( 5 2 7 ) 
Hiftory is very fparing as to many Inftances of this 
kind : Fabricius ab Aqua pendente is (I think) the firft 
that mentions one , being a Nobleman of Padua that 
Ruminated in his days, whom he had the luck to out- 
live, and the leave to Difled $ and what is very ftrange, 
he found only one large but very Rugous Ventricle. 
He alfo notes a Monk of that place to have had the 
fame Faculty. Sennertus takes alfo notice of one 3 and 
fodoes Salmuth: as alfo Veljhius> who names one Damy 
a Welchman that lived in London, but of thefe they give 
no Particulars. Ludovicus, a FranckjfortVhyRmn, who 
lately lived and Pra&ifed there, defcribes a Perfon that 
to himfeeraedto Ruminate, but this fort of Rumination 
feemed rather a Difeafe, for this Man did it with averfion, 
he rather difgorged than Ruminated. Of this kind I 
have known feveral in London that do not fail to throw 
up an ill tafted and bitter Mafs, half an hour or an hour 
after feeding, and that to their great difguft: but in 
true Rumination it returns pleafant, and they Chew 
it the fecond time with delight. Pjerus, who has 
written at targe and very ingenioufly about Ruminati- 
on, found two Perfons in his Country that were alive 
when he writ that Book, and had been taken notice of 
to Ruminate. They were very boorifh and foolifti Per- 
fons, that lived only amongft the Beafts 5 and he fancies 
that by frequent Convention with Calves and Sheep 
they had learnt to imitate them. As to the Cafe we 
have mentioned from Briftol^ this Perfon is of mean 
Parents, but of tollerable Senfe and Reafon. 
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