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the Surgeon, and lefs painful to the Patient 5 nor yet 
fo liable to wreath the Mufcles, and diftort the Ends 
of the fradured Bones. 
And to render this Machine of the like Service at 
Sea, where we are in the greatefi: need of Helps of 
this Nature; I have defigned a Bed to fwing and 
yield to the Ship’s Motion, whereon the Patient is 
to be laid, with the Engine thereto fixed, that the 
frequent Difcompofure and Difturbanee given to the 
fradured Part by the Ship’s rolling and working at 
Sea, may be prevented. 
V. De Oftreis Petrefa&is ReJatio Cornelii le 
Bruyn, Illujlrata per Jac. Theodor. Klein, 
R. S . S. Re ip. Gedan. a Secret . 
I Ndefefius peregrinator Cornelius le Bruyn * inter 
alia ad hiftoriam naturalem notatu digna, pag . 
480. feq. oftrea exhibet, quorum non folum valvas 
petrefadtas, fed & animal ipfum intra conchas in 
lapidem mutatum ofFendir. 
Prima facie 6c narratio 6c figure, quas dedit, 
fufpedx videbantur, magifque fidenter quam vere 
traditae. Audiamus audorem : 
“ A quelque milles de Nicofie il y a une petite 
cc montagne, qui n’eft que d’huitres petrifiees les 
<c ccailles en font ferrees l’une contre l’autre, et, lorf- 
ct qu’on les ouvre, on voit l’huitre des deux cotes des 
* Voyage , Tome Second, d Paris & Rouen 1725. 4 0 . 
“ ecaillcs. 
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