78 Comments on Sterne. 
libro’ de myftica cerebri anatome [Fluddius] ob oculos 
ponit. - Solent ab anatomicis illic delineari genitalia 
membra, utriufque fexus, quod proceffus quidam 
et finus, eum in modum figurati funt. Hic Flud- 
dius invenit, non quod pueri in faba, illic dicit 
generari c gitatione ; quod mihi mirum vifum eft, 
cum ego iliqua do joculare carmen de Ente rationis 
{criberem, et, ferente ita genio carminis, joci gratia 
finxiffem, illic geoerari Entia rationis, poftea cum 
incidi in iftud Fluddii, quod ne fomniando quidem 
cogita'eram, invenille me, ferio hac afferi a 
Fluddio.”* 
I em not acquainted with the foundation of the 
curious paffages re{pecting the poffibiity of bap- 
tizing infants in utero, but I find that Mauriceau 
adverts to the circumftance, in his atiack on the 
Cefarian operation: ‘il n’ya pas d’occafions ou 
** on ne puiffe bien donner le Baptéme a |’enfant, 
durant qu'il eft encore au ventre de la mere, 
eftant facile de porter de l'eau nette par le moyen 
du Canon dune feringue jufques fur quelque 
‘* partie de fon Corps’—He then obviates a difficulty 
unthought of by Sterne’s Doctors; which perfuades 
me that this paflage of Mauriceau had not occurred 
to himn—‘‘ et il feroit inutile dalleguer que l'eau 
“* n'y peut pas etre conduite, a caufe que l'enfant 
** eft envelopé de fes membranes, qui en empéchent ; 
car 
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* Morhoff. Polyhift. Philof. lib. ii. p. 1. cap. 15. 
+ Triftram Shandy, vol. i, chap. xx. 
