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remedies were order'd for him, and among the reft, not to eat aity 
other fiefli but that of young Animals , and ta cat them alive* 
To which his Keepers (to render this food the more delicate for 
him)addcd the extraordinary preparation of fleaing Lambs alive^ 
and to let him eat divers of thofe 5 which at firft recover'd him, 
by reftoring his appetite and fome ehearfulnefs. But yttjaj tbey^ 
this food in all appearance bred too much blood, and fuch as was 
too fubcilefor this Animal, to which Nature hath not given the in- 
duftry or care of fleaing thofe Creatures it feeds on ; ic being cre» 
dible, that the hair, wool, feathers and fhells, which all Animals 
of prey devQUr, area kind of necefTary correflif tokeeptheni 
from filling themfelves by their greedinefs with too fuccalenta 
food. 
iVifjc^, comes the Chat-Pard^\^\\Qrtm they chiefly note the defed: 
of Spermatick veffels , and of other parts abfolutely neceffary to 
generation,which they found did not proceed from caftration^but 
from fome other caufe : Where they takeoccafion to obferve,thaE 
the Sterility, which is ordinary in fome of thofe Animals that are 
born of two different ffecies^m^ have in this fubjefl a very parti- 
cular eaufe. For, fajfthej^ that which renders MW^"^ fterile, is not 
the defefl: of any of the Organs neceffary to generation, in regard 
that the difference which maybe found in the conformation of the 
matrix oidL Mare and of that of aShe-AfTecannotjasfome pretend, 
be a ground of this caufe of fterilicy ; the Mare, in which fome- 
thing is deficient that is found in the She-AfTe, not being deftitute 
of any of the parts abfolutely neceflfary to engender , becaufe ic 
doth engender ; and the difference of the organs being not the 
caufe of barrennefs, forafmuch as the difference of organs, which 
is between the fpecies of Horfes and AfTes, hinders not the breed- 
ing of Mules, which do ifTuef rom the mixture of thofe two fpecies. 
Whence Arijlotle, following EmpeMes, imputes this defefi only to 
the Temperament of thofe Animals, whofe parts have contrafted a 
hardnefs that renders them incapable to contribute to a new mix- 
ture : So that, if it be true , that mofl of the Animals , which are 
bornof the mixture of two kinds, are notwithfianding fruitful, 
jhey are inclined to believe, that the conformation of this 
Chat'Pard was peculiar and accidental, and that the defefl of the 
.parts which it wanted^and which made ic uncapable of engendring, 
.proceeded not from that mixture of fpecies's,which by changing the 
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