(31 6) 
4. Of a Woiimri in Cofenh4gen, that cannot live without the dai- 
ly ufe of 0/)/«/», w hich file no\V takes to the quantity of a whole 
drama day, having firfl begun with a few grains, p. 50. 
5. OfanObfervarion made by fome Mid wives, afifirming, (hat 
the Secundineof Twins is double, when the Births are of different 
Sexesj but fing'e, when of one and the fame ; 53. 
6.0f Plants cmittinga fmellonly inthenight|>asa fonofCraftes^ 
hill, a fort of Dogs*rofe or Briar-bufli, &c. of which this proba- 
ble reafon is given by Borrichim^ that their fmell is not perceived , 
though they have ir, in the day time, becaufe Sun- beams do fo much 
diffipate the effluvia that are fo very fubtile as that they cannot af- 
fed our noftriis ; w^fcercas, afcer Sun-fetting, they are condenfed, 
and fo by a ftronger and clofer contexture make a greater impreffi- 
on upon us; f, 60, 
• J, Of Sneeiing very beneficial in difeafes of the Eyes *^p, 64. 
8. That, by certain experiment,. that oily fubftance, calPd Sfer- 
mji Ceti, is extrafled and depurated from the Brains of the greater 
fort of Whales ; 69. 
9. That Nature commonly doth compenfate the defeft of one 
thing wifh fome other thing. Of which the Author heregives In- 
fiance in an Artificer, who though he was quite blind, yet was able 
exquifitely to carve in wood , to the admiration of the King of 
DenmnYk^ who had him fo vailed, that if he fliouldhave any fight, 
' could make no ufeof it to deceive. Of which fame man *cis her€ 
alfo affirmed, that by feeling he could difcern the feveral kinds of 
wood, and colours ; p. 78. ^ 
I o. Many curious Obfervauons made by D. Steno about incuba- 
ted Eggs; f 8f. 
ri .Of a Child born,though dead, after that the mother,who had 
gpne her full time, and was come to her travel, had been dead al- 
moft two daycs : And of another child, yet imperfe^,that was born 
with the Secundine flicking foclofe to it, that the Birth could not 
be got out,, yet by its motion was found to be alive: Which begat 
a controvcrfie, betw^een two Priefts at Bergam in Italy ; whereof 
one having baptized this Child in thatcondition, the Child, foon 
expiring thereupon, was not admitted to burial by another Prieft^ 
who denied it to hav£ been baptized, becaufe (forfooth) the phyfi^ 
•cal contact of the water had beenhindred by the enwrapping Se- 
cundine; ^. .92., 93, 
12. Tha 
