C^9) 
BLiid that was tiie unufual fituation of the Displiragm^ ? 
which we found fo forcibly impeli'd upvvards into the 
Cheft, that its Diajlole giuft needs be very obfturely 
affiftant to Refpiratioo : It was indeed ih far contracled, 
that its Convex part bore hard againft the Lobes of the 
Lungs, whofe Subftance, as I have feen ip fome tliat 
had dyed tabid, was very much decay'd and perilht, 
and looked juft like par-boy I'd Fleili. 
The next and laft Part which we viewed, was the 
Heart, and in this Noble Fifius I difcovered fomething 
memorable, for upon cutting of it open, 1 did not per- 
ceive the leaft drop of Water ^o fall from it : By whi<:h 
it ijiay be juftly thpught that the Pericardium or Capfule 
of the Heart, being altogether deftituce of its retrige- 
rating Liquor, clung immediately to the proper Tunic 
of the Heart it fclf ; upon cutting throngh whofe Veo» 
tricks, we could not perceive one drop of Blood, no 
more than in the re^l p£ the Bowels ; tray, the Liver, 
which has been by fome accounted the Store-houfe of 
the Bloody Mafs, was deftitut^ of fo mut:h as might be 
thought neceflary for its own proper Nourifhment, arid 
yet its Sa/uf{hSulphureous PartiDks'y wtMcfe-conflkute the 
Gall, were depofiied mtOithp Ff^^Bil^^ to the quan- 
tity of about a Spoonful. 
W-e took no other Surveys of the Parts wijhin the 
ThoraXy than by opening of the Diaphragm, and look- 
ing up into the fame : For fmce we had feen fuiBcieot 
Reafon for the extinftion qf the Vital Flam m^ by 
confequence the Diflblutioit/ of thi-^rMi-fetiable Creature, 
we contented our feiv^s wi^ w^hat we had difcovered in 
the Aldomen or lower Belly j aad; yet if we had been 
minded more narrowly to have viewed t^i^ Parts wijhin 
the Cheft, we might eafily .have corno at; thear/wiil>0ac 
throwiog^up the Sternon^ which is abfolytelyjO^c^ary, 
and no more than cuftomary upon- a Survey of ihoie 
Parts: But ia ^lis BpdiYf Lqi^fe^^^^ lo large a protube- 
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