6 Of Humane Rarities. Part I. 
Teeth. And for the fame reafon, the Angles fubjecled 
to the Os Jugale are above ? an Inch more diftant $ For 
that a Man being fitted, in other refpecls, to undergo 
more labour 3 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 3 and fo ca- 
pable of more Brains. Although a little Houfe may be 
well furnilhed, and look better than a great one that ftands 
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 ftitching Thread. Given by Thomas Povey 
Efq,. See Kirckringius de Fcctus Ofjibws. 
It may poftibly be conceived by fome, That the Bones, 
at lean 1 fome of them, are hard at the firft 5 as Salts and 
other like Cryftallizing Bodies are as hard upon the very 
firft inftant of their (hooting, 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 
(a) See the harden into Wood, (a) And that as in a Plant, there are 
natomy of f Llcce fliv e acklitions of Rings or Tubes of Wood, made 
Plants. out of Veftels : So in an Animal, it feems plain, That 
there are additions fucceftively made to the Bones out of 
the Fibrous parts of the Mufcules 3 efpecially, thofe whiteft 
Fibers which run tranfverlly, and make the ftamen or warp 
of every Mufcule. So that as in the Barque of a Plant, 
part of the Veftels are fucceftively derived outward to the 
Authors the R* n£ ^ an ^ P art i nwar d to tne S*p9 which afterwards be- 
Compara- comes hard wood, (b) So in the Flejh of an Animal, part 
tiveAnatomy G f t J ie w hite tra?ifuerfe Fibers are fucceftively derived to the 
o run s. ^ Q £ which this chiefly confifts ) and part o£ them in- 
wardly, making ftill new Periofteunis one after another, as 
CO See tne °^ ones become fo many additions to the Bones, 
scbwd. A HUMANE SKULL that was never buried. 
ofhers* and ^ nere °f t h ere are feveral Medicines prepar d, (c) as Cra- 
nium 
