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Vent, they feerri to want little more to reproduce 
either, than a Contradion of the W ound, with the 
Aftiftanceof the Mufcles that move the feveral Rings of 
which the Body is compofed; and every one of which, 
in its firft and natural State, performs almoft the fame 
Motions as are neceflary for Sudion or Ejedion : the 
latter of which we have even fometimes feen very 
wonderfully fupplied in our own Species, in thole 
Cafes, where grievous Wounds of the Inteftmes have 
put Nature upon trying to perform her Operations in 
a new Way. 
Upon the Whole, we are all very defirous to 
fee Monjieur Reaumur's Memoir on this curious 
Subjedj we hope it will loon be publifhed, when, 
as his curious and exad Experiments will afford 
infinite Entertainment, fo his judicious Remarks 
upon them will doubtlefs be no lefs inftrudive; 
but will, in all Probability, give a Light into thefe 
Matters we do not yet think of. In the mean time 
I could not help juft mentioning to you, what came 
into my own Head on the Occafion, hoping that 
however you may look on my Thoughts as the Dreams, 
perhaps, of a Man bewildered in his Inquiries into 
Nature, you will ft ill believe me to be a firm and 
conftant Lover of Truth, and ready at all times to 
receive and embrace whatever is really fuch, however 
odd and furprifing it may at the firft chance to appear. 
I (hall therefore only add one or two Fads 1 fhould 
indeed have mentioned before, when I was fpeaking 
of the Difficulty of killing fome of the Tribes of 
Infeds and Reptiles} which are, that I have myfelf 
feen the Heart of a Viper continue its regular Beats 
more than Six Hours after it had been taken out of 
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