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ran out of their Feet 5 whereupon I kilJ'd the Fefnale, and 
the next day I fawtwoofthe Male Spiders lying dead, and 
the remaining Male Spider was eagerly devouring the Fe- 
male. 
I had three other Male Spiders that I had fhut up in the 
Glafs Tube twice 24- hours, and fo having hindered them 
all that time from coupling with their Females, I concluded 
I (hould find feed enoegh in all of them, and fo indeed it 
happened, and. I obferv'd the Animalcula diVivQ m it. 
Delfi in UolUndy Febr. 14. 1702, 
f Have been mightily perfwaded by feveral Gentlemen to 
fend you the following Obfervations, together with the 
inclos'd/ Figures, if perhaps they may be oi ufe to fuch as 
are troubled with Shortfiefs of Breath, 
Some time before the King went for England, I had fre- 
" quent Difcourfe with a certain Phyfician about the Curing 
of Shortnefs of Breath 5 who told me, that he was welY 
acquainted with all the forts of Balfam that were efteem'd 
ufeful in that Difeafe, but that it was impoffible to find 
any Vehicle that could infinuate them effectually into the 
Lungs, and that in vain do they anoint the Breaft and Sto- 
mach with Balfams that could never reach the Lungs, and 
that the Scent of the Balfam which exhaled from thofe 
that us'd to anoint their Breaft with Oyl, does not exhale 
from the Pipes of the Lungs, but was evaporated from the 
Breaft by the Neck. 
I was alfo perfwaded of the Truth of this Affertion, be- 
caufe I am convinced that nothing that is in the Stom xh 
or Bowels can be convey'd to the Lungs,- unlefs it has firft 
paft thro the Heart ^ and confequently niuch lefs can Bal-. 
fams, 
