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It is more difficult to account for the milk, which 

 some men have in considerable plenty. Thus in the 

 year 1684, a countryman, called Billardino di Billo, 

 living in a village near Nocaera, in Umbria, when his 

 wife was dead, took the child, and put the nipples 

 of his breasts into its mouth, invited it to suck, which 

 the infant did, and after several times drawing, fetched 

 some milk. After awhile it brought down the milk so 

 plentifully, as to nourish it for many months till it 

 was weaned. 



Almost as strange is the following account: One 

 informing me of an old woman that gave suck, I went 

 to the house in Tottenharn-court-road. Her name is 

 Elizabeth Bryan. She is in the 68th year of her age, 

 and h=as not borne a child for many years : her face 

 is withered, her cheeks and mouth sunk in : but her 

 breasts are full, fair, and void of wrinkles. About 

 four years ago, her daughter was obliged to leave an 

 infant she gave suck to, in the care of her mother. The 

 old woman finding the child froward for want of the 

 breast, applied it to her own. Having done this se- 

 veral times, her son thought the child seemed to swal- 

 low, and begged his mother he might try, if she had 

 not milk. It soon appeared she had, and she then 

 continued to suckle the child in earnest. Two years 

 after, her daughter had another child, on which the 

 grandmother weaned the first, and .suckled the se- 

 cond. Both the children are healthy, plump, and 

 firm in flesh, and as brisk and lively as can be de- 

 sired." 



41. In the lower cavity first occurs the Stomach, 

 with the oesophagus or gullet, which reaches to it from 

 the mouth. The Tight orifice, called the pylorus, 

 transmits the digested food to the intestines. It is 

 narrower than the other, as being designed to trans- 

 mit nothing, ti\i it is reduced to a kind of liquid. 

 And it goes by a long and oblique descent into the 

 duodenum, that the ch) le may not pass out ; either 

 too swiftly or too slowly. 



