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214. The fame Learned Dr^. Higbmore^ fotmerly of Tr in hy 
College Oxon. was the firft chat we know of that treated of the llru- 
dure of Mans body, adapting it to the then new received Doftrine 
of xhc circulation of the Blood:, for the proof whereof he feems 
chiefly to have intended his piece of Anatomy^ dedicating it to the 
Author of the Invention^ the famous Dr. Harvey : Wherein he ha^ 
feveral new Cuts of the Spleen^ Pancreas^ Teftes, isrc of which, 
though moft havefmce received confiderable Improvements from 
others^ yet it muft be acknowledged that he deferved very well 
for his diligent and laborious fearch into them all, but more par- 
ticularly for his firft difcovery of the new dul^U6 for the carriage of 
the feed from \:hG Tefies to the FaraJiatdC^^ and for his new defcri- 
ptions of the VeJJels and Fibres of the Spleen^ by the ancient Ana- 
tomifts held to he Veins ^, and of the intricate plexus of the Para- 
215. 'in-Natural Pbiio/opby^ the famous Dr. Willis of Chrifi 
Church College Oxon. ^nd Sidleyan ProfelTor of Natural Philofofby 
in this Vniverfity^ firft taught us, that the Generations^ Perfections ^ 
and Corruptions of Natural Bodies^ whether Mineral^ Vegetable^ or 
Animal'^ and fo likewife of Bodies Artificial^ do depend upon 
fermentations J raifed from the different proportions and motions 
of Spirit^ Sulphur., Salt^ Wdter^ and Earthy which he has confti- 
tuted the ultimate fenfible principles of mixed bodies ^. According 
to which, in his Book deFebribu^^ he has given us the Anatomy of 
Bloody and declared the trUe caufes and nature of fermentations in 
the Juices^ and upon them built his moft rational Dodrine of Fe- 
ver s^ intermittent ^putrid znd malignant^ with particular inftances 
and obfervations concerning them, much different from the ways 
of the Ancients : to which he has fuperadded the 5y?^^ric^/^- 
natomy of Vrin. 
216. In Anatomy (wherein he had the affiftance of the defer- 
vedly famous. Sir Chrifiopher Wren^ Dr. Millington^ Dr. Edmund 
King., Dr. Majiers^ but chiefly of Dr. Lower) his method of dif- 
fering the Brain is new, and moft natural ; and fo exad, that 
there is fcarceany one part in it, but what has received confider=- 
able advancements from him. To mention all would be endlefs, 
let it therefore fuffice, that after his defcription of the Palace in 
« Corp.Hu?nan.difquift.^aatom.Lib, i.part.i{..cap.2. ^ UiJ. pari. cap. ^- ^ JiiJ. pari. ^, ca^, t. 
' In Litro ds Ferment. 
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