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faintly on the other parts j yet a piece about the 
fame bignefs with the fir ft, clipped off in the fame 
manner, and thrown into the fame bafon, conftantly 
kept at the top. This may feem foreign to my pre- 
fent purpofe ; but I thought proper briefly to mention 
it here, not only upon the account of the importance 
of the experiment, but likewife to (hew, that I was 
not mifinformed in the account of the calf’s being 
brought forth dead, and that it had not even rc- 
fpired; much lefs taken any nourhhment aft:.: ■■ 
clufion, to influence the appearances, v^'hicu \vc are 
now going to defcribe. ' 
Having done with the thorax, I opened the ab- 
domen, in order to take a flight view of it before 
the lumbering carcafe fliouH be removed. lobferved 
the thick inteftines, efpecially the redlum, extremely 
diftended with an incredible quantity of meconium j 
which for feveral inches above the anus was formed 
into diftind; fcybala or balls. It came into my head 
to make an incifion in the redum, where it was very 
turgid, about two inches from the anus, and to let 
out about twenty-five or thirty of thefe fcybala ; 
which I laid upon clean paper to dry, that I might 
examine them at my leifure. About three or four 
days after, when they were dry and brittle, of the 
colour and conliftence of aloes ; I was furprifed to 
find, upon examination, every ball ftuck full of 
tough, thick, white hairs, fome of which were an 
inch long, or more. There feemed to be fome fcores 
in each, though they, being flirunk with drying, did 
fcarce exceed the bulk of an ordinary pea. This un- 
expedted appearance fet me a confidering, whence 
thefe hairs had come j how got they there ? And I 
VoL. 45?. T I could 
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