CONTENTS. V 



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72. The lungs : in what animals they are the largest, and in what 



the smallest. Animals which have nothing hut lungs in the 

 interior of the hody. Causes which produce extraordinary 

 swiftness in animals , . . . 67 



73. The liver ; in what animals, and in what part there are two 



livers found ib. 



74. The gall ; where situate, and in what animals it is double. Ani- 



mals which have no gall, and others in which it is not situate 



in the liver 68 



75. The properties of the gall 69 



76. In what animals the liver increases and decreases with the moon. 



Observations on the aruspices relative thereto, and remarkable 

 prodigies 70 



77. The diaphragm. The nature of laughter ib. 



78. The belly : animals wbich have no belly. Which are the only 



animals that vomit 71 



79. The small guts, the front intestines, the anus, the colon. The 



causes of the insatiate voracity of certain animals ib. 



80. The omentum : the spleen ; animals which are without it 73 



81. The kidneys : animals which have four kidneys. Animals which 



have none ib. 



82. The breast : the ribs 74 



83. The bladder : animals which have no bladder ib. 



84. The womb : the womb of the sow : the teats 75 



85. Animals which have suet : animals which do not grow fat , . ib. 



86. The marrow : animals which have no marrow 76 



87. Bones and fish-bones : animals which have neither. Cartilages 77 



88. The nerves : animals which have none ib. 



89. The arteries ; the veins : animals without arteries or veins. The 



blood and the sweat 78 



90. Animals, the blood of which coagulates Math the greatest rapidity : 



other animals, the blood of which does not coagulate. Animals 

 which have the thickest blood : those the blood of which is the 

 thinnest : animals which have no blood ib. 



91. Animals Avhich are without blood at certain periods of the year . . 79 



92. Whether the blood is the principle of life 80 



93. The hide of animals ib. 



94. The hair and the covering of the skin 81 



95. The paps : birds which have paps. Remarkable facts connected 



with the dugs of animals 82 



98. The milk: the biestings. Cheese: of what milk cheese cannot 



be made. Rennet ; the various kinds of aliment in milk . . 83 



97. Various kinds of cheese 85 



98. Differences of the members of man from those of other animals . . 86 



99. The fingers, the arms .. ib. 



100. Resemblance of the ape to man tb. 



101. The nails 87 



102. The knees and the hams ib. 



103. Parts of the human body to which certain religious ideas are 



attached 88 



