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cordingly was brought to me two Days after one ano- 
ther. 
This Matter, which lay upon a Paper, ftuckfo fa ft' to* 
gether, that it was very difficult to feparate it, and the 
moft part of it appeared as clear as any Water to our 
naked Eye 5 having view’d it thro" a Micrqfcope, I faw 
that the clear fucking Moifture wag enconipaft’d with an 
exceeding great number of very (mail Globules, which 
appeared. to, rue to be much fmaller than thofe that make 
our Blood Red 5 and when this White Matter was tho- 
rough dry, it appeared to be of a Green Colour, much 
like that Matter which we di (charge by the Mouth when 
we catch cold, and which is commonly called Green 
Phlegm. 
The Dodor told me,, that a Day or two before,: there 
peeled off whole Skins from the Tongue of his Patient, 
whereupon I asked him, Whether his Tongue was not 
very much fweli’d ? To which he anfwered,' it filled the 
whole Mouth. 
I obferved^ moreover in-: the faid Ma tter, whether I view- 
ed it wet or dry, fuch a great number offroad Fibres, jdft 
as if it had been a thin Membrane that I had placed be- 
fore the Glafs. 
I faid to the Dodor, how much -thofe Perfohs were 
miftaken that affirm that thefe Skins upon the Tongues 
proceed from the Vapours or Pomes of the Stomach, in 
which the Dodor agreed, with me • but when I told him 
that the great thicknefs of the Tongue was occasioned by 
the want of the Blood circulating therein, whilft the Heart 
was cohtinualiy fending up frefti Blood into the Totiglie, 
by which means it was forc’d thro’ the Tunicas of the 
Veffels, and turn’d to. that Matter which was found upon 
the Tongue, and which we cal! the, Trufh y and whereas 
that Matter which! JxxmdJnfcny lUnefs. upon rny Tongiie 
was nothing bu t the Serum ' or the Blood, the roafon of 
* that was, That the Protrufiori of the Blood was not fo 
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