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A Difcour/e on the Diffeftion of a Monftrous 
Double Catt ; read before the Dublin Society 
hj Dr. Mullen. 
Gentlemen, 
I Had given you an account before this time of a 
Monftrous Cat Un2^ th^t I lately Difiedied, but that 
mybufynefs would not give me leave to put it in writ- 
ing till now. 
When I met with it, 'twas dead, and I am perfwaded 
that it was fo brought forth, the Lungs being compad: 
and free from Air i which they could not be, it it had 
ev^er infpir'd. 
It was double from the Navell downwards, having 
4 hind feet, tw@ tails , two Anus% and two Pudenda^ for 
they were Females. They werejoyn d in one Trunc at 
the Navel and were continu'd fo upwards 5 but yet this 
Monfter had two pairof fore feet, one of them on the 
back andthe other on the breafl. The head though fingle 
had two pair of ears, one Naturally Sited, and another at 
the hinder part of the head, between the procejjus ma* 
millares to which the Vertebrae of both the Necks were 
joyn'd , for there were two back bones continu'd all 
the way to the head. Though the two bodys feem'd to 
be but one intireone above the Navell. 
The (5ch iv^^^r^ exprefles to the life its outward fliape 
when placed on its back, for the Tails, Feet, Navell, 
Mouth, Noftrills and Ears , Naturally fituated are re- 
prefented in their full proportions. 
There was only one Stomack under the Liver in the 
right fide, reaching under another Liver in the lefc. 
The Guts were fingle till within d or 7 inches of the 
Anus^ and there was a divifion into two branches, 
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