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Now that this abovemen tion’d White Matter has no 
Analogy or Agreement with that which is coagulated up* 
on the Tongue from without, but that it is certainly pro- 
truded out of the Tongue, appear’d to me very plainly, 
when I view’d it with my Microfcope, for I could then 
obferve, that it was not only clofely united to the 
Tongue, but that it was alfo forced out of it, juft as 
Plants proceed from the Earth ^ yea, that it extended it 
Felf into Boughs and Branches. 
Now for the better underftanding of the faid protru- 
ded Matter from the Tongue, I plac’d fome of it before 
a Microfcope, and caufed it to be painted, after having 
feparated the Parts from one another, which I often 
found clung together. 
Tab. 2. Tig. i. A BCD £ F reprefents one of the (aid 
fmall Parts which 1 had .fcraped from my Tongue - A B 
(hews where it was faftned to my Tongue, arid C F 
(hews how the Body of it divided it felf into two Bran- 
ches, defcribed by C D ana F E. 
I have obferved feveral times in the aforefaid Trunk or 
Body of that Particle a long Fibre or Streak runningper- 
pendicularly thro’ the middle of it, which l imagined to 
be a fort of a Vein or Veffel from which the whole Bo- 
dy or Branches received their Nourifbment $ but as foon 
as that V^htte , Matter becomes dry, one fees no more of 
thofe Fibres in it. 
Fig. 2. G H 1 K LM N O P Q reprefents a fecond Par- 
ticle, which T had taken From my Tongue, of which 
G H l .Q.. is .the Stalk, or FLoot, and K L M N O P the fix 
feveral : Branches, all which were at G H united to, or 
rather riveted m the Tongue. 
Fig. j.'JL S T ViWX was a third Particle protruded 
out of my Tongue' and at T X you fee the' place where 
. it divided, it felf into two Branches, which Branches are 
‘ divided by T V and, X W 5 and the Painter having obfer- 
’ ved at V' fome further fproutings out, he has defcribed 
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