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CAP. X. 



Qui sint Vopisci. 



VOPISCOS appellabant e geminis, qui retenti utero nasce- 

 rentur, altero interempto abortu. Namque maxima et rara 

 circa hoc miracula existunt. 



CAP. XI. 

 Exempla Numerosa Sobolis. 



PRJETER mulierem pauca animalia coitura novere gra- 

 vida. Unum quidem omnino, aut alterum, superfoetat. 1 

 Extat in monumentis etiam medicorum, et quibus talia con- 

 sectari curse fuit, uno abortu duodecim puerperia egesta. 

 Sed ubi paululum teraporis inter duos conceptus intercessit, 

 uterque perfertur : ut in Hercule et Iphiclo fratre ejus apparuit, 

 et in ea quae gemino partu, altero marito similem, alterum 

 adultero genuit ; Item in Proconnesia ancilla, quae ejusdem 

 diei coitu, alterum domino similem, alterum procurator! 

 ejus; et in alia, qua? unum justo partu quinque mensium 

 alterum edidit. Rursus in alia, quae septein mensium edito 

 puerperio, insecutis mensibus geminos enixa est. Jam ilia 

 vulgata, varie ex integris truncos gigni, ex truncis integros, 

 eademque parte truncos: signa quaedam, naevosque et cica- 

 trices etiam regenerari. Quarto partus Dacorum originis Nota 

 in brachio redditur. 



CHAPTER XII. 

 Examples of those who have closely resembled one another." 



IN the Race of the Lepidi it is said there were three, not 

 successively one after another, who had when they were 



the child ; whereas it appears that anciently it was had recourse to only 

 after the mother had expired, to save the child which still gave signs of 

 life. Cornelius Gamma says, that he performed it six times on as many 

 women, and that the children were preserved ; but he says nothing of the 

 fate of the mothers. Wern. Club. 



1 Superfcetation is an exceedingly rare occurrence in women; but some 

 modern instances place the certainty of this fact on certain grounds. 

 Wern. Club. 



2 This chapter is borrowed from Aristotle's " History of Animals," 

 b. xvii. c. 6. Wern. Club. 



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