■ms the Claws, Nails, and Hoofs of Creatures, their 
Structure, Ufe and Growth. 
Then he fays that in the Year i6887receiving a Let- 
ter from R. Waller Elq; Secretary of the Royal Society^ 
requefting him to refume his Studies, He fent them 
his Epiftle of the Glands, which was then Publifh'd : a- 
bout which time Dr. i^uck wrote a Treatife of the 
Glands, advancing a different fentiment from our Au- 
thor which he here indeavours to refute. 
In the Year 1689, Dr. Paulus Minus kt forth feve- 
ral Conclufions or Publick Thefes d^^unti the Dodrines 
and Opinions advanced by our Author which he here 
lets down. The next Year [came forth a nameleft 
Bookj Intituled De Recentiorum Medicorum fiudio Dijjer- 
tatio Epiftolaris ad awkum, wherein Anatomical and 
Microfcopial OMervations are condemned as ufeleft, 
and the Empirick Pradlife of Phyfick aflerted. This 
Epiftle with an Anfwer to it by our Author is alfo pub- 
lilh'd in this work. 
Laftly, He tells us that Jo. Baptida Triumphetti in 
a publick Speech in the Phyfick Garden at Rome, Ridi- 
culed his Anatomy of Plants, Animals, as ufelefs 
Curiofitiqs, more fit for mere Philofophers, and to di- 
vert ingenious Gentlemen, than for Phyfnians to trou- 
ble themfelvcs withal. 
Anno 1691, He was fent for to Rome by Pope Imo- 
cent the XII. to be his Phyfitian, where the 29th of 
Novemher 16^^ this Great Man died of an Apoplexy in 
the QuirinaL 
This Poftumous Work of Sign^- Malpighi^ befideshis 
Life, wrote as was faid by himfelf, contains foroe 
other Tradates which he defired fliould be publifli'd, 
and firft a Treatife by Sign^- Joannes Alphonfus BoreSus 
which is here printed in Italian andLatin,concerning the 
difputes of Sign^- Firkhius and Faha Englifti Men, and 
the 
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