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ing naturally a very cold Part, and alfo to quench 

 and diffipate the force of any Stroke that fliall be 

 dealt it, and retund the Edge of any Weapon. 

 3. And yet more than all this, there is ftill a 

 thick and tough Membrane, which hangs loofcr 

 about it, and doth not fo clofely embrace it (that 

 they call Dura Mater) and in cafe the Skull hap- 

 pens to be broken, doth often preferve it from 

 Injury and Diminution. And laftly, a thin and 

 fine Membrane, ftrait, and clofely adhering, to 

 keep it from qua(hing and fliaking. The many- 

 Pairs of Nerves proceeding from it, and after- 

 wards diftributing and branching themfelves to 

 all the Parts of the Body, either for Nutrition or 

 Motion, are wonderful to behold in prepared 

 Bodies, and even in the Schemes and Figures of 

 Dr. Willis and Vieuffens, 



I might inftance (3.) in the Lungs, which are 

 fo ufeful to us as to Life and Senfe, that the Vul- 

 gar think our Breath is our very Life, and that 

 we breathe cut our Souls from thence; fuitable 

 to which Notion both A?iima and Spiritus in 

 Latin^ and 'zd-v^jj^ in Greek, are derived from 

 Words that fignify Breath and Wind -, and effiare^ 

 or exhalare Animam^ fignify to die. And the old 

 Romajis ufed to apply Mouth to Mouth and re- 

 ceive the lafi; Gafps of their dying Friends, as if 

 their Souls had come out that way ; from hence 

 perhaps might firft fpring that Opinion of the 

 Vehicles of Spirits ; the Vulgar, as I hinted be- 

 forej conceiving that the Breath v/as, if not the 

 Soul it felf, yet that .wherein it was wafted and 



carry 'd 



