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Salt may be extrafted by diftillation*. * compart thu n'i.h trhat 
Heconcludeththispartbyfhewing, ^ICTfTl"^^^,: 
I. In what manner xhtHbrilU of the pubn/h'c four months /met, m 
Mufcles are contrafted^ namely, not by '/l^' Phiiofo^ 
Inflation, but Contorfion, as very con- ft wm appear, that tha leam^ 
ftntaneous to the conftriftion and hard- tdQenthman hath ftt down 
nefs of contrafled Mufcles.as weH as to f,; ''^t^^:^'^I:':iZ\ 
that ftrong Traftion of the Mufcles, known to him many year$ 
fometimes perform'd with a wonderful which he defer ves 
Li jj .1. i- r c due acknowledgment. 
Vigour 5 to which he adds the ntnefs of 
the motion of theNitro-aerial particlesCby which theMufcular 
contraftion is,/^ his jentiment^ perform'd} for fuch a Contor- 
fion 5 enforced by Experiment. 2. How the Mufcles thcmfelves 
arc \x\ov'd; viz. not by bringing the extremities of the Ihortned 
fibres to the middle, but by drawing the looferend and the 
middle part of the contrafted fibres to the faftn'd end,or to the 
head of the Mulcle, which is a fixed and immoveable tendon. 3. 
How the Diaphragme, and the Heart are contradled ; and how 
Salution is perform'd. But apprehending we have already been 
too tedious in giving this account, we muft here break ofF, and 
in thefe and fome other particulars refer to the Author himfelf. 
IL JNAfOME CORPORIS HUMJMh confer ipta abh- 
brando de Dieinerbroeck, ^Med.c^ Anatomes Profejfore^ Ul- 
trajeifi^ 1 6 7 1 . //^ 4°. 
THis ComprehenfiveBody of An^tome ^hui lately come to 
my hands, confifts of r 2 Farts or Books: The firjl^fecond^ 
and thirds treat of thet^r^^ Venters of the Human Body , as they 
are wont to becall*d by Anatomifts ; the Author having premi- 
fed thereunto fome general Confiderations touching the great 
diverfity to be met with therein, as to its outvs'ard Form, Size 
and Colour ; where he takes particular notice of the Obferva- 
t ions, made both by Sehouten in his voyages, of having found a- 
bout the Straights of Magellm^ Men of ten and eleven Cubits 
mdby Fazellus'm his i*decadAib,j,c.6. of men found, 
fome 1 7,fome 1 8,fome 20, and even 22 Cubits tall. 
Treating of the Concoflion made in the Stomach, he confi- 
ders the Caufe of Chylification^ why the aliments there are tur- 
ned into Chyle rather than into Bile,Blood,c^<r jexaminingal- 
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