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which likewife derives part of the Blood thither, 

 without running at all into the Lungs; thefe 

 two are clos'd up foon after the Child is born, 

 when it breathes no more (as I may fo fay) by the 

 Placenta Vterina, but Refpiration by the Lungs 

 is needful for it. It is here to be noted, that tho* 

 the Lungs be form'd fo foon as the other Parts, 

 yet during the abode of the F^stus in the Womb 

 they lie by as ufelefs. In like manner I have ob- 

 ferv'd, that in ruminating Creatures the three 

 foremoft Stomachs, not only during the conti- 

 nuance of the Young in the Womb, but fo long 

 as it is fed with Milk, are unemployed and ufelefs, 

 the Milk pafling immediately into the fourth. 



Another Obfervation I ftiali add concerning 

 Generation, which is of fome moment, becaufe 

 it takes away fome Conceffions of Naturalifts that 

 give countenance to the Atheifts fiditious and ri- 

 diculous Account of the firft Produftion of Man- 

 kind and other Animals, viz. That all Sorts of 

 Infeds, yea, and fome Quadrupeds too, as Frogs 

 and Mice, are produc'd fpontaneoufly. My Ob- 

 fervation and Affirmation is, that there is no fuch 

 thing in nature as aequivocal or fpontaneous Ge- 

 neration, but that all Animals, as well fmall as 

 great, not excluding the vileft and moid contemp- 

 tible Infed:, are generated by animal Parents of 

 the fame Species with themfelves; that noble 

 Italian Virtuofo Francijco Redi haying experi- 

 mented, that no putrify'd Fleih (which one 

 would think were the moil likely of any thing) 



will 



