in The 5\Qatural Hiflory 



be ingravenof its juft magnitude, Tab. 10. Fig. 16. which isal- 

 fo to be feen in the Medicin School. 



50. Amongft which alfo I think we may number the defcend- 

 ingtrunck of the Arteria magna, taken out of the body of an an- 

 aentperfon, by the fkilful Mr. Pointer Chirurgion of Oxford, in 

 the prefence of Dr. Millington our Sidleyan Profejfor of Natural 

 Pbilofophy, whofe innermoft coat from above the Emulgents down 

 to the Iliac branches, is by parcels only (and not continued 

 throughout) turned into bone, the outer coat remaining foft and 

 tender inks ordinary irate; which Artery remains to be feen in 

 the cuftody of Mr. Pointer. Juft fuch another Artery as this, I 

 find obferved by Fallopius d : and Dr. Willis took another of them 

 out of a man much ufed to wine and $1 ale drinks* ; who alfo in- 

 forms us, that in the dijfeclion of one that dyed of an ulcerated 

 Schirru* in the Mefentery, he found one of the Carotides turned 

 into bene in the fame manner f : Befide, above the Emulgents 

 nearer the heart, there was a portion of this Artery turned into 

 an annulary bone, perhaps fuch another as was obferved by Dr. 

 Harvey, and Veflingiws g , in the great Artery of an old man ; but 

 this I have not feen, it being in the poile/fton of our afore-men- 

 tion'd Profejfor refiding in London. 



54. Amongft other the fore-runners of death and the grave, 

 we muft not forget extream old age, fuch as thofe above-mention- 

 ed, >. 3. of the fecond Chapter ; and of one J often Pierce late of 

 Witney, better known by much by the name of George Jits, who 

 lived to the age of an hundred and twelve. Where alfo in the 

 Tithing of Curbridg there is one William Carter now living, at leaft 

 a hundred years old, who yet it feems has not lived more abfte- 

 miouily than others of his rank, nor do's he now at this age take 

 fo much care, as other people of his health ' he commonly lying 

 naked amongft the blankets of the Mill where he lives, which ma- 

 ny times are not over dry ; out of which he will go naked in the 

 midft of winter, and drink cold water at the Rivers fide. 



52. Of accidents in the very point of death, I have met with 

 none obfervable amongft the Men of this County, nor of any at- 

 tending them in the Grave, except we may reckon that one, of 

 pre/ervation from corruption many years after death ; fuch as that 



' Gabr.Vallof. Tom. 2. Trail. 9. cap. 14. Pharmaceut. ratimalis 7 fed. 6- caj>.^. f Cereir. Anatom. 

 cap. 7. * Syntag. Anatom. cap- 10. 



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