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IX. A port Account by James Parfons, M. 2 ). 
F. R. S. of a Book intituled, Traite des Sens, 
&c. by M. le Cat, M. 2 ). F. R. S. printed 
ct Rouen, 1740. 8 TO - 
Read Dec. 16. r ~|™^HIS Treatife appears, by the Ad- 
17+2 JL vertifement prefixed to it, to be a 
Part of a Phyfiological Work, which the Author fays 
is not likely to be foon publifhed ; and that he has 
therefore exhibited this Part for the Ufe of the Cu- 
rious, and Lovers of Philofophy, who might not be 
fo agreeably entertained by the reft of the Work, as 
treating' chiefly of the Human Body, and therefore 
calculated rather for thofe of the Faculty of Me- 
dicine. 
He begins the Book with Page 201. and fays he 
has, before, eftablifhed certain general Principles of 
Senfation, and that now he proceeds to recount the 
particular Parts with which Nature has furnifhed the 
animal Oeconomy, ferving to our different Scnfes; 
and then expatiates a little upon the general Utility 
of them. 
His Firft Chapter treats of the Sente of Feeling? 
wherein he has compiled all the different Fhano- 
mena that regard this Senfe, as thofe of Heat, Cold, 
and other Objects of Feeling, with the Structure of 
the Skin, to which he thinks fit to fubjoin Two 
known Hiftories, one of a blind Organift in Hol- 
land , who diftinguifhed all kinds of Coins, and played 
at Cards, by Feeling ; and the other of the famous 
Statuary Ganibajlus , who, though ftone-blind, could 
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