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feparated there, and coagulated by Time. Mr. Coofer 
Tab. 15. Fig. 4. fays he found the fame Parts fill’d with a 
glutinous Matter, which he thinks is ufeful to prevent 
Abortion; which if vitiated, Impregnation is hinder’d. 
The Liver and other parts contain’d in the Abdomen, 
were forc’d into an incredible fmall Compafs (and by that 
Preflure a little chang’d in Shape,) to perform their Office 
fo long; to which the Mufclesof the Abdomen, diftended 
fb as to be fcarce difcernible, could give but little, if 
any, Affiftance. 
The Awe that People have here for dead Bodies, tho* 
never fo prejudicial to the Living, w'ould not fufler her 
Friends to let me make any farther Enquiry ; fo that I can 
fend no Account of any other Part. The fame Error hin- 
dered me examining another Woman, who died here 
about a Week after, of an Afcites which fhehad had Forty 
Years, any farther than to be fatisfied fhe had Seven Gal- 
lons of Water contain’d between the Duplicatures of the 
Peritoneum, and none in the Cavity of the Abdomen. 
IV. Methodus fingularis qua. Solis War allaxis five it - 
flantia a Terra, ope Veneris intra Solem confpi- 
cienddj tuto determinari poterit : propojita coram 
Regia Societate ab Edm. Halleio J. U. D. ejuf- 
dem Sccietatis Secret ario. 
P Lurima funt maxime quidem paradoxa, omnemque 
fidem apud vulgus fuperantia, quse tamen adhibi- 
tis Mathematicarnm Scientiarum principiis levi negotio 
enodantur. Ac fane nullum problema magis arduum ac 
difficile videbitur, quam eft Solis a Terra diflaotjam vero 
proximam determinate ; quod tamen obtentis accuratis 
qui« 
