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Bile, and dissecting it, I found, as I had in numberless Subjects before, that, towards the Neck, it had a Curvature, and that this Neck is not an even direct Tube, as it is misrepresented by all the Anatomists, except Heister; but that it twisted, like a small Cord, with several spiral Valvulæ in the Inside, as I had, in Conformity to that great Man, mentioned, in another of my Writings, twenty Years ago; but I could not discern the Cistipatic and Epatocistic Tubes, as they are called; which was indeed my chief Motive to a narrow Inspection into these Parts, having frequently examined them before; but now they were brought afresh into my Mind, by reading the Bolonian Translation of Winslow's Anatomy, who possibly mentions it, on Trust, from Authors,

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