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Anatonieof an Hedge.hog,in which was found a Mufcle of a 
circjtilar form embracing the fmnkulus cmrnofus^ and reaching to the 
feetytail and head of the animal, and thereby affifting it for a circular 
xontradion at its pleafure. 
i S.Ofthe Wooab of a Harediffolvihg her own fcetus • which ourAu- 
thor from y\.o^LSteno adfcribes to a men^rmm furnifli^t by nature,and 
fit to prevent putrefadion.Whence forae hope is raifed for fuch women 
as retain dead children, if from other caufes they abound not with pu» 
trid humors. 
29.0? a poor Parifian Woman, which having for three years toge- 
ther taken no other food but Sprit of Wine, was thence burnt to alhes, 
when on a certain evening llie fat down & fell afleep in a chair of ftraw, 
20. That at Copenhagen ^tht Magnetick Needle did then vary 3 deg.35 
ftiin.Weftward - and that with the fameNeedle the variation uHnenna^ 
being but 3 miles from Copenhagen^ was found to be 2 deg. and 3 5 min. 
. Thefe obfervations were made by Dr, Erajmm Bartholin and MOnlieur 
Picard^two able and accurate obfervers. 
2 1. That by reafon of the fufpicion, which fome confiderable men en- 
tertain ot the Variation of the they have made in a convenient 
place at C(?j5?^;^^^£^'« an accurate Meridian, for future obfervation and 
comparifon, 
22»That the Norwegians make nfe with graat fuccefs of Tarr of Firr- 
trees in Malignant Feavers,by drinking it in their bier : And that they 
employ the powder and mofs of that Wood in very dangerous wounds^ 
as aifo that Pitch is a prefent remedy for the Gout. 
23. That an exceffive fatnefs in a man of above 60 years of age was 
cured by Pills mdidQ of Mercurii^ dulc^, caufing a great falivation: 
Where the Author notes from Dr.Borrichiu^^thny though it hath been 
already known, that a noyfom pitmais difcharged by the Saliva! glan- 
duls,yet 'tis new,that the caufeof two much fatnefs is carried off by 
the fame way. 
25. Thata live Hedge hog being fliut up in a great pipkin, and a 
flame made about it, the animal for a long while gave not any fign of 
pain ; only it had contracted it feif intothe fliape of a very round ball, 
ihooting out his briftles roundabout, as if he would make them fight 
againfl: the violence of the fire: which lafted a great while to the amaze- 
ment of the by ftandtrs, who took notice, that at length , all about him 
being red hoc, and the flame ftriking upon his p^;?wV^^//^ r^r;2c?//<^, and 
the briftles falling off together with it, the poor creature died witLno 
other revenge than a flight grunting noife. 
24, That the Humors of the Eyes of Gees and Hens, even the Chry- 
flallin.have been reftored, together with the fight, without any art, by 
Nature alone^and that perhaps by the afiiux of the nervous liquor of 
the animals. 
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