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been call'd upon, where the very Subllance of the 

 Brain has been wounded, and that a good Portion of 

 it, together with the Dura and the Pia Mater ^ have 

 come away with the Dreffings, after the fraftured 

 Pieces of the Skull have been removed. So that 

 from tills it may be fcen how much the Ancients 

 .were millaken with relation to Wounds upon the 

 Brain, which are not in my Thoughts, provided 

 they do not happen upon the CerebtHum or back 

 Part of it, near fo dangerous as Wounds of the 

 Liver, Lungs, Stomach,- or Inteftines, fetting the 

 Heart afide j for that moil: noble Part, I own to be 

 the Primum Mobile of the whole Animal Machine : 

 And yet there r.re not wanting Inllances, where even 

 Wounds of the Heart hnve not prov'd mortal, parti- 

 cularly I remember the Her.rt of a Deer kept as a A Musket 

 Rarity at Lo^ii:er-UaU, the Seat of that honeft and^^'l in the 

 worthy Nobleman the Lord Vifcount LonfdaleJ^''''^'^'^?'^^ 

 which had a MuficetBall lodged in it, that wasJJ'ove.cd 

 heakd over, and a callous or hard Subllance all 

 round it ; which convinced me plainly, that fuch 

 Ball had been lodged there a confiderable Time be- 

 fore that which might be the Death of him : And 

 herein we may find, that Nature will often perform 

 Things beyond the Reach of human Skill or 

 Forefight. 



If a Horfe be wounded in the Stomach or Paunch,, Wnurds ja 

 Gut?,. Liver, i3\. I think 'tis hardly woith v/bi!e,.'hf S-o- 

 confidering the hazardous Event, to attempt a Cure. "^'^^^^ -'^• 

 Yet, if his Scull happen to be fraftur'd, there': no ' ^f;"''-^^- 

 Doubt but he might as fuccefsfully be trepan'd as "" ° ^""^'^ 

 Man. And if it is fo broken and Ihatter'd th:t with 

 an Inftrum.ent called a Le<vatory the Farrier may 

 raife up and take out the Fragments, I fiy then the 

 Wound may be healed with the follovving Com- 

 pofition. 



Jake Honey of Rofes, half a Pound i Spirit of KUi^tvve 

 i'i ine, four Ounces, Mix, for ASlonn.s 



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