remarkable Tranfpofition of the Vifcera. ^59 
life. His health could not be affected by fuch a change of 
fituation in his vifcera; nor could there arife from it any pecu- 
liar fymptoms of difeafe. Still lefs could there be any con- 
nexion between fuch a change and his difpofitions, or external 
actions. He might have known that his heart was direXcd 
towards the right- hde; but if we conlider how little every 
perfon, efpecially thole of the lower clafs, are attentive to 
circumflances not very palpable, it was fcarcely to be expected 
he fhould know of it. If I had met with any thing in his life 
which was at all referable to the Angularity of ftruXure, I 
fhould have been very glad to have gratified the public curiofity 
by giving an account of it *. 
Every Angular phenomenon in animal ft ru Xu re is worth 
remarking, even if it fhould not lead immediately to any ufe- 
ful obfervation ; but it becomes more important if it fhould 
tend to throw any. light upon the principles of nature in the 
formation of animals. It is reafonable to think, that nature 
fhould follow fome general plan in her operations. There is 
fome effeX which fhe has in view, and (he will- generally em- 
ploy the fame means to produce it. In the ftruXure of any 
animal, her view is to form fuch a combination of parts as to 
render the animal fitted for certain purpofes. She will com- 
monly form the fame combination where the fame purpofes 
are to be ferved ; or, in other words, there will be the fame 
ffruXure in the fame fpecies of animals. The fame effeX 
however may be produced, without a ffriX adherence to the 
employment of the fame means, as we find to be the cafe 
* Since the above lufus has occurred, I have feen, in the pnfleiiion cf Mf. 
Payne, Surgeon, a foetus at the full tine, with the vilcera tranfpofed. In the 
Anatomical Collection of Chrilt Church, in Oxford, there is a heart tranfpofed 
that had belonged to a very frnall foetus; bur the foetus itfelf is not preferved. 
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