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cnt Liquors have on thofe Solids, either in 
relaxing them when too tenfe, or in contraft- 
ing and ftrengthening them when too lax. And 
tho* thefe feveral Properties of many of them 
are by long Experience well knowfl to the 
skilful Phyfician, yet fince it is making fome 
Advance in Knowledge, farther to illuftrate 
even known Truths, a fuller Demonftracion 
of the EfFefts of fome of thefe Liquors may 
be of Service in confirming the known Expli- 
cations of the Operations of Medicines, and 
in farther clearing up the Reafons of fuch as 
are more doubtful. 
3 . I took a young Spaniel Dog which weigh- 
ed twenty one Pounds, and as foon as he had 
bled to Death by having his jugular Veins 
cut, I immediately opened his Thorax and 
Abdomen ; and having fixed a glafs Tube, which 
was 4 + i Feet high, to the defeending Aor- 
ta^ I then flit open his Guts from end to end 
in the fame manner as in Experiment IX ; then 
having poured blood warm Water on them, 
and covered them with a folded Cloth dipped 
in the fame Water, warm Water was poured 
into the Tunnel, which when it had fubfided 
to a Mark on the lower Part of the glafs Tun- 
nel, eighteen cubic Inches of warm Water were 
imme- 
