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formed exactly as 'tis in Mm ^ and to be entire, and not protruded • as 

 if Nature did defign it to go ere[i. In Apes and Monkeys 'tis otherwife. 

 So BUfius (44) obferved irj the Ape he differed, Procejjus Peritonai (faith 

 he) eodem modo hie fe habet^ ac in Cane. Datur ^ hie facilis via (lyla 

 ex 'ventre in Procejfttm di&um inferendo. And the T'arijians have remarked 

 the fame in the Monkeys they difTefted, which is a notable difference of 

 our Pygmies from the Ape-kind^ and an agreement with the Humane. 

 Hereafter, whenever I mention Blafim, unlefs I fpecifie otherwife, be 

 pleafed to take notice, that I refer to this Quotation. 



The Omentum or Caul in our Vygmie was very thin and large, falling 

 over and covering moft parts of the Guts. 'Twas faftened a little to 

 the Periton£um in the Left Side. It had but little iv??, and was tinged 

 in many places with a deep Yellow Colour, by the Bladder of the Gall^ 

 as was likewife part of the Duodenum. It had numerous Blood -Veflels, 

 and it's adhsfion to the Stomachy Colon , and other Parts, as in Man. 

 The Remarks the Parifians make upon the Epiploon or Omentum of the 

 Monkeys they differed, were different from our Subject. For they tell 

 us, That the Epiploon was different pom that of a Man, in feveral things, 

 Firft, It was not fajiened to the Colon in fo many places, having no con- 

 nexion with the left part of this Intefhine. Ours I found was faftened 

 juft as 'tis in Man. Secondly, It had another Ligature, which k not found 

 in Man, viz. to the Miifcles oj the Abdomen, by means of the Peritoneum 

 which formed a Ligament 5 which we have obferved in the Hind of Canada. 

 Ours adhered to the Left fide : Drelincourt obferved it in an Ape, to be 

 faftened to the Right Side. Both I believe to be accidental, as I have 

 frequently feen it in Humane Bodies. And in one Patient I found it 

 fixt to the Peritonaeum in the Groin, which gave- him a great deal of Pain 

 and Trouble, efpecially when his Bowels were any thing extended with 

 Wind. Thirdly, The Parifians fay. The Veffels of the Epiploon, which 

 in Man proceed only from the Vena Porta, did fieverthelejs in one of cur 

 Subjects come from the Cava, having there one of the Branches of the Hy- 

 pogaftrica, which was united to the Branches of the Porta. In our Animal 

 thefe Veffels came all from the Porta^ or rather emptied themfelves into 

 it. But they obferving it only in one Subjed, and it being different in 

 all other Animals, it muft be accidental. Fourthly, In fine, the ivhole 

 Epiploon was without Comparifoft greater than it generally is in Man ; be- 

 caufe that it did not only cover all the Intefiines, which is rarely feen in Man, 

 {whatever Galen fays') but it evetz enveloped them underneath, as it does in 

 feveral other Brutes i^ where it is fiequently feen, that the Epiploon is lar- 

 ger than in Man, ej^ecially in Animals that do run, and leap with a great 

 deal of Agility : As if it were fo redoubled under the Intefiines to . defend 

 ihem, with the reU of the Boveels, againU the rude jolts which thefe Parts do 



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