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I have done with my general Obfervations, I 

 proceed now more accurately and minutely to 

 confider fome particular Parts or Members of the 

 Body 5 and firft, the Heady becaufe it was to con- 

 tain a large Brain, made of the moft capacious 

 Figure, as near as could be to a fpherical ; upon 

 this grows the Hair, which, tho' it be efteem*d 

 an Excrement, is of great Ufe (as I fliew'd before) 

 to cherifti and keep warm the Brain, and to 

 quench the Force of any Stroke, that might 

 otherwife endanger the Skull 5 it ferves alfo to 

 difburden the Brain of a great deal of fuperfluous 

 Moifture, wherewith it abounds. 



I find it remarked by Machettty a famous Ana-? 

 tomift in Padua, that the Caufe of Baldnefs in 

 Men is the drynefs of the Brain, and its fhrinking 

 from the Crarthim, or Skull 5 he having obferv'd, 

 that in bald Perfons, under the bald Part there 

 was always a Vacuity or empty Space between 

 the Skull and the Brain : and laftly, to name no 

 more, it ferves alfo for a graceful Ornament to 

 the Face, which our prefent Age is fenfible e-^ 

 nough of, beft owing fo much Money upon falfc 

 Hair and Perriwigs. 



Secondly-, Another Member which I fhall more 

 particularly treat of, is the Eye, a Part fo artifici- 

 ally composed and commodioufly fituate, as no- 

 thing can be contrived better for Ufe, Ornament, 

 or Security ; nothing to Advantage added thereto 

 or altered therein. Of the Beauty of the Eye I 

 ihall fay little, leaving that to Poets and Orators j 



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