* t’he patient art whereof { faith 
the Author jar e here omitted; Sir 
Robert Moray and Dr. Wallis 
having by there more accurate In- 
quiries about Tides made them 
( 316) 
What power the Sea hath to ^produce or 
haffen Putrefadion in fome Bodies, and to 
prefer ve others •, as Wood, Cablei 3 and ©tfeerg 
that are funk under it ? 
Ur the Power alcribed to the Sea to ejed 
. „ Dead Bodies, Succinum, Amber frisl 
Of the fhimng of the Sea in the night ? 
What are the Medical venues of the Sea, efpecially againft Hydrophobia l 
What is its vertue to Manure Land ? And what are the Plants, that thrive 
belt with Sea. water. " , . 
Some Confederations 
Concerning -the Parenchymous parts of the Body. 
Thefe were communicated by the inquifitive M. Edmund King at the 
Inftance -of the Vublifher, as follows • 
The Parenchymous parts of the Body, are by Anatomijfs, generally fuppo- 
fed to be in very many places wholly void of Veffells defigfted chiefly to fill 
up Cavities and Interfaces between the Veffels, and to boulfter up the fame, 
and to convey them through the parts. 
But having many years endeavoured to excarnate feveral parts of the Body, 
mf ♦ the Liver,Lungs, Spleen, Kidneys,&c* (not to name the Placenta Vte - 
ri, which feems to be Parenchymous coo • ) and being very defirous to make 
a Scheme of the Veffels of any of thefe, what ever they were, I fixe upon * 
I found, notwithftanding all my care to preferve the Veffels, when / was 
freeing them, asheedfulTy as / could, from the fuppofed Parenchyma , that 
in every breach, / made, either with my fingers or otberwife, all my en- 
deavors were deftrudive to my purpofe : and if, upon examination of thofe 
bits, much of which is called Parenchyma, l met in them more Veffels, 
than I had preferved in the parts whence they came : And though the Portion 
were never fofmal!,yet my bare eye couid make this difeovery much more 
could /, when afsifted by a Microjcope , perceive, I haddeftroyed more Vef- 
fels than preferved, in defpite of the exadeft care, I was capable to ufe 0 
And being not a little concern’d, that / jfhould undertake to preferve the 
Veffels by fuch. a Caule, as /f aw plainly to be their deftrudion (were the 
part never fo big, or never fo fmall ) /was both confounded and tired, 
/■or /Taw (and fo muft any, that will attempt this work ) in my endeavour- 
ing to preferve one /effelof a traceable magnitude, / fpoiled an infinite 
number of others kfs difcernable, which were as truly /effels, as the other, 
differing only in fize and figure (as to appearance.) Then reviewing what 
mifthief / had done in every place, quite through the whole T rad of my 
/fingers, Knife, &c. I began to think with my felf. That it was notimpof- 
fibie for thefe parts to eonfilt wholly of /effete curioufly wrought and inter- 
woven ( probably for more Ufes,than is yet known *, ) And tbe confidera 
