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IV. A Jhort Dijfertation concerning^ the ChMs ^ 
Crying in the Womb. , Sy jhe ^eVere?id Mr^ . 
W. Derham, 
] ' Have already given the Society a Rektion of the 
moft material Circumftances of* the Vagitus- Dterwus^^ 
that happened lately near me. That Account was fome- 
whathaRily written, without confidering the manner of > 
the Foetus’s Lite, and the Difputes about it among fome - 
of the moft Learned Anatomifts. And having fince more 
maturely xonfidered the Matter, and made fome farther” 
Enquiries into the Gafe, l hope a (hort, . and farther Differ-^ 
tation upon that Subjeft will not be unacceptable ^ - efpe- - 
dally becaufe I find the Cafe near me to be more confide- 
rable, or.at leaft that a better Account may be gken of ^ 
it,, than I find of any in the* Authors I haveconfulteda- f 
bout k ; and it may perhaps conduce in fome meafure to ^ 
the afeertaining the Fad, which fome of the .moft. confi- ^ 
derable Members of our Society (aa fome of the moft 
Learned Authors) called in Q^eftion. 
Amono^^^.the Auihors that qoeftion the Facf, two of the - 
moft con^derable are Et^iuller-^nd Dlemrl>rceck. \ The-- 
Learned Etmlltr declares Diemrhroeck*^ Opinion,' as well v 
as his own,* in his Dijfertatwn de ahjirufo Refpiratioms 
mgoth, Ch. 9. Where he treats, ol our fatiK.us 
Dr. Harveys Ptobleme, my the Feetus after Deltvcry, arid / 
before it hath Breathed, cart live for fotjte Honrs in hs Afer^ 
burden, but having breathed but once, cannot live fcaree 
a. moment in that manner'^ Etmuller^s Words to our pur- 
pole : 
