ViJ* An Account of a iBoo^ Intitled , Diflfertatio 
Epiftolaris de .Glandulis conglobatis Durac 
Meningis humane, indeque ortis Lympha- 
ticis ad Piaprn Meningem produ&is. Authorc 
Antonio Pacckiono. Roinae 1705. 8>o. 
H I S Diflertarion Teems to be only a Supplement, 
or Appendix, to a Treatife of the Dura Mater , 
which our Author, that Induftrious and moft Inquifitive 
Arratomift, Pacchitmns , had publidi’d fometime before. 
In this his chief Defign irto inquire into the Service, 
and find out the Origin of that Humor, which moi- 
ftens the Brain and its Membranes in every dead Ani- 
mal. 
He mentions three things, which kept him from en- 
gaging in this Inquiry much fooner. 
The fbft was, becaufe the Accurate Nuchius very 
much blamed their freedom, who were too fprWard in 
admitting any Lymphatick Veffels in the Brain : For 
he freely own?,, that .lip could never fucce^d in this mat- 
ter, tho’ with the greateft exa&nefs he had often at- 
tempted it. O! it 
The next was, becaufe the «G rest Malpighru/, who 
was fo curious and happy in difcovering the Glands of 
the Thorax - and Abdomen, did- never take the leaft no* 
tice of any in th t Dura Mater . * . , 
The third Obflrads, that flood in his way, was the 
texture of the Membrane itfelf 3 which is- fo thick, and 
compoftd of Fibres fo very ftrcmg, that they feem al- 
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