( 4 ?' ) 
on the Ends of the Bones are chiefly faftened to them 
by the Periojieum ^ which being taken off, they eafi- 
ly fall afunder, ’Tis a Miftake, that we vulgarly think 
this is done by means of an intermediate Cartilage : 
The Truth is, both the Epipbjifes and Ends of the 
Bones, at firft, are cartilaginous but in Time become 
bony, and then are only joined by the Periofteutn* 
The Offification always begins in the middle of Bones. 
Sometimes he has found human Bones fo void of Ca- 
vities, that he has made Knife-Handles of them: It 
has been thought that cartilaginous Parts were cxfan- 
guious ^ but falfly, as he demonftrates by feveral Pre- 
parations thereof. 
§ X. He confiders the PaptlU of the nervofe Tu- 
nic in the Infide of the Stomach, and finds that the 
Figure of them is round i(h, in that Part of the Sto- 
mach over which the Spleen is fixt *, but longifli in 
other Parts thereof, and in the Infide of the Jejunum, 
He takes Notice, that the Fabrick of the Womb is 
made of much the fame Sort of thick mufcular Fibres 
as the Bladder, both to facilitate their proper Exclu- 
fion 5 particularly thefe Fibres are more remarkable 
upon the Fundus Uteri, to which Part the Placenta 
moff generally faftens its felf, and mofi: evidently for 
this Reafon. 
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