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admitting a silver stiletto, which I had never observed in any corpse. And 

 then, a Hver divided into five lobes, together with a spleen of the figure of a 

 saw, of extraordinary bigness. Last year, one drowned of about 35 years of 

 age, had the lacteal vessels so apparent and large, that having shown how they 

 lay in the body, I exhibited them even the day after in the mesentery, taken 

 out and displayed upon a table. 



I also lighted upon two odd births, one was of twin females, very handsome, 

 but so fastened together by the breast that only one body was discernible ; their 

 chins united together, they seemed to kiss one another. I could not dissect 

 them as I wished, because they were delivered to me to embalm, and the indi- 

 gent father of them, who looked for gain, would not let me have them but for 

 a great sum of money. Wherefore not to spoil them for the purpose designed, 

 having only opened them upwards from the navel, which was common to them 

 both, I took out the intestines, the stomach, the heart, the lungs. There was 

 but one heart, though greater and rounder than ordinary, so that nature seemed 

 to have united the matter of two into one. They had two lungs, and one sto- 

 mach, the pylorus of which did strangely branch itself into two ranks in the 

 bowels. There was but one liver, but large ; two spleens, four kidneys, two 

 wombs, full of a white matter, like a concreted semen : two vulvas, with their 

 distinct hymens. In short, they were so well made in all the other members, 

 that the painter who was employed to draw them affirmed, that if they were done 

 in ivory he would have paid any money for them. 



The other monster was a boy terrible to behold, born with his breast open, 

 the bowels out of the belly, the legs distorted, the bladder in the place of the 

 fundament ; in the genitals, besides that the testiculi were close to the kidneys, 

 there was nothing but a membranous expansion, wherein the spermatic vessels 

 were lost. Signor Steno, who honoured me with his visit, saw the administra- 

 tion of it, which I had before made in the presence of many noblemen and phy- 

 sicians at my house. 



Concerning the Mines, Alinerals, Baths, &c. of Hungary, Transyl- 

 vania, Austria, and other neighbouring Countries. By Dr. Edward 

 Brown.* N' 58, p. 1189. 

 I have not been unmindful of the inquiries you were pleased to honour me 



* Dr. Brown was bom about the year l642, and was educated first at Cambridge and then at Ox- 

 ford, where he took his doctor's degree. In l668 he visited several parts of Europe, and at his return 

 published his travels. He was made physician to Charles the Second, and to St. Bartholomew's 

 Hospital. He became president of the College of Physicians ; and died in 1708. Charles the Second 

 used to affirm that he was one of the best bred men in England. 



