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yill* Account of a ©oo^ Adverfariorum 
Anatomico- Medico -Chirurgicorum Decas 
j tertia. AuBore Frederico'^ Ruyfch, M 2). 
AnaWn. ^oUn* Trof Amftel. ^S.'Sdc- 
§ I. H E learned Author, who has fo long improv’d 
JL the World by his curious Searches into the 
niceft Secrets of the Animal-Machine, ‘and illiiftrated 
them by his admirable’ Preparatioiiis, gives an Ac- 
count of preternatural Things found in 'Tumors, of that 
Sort which we call ordinarily a Cyjl filled 
with a thick Matter ^ike Pult, fuch are- Bones, Flefh, 
Hair, TeetH, and other Things very furprizing and 
unaccountable. ' He tells us, he firft found out the Fa- 
brick of the cortical Part of the' Brairi j ' that ’tis made 
of fmall pulpy Canals from the Ends of the Arteries : 
That many Years ago he drew, by (imple Diflillation, 
from crude Vegetables, a perfed volatile Salt^ and 
that ’tis ealily done from frefh Seeds of the hot antifcor- 
butic Herbs, fuch as Muftard, Rocket, Onions, 
§ II. He diffeds a Pear, which he fays is entirely 
compos’d of the Pipes in the Stalk, dilated into a fofc 
and moift Pulp, like what they antiently call’d the 
Parenchjima, that compofes the Liver and Spleen, which 
he affirms to be pure VeiTelSjhot Glands diftinguiffi’d 
by being invelop’d with one proper Membrane. 
You may, if you pleafe, call the Pear, the Liver and 
the Spleen, taken in the whole, a Gland • but he de- 
nies any particular Glands in their Compolition. 
§ III. He tells a remarkable Story of a Girl, who 
had frequent Eruptions of Blood from the Skin of her 
Head, Ears, Mouth, Navel, and the Nipples of her 
Bread : 
