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VH. Extratt of a Letter from Jof. Ignat, de 
Torres, M. T). to the Royal Society, 
containing an extraordinary Cafe of the 
Heart of a Child turned upfide down. 
Gandia in Valent ia, March 19. 173 8. N. $. 
U PON occafion of mentioning Anatomy, 
I am in Hopes you will not be dif- 
pleafed with an Account of a new and furpriling 
Prodigy concerning the Heart, the like of which was 
never hitherto obferved, till I faw it on the 29th of 
"December 1736. in a new-born Female Infant of the 
Town of Almoyna , and faithfully delineated it. In- 
numerable 5 Phenomena have been obferved in the 
human Heart, fome few of which I fhall mention. 
Ballonius faw a Heart fo large, that its monftrous 
Size alone, without any Defed in the Lungs, occa- 
fioned an Aflhma. 
Bartholinus found Caruncles in the Ventricles. 
Spilembergerns obferved a fmall Bone therein, 
which occafioned a Rhthijis. 
Zacntus Lufitanus tells us from the Report of 
another Perfon, that a * Worm was found in the Left 
Ventricle, which brought on dreadful Symptoms. 
Its Head was yellow, its Body white, and its Tail 
fplit. 
Riolanus opened the Body of a Man, whofe Heart 
was cartilaginous. 
According to Raygerus , the Aorta with the 
Valves was found olhlied j which was the Caufe 
of fudden Death. Ge- 
* Rather a Polyput. 
C, M. 
