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Now fmce we perceive that that Matter, which is ta- 
ken from the Tongue of a difeafed Body, is not united 
but by the flimy Stuff, which is as it were peculiar to 
our Mouth ^ and that the faid flimy Matter, is as it were 
diflblv’d by; boiling Water ; and that the Particles which ' 
are protruded out of the Tongue, lie in the Water fepa- 
rate from each other, and that feveral Days after that 
we have divided them, tho’ it be into Particles no big- 
ger than a Grain of Sand; we fhoiild judge that the 
whole Matter did in a manner only confifl: of long flen- 
der Particles, which I imagine had at firft been much 
longer ^ but in the endeavouring to feparate ’em, were 
broke into fuch fhort Pieces, as they now appear to me : 
which being fo, we ought not to doubt, but that the faid 
Matter is protruded out of the Tongue, and no evapora- 
tion or Coagulation from the Intrails. 
In time of my Fever I had alfo a great Cough ; info- 
much that I was often apprehenfive, that by the vio- 
lence thereof I might break fome of the Blood Veifels in 
the Lungs. 
I fpit fome of the Phlegm, which with great Violence 
I had brought up, into a clean Pewter Pot, into which I 
had put a very little fair Water aforehand ; and 
perceiving at the bottom of the faid Pot, a longifli Par- 
ticle about the thicknefs of a Pin, but not quite fo long, 
I took it out of the Water, and placed it before a Mi- 
crofeope, and judg’d it to be fome coagulated Blood, 
tiio’ it was not of a red Colour- for I could fee the Glo- 
bules as plain as ever I difeover’d them in the Blood ; 
and one would at firft have imagined them to be Blood 
Veftelswith-their Branches^ but obferving them more 
nicely, I difeovered, that that Appearance was only oc- 
cafioned by fome of the Globules of Blood lying in their 
length fomething thicker upon the other. 
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