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 although Experiment do contradict the Conveyance of the Juyce out of the Liver, through the Cava, yet (saith he) may that effervescence in the heart (on which the whole Systeme of Sylvius is grounded) still hold, if this opinion about the use of these Kidneys be true, especially since there needs but little Leven to ferment a great Mass; there being required but a very little Salt of Tartar to be mixt with a good quantity of Spirit of Vitriol, to cause a vehement and durable Fermentation, though a considerable plenty of the latter, mingled with a small quantity of the former, produceth but a languid and short Effervescence.

As to the Collection it self, it consists of divers uncommon, and very considerable Remarks, delivered by the Authors own Observation; E. G. A Dutch Stuyver swallowed down, and by closing the Pylorus of the Stomach, killing the Patient in ten days; on the contrary, a small Brass-coyn being-swallowed, was after a Moneths time voided by Purges, and the Patient saved, the Coyn being so worn in the Stomach, that the same hardly appeared: Item, Of a Tumor on the Back, resembling a Sack filled with Corn, formed there by the force of Imagination: Examples of Superfœtation, and Ambiguous Births; of Animals bred the Ear, and Worms come out of the Nose; of two Niples in one Brest; of divers very odd Monsters; of Infants born with Teeth; of a periodical spitting of Blood; of Stones growing upon the Wind-pipe, in the Brain, and the Heart, and killing the Patients; of a double Vena Cava, of a treble Ductus Thoraci-