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All the upper part of the Bones of the Skull being 
wanting ; the Skin had no other fupport but its bafis 9 
which was the reafon why the top of the Head was very 
unequal and rough. 
No Brain at all was found, nor any mark in the whele 
extent of the Skull, that there had been any, there 
being no fpacc left between the Bafis of the Skull 
and the Skin to contain it ; there was no Dura mater 
neither, the Bones being covered only with a very thin 
Membrane. 
Neither the CarotiJes, nor the yertehrale Arteries did 
penetrate the Skull, but by fmail Twigs, fpread in the 
thin Membrane. 
I did take off the Three upper Fertelras of the 
Neck , before I could find the Medulla Spinalis , 
the beginning of it being under the Fourth Ferte-^ 
Ira ^ like a Tmall flump wrap'd up in the Dura ma» 
ter the Medulla was very found , and not bigger 
than it is in other Bodies of that Age ; ail the 
Nerves which parted from it were in their Natural Or- 
der. 
The Eyes were well fliap'd, and all the Parts belong- 
ing to them, every one of their Mufcles were fkr- 
^ilhed with the ordinary Nerves, the 3d, 4th, 5th, 
I and (>ch pair , and the Optick were in their natural Si- 
tuation. 
All thefe Nerves did terminate rhemfelves in the holes 
of the Skull, through which they commonly pafs, they 
did reach po further, nor had any Communication wit^ , 
any other. 
All the Parts of the Face were natural, with their MuP 
cles and Nerves ; the Tongue was very frefti, and doubc* 
lefs hid performed the Deglutition to make the Child 
fwallow the CoUquamentum^ of which there was a good 
quantity in his Stomach. 
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