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all the Sprouts and Branches of Plants that were 

 laid before it. By the by we may take notice of 

 one thing very remarkable, that this Kid of its 

 own accord drank Milk after the manner it had 

 done in the Womb; whereas had it once drawn 

 by the Nipple, it would hardly have fupp'd the 

 Milk; and therefore in weaning young Creatures 

 the beft way is never to let them fuck the Paps at 

 al>, for then they will drink up Milk without any 

 difficulty ; whereas if they have fuck'd, fome will 

 very hardly, others by no means be brought to 

 drink : But how do the Young with fuch Facili- 

 ty come to take the Nipple, and to fuck at it, 

 which they had never before us'd to do ? Here 

 we muft have recourfe to natural Inftind:, and 

 the Diredion of fome fuperior Caufe. 



Notice hath been already taken in an Obferva- 

 tion communicated by my learned Friend Dr. 

 Tancred Robin/on^ of the Providence of Nature in 

 fo forming the Membranes of the Body as to be 

 capable of a prodigious Dilatation and Extenfion, 

 which is of great Ufe in fome Difeafes ; for Ex- 

 ample, the Dropfy, to continue Life for fome 

 time till Remedy may be had ; and if not, to give 

 time to prepare for Death: But the Wifdom and 

 Delign of this Texture doth in no Inftance more 

 clearly appear, than in the neceflity of it for the 

 Womb in the time of Geftation ; for were not the 

 Womb in Women, which during Virginity is not 

 bigger than a fmall Purfe, almoft infinitely dila- 

 table, and alfo the Ferttomum^ not to mention 



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