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; L took tyj^ice .|^e of the aforefald -Mattcr ofi' my 
Tongue, and^rfSTit into a clean China Coace-dif]i, .and 
pour’d upon J^oylihg Rain-water, and moreover cau- 
led it to boil half .an hour in the laid Wa ter f to the ln» 
tent that the vifeousor flimy Matter, which did, as if 
were, gibw the Particles together, miglit tliereby be 
feparated, and fo 1 might the better oblerve them. 
• Andaltho’the faid Matter of the Tongue was well 
boil’d, and had lain in the Water fome days, whereby 
thofe Particles were pretty well feparated from each 
other, and, as it were, loofed from the flimy Subdance, 
yet each Particle remain’d entire. Amongfl thofe fe- 
parated Particles, I faw divers that had the Figure of a 
Pear ; fome of which,, at the fmailer end, were bent a 
little, others were roimdifh, but none of ’em had any 
part that anfwer’d the .'italic of a Pear. 
Now fince the faid Particles were fo link’d together,, 
that they were hardly to be feparated by boiling and (fir- 
ing in the Water, I took divers of ’em out and divided 
them my felf, and fo likewife did I proceed with fome 
of the faid Matter julf as I feraped it from my Tongue ; 
and as often as I repeated thefe Experiments, wliidi I 
did feveral days together, it always appear’d to me, that 
they were partly compos’d of little final] Particles, 
which I one while believ’d to be little Scales of the out- 
ward Skin of the Tongue ; but at another time I 
chang’d my Opinion of ’em, becaufe tiiey feem’d to me 
to be too fmall, and that they were mingl’d with an un- 
foeakable number of fmall roundifli Particlfc, about the 
fame bignefs as the Globules of the Blood which caufe 
Rednels, and that they feem’dtobe divided each of ’em 
into fix parts : Now tho’ they were not of a reddilR 
Colour, yet I imagin’d them to be fmalJ divided Blood, 
particles,. 
