An Account of a B O O K. 
I, TJE?^ Anatomy of the Brain, contaimngitsMe- 
chanifm and Phyjzology^ together with fame netp 
Difco^eries^ and CorreSlions of Ancient and Mo- 
^ deiyj Authors^ that SuhjeSl : To which is 
dnnext^ A particular account of Animal Fun* 
Bions and Mufcular Motion. By Hen. Ridly 
CoL Med. Land. Soc, 
TH E Reafbn why, after two fuch great Men as 
Wi//is and Fieujfemus ^ our Author had engaged 
himfelf upon this fubjtd:, being given in the Preface, 
and an account of the different ways of Generation 
aniongft the Moderns ; as alfo that there is an abfo- 
lute neceffity of Autopfie, for any well-grounded No- 
tion being touched upon in the Introduftion , to the 
end thofe many and ftrange Effeds of Nature in either 
a regular or irregular courfe of afting obferved in the 
Oeconomy of Humane Bodies may be accounted for, 
he enters upon and profecutes the whole it felf upon the 
aforementioned Foundation. 
In thefirft Chapter hedefcribes thcDura /Wijw,whereln 
he takes notice of a diftribution of Fibres different from 
Fieuffenim, as alfo that befides many other ufes of thefe 
Fibres, by means thereof the caufes cf Vapours, and 
other Morbid Affeftions may be more properly affign'd 
tharj have hitherto been by many, particularly by 
Dr.Mayow^ from a different difpofitionof thefe Mem- 
branes two procefTes from what hath been formerly de- 
Icribed, he finds it to have other ufes than what have 
hitherto 
