their prefent Expeftatlons, but have juft ground to defpair of any 
lure Laboursjtowards the increafe of Praffical and Ufeful knowledge.' 
Euthe hopes and prefages, that the BngUjh Nation will lay hold on 
this opportunity, to deferve the Applaufe of MAnkind{oi having en- 
couraged and fupported a W^^rk, which^ inftead of barren 7erms and 
Notiitis^ is able to impart to us the Ufes of all the Creatures y and to en- 
rich us with all the Benefits of Real Knowledge, true Honour ^ great 
Tlmy^ and folid Delight. 
II. T> ISQJU JSiriO A^iATOMlCA DE iOK^MATO 
FOETV : Authore Gualtero Ncedham, t-M, D. Londini^in S"" 
^'^Hb DtfqmfyJon con(\ti^oi^ Chaffers^ full of the Learned 
J aiid Ingenious Author, who was lately ele<fted a Fellow of the 
Royal Society^ his own Experiments and Obfervations. 
In ihtfirfi he inquires into the Fa(fages, by which the Nourifhlng 
5^«jr^ isconveighed into the Womb of the Animal: where he exa- 
" mines the Affercion of Everbard^ importing^that fome of the LiSteotu 
Vcffels carry the faid Juyce to the Uterus y which veflels are pretend- 
ed to have been feen by himfelf in the &St&iior\ of Rabbets . Whicli 
engaged our Author to take up again the Anatomical knife^ and to dif- 
fer with all poffibie accuratenefs both fome of the bigger Animals^ as 
Ccws and Mares^ and fome of the fmaller kind, as Rabbets^ which are 
inftanced by B^erhard, 
But having fpent all his labour and care herein In vain, and befidcs, 
evinced by Xig'^/z/rir/, that the pretended Veflelsare neither ihofe that 
aredcfcribed by Ba tho n under the name of Lymfhatkk, nor others, 
prc Auned to be known by Mverhard alone^ as immediately carrying 
the Ch)k out of its Pe:cftacle to the Womb and Ereafis \ he imputes 
the caufe of this miflaVe to the Tru^k ofthc Lymphaticks^ running over 
the Fffsa cAva into the Receptacle near the EmulgentSy which Vuttus 
he aiTiims to have often found filled with Chyle from the Mefthum 
Re of urn ^ or the lUum or Cdcum a Dog having no CoUn*^) but maintains 
wichaJljthatby X/^^//??-^/ it is manifcft^ that that D»^?«/ goes to the 
Ru(fiuU^ and there dcpofitcs its liquor 5 which he proves to be alike 
true of all the Milky vt^ds ^{0 that they carry nothing back and con- 
fcquently arc unfit to conveigh ar.y thing to the Womb. Thishe illu- 
ftratcs by a Noble Experiment of that Learned and Expert Anato- 
miftj Dr, Lotver^^w^^ to open fometimes the right fide of the Thoraxy 
