have no caul, helping concoUion by doubling their hinder 
legs, and reftiag their bellies upoji them, as hares and co- 
nies. A fecond inftance may be brought from Valtntinus. 
Andreas Molenbrochius in Mifcellaneis cufiofis Ann, 1670. 
Militaris quidam vir dum viveret nil mji ojentriculum accu* 
fabat, quod nullum cibum ei^peteret coqueretque^ cut adcon^ 
fqrtandum ventriculum muUn adhibit a fuerejed omnia incaf' 
fum : dijfeUo cadavers^ omentum plane putrefailum ejl^ ven^ 
triculo reliqmfque vijceribus falvis ; ex quo colligitw ^ omen* 
turn adventriculi coSlionem non parum /2?^^^r^. Fourthly, 'tis 
neceflary that xho, jlomach have ^iTunica villojai i.Be- 
caufe that by that it is enabled to divide the meat into 
parcells, u^hich undoubtedly muft much facilitate the 
operation oi the natural ferment : As we fee all menjiruums 
willfooner diflbke /w^/^^jj/Zj" when they are filed into par- 
cells, than when tney continue in the lump. 2. If it had not 
2iTunica villofa^ the Tunica carnofa would be apt to be too 
much diftended by our meat and drink, which would 
necefTarily weaken the tonical motion of the Jtomach.zwdi 
cpnfequently therefore its digeJHon, 
Fifthly> that there be a right digeJHon,\ts necefTary that 
there be windings of the /^^////w^j i for ifit were not fo 
thefe, the digejled meat would move too taft from the 
ftomach, and fo torment us with perpetuall hunger. Whicl 
affertionl think may fufficiently be confirm d by theft 
two iaftaiices. The firft is from Cabrollins obiervation the 
10th, aad I^iolanus Anthrop. lib. 2. cap. 
Fir minus Chaudonius voracitate erat Eryjictoneea^ c 
caufam prcehuit, quod necjlomachinec intejiinorumfiguram 
' uUam habebat proportionatam, unicum a Pylon loco ad Anum 
' In tejiinjim erat fine ullo anfractu^ cumque aliorum Intejlina 
quatuordecim (Equant ulnas^ bujus vix adquatuor fpithamas 
accedebant in for mam hterce The 2. Inftance is taken 
from a creature in Lithuania and that generally 
feeds upon it's prey, till it's belly be fwell'd like a bladder, 
th.n conveys it felt to fome ftrait place, and fo violently 
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