was fent over formerly, with foi|nc other Rarities, but the 
VeflTel mifcarryiiig you received fhem not* 
An ExtraU out of the 3d and jtb^enetian Giornale dc Let* 
t^TMyCojiccrning the Formation c/Fartus 
THe Author of thefe Journals, propofeth in the third 
of them this Inquiry, vf\. 
Wherein confiftsthe eaufa formatrix of the F£tus i whe.- 
ther in the native Hcatjas the Ancients taught,- or in Motis 
on,as the Moderns are inclined to beheve; And if the latter, 
whence that motion proceeds, and here it is diverfificd 
for the confervation of various fpecies's ? 
The Journalift having been informed^ thatSignor Cie- 
ronymoBarbato^ publick Profeffour of Praitical Phyfick 
Tadua^ and Phyfitian in t^emcii, had written a Book upon 
thatfubjedt, and illuftrated it with new Anatomical Dias 
grams, all ready for the Prefs 3 did, it feems, obtain the 
perufal of the Original Manufcript, and permifEon withal, 
to make an Extrad: thereof, which in this Journal he pre* 
fents the Curious with, to ftay their defire whim the whole 
Differtation is printing. This Brcviate we thought fit to 
Englifh here out of the Italian, as foITo weth 5 
The Author , Signor GierQn^ Barbate^ firft delivers the 
chief Sentiments of the Ancients and Moderns concerning 
the Formatitfe Sml ; fliewing that from variety of thofe O- 
pinions there refults nothing but darknefs. He alfo men- 
tions fome others toaching the ufe of the Tejlicler^whom he 
modeftly refuteth^ animadverting upon fome Errors both 
of old and new Anatomifts. Then he difcourfeth of fome 
principal parts conftituting the fame, which he thinks have 
not been rightly obferved hitherto: And beginning with 
the vafa pampinifermia , he affirmSj that they arc made up 
of a great many Arteries, and of one only Vein, and that 
this vein 5 being confiderably big, ia circularly fcituate, 
that fo it may the more conveniently unite it felf^ by a cu- 
rioufly contrived anaflomofis , to thofe many Arteries* 
Then he defcribeth the V[e of thefe Pampiniform veflels, 
informing us, That the faid Arteries are not direSly infer* 
