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CORTEX PERUVIANUS. 
heic locum habet,, rem in corpore vivo fecus 
habere, & hoc etiam concedo; eflentialem vc 
adeffe difcrepantiam, inter actiones corticis in ai 
mali nuper mortuo, & vivo , neminem qu ^ 
aiTentire pofle, exiftimo, qui experimentum P» u 
accuratius confidcraverit, nec non obfervat o 
hus Cei. Dn. Hali er, aliorumque celeberr. phy 11 c . 
ium, edo&us fuit, fenfibilitatem & irritabilitate 
partium folidarum corporum animalium, & inde a 
pendentem facultatem agendi & patiendi, non * 
tim evanefeere, fed poft mortem per magnum 
tis adhuc temporis intervallum perdurare o). * 
ta vero refpeftu aftionis differentia judicio m 
tonfiftit in eo, quod decoctum in experimento dic 
immediate egerit, cum hoc in corpore vivo P 
fanguinem fiat, quare in hoc cafu effe&us fu*>t ^ 
biliores. Sicuti vero hoc experimento mea ^ 
Goats of the Guts, fo as to make them niucli t . j, 
than they wcre at firft; now the Conftriition ' v Jr u f|0l> 
thus occafioned can only be inlarged by the * * 3 4 5 
of much hotter Water, as was done in the ' or ^ e ff e |> 
Experiment; whereas the Conftri&ion of the 
which is owing tho the ftiptic Quality of the 
is we fee, in this Experiment and others, ma ^y Jt {n 
taken away by the relaxing Quality of the 
which wafhes away the ftiptic Vertue. ^ 
4) I then poured in fuccefiively five Pots of cold P ^ 
Water, which was fourteen Degrees above the ^ 
Pot of warm water pafied in 96", the fifth Pot 0 
cold Water was 135 ' in pafling. ^ 
5) I tried in like manner a ftrong Decoftion of 
011 another Dog, in which the preceding Pot ot p fl! j 
Water was 38' in pafling, but the following a jf 
of Decoition fo contrafted the Veflels that the 
them was 136" in pafling. 
*) Di!V. de M» [laller lur les parties irritables aVCC 
Preface de M. Tiftot, pag. 43. 44. 52. 5$, 
