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214. The fame Learned Dr. Highmere, formerly of Trinity 

 College Oxon. was the firft that we know of that treated of the ftru- 

 dure of Mans body, adapting it to the then new received Doftrine 

 of the circulation of the Blood; for the proof whereof hefeerris 

 chiefly to have intended his piece of Anatomy, dedicating it to the 

 Author of the Invention, the famous Dr. Harvey : Wherein he has 

 feveral new Cuts of the Spleen, Pancreas, Teftes, (jrc of which, 

 though moft have fince received confiderable Improvements from 

 others, yet it muft be acknowledged that he deferved very well 

 for his diligent and laborious fearch into them all, but more par- 

 ticularly for his firft difcovery of the new duclm for the carriage of 

 the feed 'from the Teftes to the Paraftat* x , and for his new defcri- 

 ptions of the Veffels and Fibres of the Spleen, by the ancient Ana- 

 tomifls held to be Veins y , and of the intricate plexus of the Para- 

 ftat<e, (sre r . 



215. In Natural Philojophy,. the famous Dr. Willis of Chrift 

 Church College Oxon. and Sidleyan Profeffor of Natural Philofophy 

 in this Vniverfity, firft taught us, that the Generations, Perfections, 

 and Corruptions of Natural Bodies, whether Mineral, Vegetable, or 

 Animal; and fo likewife of Bodies Artificial, do depend upon 

 fermentations, raifed from the different proportions and motions 

 of Spirit, Sulphur, Salt, Water, and Earth, which he has confti- 

 tuted the ultimate fenfible principles of mixed bodies a . According 

 to which, in his Book deFebribut, he has given us the Anatomy of 

 Blood, and declared the true caufes and nature of fermentations m 

 the juices, and upon them built his moft rational Do&rine of Fe- 

 vers, intermittent, putrid and malignant, with particular inftances 

 and obfervations concerning them, much different from the ways 

 of the Ancients : to which he has fuperadded the Spagyrical A- 

 natomy of Vrin. 



216. In Anatomy (wherein he had the affiftance of the defer- 

 vedly famous, Sir Christopher Wren, Dr. Mlllington, Dr. Edmund 

 King, Dr. Mafters, but chiefly of Dr. Lower*) his method of dif- 

 fering the Brain is new, and moft natural; and fo exact, that 

 there is fcarceany one part in it, but what has received confider- 

 able advancements from him. To mention all would beendlefs, 

 let it therefore fuffice, that after his defcription of the Palace in 



* Corp. Human. Aifquifit.Anatom. Lib. \ -part. ^. cap. 2. 1 Ibid, part. 5. cap 3. 2 Ibid- part 4.. cap. 2. 

 / 1 Libro de Ferment. 



general, 



