Of Humane Rarities. P a r t I« 
Glafs Buble of an Inch diametre, the Neck whereof is 
faftned to the Anus of the Foetus by a wyer. 
The entire SKINofaMOOR. 'Tis tanned with 
the Hair of the Head, and even the fmalleft in all the other 
parts remaining on it. 
Herein are obfervable, the Fibers in the skin of the 
Penis, which are very white, and exquifitely fmall, like the 
thread of a Spiders Web. Likewife the thinned of the 
true Cutis in the fole of the Foot $ and on the contrary, 
the extraordinary thicknefs of the Cuticula, efpecially in the 
Heel, exceeding the fixth part of an Inch : which is about 
fifty times the thicknefs of that in the ball of the Hand. 
(a) Hiftoriar. Bartholine (a) mentions a Farrier who had feveral Callo- 
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fities on his Right-Hand Fingers, as big as Walnuts. 
(b) Hiftoriar. The fame Author (b) {hews the way of tanning a Hu- 
Cent. 3. mane Skin. I believe it may be tann'd by all the ways 
which are us'd upon other Skins. 
(c) Ibid. He faith, (c) That a Thong hereof tyd about the middle, h 
of good ufe for facilitating the Birth 5 and efpecially againfl 
Mother-Fits. Whether any other way, if fo, than by railing 
and fortifying the phancy ( which will fometimes produce 
ftrange efredts ) I leave to the Reader to judge. 
All the Principal VEINS, ARTERIES, and 
NERVES, both of the Limbs and Vifcera. The ge- 
nerous Gift of John Evelyn Efquire. He bought them at 
Padoa, where he faw them with great induftry and exact- 
nefs (according to the beft method then ufed ) taken out 
of the body of a Man, and very curioufly fpread upon 
four large TABLES, whereon they are now preferved. 
The Work of Fabritius Bartoletus then Veftingiuss Afliitant 
there, and afterwards Phyfician to the King of Poland. 
The Veins and Arteries are fo exceedingly well done, as 
to fhew the moft curious Schemes which Laurentius and 
other Phyfitians have given us of them, are real and not 
fictitious. But the Nerves have been much more truly 
and fully reprefented to us of late by Dr. Richard Lower, in 
U> De Ne r " Dr. Willis, (d) Efpecially as to their Plexus and Inofculations, 
fcript!&ufu. and their admirable Difiri but ions to the Organs of the Sen- 
fes, and the Vifcera. 
(c) Hiftor. Ariftotle (e) by the account he gives of the Doctrine 
Amm. hb.3. Q £ the Naturalifts of his Time, and before him, feems to 
c. 3. . 
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