6 Of Humane Rarities. Part L 
Teeth. And for the fame reafon, the Angles fubjected 
to the Os Jugale are above * an Inch more diftant 5 For 
that a Man being fitted, in other refpecls, to undergo 
more labour 5 his Chaps alfo fhould be the better made 
to eat the more. Once more, That the Skull of the Male 
Sceleton, is much bigger, than of the Female 5 andfo ca- 
pable of more Brains. Although a little Houfe may be 
well furnifhed, and look better than a great one that Hands 
empty. 
The SCELETON of an Abortive Humane Foetus. 
Tis not above two Inches long. The parts of the Head, 
Cheft, and Limbs are all entire, but not perfecL. For the 
extremities of the Bones of the Arms and Leggs, are at 
both ends plainly cartilagineous. They are in thicknefs 
like a Taylors ditching Thread. Given by Thomas Povey 
Efqj. See Kirckringius de Foetus Offibus. 
It may poffibly be conceived by fome, That the Bones, 
at leaft fome of them, are hard at the firffc 3 as Salts and 
other like Cryftallizing Bodies are as hard upon the very 
firft inftant of their fhooting, as they are when grown into 
great Cryftals. But it is fo far evident, that all the Bones 
are foft at the firft, that I am of opinion, That originally 
they are a Congeries of Fibers or fibrous VefTels, as true as 
any other in the Body 3 which by degrees harden into 
Bones : even as the inmoft VefTels in a Plant, do in time 
00 See the harden into Wood, {a) And that as in a Plant, there are 
natomy of facccflive additions of Rings or Tubes of Wood, made 
Plants. out of VefTels : So in an Animal, it feems plain, That 
there are additions fucceffively made to the Bones out of 
the Fibrous parts of the Mufcules 3 efpecially, thofe whiteft 
Fibers which run tranfverfly, and make the ftamen or warp 
of every Mufcule. So that as in the Barque of a Plant, 
part of the VefTels are fucceffively derived outward to the 
Authors the anc * P art i nwai "d to tne S a h which afterwards be- 
Compara- comes hard wood, (b) So in the Flejh of an Animal, part 
tiveAnatomy G f me w ])i te tranfverfe Fibers are fucceffively derived to the 
run s * Skin ( of which this chiefly confifls ) and part of them in- 
wardly, making ftill new Feriofteums one after another, as 
CO See tne °^ ones become fo many additions to the Bones. 
Scbrod. A HUMANE SKULL that was never buried, 
otte.' and Whereof there are feveral Medicines prepar'd, (c) as Cra- 
nium 
