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A43764	The history of generation examining the several opinions of divers authors, especially that of Sir Kenelm Digby, in his discourse of bodies : with a general relation of the manner of generation, as well in plants as animals : with some figures delineating the first originals of some creatures ... : to which is joyned, A discourse of the cure of wounds by sympathy, or without any real applycation of medicines to the part affected, but especially by that powder, known chiefly by the name of Sir Gilbert Talbots powder / by Nath. Highmore ...	Highmore, Nathaniel, 1613-1685.; Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665. Discours fait en une célèbre assemblée, touchant la guérison des playes par la poudre de sympathie. English.	1651 (1651)	Wing H1969; ESTC R11065	44,928	157

not trod in it A more particular Narration of the way of Generation Chapter the Fifth OUr noble Author hath laid this ground for us which I hope will easily lead us to the truth viz. That it is necessary the parts should be made in generation of a matter like to that which maketh them in nutrition Now what that is from whence every part receiveth his nourishment wee must search for in the blood Which is a tincture extracted from those things we eat concocted and separated in the Stomack Liver and Heart and afterwards by its circulating in the Arteries and Veins is pellicanized as the Chymists term it and becomes most pure and defaecated from all its excrements and is made a fit nourishment for every part The things we eat are not simple but compounded of as great a variety as the parts to be nourished can expresse What variety of Plants goes to the making up of one piece of flesh we eat What multitudes of differing Atomes are conjoyned in one piece of bread or draught of drink or Wine The extract then sure must be furnisht with as great a swarm of differing parts onely here they are more refin'd more subtiliz'd and separated one from another But how doth this variety of parts in the blood make it the fitter for nourishment by comprehending in it small indivisible particles cognate or similar Atomes which are of the same substance essence and nature with the parts to which they are to be adjoyned and assimilated and want nothing but separation and afterwards union and conjunction with to be part of those particles for whose nutriment they were provided which operation is called assimilation For then these similar or cognate parts are become like to those to which they are joyned And this is the matter and manner of our nutrition w ch if slightly considered may perhaps go amongst the number of falsities But if we examine from the Creation the product of Creatures from the confused first created Chaos or since that time the continual hourly decay or expiration of every part of us in so much that Physitians allow us clearly a new Body every seven years we shall soon discover the truth of this position How the great Architect fetcht from the bowels of this Lump precreated particles to supply him with fit matter for such bodies and appropriated forms for such matter will instruct us that there are such particles which being brought together constitute such bodies The continual expiration of particles from all bodies will more cleerly illustrate it The hourly decay is by expiration of material the last dissolution is both of material and formal Atomes Now as all agree that material parts throughout multitudes of nay all mutations remain incorrupted so also according to not onely the judgement but several experiments of knowing men diligent inquirers into the various works of Nature and mutations of natural compounds natural forms themselves also do not perish at their parting from their matters but onely are dissolved and dissipated lying after that in their scatter'd Atomes confused and mixt with some others constituting perhaps a quite differing bo●y so that the entity of the form continues after corruption though not in the formality of such a form If it be so then that the matter of every particle in every body and the Atomes of their forms likewise still remain though scatter'd into millions of several bodies what should hinder when these Atomes are again rallied an easie union with particles of the same condition and nature and why should not then the blood which is made up of many and distinct bodies be furnisht with the several Atomes comprehended in those bodies and those Atomes being agreeable to our parts be as easily united to them The way of nutrition being cleared let us see now how from the same matter generation is performed This blood that all parts might be irrigated with its benigne moisture is forc'd by several chanels to run through every re gion and part of the body by which means every part out of that stream selects those Atomes which they finde to be cognate to themselves Amongst which the Testicles destined to that office from their first creation as the Stomack and Liver were to digest abstract some spiritual Atomes belonging to every part which had they not here been anticipated should have been attracted to those parts to which properly they did belong for nourishment As the parts belonging to every particle of the Eye the Ear the Heart the Liver Stomack Guts the Hand every particular bone and muscle c. which should in nutrition have been added to repair the continual deperdition to every one of these parts are compendiously and exactly extracted from the blood passing through the body of the Testicles and being in this Athanor cohobated and reposited in a tenacious matter lest being spiritual and very fine they should lose their vigor at last passe from the body of the Testicles by certain vessels in which through infinite Meanders it undergoes another digestion and pellicanizing as in another place I have shown And from thence being now delivered from all its ex●rements and furnisht with Atomes fit for the making of every part and particle of an other Individuall is treasured up in certain Granaries till the seed time comes And this is the nature substance and manner of collecting the Seed This shall be further illustrated by the several wayes of Generation in severall Creatures and ●irst in Plants How Plants are generated Chapter the Sixth THese seminal Atomes are in the same manner separated by all Vegetables w ch are watered in every Region by a certain juice or blood which they attract suck from their Mother Earth which is nothing else but a confus'd Mass of multitudes of forms and substances fit for the nourishment and reparation of all things In which a Plant being ●ixt presently sends forth his Purveighers on every side his roots w ch supply the want of hands and mouth to bring in its provision who are finely palated too able to make choice of that tincture which most delights their palats best fits their own diet and is most proper to repair their decaying selves in every part This juice or blood they concoct strain through their finer parts and separate them from other earthly excrementitious particles or such as belong to another species till it becomes fit only for the repairing of that Plant for and by which they were selected and suckt out of the Earth From this quintescence this juice are selected parts of the same substance nature qualities and form with the Plant and agreeing with every particle of it whose blood it is and from it is the species propagated But not after the same method in all for in some propagation is made by this juice residing in part of the Plant pulled from the Trunk and fixt in the ground In others by part of the root transfer'd In others by

anticipating the other and continuing after the others decay When the hearts motion was almost spent the ears contracted themselves in due order and after five or six pulsations of the ears the heart would move once and then rest again till after such a number of pulses were performed by the ears The heart when it had emptied it self by its continual pulsation of all the blood and was become perfectly clear and transparent as before the blood came to it moved a long time after observing the same order following the pulsation of the ears as when it was watered from that bloody Fountain This Glasse shewed me the head too consisting of three bubbles as it were whereof one confest it self to be the eye by the manifest discovery of the Pupilla in the middle From hence the Spina was carried round almost to the head again which is that transparent white Circle without the red line From whence appeared some small obscure clouds fastned in the proper places of the wings and thighs which in the fifth dayes observation appeared to be so indeed without the help of Glasses Besides from this Carina were drawn some small streamings which were the rudiments of the succeeding ribs This fourth dayes observation may be seen delineated in the third Figure of the second Table The fifth dayes this transparent clear body together with the Foetus swimming in it sunk lower to the side of the Egg then in the day before and what was then clear and transparent begins now to thicken and grow obscure The head is beyond its proportion grown outstripping all the rest as if Nature made haste in finishing that part of which she should have most and sudden use The eye grown almost to its perfect bignesse and discernable in all its parts the greater divisions of the brain and Cerebellum easily to be seen The Carina or Spine discovers it self encompassing the red line or V●na Cava which was now scarce discernable by reason of that clothing it had by this dayes addition procured the heart too obscurely covered al●ost hid from view excepting a little in the forepart which seemed open or at least not so much hardned as the other but continued tender and cleer still The wings and legs easie to be observed without Glasses being much whiter then the rest The bulk of the body hardned into a visible form and obscurer then before yet not so darkned but that the pulsation of the heart being red with blood might be discovered through it which after it had layen still for three hours at least I afterwards layed it in the Sun whose vigorous heat renewed its life and motion again This thin body being opened from the great vein might be seen some rudiments of the Liver some small puttings forth of vessels which had some blood between them hardned This fifth dayes observation you may see in the fourth and fifth Figures of the second Table The sixth dayes observation shews every part more distinctly a●d what before even by the help of G●sses seemed but darkly adumbrated now begin to confess themselves by their visible shapes and actions The three bubles of the head are much enlarged the eyes perfected the wings and legs grow out the heart appears fleshy and corpulent the rudiments of the Lungs Liver and Guts appear more clearly The seventh day shews all more perfectly yet and it now appears in the shape and figure of a Chick perfectly accomplisht with all its parts wanting nothing but confirmation and hardning which every day now increases to the diminishing of the wh●te w ch about the tenth day is done there remaining little more then that thin clear liquor the Chick did swim in the yolk entire and appearing bigger then before being rari●ed and as it were dissolved by the heat of the Hen and brought into a fit condition to be by the continuing heat reduced into blood obtaining from that gentle Furnace colour and fluxibility After which time there is little observable till the fourteenth About the fourteenth and fifteenth dayes the beginnings of the feathers appear the skin being covered with little black spots which are the roots of the feathers The skull begins to cover the brains The umbilical veins plainly discover themselves of which the first that was spread through the white of the Egg passes through the upper part of the Liver perforating the Vena Cava near the basis of the heart The other coming from the yolk insinuates it self into the Vena Porta in the lower part of the Liver Which shews what disserence Nature hath made betwixt these two liquors the one the white concocted and fitted for present use is carried immediately to the Vena Cava and to the heart to be distributed into every part for their encrease and nourishment out of which every part might select cognate and appropriated Atomes separated from all excrements for their augmentation and nutrition As soon as this is done and spent because the Foetus is not yet strong enough to seek his own nourishment abroad neither is the Hen able to provide for it Nature hath ordained another reserve of provision which though it be not so fine yet having another Cook to dresse it the Liver being now perfected it will by undergoing another dressing or concoction there be made fit for the nourishment of the now hardned and con●irmed parts of the Chick And therefore Nature sends what is melted and dissolved by the external and internal heat from the yolk to the Liver by the Vena Porta to be there drest and cookt again From whence some excrements are separated as by the fulnesse of the Gall and the green excrements in the guts may appear To these two venal Umbilical vessels are added two Arteries arising ●rom the Lumbary Arteries Which accompanying the veins throughout the white and yolk make a perfect circulation here as well as betwixt the Mother and the Foetus in Viviparis by which means the new concocted blood mixt with this is without trouble or danger brought to the Foetus And therefore it is I suppose that the heart so soon before any other part performs his office that by his continual motion driving that dissolved clear liquor which is found in and about his vessels and melted by the external heat and forcing it into the white may melt and dis●olve that too and make it fluid apt to be carried along with it returning in other vessels back to the heart where it receives new vigor and an addition of heat By this means the liquor being increased the vessels are not large enough to contain it and therefore the heart thrusting it forth with the same continued violence hourly drives it further into the white first and afterwards into the yolk where it still melts more and the dissolved circle is still enlarg'd as by the daily observations will appear After this time you shall finde the white clear liquor in which the Chick did swim consumed too and the Foetus

in that harder part of the fruit is by these passages strainings and concoctions become at length to be like a tincture extracted out of the whole Plant and is at last dried up into a kinde of magistery This we call the Seed which is of a fit nature by being buried in the Earth and dissolved with humor to renew and reciprocate the operation described But a sensitive Creature saith he being compared to a Plant as a Plant is to a mixed Body you cannot but conceive that he must be compounded as it were of many Plants in like sort as a Plant is of many mixed Bodies But so that all the Plants which concur to make one Animal are of one kinde of nature and cognation And besides the matter of which such diversity is to be made must of necessity be more humid and figurable then that of an ordinary Plant and the Artisicer which worketh mouldeth it must be more active Wherefore we must suppose that the Mass of which an Animal is to be made must be actually liquid and the Fire that worketh upon it must be so powerful that of its own nature it may be able to convert this liquid matter into such breaths and steams as we see do arise from Water when the Sun or Fire worketh upon it But lest this moisture being wrought on by such an active heat should vanish quite away we must suppose it to have such unctuous parts that may hold them together so that the heat imprisoned in this viscous liquid matter riseth in bubbles and by reason of its solid unctuousness cannot break forth but stretch themselves longer and longer and every one would be as it were a little Brook whereof the chanel would be the enclosing viscous substance and the inward smoak that extendeth it might be compared to the Water of it This liquid smoak-like substance the Fire works on in these Chanels he makes to be three-fold First Watry streams which first flie out settle in the remotest parts and is fittest for figuration Secondly Oily which give to the other continuance and solidity Thirdly Fiery which is made of the grosser more fixt parts incorporated with Fire having sufficient moisture to keep it flowing and is like a Cauldron of fire and these last vapours are for the continuance of heat These three Brooks in a sens●ive Creature arise from three Sources or Fountains the Heart the Brain and the Liver and are conveighed in three severall Chanels the Arteries Nerves and Veins and give unto the Animal heat sense and nourishment A Short Censure of the former Conceipt Chapter the Third HOw much this Conceipt subverts the antique principles of Philosophy I shall not here undertake to demonstrate How far it shoulders out Truth it self and so blots out those indeleble Characters fixt by the finger of the Creator on every species those inscriptions on all his works the distinct constitutions parts operations and figures which are as so many Bushes or Signes hung out to discover what are the inhabitants within will easily shew us For if heat rarifying a substance making it thrust it self into a larger space were the sole author of all generation and were the cause why Plants grow up in stalk and leaves and downwards in root we must either admit those differing Characters to be vain accidental chances or else look out some other agent from whose fruitful womb this variety might spring forth If we but muster over the numerous Regiments or several species of Plants and consider how this grows up with a square stalk that with a round some start up hexangular others triangular some bear a fruit of one form some of another and in them fashion seeds of as differing figures as themselves How the leaves also and flowers shew as much of variety as skill in the Workman every Plant being by them as soon discern'd as seen Let us call over likewise the differing numbers of Animals Insects and others and examine all the starting holes that Fire can breathe forth a stream by all the casual compressures of cold or external accidents and compare them together we shall see whether such a fruitful stock of variety in colours shape form vertue and many other differing signatures can be the issue of such accidental and equivocal parents If this formation of Creatures arise from heat extending and enlarging a small moistned lump without any other consideration why are not these Atomes extended circularly and so all Bodies should be cast into the same Mould with the Heavens and should as they seem to us be all sphericall But he tells us of some light parts that besides the power of the Fire enforcing naturally climb upwards and of others which by their natural weight are perswaded to sink into the Farth to hold the mounting parts stedfast that they may not be overthrown by Windes But were there nothing else to give a figure to Plants but ascending and descending of light and heavy parts whence should that variety arise in the fashion of those ascending and descending parts the weight of the parts should carry them directly downwards as the lightness doth upwards and so all roots should descend in one continued round but long lump what then makes some spherical others stretching out infinite numbers of hairy threds some directly downwards others parallel to the superficies The Author tells us the figures of them as of the ascending parts are caused by some external accidents As when the more hot and moist parts are ascended and broken from the prison of the Earth the cold air compresseth and hardneth the external parts and so enricheth this sprouting upstart with a hard tough skin both armour and clothes to protect the interior softer parts The hardness of the Earth likewise compresseth the descending parts into such forms as we finde them of But may not the truth of this be vehemently suspected when if we examine the coat we shall finde it more penetrable then the Body and more subject to external injuries then that inclosed as in all Trees and Plants the Bark and Rinde is of a more flexible tender and soft composure then the invested Trunk and the hard solid shell of Walnuts Almonds stones of Plumbs c. are invironed with a very tender substance Besides this there is yet a greater doubt how this external cold air should in the same place at the same instant of time fashion these mounting Atoms into a round stem with a long sharp leaf and close by that compress others into a square hexangular or triangular shape with leaves round jagged indented scollopt or the like as may be seen in several Plants inhabitants of the same piece of ground under the same Heavens inviron d with the same Air and heavenly influences These distinct figures cannot spring from the cold circumstant Air for this applying it self alike to all and every side of these ascending parts should equally compresse every part and so all Plants should sprout up

non assimilatus a●ter it hath undergone all its concoctions and received all its names christned by the Arabians of Humoris in nominati Roris Glutinis Cambii and is fastned to the part but not perfectly assimilated and this being selected and reposited in convenient vessels receiving some kinde of impression from the part from whence it was divided it retains still an imperfect signature and delineation of them and makes up that which we call the sperm But I shall here want Anatomie to instruct me how this Cambium this thinner or not yet consirmed or hardned substance of every part should desert its hold and being shaken off should be conveighed into the seminal Vessels All which returns to the first opinion confuted by our Author Who hath likewise fairly cleer'd the other part of the doubt whether this matter be divided or taken only from similar parts alone and so the matter of bone should accordingly to the conveniency of place and use become round blady circular or long and the flesh likewise only by the help of fermenting heat After our noble Author hath so strenuously confuted these phansies we shall finde him laying down his own opinion and seeking some other means and course of Generation He tels us that the superfluous part of the nourishment when it is drained from the rest and reserv'd in a convenient place by little and little through digestion gaineth vigour and spirits and becomes a homogeneal body like to other simple compounds which by other degrees of heat and moisture is changed into another substance and that again by other temperaments into another And thus by the c●urse of nature and by pa●ing successively many degrees of temper and by receiving a totall change in every one of them at length an Animal is made of such juice as afterwards serves to nourish him But if we more seriously examine this assertion we shall finde it to leave the truth very much behinde it For first if we but look on the Body to be nourished we shall finde it to be compos'd of many several parts of differing natures which would sufficiently instruct us in the disagreeing and heterogeneal particles of that which nouri●heth this heterogeneal Body But if we more curiously anatomize this juice or blood it will abundantly shew us it is no homogeneal Body neither therefore can that superfluous part selected and drained from it claim that priviledge Should we grant this it cannot appear how heat working upon this homogeneal body should make in it a total change in the nature of it or create it an other substance quite different from the first making it lesse homogeneal And in every digestion or operation of heat upon it it should become still lesse homogeneal until that substance be produced which wee see compos'd of so many heterogeneall parts If we examine the workes of heat we shall finde it penetrating dividing and mixing of small particles of it self with the Atomes of the bodies it works upon and in progress of time divides the body into such small indivisible parts that it becomes like it self in respect of rarity As Fire working on and mixing it self with Water divides it into small indiscernable Atomes which now attains unto the same rarity and lightnesse with the Fire and being accompanied and intermixt with those fiery Atomes flies alo●t till at last disliking one anothers society being far removed from the Agent rarifying them they part companies And then those unseen Atomes of Water collect themselves again to their former temper and bulk no whit changed or altered either in qualities or substance which were impossible were this change total or could this action of heat create heterogeneall parts in this homogeneal substance If we further consider the power of heat or any other qualities wee shall surely finde that in no action there can any substantial thing be given which is not originally in the agent or giver Fire could not give heat nor Water moisture unlesse it were inherent in those Bodies Neither can heat or Fire working on an homogeneal body give it any other heterogeneal parts then fiery ones nor moisture any other then moist ones which indeed accidentally may give hardnesse to bones and softnesse to flesh but how comes this bony substance in this place blady in that round in another long this Muscle round that triangular this Plant of one form and nature that of another We must seek out some other agent to fashion these parts and to compose this difficulty and confidently conclude this way to be lame and imperfect of which our Author seems to be conscious and that makes him so staggering and at last falling upon an opinion which he before in part rejected viz. That the blood in its circulation visiting every part is impregnated with the nature of them and the purest part of this blood being extracted like a quintessence out of the whole Mass is reserved in convenient receptacles till there be use of it which is the seed of which a new Animal is to be made This imbuition of specifique qualities from every part will appear as impossible as the former For first there are many parts from which the blood doth not again return as from all those parts which have attracted their specifick nourishment from out of the vessels from them there is no return made Besides the blood in its circulation is carried in vessels of the same nature from the one end of the body to the other and out of those vessels there is not the least motion in the blood How these qualities should be communicated from every particle through the thi●k skins of the vessels seems somewhat strange Besides all this should we grant this circulation through every particle how comes it to passe that receiving so many differing qualities the one doth not confound the other and that which is last imprest doth not blot out all the rest These or the like difficulties being kenn'd by our Author makes him flye to another refuge and to tell us that the heart of every perfect Animal containeth in it the specifick vertues of all the several parts of its own body by reason of the bloods continual resorting to it in a circle from all parts of its body and its being nourished by that juice so that the Heart is the abridgement of the whole and imbueth the blood with those specifick qualities from whence is extracted the seed But neither can this cleer all the former difficulties For how shall we suppose so many distinct qualities to be imprest in so narrow a compasse as in the heart without confusion or how so short a stay in the heart could implant such a numerous Regiment of qualities in the blood or why not differing faculties in the same particle of blood all sliding without distinction through the ventricles of the heart we shall be forc'd therefore to seek out some other way which indeed our Author hath chalkt out unto us though himself hath

Foetus while it is inclosed in those walls And this is as I said of two sorts agreeable to their double use fitted for their nourishment while the Atomes are uniting but tenderly cemented and growing together and this is the White which is more agreeable to the nature of Sperm and answers to the Mothers blood which gives growth and nourishment while the Foetus lives in the Mothers womb The other the Yolk of a more solid and confirmed substance is for its nourishment when it hath atchieved some perfection and growth the parts then expecting a more solid nutriment This supplies the use of Milk in other Creatur●s who sor a time after their exclusion are nourished altogether by it Both of these White and Yolk are inclosed in Membranes some of which being hardned into a shell are excluded from the Femal daily as they grow to perfection And that because such smal bodies as these Ovipara are cannot contain so numerous a progeny together as their fruitful wombs do yearly disclose In which none of these parts either White or Yolk these seminal Atomes are reposited is doubtfully related Some affirming them to reside in the Center of the Yolk But this will easily be rejected when ye shall see the whole Animal framed and the Yolk y●t entire whole inclosed within its own membrane onely some small threadlike veines full of blood ye may s●e thrust into it conveighing some of it as nourishment to the Foetus Others think the White to be that of which the Chick is framed and fa●hioned but not rightly neither for that likewise is to be seen whole when the body is formed ●abritius who hath taken a great deal of pains in dissections a strict enquirer into Natures secrets especially concerning the manner of Generation supposes these parts to reside in the Chalazae that part which by our Women is called the treddle But this likewise is false for then every Egg should produce two Chickens there being one ●reddle at each end of the Egg which serve for no other end but for ligaments to contain the Yolk in an Equilibrium that it might not by every moving of the Egg be shakt broke and confused with the White What therefore I have often observed I shall here discover and in it the true manner of their formation Fabritius makes mention of a li●tle white Circle or Cicatricula on the thin Membrane of the Yolk which he supposes to be a skar left by the breaking off from the foot-stalk by which it was fastned to the Hen before the White grew about it But if ye further observe it ye shall finde it another thing Parisanus would have it to be the seed of the Cock I think it to be the seminal Atomes derived from both here reposited as the following Observations will discover In the Hen while all her Eggs are but Yolks or small little grains contain●d in the Egg-bag or Vitellary ●e may perceive this white Circle or Cicatricula which afterwards as the Yolk increaseth to bignesse doth appear more evidently When the Egg is perfect if you break the shell at the bigger end you shall finde this Circle in all prolificial Eggs the fashion of it you may see in the first Figure of the second Table the innermost Figure A. This Cicatricula after the first dayes incubation you shall see dilated and grown wider as in the first figure at B. with a little white spot in it easily to be distinguished from the rest The second day being past in the third day ye shall finde it spread yet larger I have seen it enlarg d to the breadth of a Sixpence distinguished with several Circles within it exactly round representing the Eye The outmost round was of a much paler yellow colour then the rest of the Yolk and of a thinner consistence as if it had bin by the heat of the Hen dissolved melted Within this was a lesser Circl● of a most resplendent cleerness through which did passe some small white threads into the outmost pale circle This inner clear Circle was of a substance like to the white of the Egg but cl●arer and very fluid Within this clear round was another of a pale yellow like to the first which inclosed another translucid Circle within it in which was a clear small Body but something obscurer then the inclosure containing in it a little whiter spot easily to be distinguished from it which seemed to be center to all the inclosing circles This you may see in the second figure of the second Table The inner white Circle and spot in the after discoveries will be found to be the Carina and heart of the Chick The two clear Circles to be that liquor or humor in which the tender Atomes of the Chick while they are collecting and conjoyning do swim in that by external motions they might not be disordered and hindered from union The middle yellow was some of the same matter not yet dissolved into that clearness The outmost yellow Circle was some dissolving by the heat of the Hen and preparing for the making of blood from which it now differs onely in colour which the next day or the day following will appear in those small threads conveighed to the white spot within which the fourth day ye shall finde filled with this blood and moving Towards the latter end of the third day you shall finde this Cicatricula to be all clear in the middle Circles the yellow being obliterated and now remains onely the white Circle and spot in the middle somewhat enlarged circumscribed by a larger resplendent Circle environed with the outermost yellow round in which by the help of Glasses may be discovered the small vessels coming from this dissolved yellow matter from every side to the middle of the white Circle which by a Microscope appears now to be the Carina or back and neck of the Chick and the heart in the midst of it this is delineated in the seventh Figure of the first Table On the fourth day this Cicatricula was spread the full compasse of the big end of the Egg the outmost Circle whereof was filled with veins variously spread abroad and Arteries as might be supposed though by their coats not to be distinguished because their Anastomases were evident which being collected into four trunks from the opposite points passed through the refulgent clear Circle to the middle or center Without the extream limbe of this pale yellow Circle were no vessels to be seen Within the white Circle in the middle which was much dilated too appeared a red sparkling line encompassing the white spot now red too and moving whose motions plainly shew it was the heart as afterwards I saw by the help of a Microscope exactly shewing me the heart perfectly fashioned with both his ears and this red line joyned to it running quite round in the inside of the white Circle By the help of this Glasse I saw the motions of the heart and ears for a long time one