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€d, I take for a fufEcient Demonftration. It was no£ 
wanting in this Subjed, being fo neceffary for the Life 
of Animals, and without which it is impoffible to con- 
ceive how they canfubfifl: as is confirmed by feveral 
Anatomical Experiments; and in particular, by one of 
Monjieur Du Ferny ^ in the Year 1673. when he took 
the Brain and Cerebellum from a Pigeon, and in place 
thereof, filled thQ €ramum with Flax, notwichftanding 
which it lived fome time, fearched for Aliment, did the 
ordinary Funfl-ions €^f Life,and had the ufe of Senfe ; and 
Monjieur Chirac^ Profeffbr of Anatomy at Montpelier^ 
by ftveral Experiments he has made upon Dogs, has 
clearly proved, an Animal may live fome time wanting 
the Brain, and even fometimes the Cerebellum ; as you'l 
fee by the following Experiments. The firft was upon 
a Dog, from whom he had taken the Brain, yet he liv» 
ed fome time, but when the Cerehellunt was taken out 
he died immediately : but he has obferved, that by 
blowing into the Lungs, the Animal has lived an Hour - 
altho' wanting thQCercheSnm. The fecond Experiment 
was upon a Dog, from whom he took half of the Cere- 
hllum^ but he died immediately. The third upon a 
Dog, from whom he took half of the Brain, after he 
continued to have the Motion of all the Parts^ and 
could walk about ; then he took all the Brain from the 
fame Dog, he had yet Senfe and Refpiration. A fourth 
Experiment upon a Dog, by introducing a pair of Sci- 
fars betwixt the firft Fifr^ifirtf and the OsOccipitis^ to 
feparate the Medulla Ohlongata from the Medulla Spina-' * 
&, the Animal had died immediately, but by blowing; 
into the Lungs, the Motion of the Heart continued, and 
the Animal could move its Body. The fifth Experi- 
ment upon a Dog, from whom he took the Cereiellmv, 
but he lived Twenty four Hours, and his Heart beat 
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