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the Great Duke of 7i/ftf»w Anatomifts. TheDifputeis 
concerning the Optick Nerve of the Sword-fifii or Tun- 
ny, whether Malpighi was the firft that obftrved it to 
be a large nervous xMembrane, ^c. or whether 
lomeus Euflachim an Italian Anatomift of the laft Age 
was the firft difcoverer thereof. Now tho' it be grant- 
, ed that Eu^achim might obferve fomething thereof 
accidentally, yet not having piofecuted it, nor he thinks 
named the Animal in which it i^, he affirms MdlpigH 
to be the firft Invenior thereof, for (everalReafoos which 
he alledges ; fhewing, that any thing may be faid to be 
new, tho' poffibly it might have been known in former- 
times, if the memory oi it is wholly perifli'd, which he 
Ihews to be the preftnc cafe in relation to Malpighi, 
The Second is a Treatife under the Name of Or. Fla^ 
eidus Papadopoik Mejjanenfis, being in anfwer to a Book 
Intituled, Triumphus GaleniBarum contra Vhilofophos ac 
Medicos recentes in humano cor pore mnnullarum partium 
ac operationum^ ignotarum antiquis Medicine Trojeffhrihm^ 
this is a Defence of Malpighi^ in which he anlwers each 
conclufion or Member of the Book wherein Phyfick 
is aflerted to be already perfed, and needs not any ad- 
ditions or new difcoveries to be made by Anatomy or 
Experiments , it being fufficient to ftudy the Old Aiv 
thors and follow their fteps, the contrary to which is 
demonftrated in this defence from the conceflions and 
practice of Hippocrates^ Gakn^ &c, themlelves. Next 
they proceed to feveral Particulars; as whether the 
Heart be the Origioe of heat, which in this Trad isde- 
nied, and (hewn to be no hotter than other of th^Fifce^ 
ta, The next Queftion is, whether the Lungs or Liver 
are principal aftors in Sanguification, the reafons for 
the Liver are firft (ei down out of the Triumph. Galeniji. 
and then anfwered in this Treatife, where he alfo OiewSj 
that 'tis chiefly made in the Lungs from feveral Anato- 
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