142 1*HIL0S0PHICAL TKANSACTIONS. [aNNO I674. 



having out of her great commiseration put her crying grandchild several times 

 to her breasts to suck, these breasts did from that old woman's strong imagina- 

 tion and vehement desire to give suck to this child begin to yield milk, and 

 continued so to do with that plenty, that it was sufficient to feed the child, so 

 that it hardly needed any other food; which all that saw it much wondered at, 

 and which can be attested by many credible citizens of the said town. 



As this author alleges this example to fortify his opinion concerning the 

 cause that impels the chyle to the breasts, which he takes to be the mother's 

 or nurse's strong imagination and passion to give suck ; so he adds another, for 

 the same purpose, known to himself, and happening in his own family, which 

 is ; that a little boy of his having been suckled for a while by his own mother, 

 the author's wife ; but being fallen very sick, and for great weakness unable to 

 suck any more for S or 7 weeks, and consequently given over for dead; the 

 mother, having cast oiFall hopes of giving it any further suck, let her milk dry 

 up. But the child by great care recovering so far as to be able to suck again, and 

 being put to a hired nurse, after the mother's breasts were dried up, and this 

 nurse not using the child well, the mother out of great compassion to her child, 

 did, about the end of the ninth month from the time of her being brought to bed, 

 take -the babe to herself again, and, whilst another nurse was sought after, with 

 a thousand embraces she passionately wished and desired, she might have a full 

 breast to give suck again herself. A nurse being found the same day, and the 

 child put to her breasts, the wife of our author found at night, from her strong 

 imagination and passion (says he), that her breasts, though not stroaked by her, 

 nor sucked by the child, swelled again, after they had for eight whole months 

 been quite dried up, and they yielded so much good milk, that, if the new 

 nurse had not been hired, she could have given plentiful suck to the boy her- 

 self. 



An Account of Tiuo Books. N° 105, p. 101. 



I. Tractatus quinque Physico-Medici, de Sale-Nitro et Spiritu Nitro-Aereo; 

 de Respiratione ; de Respiratione Fcetus in Utero et Ovo; de Motu Musculari 

 et Spiritibus Animalibus; de Rachitide: auth. Job. Mayow, LL. D. et M.D. 

 &c. Oxon. e Theat. Sheld. 16/4, inSvo. 



The first part of this book treats of nitre, and the nitro-aerial spirit, premising 

 a history of nitre, concerning which it teaches, what are its component parts ; 

 how it is produced in the earth ; what the air contributes to its generation, and 

 what the earth. 



Having delivered the constituent principles of nitre in general, the author 

 treats in particular of the acid spirit of nitre; affirming it to be produced partly 



