vJThj-fe Particles of tte Blppd, are, according to my 
pofidon, fo fmall, that ten hundred thoufand of them 
cannqt make up fo great a body as the corn of a great 
Sand?5 and from thence we do conjeaure, that fucli 
fh^Lveflels .haye ftiJI branches or ch^peb -! lor if 
they .were iiot provided with them, tlie blood veflels 
in the thinneft of the tail, where they meet together^ 
Xhould not lye crofs one on another, but muft be uni- 
ted with one another, which I have not obferved. 
M!i^" A relation of the tutting an Ivory Bodkin 
Bladder of. a young Woman in Dub- 
^p]^it} a: ifiy: Mf:^^^ communicated by 
^Rrl> Thomas M 
T^Oi^^^^ jBM^, . a full bodied . fanguine Maid, of a* 
J^f botit rw^ehty^ y^^ old, whilft in her Fathers 
fioufe, m Pifhambie-preei, Dnbli^^ was much troubled* 
with an hoatfenefs laft winter, for which' (he was defi- 
xous to take a Vomit ^ but her Friends not confenting 
to it, fhe endeavourd to provoke one, by thrufcing her 
finger into her throat on the fifth oi Jamiarf^ 1694. 
vvtoh ndt atifwering her defires, (he drew ati Ivory 
Bodkin of four inches long but of her hair, and thruft 
the fmall end forward into her Throat, upon wiiicli 
(he heav'd fo often as put her out of breath, and oblig'd 
her to ftand upright to ciraw fome air, which flic did 
without takirfg the-Bodkin ■ out of lier Throat, and at 
that inftant it'flipt out of her fingers, and pafs'd into 
her ftomachi The accident put her into fome fright, 
but that foon went off again, becaufe flie found no 
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