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A\c wound being ciofed^ and the Dog let go^ ht went into al! tfie corners 
of the Room fearching for meat, and having fooisd fome boaes, he fell 
a gnawing of them with a ftrange avidity, as if this Liquor had caufed 
in him a great appetite. 
4. Another Dog, into whofe veins (ome Ojl&fTmar was injeded, 
did n©t efcape fo well : For he complained much, and was altogether 
fwoln, and then died. Being opened^the Spedators were farprifed to find 
his bloud not curdled, but on the contrary more thin and florid than or ' 
dinary 5 which feems to hint, that a too great iuidity of the bloud, as 
well as its Coagulation, may caufe death» 
Jf^ Account of feme Bifcoveries concerning the Brain, 4nd the Tongue, 
made bj Signhr Malpighi, Frofefor ofPhjfick in Sicily. 
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1. He pretends to have difcovered, that the Exterior and fofter part of 
the Bram^ doth not (dvsr only the Ccrpui calkf^m^ as hath been believed 
hitherto, but is alfo inferted into it in many places. He hath alfo obferved, 
That the C$rfm cdkfum is nothing but a Contexture of fmall Fibres^ 
iffuing from the MeMU Sftmlk^ and terminating in the faid Exterior 
part of the Brain. And thefe Fibres^ he faith, are fo manifeft in the Fen- 
tricles of Fifhes brains, that when they are looked through they reprefent 
the figure of an Ivory Comb, - - 
2. The^/^, which he afcribes to the Brain, is much different j he faith, 
from v^hat hath been affigned to it hitherto. He pretends, that as half, or 
at leaft, a third of the bloud of an Animal is conveighed into the Brain, 
where yet iteannot be confumed, the fined Serum o{ this bloud is filtrated 
through the exteriour part, and then entring into the Fikes of the brain, 
is thence conveighed into the Nerves : which he affirms to be the reafoxi, 
that the Head is fo often found full of water, vvhen the Brain hath received 
a wound, or an alteration by fome diftemper, 
3 . He hath taken a particular care of examining iht pfttque Nerve in 
divers Animals, it being one of themoft admirable produfiions in the 
Brain. Having therefore among other Fifhes diffeded the head of a X/- 
fhl.^ OT Sw&rd fifh^ who hath a very big eye, he hath not obferved any 
confiderable cavity in the Ofiique Nerve y nor any Nerv^^^^ Fibres 9 buc 
found, that the middle of this Nerve is nothing eire,but a large Membrane 
folded according to its length in many doubles almoft like a Faff^an i inve- 
fted by the D^ra Mater. Euftachis a famous Anatomiil, had writ: en fomc- 
thing of this before, but obfcurely , and without mentioning the Animal, 
wherein he had made this obfervation, C cc 2 4. The 
