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when extravasated into the urinary Bladder. 
and that the coagulating lymph breaks down into parts almost 
resembling a soft powder, are facts which I believe to be new ; 
— they may, however, have been before ascertained, although 
I have not been acquainted with them. 
They are certainly not generally known, and one object of 
the present paper is to communicate them to others. 
These facts, considered abstractedly, may not appear of 
much importance ; but when compared with what takes place 
in the living body, and found to agree with the process the 
blood undergoes in the urinary bladder, they become of no 
small value, since they enable us to account for the symptoms 
that occur in that disease, and lead to the most simple and ef- 
fectual mode of relieving them. 
