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The child I fpeak of had no mouth, cefophagus , 
nor ftomach, thus it could not, by that ufual paflage, 
be nourifhed from ihe waters that furrounded it; 
it could not abforb from the furrounding fluid where- 
with to fill its veffels, and fupply its growth. It, 
therefore, follows that it received both its arterial 
and alimentary fluids from the mother by the umbi- 
lical cord, and that it owed every thing to that cir- 
culation, which fome would attempt to annihilate. 
In the inteftines of new-born children we find a 
black excrement, called meconium \ this black pulp can 
receive its color only from a bile thickened by re- 
tention, and poured dire&ly from the dudius cho- 
ledochus into the duodenum. Now this foetus, having 
no liver, nor gall-bladder. See. could have no meco- 
nium ; therefore the pulp found in the inteftines was 
of an afh*colour. 
This monfter had fo little brain, that that vifeus 
muft have been of fmall import towards the functions 
of this animal. And yet all thefe brainlefs feetufes 
are very lively. Mr. Denis, who, in his twelfth 
conference, has given an account of one of them, 
and M. Vaifliere, who fent me one from Toulouze, 
the laft year, both remark, “ that thefe children 
“ are remarkably lively in the mother’s belly ; 
<c that they were in violent motion, at the time 
“ of labor ; that the moment they were in the 
« .world they feemed fuffocated, and became all at 
t{ once motionlefs.” This is a matter worthy of 
much refledion. 
How can we conceive there can be fenfation and 
motion, without almoft any brain in one of thefe 
monfters; and abfolutely without any in the other ? 
Vol. LVII. D ' Senfibility, 
