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have been and have continued, without a continual 
and proportional Flux of Bile through it : For it is 
well known, that fo foon as the Fluids ceafe to flow 
through their natural Duels, their Sides foon collapfe, 
coalefce, and at laft totally fhut up. Thus the Ura- 
chus, and Canalis arteriofus Bat alii in the Foetus, 
fhut up totally foon after the Birth ; and Mr. Amy- 
and and I have lately fecn one of the Ureters totally 
coalefced and fhut up, for want of a Fluid from the 
Kidney, which had fecreted no Urine for fome time, 
having become a Cyftis , fill’d with a thick white pulta- 
ceous Matter, nearly of a cretaceous Confidence. 
Therefore as the c Du£lus cyfticus was found oblite- 
rated, and the Choledochus communis large and open, it 
is plain that no Bile had for fome time flow’d through 
the former, and that there was a conflant Supply from 
the ^uftus hepaticus to the latter, for the Ufcs of 
the animal Oeconomy; until the Wound or Rupture 
of the Gall-Bladder, gradually abating its Current by 
that Channel, at lad dopp’d it quite, and put an End 
to his Life in a few Days after. 
The mod eflential Points in this Cafe, bearing a 
Conformity with what I have formerly obferv’d in this 
Society, concerning the Ufe of the Bile in the animal 
Oeconomy, may fo far ferve to confirm it. 
