1 7 o Hcemajlatics. 
greatly increafing the Force of the Blood in 
the Head, that the Head has Twelfd : As alfo 
by tying the Vena Cava the Abdomen was fill; 
ed with Water. Thus alfo when the Texture 
of the Blood Globules is diflblved to fuch a De- 
gree as eafily to enter thefe finer fecretory 
Duds, then malignant Inflammations are pro- 
duced. 
28. To thefe Experiments on the Strength 
of the Coats of the Blood-veflels, it may not 
be improper here to fubjoin feme that 1 made 
ten Years fince to (hew the Strength of the 
Feriojlctm and Ligaments of the Joints, viz. 
29. I took the Inftep Bone of the hinder 
Leg of a Calf, which was nine Weeks old, 
which Bone reaches from the Hock down to 
the paflern Joint, to which it is joined by a 
Joining called Ginglimus, I cut off from the 
Bone all the Tendons^ Ligaments and Verio- 
Jietimy and bored a Hole with a Gimblet, 
thro* the Head of the lower Ginglimus End 
of the Bone 5 thro* which Hole I thruft an 
Iron Pin, which hindred the Noofe of a Cord 
that was faftened to it, from flipping off the 
Head of the Bone. I faffened the other end 
of the Bone with a ffrong Cord to the Thres- 
hold of a Door Cafe : and then put the End 
of 
