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barren Terms and I\ lotions > is able to impart to us the Vfes of all 
the Creatures , and to enrich os with all the Benefits of Real 
Knowledge, true Honour , great Plenty , and folid Delight. 
II. DIS QJJISITIO AN ATOMIC A DE 
FOR M A TO F /E TV : Author e Gualtero 
Needham M. D. Londini,i/z 8°. 
T His Difquijhion confifts of (even Chapters, tu\\ of the Lear- 
ned and Ingenious Author, who was lately elected a Fel- 
low of the Ryyal Society 3 his own Experiments and Obfer- 
vations. 
In th c.firft he inquires into the Paffages , by which the Nou - 
rijhing j fuyce is conveighed to the Womb of the Animal: where 
he examines the AfTertion of Everhard, importing, that fome 
of the LaBeous VefFels carry the faid Joyce to the V ter us > 
which veffels are pretended to have been feen by himfelfiti 
the diffedfcion of Rabbets. Which engaged our Author to take 
up again the Anatomical knife, and to diffedt with all poffible 
accuratenefs both fome of the bigger Animals, as Cowes and 
Maresy and fome of the fmaller kind, as Rabbets r which are 
inftauced by Everhard* 
But having fpent all his labour and care herein in vain, and 
befides, evinced by Ligatures , that the pretended Veffels are 
neither thofe that are defcribed by Bartholin under the name 
of Lymphatic nor others, prefumed to be known by Ever- 
hard alone, as immediately carrying the Chyle out of its Recep- 
tacle to the Womb and Breafts ^ he imputes the caufe of this mi- 
ftake to the Trun\ of the Lymphaticks, running over the V °.na 
cava into the Receptacle near the Emulgents 5 which Duftm he 
affirms to have often found filed with Chyle from the Intefii - 
num ReBum, or the Ileum, or Ccecum ( a Dog having no Colon ;) 
but maintains withall;, that by Ligatures \i is manifeft, that that 
DuBus goes to the Receptacle, and there depofkes its liquor ; 
which he proves to be alike true of all th ee Milky veffels, fo 
that they carry nothing back, and confequentiy are unfit to 
conveigh any thing to the Womb. This lie illuftrates by a 
Noble 
