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As this Author alledges this Example to fortifie his opinion 
concern'tng theCaufe that impells the Chyle to the Breafts, 
which he takes to be the Mother's or Niirfe's ftrong imagina- 
tion and palTion to give fuck ; To he adds an other, for the fame 
purpofe,known tobimfelf,and hapned in his own fami!y,which 
is ; That a little boy of his having been fuckled for a while 
by his own mother, the Author's wife ; but being fallen very 
fick,and for great weaknefs unable to fuck any more for fix or 
feven weeks,and confequently given over for dead^^the mother, 
having caft off all hopes of giving it any further fuck, let her 
milk dry up^ But the child by great care recovering fo far as 
to be able to fuck again, and being put to an hired nurfe, after 
the mothers breafts were dryed up,and this nurfe not y fing tl^e 
child well, the Mother out of great compafllon to her child, 
did, about the end of the ninth month from the time of her be- 
ing brought to bed, take the babe to her feif again, and, whi'ft 
an other nurfe was look'd for, with a thoufand embraces fhe 
paffionately wifh'd and defired, tlietDighc have a full breaft ro 
give fuck again her felf. A Nurfe being found the fame {iay,and 
the child put to her breads, the wife of our Author found at 
night, from her ftrong imagination and pafFion ( faith he^y that 
her breafts, t hough not ftroaked bv her, nor fucked by the 
child, fvvelPd again, afcer they had f3r eight whole monerhs 
been quite dryed up, and they yielded fo much good milk, 
that, if fhe new nurfe had not been hired, (lie could have given 
plentiful fuck to the boy her felf. 
An Accompt of two Books* 
l.Traofatus cjumqae Phyfice-t^edid, de SALE- Nit RO 
SPlRim mrRO'yiEREO', de RESFlRmONE', 
deRESPlRATlOISfE F^TUS in UTERO&OVO. de 
^JVLOrU ^lUSCULAR} & SFIRITIEUS ANIMJLU 
BUS; de RACmriDE: Juth. ]ohMzyov^ LUD. 
^ledici^&c. Oxonii, e I^^-^^.Sheldoniano 1 674, m 8^. 
^^^^H E///?Treatifeof this Book handling Niter and the 
.1^ Nitro-a'ered Spirit, premifeth a Hipry of Niter , and 
concerning it teaches j What are its component parts ; How 
'tis 
