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2. When I took away the Tube from the 
crural Artery, and the Water at the fame time 
flood 9 + i Feet high in the other Tube, 
then the Water fpouced 1 1 4- i Inches out of 
the Artery which was held with its Orifice up- 
right. 
4. When a Column of Water was 44 *t Feet 
high prefled into the carotid Artery, then 
another Tube being fixed at the fame time in 
the Vena Porta^ pointing towards the Guts, 
the Water rofe flowly fix Inches in the Tube: 
But when the Tube was fixed in the defeend- 
ing Vena Cava towards the Dogs Legs then 
no Water rofe in it. 
4. If we could be Co happy as to find a Li- 
quor of fuch a due Confiftence, as to pafs 
freely thro* from the Arteries to the Veins, as 
the Blood does in its natural State, then many 
curious and ufeful Experiments might in this 
manner be tried on feveral Parts of the Body. 
5. It was with this View that I made Co- 
lumns of warm Water flow into the Arteries 
of dying Dogs, at the fame time that the 
Blood run out at the Veins, viz, to try if by 
this means I could wafli all the glutinous 
Blood out of the finer capillary Arteries and 
Veins, by making Water thus inflantly follow ^ 
and 
