'The Anatomy of a 'WYG~MTK ~~~^ 



'jacobus Eonthii (53) tells US, that the Bezoar-jlone is bred in the Sto- 

 machs of Jpes^ as well as Goats^ and he prefers it as the bell:. Ponl 

 ■vidi (faith he) (J!" Lapides 'Pa-zsiha.r naios in ventriaiUs S'wsiomm^ qui 

 teretes funt ® longitudtnetn digiti aliqu.tnd'b excedxnt^qiil fr£(lantt(Jif}^i om~ 

 n'nim cenfentur. Pa-za&ar, he tells us a little before, fignifies in the 

 Vcrfian^ contra, venennm^ whence may come the word Bezoai: Joh. 

 Georg. Volchamsrus (45) takes notice of one he had from Grimmim out 

 of the Bahon-kmd, as big as a Wallnut. And in the Scholium on that 

 Obfervation, Job. Bapt. Tavemier's (55) Travels are quoted, where he 

 prefers two Grains of this, before fix of the Goat-Bezoar. The' Philip. 

 BaU£USj in his Defcription of Malabar and Cortnandd , does efleem it 

 much cheaper. Ca^cr Baitbinus hath wrote a diftinft Treatife of the 

 Bezoar-fiom, to whom I refer my Reader;, and (ball only farther ojj- 

 ferve of it, that I think this Medicine QUght not to be defpifed, becaufe 

 in Health a Man may take a large Quantity of it, without any Injury 5 

 for I have evidently feen in the greatefl: WeaknefTes, mofi: Remarkable 

 Effeds from it, and have had Succefs beyond expectation ; it fupporting 

 the Spirits, and relieving them, where a more aftive Medicine might 

 over-power them, and yet not have done that Service. 



But this 5'^(?«e in G^^/j- and M(5«%kj is a Difeafe, and not Natural 5 as 

 well as the Stone in the Bladder or Kidneys of a Man. Bontim (56) 

 therefore obferving the good Effeds of the Bezoar-jlones bred in thele 

 Animals.^ argues with himfelf, why thofe in Men, which he finds lami- 

 nated in the fame manner, might not be of as great an Efficacy 5 and 

 upon Tryal, he afTures us, that they are fo. Hoc certs compertum habea, 

 Lapidem in vefica. homink repertum, urinam d^ fndores probe ciere, quod 

 tempore ingentk illius feflk, que Anno \6i^(^ 1625. Leydam., Patriane 

 meam d^ reliquas HoUandie Civitates, miferandrtm in modum vajiabat, in pe- 

 nuria Lapidk Bafaartici, nos exhibuijfe niemini^ ^ Sudorificum ( aujim di- 

 cere ) melius © excellentiiis invenijfe., cnin admixta Theriaca^ ant Mithri- 

 datio^ cnm Oleo Succini aut Juniperi guttk aliquot. 



We come now to the Third Stage of the Du&us AUmentalk^ the Inte- 

 fiines ; which ferve for the feparating the Chjle from the Feces, and fo 

 tranfmitting it into the VafaChylifcra, or Vene La^e<e, as they are call'd, 

 which Conveys it into the B/^tf<;^, for the recruiting the conftant wafte 

 that is made there, and repairing it's lofles 5 as alfo for the Nourifliment 

 and Augmentation of the Parts : And for the doing this, 'tis requifite 

 that the Inteftines fliould be long 5 and they being fo, that they (hould 

 be Goyled and winding 5 that this Separation might be the better per- 

 formed, and fo we find the Guts in our Pygmie. For from the Pylorus 



(53) Jac. Eontij, H'lft. Nut. ify" Afed. lib. 4. in An'madv. in OxrciA rf6 CJr^D, cap. 45. p. m. 484 

 (54) Mifcell. Curiofa German. Bemrig. fecund^ annm fecundus An. 11S83. Obfeyv, 189. p. 420. (55) Jo. 

 Bapt. Tavern, lib, 2, Itm, Indic. mJ. 24. (56) Bontius ibid, in cap. ^6. p. m. 48. 



