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Ovid. Met.tranjlated byJtvnal Hands*Loud. 17171

" Pulfa fugit made s ; abeunt pallorque , Jit usque ;

" Adjcdloque cavœ supplentur sanguine vence ;

" Membraque luxuriant. Æson miratur, & olim“ Ante quater denos huncfe reminifdtur annos.

[Ovid. Metam. L. VII. Fab. II.]

- - -——— " When this Medea spy’d,

" She cuts her Patient’s Throat; th’ exhausted Blood" Recruiting with her new enchanted Flood;

" While at his Mouth, and thro' his op’ning Wound,

“ A double Inlet her Infusion found;

" His feeble Frame resumes a youthful Air,

" A glossy Brown his hoary Beard and Hair.

" The meagre Paleness from his Aspect; fled,

" And in its Room sprang up a florid Red;

“ Thro’ all his Limbs a youthful Vigour flies,

" His empty’d Art’ries swell with fresh Supplies,

" Gazing Spectators scarce believe their Eyes.

" But Æson is the most furpriz’d, to find“ A happy Change in Body, and in Mind;

" In Sense and Constitution the same Man,

‘‘ As when his Fortieth active Year began.

Aries in agnum rejlitutus. Fab. IV<

cc Protinus imiumeris effœtus laniger annis" Attrahitur, JJexo circum cava tempora cornu :

Cujus ut. hæmonio niarccntia guttura cultro<c Fodit , V exiguo tnaculavit sanguine ferrum ;

" Membra Jimul pecudis, 'validofque Venefica fuccos" Mergit in cere cavo minuuntur corporis art us:

" Cornuaque exuitur , nec non cum cornibus annos:

" Et tener auditur medio balatus aeno.

“ Nec mora ; balatum mirantibus exflit agnus :

" Lascivitque fuga ; laElantiaque ubera queerit. 1

" A Wreath’d-horn’d Ram is brought, so far o’er-grown“ With Years, his Age was to that Age unknown.

" Of Sense too dull the piercing Point to feel,

“ And scarce sufficient Blood to stain the Steel.

“ His Carcass She into a Cauldron threw,

" With Drugs whose vital Qualities She knew;

" His Limbs grow less, he casts his Horns and Years,

" And tender Bleatings strike their wondring Ears.

“ Then instantly leaps forth a frisking Lamb,

" That seeks (too young to graze) a suckling Dam.

Dr . Wren’s Operation of cutting out the Spleen of a Dog

Safety , and Method of Cure.

M R. Boyle in big Essays of experimental natural Philosophy , mentions tb6following Experiment of cutting out the Spleen of a Dog with Safe*/'The lame Experiment was try’d by Dr. Wren, who has deferib’d the wb°‘ sOperation, and given the Method of Cure, which being deficient inBoyle ’s Relation, is here fubjoin’d thereunto.