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Severat Observa-ttunson dißetcntMalaches »*^y M*Gaillard, n - ijj.p. 717.

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5. I know a Woman in Stew- Market, who during her Grün Siebtes} wasinvited by her Tica or Lngtng to suck the Wind out of Bellows , which asoftenas she could, shetookinto hei Body with open Mouth, foreeing it in,by Blowing with her own hands the Beltcws inverted; I know anothtr thatwas for Crackhng Ctnders under her Fcer. From which kind of Instanccs] am inclind to doubr, whether thatDistcmpcr begins at the Depravation ofthe Acid Liquor in the Stoniach, and not rathet at the Uterus, which nextInfectsthe Brain, such kind of things gratifying the Fattcy some ways misledmorethan the Appetite Natural any ways Depraved.

6. Something like to this is to bc found in Brütet. In May 1667. a Grey-h und Biich at Brite well-Hall, about 5 or 6 Days before she cast her Wheips,had such a wild kind of Hunger, (though (he was fed sufhciently every Daywith usualFood) that finding another Bitetis Wheips, she DevourJ them alland feil next ppon the Bitch her seif, who made a (hift to get from her. Fromthis, and from Soivs Devounng whole Littersof Pigs, I am prone tothinkotherwise of the Longings of Teeming Weinten, than is the common Opini-on.

XLIII. 1. There was seen at Toloufe, about the Year. 1685. an Infäntwho had 2. Heads; One was-a sörtof a Bag, relembling the Hood of a Be-nediÜine Mcnk, and was fastened to a Neck. ofthe lame length with the Neckof the other Head. Master Veter, sworn Chirurgeon, opencd it in Presenceof Mr. Bayle and Mr. Carboneau the Waters being Jet out, the Swelling va-nitht; the Necl^ did not so, that part of it which was next to its Original, andwhich had about the length oitwo Ir.ches and a half, was made upof iFleflt.This Child Lived 1 5 Days.

Z. In the Suburb St. Cyprien , near to the Hospital of St. fofeph ofGrace. Mr. Soye, a Skilful Surgeon, havingopened the Daughter of a Cap-Make.r, dcad of the King';, Evii, April. 1685. remarkt, that the GUnds ofth cMefentery were Petrefied, most of them were about the bignds of a Wal-nut, and others of a Small Nut; in (ome of them, being opened, he fo.undabout a Dozen of Stones.

3. Mr. Bousquet , Citizen of Toloufe, being Dead on the 8h>of Mar. 1686of a Continual Fever , and a Spitting of Blood, accompanied with a Diffcultyof Breatbing, Mr. D elpech, sworn Surgeon, opencd him, and found in theRight Kulney 3 little Stones, and sbme Gravel ; going down the Ureter, whichwas much enlarged, he found a Tough Stone, of the bignels of a Bean, lodg-ed towards the Lower Orifice of the fame Passage; The Ltmgs stuck to thePleura, to the Mediaßin, the Dtaphragtn, and Pericardium The Wmd'Pipewas füll of Blood j there was seen in the lest Lobe, and the Back part of theLtings, a Bony Substancc 2 Ir.chts long, and half an Inch broad : There weretwo Polypujes in the Hcart, onc in cacli Ventricle of the bigness ofa PigconsEgg, whole Roots were 1 o Inches long, the Yata Cava, both Ascendent andDejcendent, was covcrcd at its entry into the Lest lutlrtcle of the Heart, witha Bony matter.

4. Mr