cally, /. (?. the Cover was of the fame Piece with the 
Matrix. 
17. yix.Carlan, fworn Surgeon; having obferv'd in 
a Man a Swelling as big as a Pullets Egg,^ upon the 
Place caird Fontanella, and cover'd with Hair like the 
reft cf the Head, apply'd to \t EmplaJlrHm de Betonica^ 
by order of M. Dufaur Profeilor ot Surgery, and the 
Swelling difappear'd. 
III. The Anatomical Hijlory of the Leech. By 
Sieur Francois Pouparr. Taken from the 
Journal dcs Savans, of the 22th of July, 
16^7. 
ITS Upper Lip is ftretched out into a Point, and falls 
upon the Under, which is Round like a Crecent, 
and (horter. Its Tnroat on the Infide is covered with a 
great many White Mufcles, about Five or Six Lines 
long, as big as a fmall Thread, and lying parallel one to 
another, along its Body. 
When the Leech applies its Mouth to the Fledi cf 
any Animal, all thefe Mufcles contrafting themfelves, 
flbe fucks it with fo great Violence and Greedinefs, that 
ihe makes it enter in Form of a little Pap into its 
Throat. So that all the Effedl of SudVim terminating 
in a very little Space, of necefTity the Flefh muft break 
in that Place : For you muft not believe that the 
Leech pierces it as with a Needle, as many others 
write. 
There is feen at the End of its Tail, a little flat thing, 
exaiHy round the Border of which, is elevated far a- 
bove the Tail, and all round it, which it applies fo 
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