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Being fomt furs pncc in Italy, and Curious of feeing 
many repeated Dijfe^ions at the Anatomical Theatre at Padoa, 
Cavaher Vcftlingius being then Profejfor, and Reading on 
divers Bodies feveral days, during the Lent ^ Dr Johanno 
Athelftcinus Leoncenae, who was then Opera^-or, by ExtraS- 
ir/g the Veins ^ and other Vejfels vphich contain the Blood, Spi- 
rits, &€, out of Humane Bodies^ ( which the many Hojpitals 
(j^d Infirmaries of that City plentifully afford ) begun to apply, 
4tnd dijiend them o?z Tables, according to their natural propor- 
tion (ind poftion, as an Improvement which might be. of ufc in 
Anatomy : Some efthefe Tables, being /inifo'd^ with the Di- 
reSion and Public Approbation of the Profejfor and feveral 
other Learn d Vhyjicians and Anatomifis, prefcnt at thofe 
Lecfures: and Operations ^ and under jlanding that Lconcenas 
Was going Jhortly (^I think^ Poland, and willing to dif- 
pofe of hk Tables, before he took hk Jourf-ey 5 / dejird the 
hte Dr Geo. Rogers, ( Conful then at Padoa /t?r the Students 
&f our Nation in that Univerfhy^ to pur chafe and procure them 
for me 5 which he did, for, as I remember, 1 50 Scudi 5 with 
Condition, that he fhould add a Table more, namely, that of 
the Liver, Gaftrick Nerves and other Veffels, to compleat the 
Fourth : When thefe were perfeSed, I immediately fent them 
Venice, from whence they were flnpfd for England But^ 
upon what Accident or Occafion I k^ow ?tot, the Veffel was car- 
ried jf;//^? Holland, and lay there a year or two, (without any 
ty dings what was become of my Concerns, being then my felf at 
ParisJ till coming at laji to be unladen. Sir Richard Ford 
(afierwards^ Lord Mayor^ finding bj fome Papers and Letters^ 
with DireSions on the Cafes, and feveral Bales of Books, and 
other things C which 1 had been coUeSing in Italy, that they 
helonged to me) took ^^^^ have them all fafely. convey d to me 
at London, to my no fmall charges, Dr Scarborough: was one 
ofthe firji I Jhew'd theTMcs to who would Jjave tempted n/e 
to part w/th them for a very con fider able fumm, as 1 fuppofe^ for 
my Lord MarqDcfs of Dorchefter^ which I refufing.he defir d I 
T^ould lend them a little while to the Col/edge 5 where he Read 
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