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ry ; which it will be needlefs to name, and far lefs will 
I pretend to explain them : I ftall only make a Quaere, 
Whether all the Parts of this Child were entire in the 
Ovum} Or, if the Brain and Cenbellum have been car- 
ried off by the ftrong force of Imagination, or by fomc 
Accident or Corruption whatever of thefe obtain; I am 
apt to believe, all the Parts were once entirely framed 
for the tracing the eighth and ninth pair of Nerves and 
Intercoftal, who take all their Origine from the Meduly- 
la oblongata, feems to be a Proof of it, and how far 
the force of Imagination goes, and what Influence it 
has upon Children, we have feveral Inftances : and I 
fliall hav^ occafion tocite one or two Cafes below. The 
Learned Malpighi and others have compared the Seed 
of a Plant, with that of an Animal: And Laurentius 
Bellinus^ in his late Treatife, Ad Archilalium Titcat* 
muWj de Motu cordis^ &c. fpeaking of Generation, has 
thefe Words, Et quum videant, aut videre fihi videntur 
femina Plant arum, nihil aliud ejfe quam illas ipjas plant Oi^ 
qua ex iis feminilui nafci, Germinare^ Provenire^ product ^ 
ge^erari dicuntur, it a ut nil fit in plant a qu^ producitur^ 
quod prim nonfuerit in femine quod producit ^ plant a di 
cenda fit fohm femenmajm ^ in majorem magnitudinem 
Epctenfum, & omnes partes qua continentur^ in planta 
continentur in femine & in tttrifque funt ejufdem ordinis^ 
ejufdem perfeliioniSy ejufdem operandi modi hinc conjlituit, 
etiam in feminihus Animalium rem, eodem modo concipi' 
endam effe^ & femen eorundem dicendum at que exiftiman'- 
dum^ nihil aliud quam parvum corpus Animalis conftans^ 
exomniius& iifdem partihus^ eodem modo difpofitis per^ 
feilis atque operantihus, &c. 
Hence I infer, that all the Parts of this F<etuj were 
once entire and perfed, whatever way they came to 
be wanting afterward it being evident, that a Fa* 
tus has not the ufe of the Senfes. Likewife it is 
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