefore we have reafon to conclude, that the coagu- 
lated blood, in any •animal, that is coagulated by ftri* 
king or bruifing, and fo doth ftagnate, can in a few 
days be made to go or move again, it being allowed 
of, or taken for granted, that the heart of a man doth 
pufh out the blood 7 5 times in one minute (fome fay 
times, but yet I judge the firft number to be the 
neareft) and that is 450oinan hoiJrs time, and 108000 
in the fpace of a day and night. 
Now 
