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led involuntary, which being granted to be under the 
power of the Ctnlrum^ for one muft needs be allowed 
to be (b, alio in the other, and confequently deferving 
the name only of inadvertent, which adrions arc as pro* 
per to a rational Being, as thoft it takes never fo much 
notice off, being commonly called Reflexed. Attiongft 
thofe a(Jls, he numbers Refpiration, anologous lo thofe 
of hunger and thirft, but all this while referving adi* 
ons purely natural, as under the meer Empire of the 
Cerehellum, confirming the truth thereof by an expe- 
riment made upon the Brain of a living Quadrupeds. 
Here is a particular account given of the reafon 
why Infants refjpire not whilft in Vtero^ and how it 
fucceeds after their Birth, How much habits con- 
tribute to the more or lefs, early commencement 
of the Functions depending on the Medullary Sy- 
fteme, is here confidered, and the Office of the Tar 
Vagum and Intercojlale , particularly defcribed after 
a different manner in many refpetfts to that of Dr. 
Willis. The large Dominion of the Soul over the 
Nervous Syfteme is here largely difcourfed of; with a 
partiqular relation of an experiment made by Caldefi 
upon Tortoifes^ and feveral Obfervations of Learned 
Men upon Human Bodies and Brutes, concerning that 
fubjed ; he differs from the Sentiment of Willis^ found- 
ed upon the Authority of Ariflotle, touching Laugh- 
ter and Sneezing, ihewing how thofe two ads are con- 
fined in a manner altogether to rational Creatures, 
The Organization of the Brain, in refped to the dif- 
ferent faculties of Apprehenfion , Judgment, is 
here treated of, and the particular Medullary Trads 
of the Brain, refpeding the various organizations of 
the Nerves demonftrated, with fbme reflridion to 
the Hypothefis of Vieuffenius. The ufe of the large 
Stria the Authour firft obferved in the annular Pro- 
cefi^ 
