HUMAN MALE MONSTER. 229 
Of the Duration of the Life of this Monfter. 
As in man and fimilar animals, the dire or indireé influ- 
ence of refpiration feems neceflary for the continuance of life, 
and as the lungs were wanting in this monfter, we mutt fuppofe, 
that it could have outlived the feparation from the mother for a 
very fhort time only. But when we add to this, that, by the 
ligature of the umbilical cord, a {top would be mechanically 
put to the circulation of its blood, it is evident, that its life 
muft have terminated with its delivery. 
Of the Time at which this Monfter muft bave acquired the Structure 
which has been defcribed. 
As this monfter was provided with a diftin& placenta and 
membranes, and its body furrounded with and _proteéted by 
the liquor amnii; as no veftige appeared of the brain, cere- 
bellum, organs of the fenfes, or other parts of the head; as 
nervous threads, proper to this monfter, afcended from the up- 
per end of the fpinal marrow towards the upper parts of its 
body ; as its fyftem of circulating veffels was complete without 
a heart, and the manner of their branching different in many 
refpects from the common ftructure: it muft furely appear, to 
an unprejudiced perfon, abfurd to fuppofe, with many eminent 
authors, that fuch monfters, when firft produced, had the or- 
dinary ftructure, and that this was afterwards altered by pref- 
fure and other accidents. 
THE like obfervation may be extended to many other mon- 
- fters in my poffeffion, I believe I might fay to almoft all other 
montters 
