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receive m running. It is triie^ that the Membranes of the Epiploon were 

 entire and continued, as ??z Man, and not perforated like a Net, as they are 

 in the generality of Brutes. The Epiploon or Cattl in our Pygmie was very 

 large, yet I have feen the fame frequently in Humane Bodies 5 but when 

 they are difeafed, Vis often lefs, and wafted; fo that G^Ws Obfervation 

 may be true. But methinks the Keafon they give, why it (hould be fo 

 large in Brutes, may be doubted of; for it being fo tender a Part, it 

 would be in danger, upon thofe violent motions, of being broken, had 

 not Nature m2idit it loofe below, and free from any adhsefion ; and it 

 being fo, it cannot perform the Office they aflign it. Drelincourt's Ac- 

 count of the Epiploon^ as he obferved it in the Female .Ape, I lik« better. 

 Epiploon macrum ( faith he ) vafis tnrgidk involvens Inteftina omnia, uf- 

 qitead puhem, adherens Extremo Hypochondrio dextro, qua parte Colon Jul?- 

 jlratum jecork limbk. Idem adh^ret ventriadi fundo d^ Colo, ut in ho- 

 mine; And in the Male Ape he differed 'twas tinged yellow, as ours 

 was. , 



We (hall proceed now to the DuBus Alimentalis, at leaft thofe partsof 

 It that are contain d in the Abdomen, vi%. the Stomach and Intejiines ^ 

 whichT make to be the true Chara&erisk. of an Animal, and a Proprium 

 quarto modo. For all Animals have thefe Parts 5 and all that have them, 

 are Animals. The Senfes, or fome of them , are wanting in a great 

 many Animals, and in fome we perceive none but that Dniverfal one , 

 TaBm, yet here we find a Ventricle and Tntejiines. By thefe Parts 'tis, 

 that the Animal Kingdom is principally diftinguifti'd both from the Ve^ 

 getable and Angelick- Vegetables., 'tis true, receive conftantly Nourifh- 

 ment, and without it, they perifh and decay ; but 'tis in a far different 

 manner 5 'tis not received into fuch an Organic^. Body, where the Food 

 is prepared and digefted, and fo the Nutritive parts thereof difpenfed 

 afterwards into all the Body, and the reft ejefted, as Excrementitious \ 

 this is only to be met with in Animals, and in all of them. But yet I 

 find there areintermediate6)'mej of Beings httwttn Vegetables znd Ani- 

 mals, as the Zoophyta : the Hiftory of which I could extreamly defire 

 might be given us ; and can't but think that regularly in compiling a 

 Hijiory of Animals, one ftiould commence from them ; and amongft 

 thefe, no doubt, but that there are feveral degrees of Perfeftion, till 

 we come to what might be properly called an Animal. I have had no 

 Opportunity of obferving any of them, but only one ; wherein I could 

 perceive a fenfible Motion and Contradion of fome of the Parts, but 

 could not diftinguifti any thing like the Structure of any of the Parts 

 in an Animal, or the Organs that belong tothem. An Accident difap- 

 pointed me of perfefting my Obfervations, otherwife I fhould have 

 communicated what Thad difcovered. But am fenfible that there are 

 great Curiofities here to be met with, if diligently enquired into , and 

 ihat they might be, was the occafion of this Digrejjion, 



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