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the- Bellowes inverted. I know another that was for crackling of 
Cinders under her feet. From which kind of Inflames I am in- 
clin’d to doubt^ whether that Diftemper begins at the Deprava- 
tion oi the Acid liquor in the Stomachy and not rather at the Vie- 
ws y which next infe&s the Brain, fuch kind of things gratify- 
ing the Fancy fomewayes milled, more than the Appetite natural 
any wayes depraved. 
6 . Somewhat, like to this, is to be found in Brutes. In May 
laft a Grey- hound Bitch at Brightwell-Hall, about five or fix dayes 
before floe call her Whelps°, had fuch a wild kind of Hunger 
(though Ihe was fed fufficiently every day with ufual food) that , 
finding another Bitches Whelps, Ihe devour’d them all (4 or 5, as 
I remember ) and fell next upon the Bitch her felf, who made a 
fbift to get from her as well as fire could , being help’d. From 
this, and from Sow devouring whole Litters of Pigs, l am prone 
to think otherwife of the Longings of E eeming- Womcn> than is the 
common opinion. 
A Confirmation 
Of the Experiments, mention d in Numb. 2 7.70 have been made 
by Signor Fracaflfati in Italy, by Injecting Acid Liquors into 
Blood. 
T He Honourable Robert Boyle, having feen the particulars in- 
ferred in Numb. 27, concerning fome Experiments mad e 
by Signor Fracajfati, and recolledling, what himfelf had experi- 
mented of that nature, feveral years ago, was pleafed to give to 
the Publijher the following Information about it, by the favour of 
a Letter, written to him from Oxford ) Ottob. ip. 1667. viz. 
Sir, 
f jlinted to you in my lafi Something about the Original of the Ex- 
periments > made Vitaly, by Injecting Acid Liquors into Blood: 
Sti 0 explain which A [hall now tell yougT hat 
about this time three years * I mention- * T . he Journals Roy- 
, n 1 1 j » 7 al society being looked into by 
ed at Grelham Golledge to the Royal the Publijher c who, by the ho-' 
Society an odd Experiment, I had for - nourof his Relation to that 11- 
merlymade (nt.kj Chance, but De- 
his Office hath the Care of feeing them faithfully managed j do fully agree with the Affir- 
mation of this Noble Perfon, as well in the Circumflance of the time, as the Subjtancc of 
the Matter inquefbon j It being in the Month of December of An. 1664. when, what is 
now alledged in this Letter, was publickly related by its anchor. 
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