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Athenaeum there. He died in 1692. 

 Blaes displayed a vast literary activity; 

 his commented edition of Vesling's Syn= 

 tagma Anatomicum, Amsterdam 1666, 

 and his Anatome Animalium, ibid. 1681, 

 are his best known publications. See 

 the Introduction and Biogr. Woorden= 

 boek dev Nederlanden. vol. II p. 598. 



P. 4. 1. 10-11 from top. 



in fuis ad Eyffonium litteris] 

 Henricus Eyssonius, born in Groningen, 

 was in 1658 made Doctor and two years 

 after Professor of Medicine at the Uni* 

 versity of his native town. He died in 

 1696. See Biogr. Woordenboek der Ne= 

 derlartden. vol. V p. 311. 



P. 4. 1. 12-13 from top. 



de Medicina Generali fcripto] 

 Steno made his discovery on April 7, 

 1660. The two letters mentioned above 

 (see note to p. 4, 1. 5 — 6 from top) 

 of Ole Borcb's in which the latter 

 mentions Blaes' intention of claiming 

 the right to the discovery, are dated 

 March 3 and March 20, 1661. This 

 letter of Steno's has the date of April 

 22; in the meantime Gerardi Blasii . . . 

 Medicina Generalis. Amstelaedami 1661, 

 had appeared. In the Preface of this 

 book the following passage is found: 

 In Re ipfa vix aliquid novi, quod com 

 Jiderationem mereatur. Quid accejferit, 

 facile ipfe obfervabis, haec noftra cum 

 aliorum hactenus editis fcriptis confe= 

 xens. Vnicum hoc moneam cogor, Duc= 

 tus falivales in maxilla fuperiori fefe 

 exhibentes, de quibus pag. 64. mention 

 nemfeci, inventis novis accenferi deberi, 

 utpote ante annum, & quod excurrit, a 

 me, privatis exercitiis anatomicis occu= 

 pato, in capite vitulino primiim repertos, 

 ac dein, occafione commodafe offerente, 



in Nofocomio Leydenji, a Pr. Iuvene 

 Nicolao Stenonis, Hafnienfi, Difcipulo 

 meo induflrio, in capite humano, ante 

 paucos menfes, Spectatoribus exhibitos. 

 The same work has, Cap. XIII. De Sa= 

 liva, pp. 63 — 64: Saliva humor ejl, ca= 

 lidus, moderate, &■ Jiccus, tenuis, fpu= 

 mofus, albicans, dulcis, exfero confians, 

 caloris ope a majfa fangvinea in g/an= 

 dulis maxillaribus fegregato, &~ hinc per 

 ductum falivalem in maxilla fuperiori 

 deque ac inferiori notabilem; ad glandu= 

 las oris anteriores delato, ut inde motu 

 linguae expreffus, guflationi, majhcatio= 

 ni, deglutitioni, imb ad ventriculum de- 

 latus chylificationi inferviat. 



P. 4. 1. 15 from top. 



per Fratrem] Gerard Blaes bro- 

 ther, Joan Blaes, was a barrister and an 

 amateur poet. 



P. 4. 1. 6—7 from bottom. 



Whartonum ad partes vocare] A- 

 denographia . . . Authore Thoma Whav= 

 tono. Londini 1656. 



P. 4. 1. 1 from bottom. 



Dn.Jacobo Henrico Paulli] Jacob 

 Henrik Paulli, born 1637, was the son 

 of Simon Paulli, the Anatomist and Bo- 

 tanist. Having been the prosector of 

 Thomas Bartholin for some time he went 

 to study abroad. He became Professor 

 Designatus of Anatomy at the Univer* 

 sity of Copenhagen but was eventually 

 appointed Professor of History; aban- 

 doning this chair he went to Holland 

 and England as a diplomatist; he was 

 afterwards knighted under the name of 

 v. Rosenschild. See Dansk biograjisk 

 Lexikon, vol. XIV p. 298. (L. Laursen.) 



P. 5. 1. 2 from bottom. 



in ilia ... difputatione] Disputatio 



