50 Orang-Outang five Homo Sjheflris : Or, 



that in a Mait the Pericardhtm (hould be faftened to the DUphragm , 

 and in c^'wir///'^^/ how inconvenient it would be^ that from hence I 

 think we may fafely conclude, that Nature defign'd our Pygmk to go 

 ered, fince in this particular 'tis fo like a Man 5 which the common Apes 

 and Monkeys are not •-, and tho' they are taught to go ere^^ yet 'tis no more 

 £lian what Dogs may be taught to do. 



We proceed now to the Heart -y where we obferved that in GUI' Pj/g- 

 MJe^ It's Aimcles^'Ventricles^ Valves and- Fejfels were much the fame as 

 they are in a Man's. It's Cone was not fo pointed, as in fome Animals^ 

 but rather more obtufe and blunt, even more than a Man's. What A- 

 vkenna (75) remarks of the Heart of an Ape^ having a donble Cone^ muft 

 be accidental and extraordinary : for he tells us, Et, jam repertum eft Cor 

 cujiifdam Sim'ij habens duo Capita. And a little after, he denies the Heart 

 to be a Mufcle ^ Jam aiitem erravH (faith he) qui exijiimavit, quod jit 

 ILacertm^ quanivk jit ji milium reriim in eo^ verum mot us ejm non eti vobin- 

 tarim: The Perfon he hints at,I fuppofe,is Hippocrates ^■who fo long ago 

 afTerted this 5 'H ^p^M (fa:lth (jS) Hippocrates) /juig '^v yj.f^la. Ixv^q, k -raf 

 yA^pst), dy^a. '7n/\n^Ltc(.1i oTtpKog. Cor mujculm eU validfts admodkm non Ner- 

 vo, verkr/t Carnk f^7Jja?nento. And i'^mo and Dr. £<?z3?er fince have (hew- 

 ed us the way of diifeding it,and have made it moft evident that 'tis Muf- 

 cular 3 and it's motion is fuch ^ but as Avicenne obferves , 'tis not a vo- 

 hntary motion, but involuntary. 'Tis pity we had not a better Tranjla- 

 iion of his Work/ j for unlefs it be fome particular Pieces, the reft is mofV 

 barbaroufly dene, as appears from that little I have quoted of him. But 

 to return to our Pygmie ^ the magnitude and figure of the Hearthcrs, was 

 exactly the fame as reprefented in our Scheme^ where part of the Peri- 

 cardium is left lying on it. Both in the right and left Auricle and Ventri- 

 cle^ I obferved two Polypous Concretions^ which plainly reprefented the 

 Valves both in the Arteria Pidmonalis^ and Aorta. I muft confefs by what 

 I have hitherto obferved of them, (and I have very frequently met with 

 fuch Concretions in Humane Bodies) I Cannot think thefe PolypMS to be 

 any thing elfe, than the Si%.e of the Blood, or the Serum coagulated after 

 Death.. The Obfervation I formerly gave (jy) of a Polypus in the Tra- 

 chea and Bronchia of a Patient troubled with an Hiemoptoe, in it's kind 

 I think remarkable. 



The Parijians obferve that the He.art of their Monkey n?^ a great . deal 

 more pointed^ than it ufnaUy is in Man -^ which is Ukevpife a Chara&er of 

 Brutes. J'e^/^ ^Ae/^fer/w/r Superficies <?/7fVVentricles, it had that great 

 number of Fibres and fleftiy Columns, which arefeen in Men. Drelincourt 

 in his wi^^e obferves, Cor folidum in ventriculo jinijiro^ laxum in dextro ^ 

 pr^durus Conus ejm : Serum in Pericardio falfum. Vafa Coronaria tnmida^ 

 pr^fertim circa Ventrmdum. Adeps circa ea mtUus. 



(75) /^Mcwnijlib.j. Ken.2. Traft.r. p.m.(57o (j6) Hipp, de Corae, p.m.270. (77) Vide Tho. Bartho- 

 Imi AUa Med. (^ Philof. Hafnienf. Vol. 5. Obf. 30. p.94. 



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