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Buccina, N° V. 



1 8. Buccinum flavurn, pellucidum, intra tres spiras terminatum. 



19. Buccinum alterum majus, paulo obscurius, pellucidum tamen, 4 Spirarum, 

 mucrone acutissimo. 



20. Buccinum fuscum, 5 Spirarum plenarum, mucrone saepius mutilato ob- 



tusoque. 

 ei. Burcinum subflavum alterum, 5 Spirarum, atque operculo tenui et pellucido, 

 testaceo tamen cochleatoque donatum. 



22. Buccinum longum sex spirarum, in tenue acumen ex amplissm^ basi mucro- 

 natum. 



Compressd testa, coccum fundentes, N° III. 



23. Cochlea pvilla, ex utraque parte circa umbilicum cava. 



24. Cochlea altera parte plena, et limbo donata, 4 circumvolutionum. 



25. Cochlea minor, altera parte plana, sine limbo, 5 circumvolutionum. 

 Bivalvae, N° II. 



26. Musculus, par\Tis, subflams, testa pellucida, pisi magnitudine, palustris. 



27. Musculus alter, fluminvun maximus, subviridis. 

 Marine, &c. 



^ Relation ivritten to the Editor from, a Person of great veracity in Germany, 

 concerning an aged fVoman of 60 Years, giving suck to her Grandchild, &c. 

 N° 105, p. 100. 



I cannot but impart unto you something which lately happened in my family, 

 which is, that having taken two months ago a nurse for my little girl, since 

 dead; the boy of that nurse having been on that occasion weaned, did by re- 

 peated sucking the breasts of his grandmother, a woman of three score years of 

 age, cause such a commotion in her, that abundance of milk ran to her breasts 

 for a sufficient nourishment to the said weaned boy, whom also my nurse, his 

 mother, after she returned home upon the death of my girl, now again gives 

 suck to, though her breasts had been for some weeks dried up. 



So far this relation : which as it can be confirmed by many other like histories, 

 given by very credible persons, so I shall here second it but with one only, re- 

 corded by the learned Diemerbroeck in the second book of his Anatome cor- 

 poris humani, cap. 2, page 408 ; of which book an account is given at the end 

 of this very tract. The relation is as follows : At Viana, a town very near us, 

 some years ago, a poor woman, living before the town-gate, and being brought 

 to bed of a fine boy not long after the death of her husband, and dying pre- 

 sently after her delivery, left her child behind her in good health ; but leaving 

 nothing to keep a nurse to give the child suck, the grandmother of the babe 

 being yet living, a woman of 66 years of age, but very poor also, and not able 

 to pay a nurse, out of great pity to the poor child, attempted though at that 

 age, to give it suck herself; in which undertaking she succeeded so well, that 



