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mouth ; afterwards he had an exceedingly wild look, snatcliing at any thing near 

 him, and he woidd have tore off his flesh had he not been prevented by the per- 

 sons about him. This made me conjecture he might formerly have been bitten 

 by a mad dog, which had introduced the hydrophobia ; but I was convinced to 

 the contrary, for I put a basin of water by him, and he was not in the least 

 afraid of it, nor attempted to lap it. 1 saw him in three of these tits, but at 

 other times in these convulsions, he roared like a bull, made a noise like a hog, 

 and sometimes like that of a gosling ; all which different sounds seem to pro- 

 ceed from the different contractions of the lungs, variously forcing out the air, 

 and consequently as they were differently convulsed, form various sounds. In 

 a week's time I recovered the boy his speech, his senses returned, his convul- 

 sions vanished, and he is now very cheerful. There have been other persons in 

 this country much after the same inanner. 



An /Account of several Schemes of Arteries and Veins, dissected from adult 

 Human Bodies, and given to the Repository of the Royal Society by John 

 Evelyn, Esq. F. R. S. To which are subjoined a Description of the Extremi- 

 ties of those Vessels, and the Manner the Blood is seen by the Microscope to 

 pass from the Arteries to the Feins in Quadrupeds when living : ivith some 

 Surgical Observations and Figures after the Life. By IVilliam Cowper, F. R. S. 

 N° 280, p. 1177. 



The figures of the arteries and veins were drawn from the vessels themselves 

 pasted and dried. They were dissected from adult human bodies, and displayed 

 on tables in the repository of the Royal Society, and are the present of John 

 Evelyn, Esq. from whom I received the following letter, concerning them and 

 other tables of the nerves, &c. ; to which I have subjoined a furtiier ac- 

 count, &c. 



For Mr. Cowper. — " Hearing, Sir, that you are causing the tables of veins, 

 nerves, &c. which I some time since brought out of Italy, to be accurately 

 delineated, in order to their being engraven, as more correct than any that are 

 yet to be found among the figures of those vessels in books of anatomy ; and 

 desirous to understand how they came to my hands, I send you this little his- 

 tory of them for your satisfaction. 



" Being some years since in Italy, and curious to see the many repeated 

 dissections at the anatomical theatre at Padua, Cavalier Vestlingius being then 

 professor, and reading on bodies several days during Lent, Dr. Johanno Athel- 

 steinus Leoncena, who was then operator, by extracting the veins and other 

 vessels, which contain the blood, spirits, &c. out of the human bodies, began to 

 apply and distend them on tables, according to their natural proportion and 



