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 imputations it is commonly charged with, being of opinion, That the Blood is originally depraved not by the Spleen, but its matter by the Stomack.

He Author of this Curious Book, having first taken notice therein of divers Observeables, he met with in the Dissection of Vipers, and among them, of the salival Glands, he discovered in them as well as in other Animals, and those accompanied with Lymphatick Vessels, passing into a greater Vessel running along long and under the said Glands, and discharging itself into the Vesicle of the Gingiva, and carrying with it the Salival liquor, which he makes to be the same with that yellow water in the bag, hitherto esteem'd venomous, but by him reputed a meer harmeless saliva; having, I say, presented his Reader with these and many other Anatomical Observations upon this creature, he makes it his business,

1. To prove, that the biting of Vipers, at least of such as are in France, are indeed venomous, and proved actually mortal: Where he alleadges many Experiments, made by himself in the presence of many Physitians and others, evincing this Assertion; in the recitation of which, he observeth not a few remarkable Phænomena, seen in the Animals, bitten by Vipers, both without, and also within them when dead