( m ) ^ M 
ber, was wholly miffing, as was likewife the Mediafli* 
num, Moft part ot the Duodemm lay in the Thorax^ 
and all the reft of the Guts, except the Re&um^ which 
(as is already related^ afcended in an oblique line from 
the and its upper end was inferted into this Orifice. 
Alter v/e had {oine time admired this new Situation of 
the Inteftines and Mefentery, we began to enquire how 
this Child, according to the Common Notions of Nu- 
criiicn, could be nourifhed? ThatitwasNourifliVJfeems 
plain, becaufeit daily received Food, and regularly void-, 
ed Excrement, as we are allur'd by tbofe who attended 
upon it. For falving this Quaere, we proposed to en- 
quire, what commnnication there was between that 
Gland, or Glands, in the middle of the Mefentery (com. 
monly CdW^di Fan ere ^^s A fell it) and the Receptactdnm Chyli 
placed between the Internal Lumbar Mufcles, called Pfo- 
^ 5 but upon the moft accurate Search we were capable 
of making, there was none to be found 3 for the whole 
Meferaick Membrane , and Inteftines , lay perfedly 
loofe upon the Heart and Lungs, abfolutely difengag'd 
from any manner oi Communication with any other 
part- / 
That Vermicular Motion, which ftiewed itfelf on the 
Ribs and Breaft, we afcribed to the Periftaltick Motion 
of the Guts ^ and the Dyfpn£a^ we thought, might be 
occafioned by Preflure made on the Lungs by the Intefti- 
nes and Mefentery, which likewife fo fiird the Thorax^ 
that there wanted room for the Lobes of the Lungs to 
move freely in, and by confequence Infpiration, and Ex- 
piration would be performed with Difficulty. See the 
figure where a fiews the Foramen thro which the Vena 
Cava pajjes. b the -Foramen thro which the Gula defcends. 
c the Foramen thro which part of the V^^diwm and Duode- 
num went into the Thorax. 
Gob" 
