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that Pofture of the Fingers the Body touches the 

 outfides of them, which in their natural Site are 

 diftant one from another, and their Nerves made 

 to fignify to the Soul Bodies feparate, and diftant 

 in like manner, two Fingers lying between them ; 

 and tho' our Reafon, by the help of our Sight, 

 correds this Error, yet cannot we but fancy it 

 to be fo. 



Neither is the aqueous Hiimoury as fome may 

 fupinely imagine, altogether ufelefs or unpro- 

 fitable as to Vifion, becaufe by its Help the 

 Uvea tunica is foftained, which elfe would 

 fall flat upon the cryftalline Humour ; and 

 fluid it muft be to give way to the Contraction 

 and Dilatation of the uveous ; and becaufe 

 the outermoft Coat of the Eye might chance 

 to be wounded or pricked, and this Humour, 

 being fluid, let out, therefore Nature hath made 

 Provifion fpeedily to repair it again in fuch a 

 Cafe, by the help of certain Water-Pipes , or 

 Lymphaedufts , inferted into the Bulb of the 

 Eye, proceeding from Glandules defign^d by 

 Nature to feparate this Water from the Blood 

 for that Ufe. Antontm Nuck afiirms, that if 

 the Eye of an Animal be pricked, and the 

 aqueous Humour fqueez'd out, in ten Hours 

 Space the faid Humour and Sight fhall be te- 

 ftored to the Eye, if at leaft the Creature be 

 kept in a dark Place. And that he did pub- 

 lickly demonftrate the fame in the Anatomical 

 Theatre at Leyden, in a Dog, out of whofe 

 Eye, being wounded, the aqueous Humour did 

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