ly, between the upper and lower coatjare feparated from one ano- 
ther by tranfverfe fibres, and receive manifeft nerves , tranfverfly 
entringinto them for motion : And that thofc fibers rake up the 
room that is between the lateral fins and the gills and head as iar as 
to the regl6n of the -^^^(j^f^^ ^ the foremoft being in this pofitioo 
fhorter than the hindmoft : That the Animal being alive, this place 
was indeed foft to the touch,but if at the fame time you touch- 
ed it the fiflh did contrad: it felf, there was then fek a contraction 
at theend of your fingers with a kind of creeping pain over the 
wholcarm, continuingfor a while 3 though when thefifli did not 
ftir, one felt nothing , no more than when the fifli was dead ; 
224. 
26. Of Eggs found by the faid Su^^o in the Tefticles of a Mule, 
and of a kind of ^/^^^/^^^ appearing in one of them : Whence he 
concludes, that Mules may breed without a miracle ; p, 230. 
27. Ofan Experiment feeming to fliew, that Blood is made in 
andby the Chyle being in any part of the body, and not by the 
Heart alone,forafmuch as a learned man found in the Ghyle, contain- 
ed i^i the Lafteal veffels and there kept by a ligature for fonie hoursy 
a red liquor moft like to blood, inftead of the Chyle* To which 
Experiment Dr. Thomas Bartholin offers his anfwer \ 24$. 
2 8.That an Acid is connate in Animals, nor is deftroyed by their 
death; witnefs the Runnet found in the folds of the ftomachs of 
Calvesand Lambs, which is employed in the making of Cheefe, 
yet is not found in fuch as fee^ upon hay, but milk ; that Acid pe- 
rifliingas foon as theyoung Animal is weaned. To which the Au- 
thor adds, that the whole ftomach of hoggs, when dried and ckan- 
fed, is ufed alfo for feparating the Cafeous fubftance from the hiW- 
ky5^258. 
29. That the Seedof Lunaria poifons Cattel,e2tiog thereof, but 
the heaves recover them : As alfo> that the Leaves of the herbs mi- 
are poifonous, but the Root of the fame cores thepoifon. 
Worth the experimenting upon dogs and fuchlike Animals ; 1^.265. 
30. Of many examples of difeafes tranfplanted ; 267. How 
credible, the judicious Reader may judge. Amongft others , of a 
Quartan cured by putting hot bread under the Arm-pits and other 
|un<9:ures of the body, and giving it, when moiften'd by fwear, to 
adoggtoeat: And of Che yellow Jaundies cured by making a cake 
of the urine of fuch a patient and of flower, and giving it to a dogg, 
cat^prfox* S4» 
