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6. AH sorts of amputations successfully performed by 



the ancients . ib. 



7. Reflections on ancient and modern chirurgery . id 



CHAP. III. 



Of Generation. 



1. Harvey and Redi's sentiment on generation . 15 



2. A different sentiment thereon supported by Lewen- 



hoek . . -ib. 



3. Arguments in support of the first sentiment, drawn 



from the analogy of nature in the production of 

 plants and animals . . ib. 



4. Ernpedocles' and Aristotle's opinions on generation 16 



5. Herodotus accounts for numbers of fishes being 



found on land . ib. 



0. Hippocrates describes a fetus six days old . 17 



7. How the fetus is produced , . ib. 



8. Macrobius^ account of generation , ib. 

 g. The ancients amazingly exceed the moderns in their 



sentiments on generation . f &, 



1O, 11. Democritus, and other ancients' opinions on 



this subject , . .18 



12. Hippocrates asserts, that nothing is born but what 



had a prior existence . . 19 



13 Objection urged, and solved ' ib. 



a 2 



