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Aperto Cranio, Vasi Sanguifera Membranas (Tenuem paesertim) dextriLobi Cerebri perreptantia, Sanguine admodum turgebant; ijsque ex illa Ce-rebri regione, (qua se laborare slatim ab invasione conquesta est,) discissis,magna effluxir leroli Sanguinis quantitas, quo evacuato, Cercbriqxe Substan-tia cultello aperta, fele in conspectum obtulit largus concreti Cruoris gru-mus, qui Staterae impositus pependit Unciam circiter cum dimidia, atquep-oinde largam illic sibi neceisirio formaverat cavitatem: a st in Ventriculos ,vel alibi inter Membranas, nil omnino Sanguinis effusum erat. Sinistrum Lo-bum quod attinet, nec ille, nec ejus Vasi Sanguine supra modum turgebant.De Caererö, nil in propera isthac, quam Lucernarum Ope adornabamus,Diffectione (nempe festinandum erat) comperire potuimus, unde concluden-dum esset C crebrum, quantum Oculis patuit, male affectum esse ; tametsi exvariis Symptomatis quibus a longo tempore obnoxia fuisset Nobiliff. D.(utpote Cor Jis Tremore, Lc Palpitationibus, magnis Anxietatibus, Muscu-lorum in Artubus aliisque partibus contracturis & Doloribus, aliisque pluribusConvulfivis) non levis Momenti Argumenta Succi Nervoli haud pa.um Vi-tiati desumi potuerint. Unde Corollarium isthoc forsin deducere liceat;Succorum in Corpore contentorum Vitia non semper partium vel Continen-tium vel Secernentium culpae, sed quandoque (si non plerumque) propriaseorum Degenerationi & Dyscratias imputanda esse. Cerebrum, cum Cere-bello, Cranio exemptum, & {iiperstuo, qua licuit, Sanguine liberatum, pe-pendit 2 /. 14 Unc. Averd.

V. The Incomparable Malpighi, who industrioufly apply’d himself toferiousStudies, wasofa good Habitos Body, and bad feen 66 Ycars; buthe bad srequent Sicknessesstiarp Vomirings did torment him for 20Years; be was troubled with theGravcl, a Haemorrhagia in the K-idneys, aRheumatism Fluxious; which with their troublesome Consequences, aug-mented his Infirmities. Scarce had diese Evils given him forne respite,when a cruel Palpiration of the Hearr, with an unequal Pulse came uponhim. Moreover 4 Years before bis Death a stiarp and biting Sweat fail’d nor,all tbe Summer, to trouble him every Night. Pope Innocent %II havingcali’dhim toRometo malte him bis chicf Physician, he began the first Yearto loose his fresii Colour; in tbe second,. he voidcd many Stpnes withoutmueb Pain ; and in the third, which was the last of his Life, he found him-self opprest, during the Winter, with a difficulty of Breathing.

His Health bcing thus insensible undermin’d, and a Bilious Looseneßreturning ever and anon, he was at length seiz/d with a Vertigo, a lofs ofSpeech, and a Cortorsion of the Mouth, (Spasmus Cynicus) and a Palsy ofhalf the Right side. And tho’ there was Appcarance that he was out ©fdanger by Bleedings, Purges, Diureticks, and Antapoplectick Medicinas,yet one might see, by his Mclancholiy Countenance, but especially his wantof Munory, that there was lodged iu his Brain forne Melancholy Humour.Therefore perceiving his End drawing near, he sign’d with his Haud 3 Daysbefore his Death, his Posthumius Works, which he had order'd to be de-liverff to hisCollegues of the R. Society at London. Thcn having confest

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Tbe DexthDt$etUon y of 3 .Malpighi; byJean Marie I&n-cisi. n t 226. p->467.