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6 * mondrofa haec bina corpora duplici mente ac fpi- 
• c ritu regantur. Nam five cor faciamus, five cere- 
“ brum datuamus animi fedem, ex utrolibet idem 
“ nullo negotio evincitur. Adde tot adtiones multi- 
“ plices, cogitationes rerum diverfas, fenfa animi varia, 
u qu?e, ut aliud nihil fit, ifthuc pariter nos docent. 
<£ Unum praecipue hie admirandum venit, quod 
<c commemorare fuperius memoria excidit ; pod: 
cc prodigiofum videlicet hunc difficilemque partum 
ct natos effe matri alios liberos, ex eodem patre pro- 
“ creatos, fanos et valentes, corpore, fpecie ac forma 
“ integros, qui monftri nihil admixtum habeant.” 
XL. Obfer nations on the Origin and Ufe of 
the Lymphatic V effels of Animals : being 
an ExtraB from the Gulftonian LeBures r 
read in the "Theatre of the College of Phy- 
ficians of London, in June 1755. 
Mark Akenfide, M.D. Fellow of the College 
of Phyfcians , and of the Royal Society . 
Head Nov 
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T is proved, by a multitude of expe- 
riments, that the lymphatics com- 
municate with the blood-veffels. They may be 
didended by blowing air, or by injedting water or 
mercury, into an artery : and the lymph, which 
they carry, is frequently, in a morbid date, found 
tinged with a mixture of the red globules or crada- 
mentum of the blood. Upon this foundation two 
d iff; rent 
