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Maternal Blond is neither ihc matter of the Aliment of the F^tu^^^ 
nor that, of which it is firft formed : all which is illuftrated and 
confirmed from the Th^nomena in Oviparous Animals, whofe young 
ones, bred in Eggs, receive nobloud at all from.their Dams. 
But as to the fucceffive Changes made in Meats^fit for Nutrition 
and the produdlion of various Juyces5he reprefents them thusrAf- 
ter that the cA//e,prodticed our of meat and drink in the ftomach, 
hath pafled to the Hearty then the fineft and mofr Spirituous partj» 
thereof are changed into the red part of the Bloud 5 fuch por- 
tions as are difpofed next, are turned into Bile^and other humors^ 
the remainder is by iterated fermentations with the Bloujd in the 
Heart further digefted , and perfected , and by being in many 
places percolated, and leaving behind its ferofity , acquireth a glu- 
linous and fibrous naturej like Milk, fitted for Nutrition, 
Sothat he concludes upon the whole, That there being nq 
part of the Body, which is not generated . of the Seed^and con(e- 
quently the Seminal matter being the neareft Aliment of the fame, 
and nothing, of things outwardly taken in, having a greater cog^ 
nation with it, than Milk^ this Liquor is to be efteem'd the beft A? 
limentyand the gropereft. to repair tabid . and decayed Pcrfons, 
IL HISTORIC GENERALIS INS ECTORVM^ Jo- 
hannis Swammerdanij P^ir//Jr/«/ti. Ultra je£ti y^. 1669 Jn 4% 
.Vll'^His Curious and Rhilofophical Bookj vvritcen in the Belgic^ 
Tongui^j treateth chiefly of thefe three things. 
Eirfi^ It lays down the Ground of all Natural Cka»ges in Tnfeds^ 
declaringj that by the word ChavgCy h nothing elfe to be underr 
ftoodbut a gradual and natural Evolution and Growth. of the. 
parts^not any MetamorphofisorXri^nsformationof them: which^ 
Growth is here made to refemble , not only the Increafe of other^ 
AnimalSibutalfo the Budding, Knitting and Spreading of Plants.. 
And here the Author, having taken notice, that, whereas Antient 
and Famous Writers have erteem'd and called the Nji?;fpha^^moT)g 
Infefts., the Change of that Worrn^which carries the proper fhape 
of the future liitle Animal^and the Chryfalis, ar jiurelia the Change 
of that Caterpillar 3 which fliews no parts at all of the Animal to 
qime^having,! fay, noted this, dtfires the Readerxo obferve^that^ 
vv'hereashe is able to difcern and to (hew all the parts ormem- 
bcrs of the future Animalcle^as well in the Chryfalis, the Nympha^ 
he m kes no oihcx difference ampngft them^ but thi§ ^ That fince: 
