daous preffings of the blood, to thrice their former dia« 
meter, that is, nine times their natural cavity* Here wc 
have a heart, {the jirongejl and fir me jl Mufcle of the Body) 
by degrees formed into a ihape quite different from the na- 
tural ; the right Auricle and Ventricle notwithftanding 
the ftrength of the Fibres of the latter and their indifpo- 
fednef^to ftretch ea£ly, fo prodigioufly diftended, that 
no outward force whatever without breaking it could ef- 
fed: the like j fuch hard ftiifc did nature make to continue 
the vital ftream and avoid the fatal ftop, each moment 
threatned by the Polypus, that with double iotc^^Q was 
oblig d to maintain a PuHe, which (becaufe it couid not 
break or expel the unnatural load, ) aid By little and lit le 
//fm^:/^ the fides of the ventricle, for the moreeafy paf- 
fageof the blood, and by terrible palpitations {ot a long 
time protrad: a raiferable life, till the monflrous body 
growing too big, the weakened Fibres could ftretch no 
more, nor yet regularly contradthemfelves any longerj 
fo that the Heart a tiaftjuft ready to fink under the burden, 
is forced to coUedl its little remaining ftrength into one 
brisk efFort,and alSfted by all thejpirits of the Body caus'd 
the poor wretch to expire in an univerfal Convulfion. 
After this Inftance, it might be improper to add the 
more uncertain arguments drawn from theDifeafes and 
Symptoms that are either the Ejects or Caufes of Polypi^ 
but that the bare mention of Inch diftempers does not 
only fas being generally chronicalj farther prove their 
duration, but alfoilluftrate their natures andfuggeft a 
cure (if poffible) or at leaft a method of prevention. The 
Bifeajes wherein almoft always they may be expeded, are 
the Apoplexy, Phrenfy, falling Sicknefs, Convulfions,Afth- 
ma (ot dilBScult breathing, ) Confumption, ill cur d and 
iingring Feavers, Plague, venerial Dileafes, Pleurifies, Pe- 
ripneumonies, Green-Sicknefs, varices of the Veins, and 
inveterate Headaches, ^c Inftances in all which and 
many more Bonetus hasinduftrioufly colleded out of Fla^ 
^erm Wepfer, Severinusy Tulpius, Blajius, Balloniu,^^Kjr^ 
P 2 hringius^ 
