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&€ wound being clofed, and the Dog let go, he went into all the corners 
of the Room fearching for meat, and having found fome bones, he fell 
a gnawing of them with a ftrange avidity, as if this Liquor had caufed 
in him a great appetite. 
4. Another Dog, into whofe veins fome Oyl of Tartar was inje|je'd, 
did not efcape fo well : For he complained much, and was altogether 
fwolfij and then died. Being opened, the Spe&ators were furprifed to find 
his bloud not curdled, but on the contrary more thin and florid than or * 
dinary 1 which fee ms to hint, that a too great fluidity of the bloud, as 
well as its Coagulation, may caufe death. 
"An Account of fome Difcovtries concerning the Brain, and the Tongue, 
made by Signior Malpighi, Prof (far of P by fa k in Sicily. 
1, He pretends to have difcovered, that the Exterior and fofter part of 
she Brain, doth not cover only the Corpus callefum, as hath been believed 
hitherto, but is alfo inferted into it in many places. He hath alio obferved. 
That the Corpus callofum is nothing but a Contexture of (mail f ibres , 
ifluin^ from the Medulla Spinalis , and terminating in the faid. Exterior 
part of the Brain. And thefe Fibres , he faith, are fo manifeft in the Ven- 
tricles of Fifhes brains, that when they are looked through they reprefent 
the figure of an Ivory Comb. 
2 .Xh cUfe 3 which he afcribes to the Brain, is much different, fie faith, 
from what hath been alfigned to it hitherto. He pretends, that as half, or 
at leaft, a third of the bloud of an Animal isconveighed into the Brain, 
where yet it cannot be confutned, the fineft Serum of this bloud is filtrated 
through the exteriour part, and then cntring into the Fibres of the brain, 
is thence conveighed into the Nerves : which he affirms to be the reafon, 
that the Head' is fo often found fullofwater,when the Brain hath received 
a Wbltld, or an alteration by fome diftemper. 
3 . He hath taken a particular care of examining the Optique Nerve in 
divers Animals, it being one of the moft admirable productions in the 
Brain. Having therefore among other Fifhes differed the head of a Xi- 
f bias or Sword- fill), who hath a very big eye, he hath not obferved any 
coofiderable cavity In the: Optique Nerve t nor any Nervous Fibres % but 
1 found, that the middle ofthis Nerve is nothing elfe,but a large Membrane 
folded according to its length in many doubles almoft like a Fan, and inve- 
fted by the Dura Mater. Euflachio a famous Anatomift,had written fome- 
thing ofthis before, but ©bfourely, and without mentioning the Animal, 
wherein he had made this qbfervation. Ccc 2 4. The 
