1^20 ) 
iK&t, S^^d in '^the fuccefs of which^I thought my felf very 
feafipy) is not fairly reprefetitcd : as, I fuppofe, ftanding 
to6 much in his way j and therefore is removed, and 
paflTed over by him, ^ as if not done by Hie, or at beft 
miftaken. However, my good fortune is, to have had 
it afterwards experimented at Oxford by Dr Mnfgrave 
with a furprizing XuGcefs 3 viz. that a Uog kept long 
fafting, would not only admit into the Lafteals a tinftu- 
red liquor, but a very fubftantial one, luch as powder'd 
Blue. . 
And therefore to account for Fevers, and theobftrudi- 
on of the Glands, we muft admit of crude, and other- 
wife vitiated Chyle, as well, if not oftner, than the ex- 
ternal accidents from cold and heat, and the diforderly 
temperature of the air. > 
I was ever greatly averfe to criticize, being the un- 
mannerly (not to fay worfe) vice of the age 5 I am con- 
tent every one (hould enjoy his own fenfe in the inter- 
pretation of Nature : but in this I could not but do my 
felf juftice 3 the manner and fuccefs of the experiment be- 
ing fo fully and circumftantially delivered by me and 
Dr Miifgrdve* 
The Tranfaftions^ are fingle Trads, and have been ve- 
ry uncertainly pubhflit, fo as this Gentleman might not 
have feen fome of the former, or forgot the paflages re-' 
lating to this experiment : That whicli makes me believe 
he hath not read them all, is that p. 10. he hath aflignied 
the ordinary quantity of blood in a humane body to be 
20 pound, according to that groundlefs and moft extra- 
vagant guefs of Dr Lower : Whereas if he had perufed 
them all, he Would have found a moft certain proof by 
Dr Molms, that the blood of all animals is but as i to 
20 of their weight : and therefore that of man, at a me- 
dium or ordinarily, not to exceed 8 pound. I am 
S I Tour mofi humbU Servant y 
Martin Lifter. 
