miflry^ which is that there is an Jcid Spirit ^ tioimlally dlP^ 
foft^ through the world, which givcrh folidiey not oiily to 
Boncsj but alfo Minerals and Mettals 3 and to all Vegetables^ 
penetrating all^ fixing all, and being the Father of the Hard- 
nefs and Solidity in all bodies. 
Fig* IX. reprcfents a Child of fix weeks after Conceptioe ? 
where it is to be ooted^ that comparing together tfie Bones of 
divers foetuses it will be founds perhaps to admiration^ that 
that which have been cpnceiyed but a little time after an o« 
ther, hath yet the bones in proportion twice asbig^ That 
which is here exhibited by Fig.IX.appears much lefler than am 
or her of two months^ as appears in my Book of the Generati- 
on of Bones % but the Bones are for all that no lefs remarqui- 
ble : for whatever hath the hardnefs and eonfiftence of 
Bones in that^ hath already the nature of Cartilages in this^ 
The infer for jaw-bone ismoft obfervable in this Ghild of 6/ 
weeks, marked A, it being at this age compofed of fix little 
bones, which when it is born are all joyned together, and 
make but one. 
If it be askedj How I come to know , that thefe degrees of ^ 
growth come to pafs exaftly within thofe times recited ; 
Specially fince in abortions we often fee Embrids of 4 moneths 
and above,that are not fo big as thofe fpoken of? I might an* 
fwer by repeating all I faid before, when I compared the pro- 
portions of thofe different Germes.To which I (ball only add, 
that Embrids which mifcarry have often remained a long while 
in the Body before they came forth , or have lived there f© 
fickly as not to draw perhaps half the nourifliment , necefllry 
for them , and therefore much lefs than elJfe they would 
be- 
-S^far Ksrkingius • on whofe difcourfe are madetkefe Re- 
flexions by Monfieur Denjs. 
, iv That thofe Eggs are generated in F^;?^i»^y^^^ 
and thence made to defcend into the matrix^ in co- 
itH , per vim ^iritmfam feminis mafculi 5 per uferi tubam 
fenetrantis^ 
That thofe Eggs are of different bignejOTcsi fince thbft 
ofthe third Fig. reprefent one according to the life, as it 
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