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lenifls^ which (bon after perifti'd, his Houfe being ca- 
fually burnt down. About this rime lie fell acquaint- 
ed with Magalottiy Chtmentelli^ Borelli^ and other 
Learned Men. While he ftay'd at ?ifa, the Academy 
del Cimento was Inftituted by the Graiid Duke about this 
time. Leaving Pifa^ he returned to Bonoma as a more 
heakhy place in the Year 1660, and with Dr. FracaJJa- 
tus dedicated himfelf to Anatomy, when he difcovered 
a new Strudure of the Lungs about which he had 
feveral Difputes with the Learned of that time, as Dr. 
Ent ^ Thrufion^ Smmmerdam ^ WiSis ^ Borelli^ Paulus 
Mmm^ &c. which he relates at large, and inierts their 
Letters tohimabout it, with his Anlwers. Anno 1671. 
He wrote to Mr.Oldenhurgh^ R. S. Seer, concerning the 
ftrufl-ure of the Lungs, and the carneous Fibres o\ the 
Spleen and Tefticles. Anno i66x he was made ProfeC 
for of Phyfick in the Academy at Mejfina : He relates the 
Subjedt ofhisfirft Lecture there. Retiring fometimes 
into the Country to a Friends Houfe about the Year 
1663, he made his difcoveries oftheStrufture of Plants, 
and Publilh'd his Obftrvations de Dtdilihus ad'tpofis , 
de Cerehro, & Lingua y without any Name. 
He proceeds to give an account of feveral other dif^ 
coveries he made in Anatomy relating to the Brain, Or- 
gans of the Senfe, of Touching, ^c. 
Then he tells us feveral Diiputes he had with (bme 
Young Phyfitians that were ftrenuous aflerters of the 
Galenick Principles and oppoftd all new Difcoveries, fiich 
Avellinm^ Fahefius and Liparus^ who publifh'd a 
Treatife under the Title of Galeniftarum triumpkas Ne- 
otericorum Medicorum infanias fmditus eradicans^ &c. tp 
which our Author wrote an Anfwer under the name of 
p. Placidm de Papadopulis one of his Scholers which 
is put out in this work in Latin, at which time he con- 
trafted a Friendfhip with D. Joannes Baptifta Caputius^ 
