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breathed; its lungs, which were perfect, funk in water: 
yet the mother and midwife felt it active and ftrong 
.juft before delivery. 
This child had tongue, noftnls, eyes, and ears, and 
every other part, excepting the brain, perfect and 
plump, as in the healthieft infants come to their full 
time. 
Many births ftmilar to this, in moft circumftances,- 
are recorded in the Transactions of the Royal Society, 
N 5 . 99. 2 26. 228. 242, 
1. Such of them as were born alive, died foon 
after birth, though lively and ftrong in the womb, and 
perfect in all parts, the brain and fcull excepted. 
2. In that of which an account is given by Dr. 
Prefton (Philof. Tranf. N°. 226.), the celebrated ana- 
tomift Monf. du Verney traced the eighth and ninth 
pairs, the medulla fpinalis, and the intercoftals. ihe 
child was well proportioned, the cranium, brain, and 
cerebellum were wanting ; in lieu thereof, remained 
only a fubftance, like congealed blood, covered witn a 
membrane. 
3. In a cafe related, and largely-commented upon, 
by the celebrated Wepfer *, which differs in many 
refpe&s from other children faitl to be without 
brains ; the child was well proportioned, its head of 
the ufual fize,.but its brain had degenerated into 
veficles, or hyda tides, each of which had its blood 
veffel (might one from thence infer the natural flats 
of the cortical fubftance of the brain to be cellular?) 
and the optic and auditory nerves took their rile 
from three' portions of medullary fubftance lying upon 
the fphaanoid bone near the fella equina. 
* Mrarret Bib'iotb. Auift, Vol. II. p. 339; 
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