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Stomachs, which is occafioned by their con^ 
tinually fwallowing down too great Quan- 
tities of Liquor, with which the Blood being 
furcharged, muft needs make thofe more than 
natural Difeharges of it into the Stomach, 
which they ufually complain mod of in a 
Morning. Whence readily inferring that they 
have a cold watry Stomach, they feldom fail 
of warming it again foon, by. fo agreeable 
a Prefeription, as a large Dofe of the fame 
Liquor ; fagacioufly concluding with the poor 
unhappy Minute Philofophers^ that becaufe it 
is mod agreeable to depraved Nature, there*? 
fore it mud be bed ; tbo’ in reality it does 
necedarily increafe the Didemper. 
ij. While the Tube was thus fixed to the 
defeending Aorta, and Water continued flow- 
ing thro’ it, I cut the Vena Porta afunder, 
which carries the Blood from the Stomach 
and Guts thro' the mefenteric Veins to the 
Liver : The much diluted Blood which was 
contained in it, for want of a free PaiTage 
thro' the Liver, ruflied forcibly out of the 
Vein ; but afterwards the Water which came 
from the mefenteric Arteries, flowed out of 
the Vena Porta, at the rate only of half a 
cubic Inch in forty Seconds of Time, for 
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