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of their Diafloles was unequal in time, but very large for half 
an hour,and then feofibly diminifliiog until they ceafcd at the 
two hours diftance 5 and would not then be re-inforccd by a 
needles point, which for the half hour prececding they would 
anfwer at any time. But here I muft ask ^ (hall we call thcfe 
Hearts dead after the firft hour? If ib, than that Paralytica! 
arroismuchmore dead, which is deprived of Seofe but Rot oif 
Motion^ a famous inftance whereof the Immortal Harmy gives 
us fomewhere, (I cannot quote the place^ not having km the 
bool^ fioce the flames confum'd my Library, ) in his Exercitat^ 
de Cemr. Animalium 3 fince this Heart had not only Motion , 
byt Seafe too , upon the pricking with the point of a needle. 
If you object. That the pricking of a needle made a com^ 
prcffion of the fibres^ and, by conftquence , of the included 
Spirits, and theyby vertuc of their own Spring rebounding 
imita'^ed a Diaftole of the heart: I anfwcr,that eftcr the Hearts 
had ceafcd above ^: of an hour, foasa needle pricking them 
caufed no Motion 3 yet upon fetting the plate upon the hearth 
in the Chimney, in about two minutes of time they began to 
beat,though but weakly 5 and upon eight minutes continuance 
they beat ireely 5 acid when removed into the window again, 
continued their pulfation, without pricking, above an hour, 
and might have done longer , could I have fpared my fervant 
to attend them longer* Peradvcnture we may hence con- 
feSure at the caufe of Life and Death* And when (hall 
we fay thcn,aoy Animal or Inftd is dead, if it hath Motion> 
Some Commumcatiom mt of Tur^yhy per/on f refiding thm^ 
T Here is a Difeafe, which reigns in the Country about ^. 
/^/p,and as far as Bagdat^ invading both fexes, al! forts 
of ages, and ftrangers as well as natives, 'Tis commonly cal- 
led Ilmal d' Aleppo, and appears to be in the skin a fmall pt^finls 
or wheal, hard and red, the head whereof is fcarce bigger at 
the beginning than the point oi a pin 5 afterwards growing big. 
ger, and being nouriflb't by five or fix little roots or fibres, it 
goes on to its height for the ^ace of about 6 months j and in 
as many more corns to its declination So that the whQlep e- 
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