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rable multitude of fmall Veflels, might carry Nourifh- 
ment in the fame manner, thro’ every carnous Fibre 
in a healthful Body, 
In this view I cut off fome very fmall thin Slices 
from the flefh of an Ox, diredly acrofs the length 
of the Fibres, and having placed them upon Glafles, 
and moiftned them with clean Rain-water, I obferv’d 
them with a very good Microfcope, and continued 
viewing them fo long, that the flefhy Fibres began to 
grow dry. I then faw, that in fome Places the 
exceeding fmall and fine VeiTels, which compounded 
the Membranes, wherewith the flefhy Fibres were 
enclofed, were broken off from the flefhy Fibres, by 
the unequal fhrinking of the thin flice of Flefh upon 
the Plate of the Microfcope. I faw at the fame time 
fome other of thefe fmall VeiTels, which were fome- 
thing Wronger than the former, and were not 
broken off from the flefhy Fibres, but yet were 
ftretched and drawn from them to the diftance of the 
Diameter of a Blood Globule. I faw likewife fome 
flefhy Fibres, which adhered fo clofe to other Fibres 
that the fmall VefTels of Communication were not 
broken off or flretched, fo that nothing was to be 
feen there, but only the Membrane encom patting the 
Fibres. 6 
I likewife placed before the fame Microfcope fe- 
veral other carnous Fibres, which I had feparated 
according to their length from the Flefh of an Ox, 
In each of thefe I obferv’d a great number of ex- 
treamly fmall Apertures, by which I judged that 
the fmall Veffels of the Membranes had enter’d the 
Fibres ^ which Veffels having been moiftned with 
Water, as foon as the little moifture, which had 
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