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Mr. Bidloo having acquainted me how this Woman 
died, I writ to him thereupon, as follows. 
When f^ohfefved that little piece of Gut, that was un- 
prepared, nicely thro* iny Microfeope, I could perceive a 
great Quantity of Blood lying without the Veflds, which 
1 never did difeover in the Guts of other Animals before 5 
from whence I concluded, that as a great many Animals 
k)fe their Lives by the fpilling of their Blood, that fame 
Blood, notwithftanding the quicker Motion of the Heart 
in the Pangs of Death, continues its Circulation : Where- 
as in thofe that are Hanged or Strangled, as this vVoraan 
was, the Circulation of the Blood is in a great meafure 
interrupted by the P^ope : To which, if you add the 
difmal* Thoughts of approaching Death, upon Account 
of the deferved Punifhment they undergo, (which Thing 
does not occur in Beads) and the great Concern at that 
time, there will be a much greater protrufion of the 
. Blood of a Rational Creature, than that of a Bead. 
Now the Blood being protruded out of the Heart in 
great Quantities at once, and not being able to circulate 
with the fame quicknefs thro* the fmall VefTels, I fup- 
pofe that the Tunica’s or Coati of the exceeding fmall 
VefTds are fo extended, that the Blood filtrating thro’ 
them, is found in great Quantities without the Guts, 
where it is dried upon the extream Membrane or Skin, 
and is found in little Lumps here and there without any 
Order. 
Soon after this, having acquainted Profedbr Bidi0o 
with thefe my Thoughts, he had the Goodnefs to fend 
me, on the 12 th of March^ two Differtations fubferibed 
with the Name of Peter Evtrtfe, in Latin ^ from whence 
a day or two after it was explained tome, that the Wo- 
man to whom that Gut belonged had been Hanged, and 
that in her Life-time (he was troubled with a Falling- 
Sicknefs. 
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