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mentum fiterinum ^mdmdmlt menjlrua'^ and exam ins, "Whet her ^f^tus 
may be formed merum f Whether the titerr^s do remove from 
its place in hyfterical women ? How faetid things do help in hyile- 
rical fits ? Whether a f(etns can be born^the mother being dead? An 
mulierHm genitalia folo fitu a virornm gemtalibHs differ am ? An mulier 
mutarifoffit in virnm } What is the conftituent matter of the Seed } 
Whether any thing befides Arterial blood, and AnimaiSpirits? How 
imagined ideas ^xt imprinted in the Seed.-PWhence comes the exter- 
nal iikcnefs in the/€/;5^jfWhether the femenmuliebre be the forma- 
tive caufeof tbe/rff/<j,and the virile be only a ferment to open and 
put into aft the forming power of the Femal feed ? What may be 
faid to th^Harvean Obfervations concerning the non- appearance 
of the feed foon after the coit ? Further, he confiders the whole 
work of the Formation of the f^tus ^ and inveftigates , what is its 
power ? Whether the feed be a'dually animate ? Whether a Vege- 
tative Soul be to be admitted in Man s and wherein that confifts ? 
Moreover he inquires, Whether the Nutrition of tht f<£tHs is per- 
formed by the Navil,or the Mouth, or by both ? and refolveth for 
the laft ; al]edging5for the Nutrition by the Mouth, among other 
arguments, an Obfervation he made of a child of his ownjwhich a- 
bout an hour after it was born did void at the mouth a copious 
milk, before it had fucked or taken in any thing. Next, he diicufl'es 
that great (](ueftion,Whether tht f^tus refpireth in the womb I And 
refol v€s it in the negative h afl'erting on this occafion , that a f<etus 
never cryes in the womb, 
Palling on to the Midle Venter, ot theCheft^he there examins the 
Breafis, and particularly, Whether there be a communication of 
their Ladcous Veffelswith anyChyliferous channel? Whether the 
Chyle do pafs through the arteries themfelves to the Breafts? What 
Milk is?How 'tis produced of theChylePWhat impelis theChyle to 
the BreaftsfConcerning which laft queftion,he declares his opini- 
on to be,that'tis aftrong imagination, and an earneft and frequent 
thought and defire of milk and giving fuck, which works that im- 
pulfe forafmuch as the vehement pailions of the mind are able to 
caufc various motions of the Spirits ^mdhumors i where the Author 
taketh pains to fhew,how this caufe hath place in Brutes} 
Treating of the Heart^ht wiil Xiot admit it to be a Mnjcle^ and 
endeavours to foive the arguraentfs aliedged to prove it to be one. 
He recites divers memorable Examples of men wounded in the 
Heart, yet not dying prefentlyjC^r. 
In theL/^«gi,he confiders its ftrudure out of MAlftghius-^o^'ittvt% 
the many odd thing5,often found in them, and, among the reft,ftorc 
of ftone-duft in the the Lungs of a Stone- cutter j afiigneth them the 
office of Refpiration,to refrigerate and condenfe the blood jand fo 
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