Z86 Compan/on between (he Human Race and. Swine. 

 body purpofely in fwine ; fo that even, in the lad centum 

 a celebrated difpute, which arofe between the phyficians of 

 Heidelberg and thofe of Durlach, refpecting the pofition of 

 tlie heart in man, was determined in confequence of orders 

 from government, by infpe&ing a fow, to the great triumph 

 of the party who really were in the wrong. Nor is it becaufe 

 in the time of Galen, according to repeated aflcrtions, hu- 

 man fleih was faid to have a tafte perfectly fimilar to that of 

 fwine * ; nor becaufe the fat f , and the tanned hides of both, 

 are very like to each other ; but becaufe both, in regard to 

 the economy of their bodily ftru&ure, taken on the whole, 

 fhew unexpectedly, on the firft view, as well as on clofer 

 examination, a very ftriking fimilitude. 



Both, for example, are domeftic animals ; both omnivora ; 

 both are difperfed throughout all the four quarters of the 

 world; and both confequentlv are expofed, in numerous way?;, 

 to the principal caufes of degeneration arifing from climate, 

 mode of life, nourifhment, &c; both, for the fame reafon, 

 are fubject to many difeafes, and, what is particularly 

 worthy of remark, to difeafes rarely found among other 

 animals than men and fwine, fu'ch as the ftone in the 

 bladder J ; or to difeafes exclulivelv peculiar to thefe two, 

 fueh as the worms, found in meafled fwine §. A tl * 



* Galen fays, in the tenth book of his work on the Power of Simple 

 Medicines, that tavern-keepers and cooks often ferved up human fle 

 ftead of fwine *s fleih to their gucfls, without their perceiving it. He him- 

 felf \\ as told by perfons worthy of credit, that they had ate of fuch food in 

 s. public inn with the be ft appetite, not knowing what it was till they at 

 length found half a linger, when they became terribly alarmed for fear of 

 the murderous haft, who was, however, loon after caught in the fad and 

 puni filed. 



f See Scbwenkfsld 'tberiotfopb. Sile/iie,f. 1*7. 



t Among the wild fwine, particularly. in Ruffian Tafjary. A pretty 

 fage ftone of that kind, forming a part of Baron Afch's prcfent, is pre- 

 ferved in the Academical Mufeum of Gottingcn. Domeftic fwine, how- 

 ever, are in many places lubjec~t to this malady. See Scbvienkfeld tberio- 

 irofb, S;!fjl*e, ut fupra. 

 § I was guilty of an error when I laid, in the third edition of my 



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