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fturbed, has done a good piece of fervice toward the advance- 
ment of the Fathological part of Phyfick, 
225. His computation of the frequency of the Bloods circ/i^ 
lation through the hearty is very ingenious, and the caufe he af- 
figns of the florid colour of it when emitted, I think is riew^ and 
believe generally received : And having difcovered the Channels 
that carry away the Serum that is feparated by the Glandules of 
the Brain^ to bcthofe two foramina in the Os Cuneiforme^ which 
empty it into the jugular Veins^ he has fufficiently detected how 
far the Ancients were miftaken, in making the caufeso^ feveral di- 
flempers to be defluxions or humors falling from the Brain ; which 
pafTageof the fecreted humors into the Jugular Veins^ is indeed 
mentioned alfo by Dr. WHIps^ but fuppofed by moft to be Dr. 
Lomrs Invention. 
226. The Ingenious John Mayovp L. L. D. and Fellow of AIL 
Souls College^ but Student in Phyfick.-, has lately alfo taught us that 
the Air is impregnated with a Nitro-aerial Spirit^ and that it is dif- 
fufed almoft through the whole Sjftem of Nature ; that Fire it felf, 
as to its form and effence, is nothing elfe but this Nitro-aerial S^i- 
rit put into motion, and that all Fermentations^ whether tending 
to generation ^ per fe^iion^ ox corruption^ alfo depend on this Spirit^ 
with many other Phdenomenao^ Nature ; all which he has ingeni- 
oufiy deduced from his Nitro- aerial principles^znd confirmed them 
by Experiments. 
227. He has taught us alfo in his Treatife de Motu mufculari ^ihzt 
whereas Anatomiffs have hitherto perfwaded us, that the car?2eou6 
Fibres chiefly make the contraSiion in Mufcles^ that it is much more 
probable that the FibrilU, tranfverfly fet into the greater Fibres^ 
are the immediate inflruments of that motion^ by reafon as well of 
their pofition as cize and number. And he has given the beft ac- 
count that I have any where met with, of the reafon of the Incur- 
vation of the Leg-bones znd Spina dor fi^ in the difcafe called the 
Rickets. 
228. Laftly, the ingenious Edward Tjifon M. A. of Magdalen 
Hallj and Student in -^/6)//?c4, has lately obferved, that many o~ 
ther ftrong fcented Animals^ befide the Hyaena odorifera^ Catm 
Zibethicu6^ or Civet-cat ; the Fiber \Ca^ior~\ or Bever, from whom 
we have our CaHoreum ; the Gazella Indica or Capra Mofchi^ from 
whom our Musk; and the Fiflies, Sepia^ Lcligo., Purpura, have/oA 
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