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Another Particular which may ferve to demon- 

 flrate that this ered: Pofture of the Body of Man 

 was intended and defign'd by the wife and good 

 Author of Nature, is the faftning of the Cone of 

 the Pericardium to the Midriff, an Account 

 whereof I (hall give tiie Reader out of the inge- 

 nious Dr. Tyfons Anatomy of the Orang-Outang^ 

 or Pig7nic\ p. 49. 



Vefalius (faith he) and others make it a Peculi- 

 arity to Man, that the Pericardium^ or Bag that 

 inclofes the Heart, {l:iould be faften d to the Dia^ 

 phragm, Vefalius tells us (De Corporis Humani 

 fabric a y lib. 6. cap. 8.) Cateriim i?2voliicri miicro^ 

 .& dextri ipfius lateris egregia portio Septi traiif- 

 "verji nerveo circulo validi/Jime amploqiie admodicm 

 Jpatio counafcitur, quod Hominibus ejl peculiars, 

 T'he Point of the Pericardium, and a vefj conjide" 

 rable Portion of its right Side^ is 77ioft jirjnly fajl^ 

 end to the nervous Circle of the Midriff for a large 

 Space ^ which is peculiar to Mankind, So B Lin- 

 ear dius^ An at, P,eformat. cap. 2. p. 8. Homo pr^s 

 cceteris Ammalibus hoc peculiare habet^ quod ejus 

 Pericardium Septi tranjherji medio femper accref- 

 cat^ ciun idem in '^ladrupedum genere liberum & 

 aliquanto Jpatio ab ipjb remotumfit : Man hath this 

 peculiar to him^ and differ eiit from other Animals^ 

 that his Pericardium doth always grow to the mid- 

 dle of the Midriff', whereas in the ^adrupedKind 

 it is free ^ and remov'd Jbme diftance fro7n it- 



The Pericardium in Man is therefore thu5 faft- 



t mieht affift the Dia^ 

 Q_^ . ftok 



.en*d, that in Expiration it mieht affift the Dia 



