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and In thefe Commotions I obferved, that nioft of the 
Globules of the Blood (which are the occafion of its red- 
nefs) werediflolved, and I judged that this fermentation 
lafted about a quarter of a Minute } and be'caufe it was 
very diverting, I repeated the Experiment feveral 
times. 
Moreover I mixed my Blood with feme French Wine, 
in which the Bark had been infilled, but difeever’d no 
fuch fermentation as l had obferved before, but I could 
perceive in fome few places the Globules of Blood Coa- 
gulated after fuch a manner, that it appeared like a very 
thin Membrane torn to pieces, and feveral very thin Fi. 
bres or Threads thereof lay about, fuch as I had never 
feen before } and I think I never fa w fo little Coagulation 
of the Globules of Blood when mingled with any Liquid 
as I perceived with this mixture, but when the Blood was 
dry, and where it had lain pretty thick, there it was fo 
much Coagulated, that there could be no Globules any 
longer obferved therein. 
Now if we confider that our Stomachs deliver out fuch 
Juices as Coagulate the Common Salts which are in our 
Meat and Drink, and difeharge them with the Excre- 
ments, his poilible that many more parts of the China 
Chins arediffolved in the Stomach, and fuch a Coagulati- 
on caufed in the Chyle, that the Juices which go into our 
Bodies, have fuch an Affinity with the Seram of the Blood, 
as to hinder its Separation, and fo keeps the Blood in 
fuch a Fluid ftate, that the Diftemper which we call a 
Fever is thereby prevented. 
You will pardon me for trefpaffing fo far beyond the 
Bounds of my foregoing Obfervations,- but we cannot 
but ftand amazed when we fee that a Codfifh fhould have 
two, three, or four Haddocks in its Stomach, which 
according to the manner of all Fifties, they fwallow down 
with the Head foremoft, and which ferve for their Food 
and Nouriftiment 3 and that not only the Fl*fh of thofe 
Fifties, 
