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who, having met with them in Animals, have concluded them to be in Men also; but very probably they have all been too hasty. I do not deny that these Tubes have not, in Part, been discovered in Animals; I say, in Part, being, from my own Experience, convinced that the Epatocistics are in Oxen and Dogs, as I have never been able to distend their Gall Bladder jointly with the Neck,———the Air transpiring through these Tubes; but that the Cistepatici are not in any Liver whatsoever, is to be evident, because, did the Bile permeate from the Gall Bladder into the Liver, it would naturally communicate a bitter acrid Taste to it, which is the very Reverse of that of all Livers; this surely must preponderate against Winslow, and all those (be
