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removed. The Abbe Fontana, who has 
repeated thefe experiments in different 
animals, has obferved that the body thus 
mutilated, walks, leaps, fwims, breathes, 
turns in different directions, defends itfelf, 
is frightened, appears to have enjoyment, 
is irritable, in fine, continues to feel and 
judge as well as before. One would fay, 
that in this fpecies of animal, the brain is 
an appendix to the fpinal marrow, rather 
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than an effential organ. 
But in anfwer to this it may be obferved, 
that there have been likewife examples 
of well-formed foetus, which, notwith- 
ftanding, were deflitute of brain. 
“ In children delivered at the full time, 
plump and well formed in their trunk and 
limbs, I have obferved the fubffance 
which fupplied the place of the brain not 
more bulky than a fmall nut, and inftead 
of containing a white medullary fubfiance, 
it was of red colour, refembling a clot of 
bloody 
