. (2137) 
3. That he once met With 2iX\dopend&f^tufO?h\JttSree^oi\ 
at moft,/t?»r dayes o\d^{How he came to know and do this, al* 
moft incredible thing^the Book it felf relateth^ ) and found in a 
little Globuljthat Nature had already form'd therein the Rudi- 
ments of an humane Body , fo as that he could plainly diftin^ 
guifli the Head from the mafsof the Body, and (ee in the Head 
(though but obfcurely ^(evcral pricked marks for Organs '3 the 
Body in the mean time being nothing but an undigefted lump. 
3» Thatin aFfl?/»/5 j§free«dayesold , he could diftinguifo 
the Eyes, Nofbj Mouth and Ears, Arms and Feet. 
4. That in another, imtsty and one dayes old 5 he was able 
to feparate the matter prepared for Flefh and Skin, from that 
which was to be hardened into Bones. As alfo, that the Head 
feemed nothing but a membrane diftended with wind and (pi- 
rits 5 but its Arms and Hands were figured, and the Fingers and 
Toes themfclves diftindfe. Befides , that in that Cartilagineous 
part, defigned for the Bones, he could number the Ribs. 
4« That in one of the age of a Month , he difcover'd fome 
more confiftency, and the upper and lower Jaw-bone repreftn- 
ted by two Bony pricks 5 befides the ClavkuU form'd, and al* 
moft alltheRibbsdiftinft, the Shoulder-blade, and Elbowes^ 
Thigh-bones, and both the Leg-bones^caird Focilia'^ (wherCj 
by the by, he intiniateth,that a certain Acid fpirit in the world 
is the EfEcient,as of all Firmnefi & Solidity,ib of that in Bones» ) 
5* That laftlym a Fwtmoidx Weeks he found, that it only 
differed in Bigncfi from that of Th?i? A/i^^^A/, by him formerly 
defcribedin Ki^Ofieogenia^^ but that the main thing, he took 
notice of in this, was thediftindion of fix (mall Bones in the 
lower Jaw, which after the production of the Fostns into the 
world do coale(ce into one. 
All this the Author hath repre(ented by 5^r^e^^/,and endea- 
voured to confirm by anfwering what may be ob jefted againft 
hisOblervations. Meantime 'tis hoped , that what hath been 
performed a good while fince, upon this very curious and nice 
fubjefl: in England by the Learn'd Dr. ttmotky Clark^^ one of his 
Majefties chief Phylitians, willatlaft be made publick to the 
ampler iatisfactionofinquifitive Anatomifts,and the more inti- 
mate knowledge of that moft admirable contrivance and ftru^ 
itureofMan. 
II. PHILOSOPHIA FETERVM, e mente Renati Def Cartes 
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