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FirftCaiifeof all things. Without the help of which Natural 
Perception hefees not^ how ^e.g.) the command of the Imagi- 
nation can be made known to the Mufcles^ihat do execute thein 
at the beck thereof : Nor, how the Plaftique power forms a 
Chick in an Egg,&c. But to leave this Notion to the Judgment 
of Sagacious Readers, we cake further notice of our Authors 
opinion, concerning the manner of lV^;?^/m/(?;^, v^ hich he af- 
firms to be made not fo much through the Pores, the very fab- 
Jlame of the skin, and yec denies this kind of fj^rfpirabiliry to 
infer a penetration of Bodies, though it do of Subftdnces ^ by a 
change of quantity. 
Having done with the Skin, hedifcourfes of iltnxviot 
marks in the skin, as alfo of Nails and Hair^ of what they have 
common with the skin, and wherein they differ ^ why Man is 
born naked j what Colours do belong or not belong to Hair ; 
endeavouring to explain, why the Hair of Animals, though it 
be referred to the family of Plants , yet neither are green, nor 
blew, nor purple ; and why the Feathers of Birds are, adding 
withal thecaufe of Curled-hair, and the general caufcsof the 
Fall of hair. 
' Ke^t, he treats of the Adeps or Fat,and is inclined to believe, 
that it proceeds rather from the Suceus nervofu^ , than the mafs 
of the Blood .Then he paflTes on to the Mufcles of the abdomen i 
and there takes occafion, amongft many oxher things, to difculs 
that famous queftion concerning the Jnofculation of the Epi^ 
gaftrick vein with that of the Breaftsjacknowledging that there 
are fuch Anaftomofesy but denying that the confent between the 
Womb and the Breafts which yet he alfo grants) depends there* 
on. To this he fubjbyns theHiftory of the PeritoKaurmvid 0« 
mentum, declaring their ftruflure and ufes,and examining parti- 
cularly, whether ih^ Omentum be the Seat of the Hypochondria 
acal winds, and the Sink of the body ? 
Having^difpatched this firft Parr, he proceeds to the other 
Part of this Treatife, and therein delivers the Hiflory of the 
GulieP,Stcmrtch,ax\(i Guts: In the doing of which, he difcufTeth 
many confiderabfe Queftions ; Bg. which Animals hayGg^llets^ 
and which not > What is the manner of Rumination^ and why 
fbme Animals have more ftomachs than one ? Whether in the 
ftomach there be hymfheduits diftinafrom the La£fcals?^hdX 
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