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that time laboured under a fever, with a confiderable 
pain in her fide, and in her abdomen. The blood 
was received into a bafon, and her arm was tied up j 
when, on looking at the blood, I found its furface 
transparent for fome depth, an indication of a future 
cruft and as her pain was not abated, and her pnlle 
bore it well, I removed the ligature from her arm, 
and took away about fix ounces more, into three tea- 
cups ; but what appeared to me remarkable, although 
the blood flowed as faft into each of the cups as 
into the bafon, and they were fet down immediately 
when filled on the fame window, yet there was no 
inflammatory cruft on that in the cups, though a 
very denfe one on that in the bafon. And again, 
although that in the bafon was taken away fome 
minutes before that in the cups, yet it was later in 
being completely coagulated ; as was evident on 
comparing them. 
I had an opportunity of repeating the experiment 
in the evening ; for her fymptoms of inflammation 
feeming equally violent, it was thought proper by 
the phyficians who attended her, to take away more 
blood ; which was done by opening the fame orifice, 
when three tea-cups were nearly filled, and fet in the 
fame place ; and it was obferved, that the firft had a 
cruft, though not fo thick a one as in the firft ope- 
ration ; but the other two cups were without this 
appearance, though the blood had flowed into them 
even more quickly than into the firft. 
Experiment XX. 
A gentleman, who laboured under an inflammatory 
complaint, had about nine ounces of blood taken 
from 
