osophy, &c. that as soon as the trumpeter's wife had finished the
abbess of Quedlingberg's private lecture, and had begun to read
in public, which she did upon a stool in the middle of the great
parade,--she incommoded the other demonstrators mainly, by gaining
incontinently the most fashionable part of the city of Strasburg for her
auditory--But when a demonstrator in philosophy (cries Slawkenbergius)
has a trumpet for an apparatus, pray what rival in science can pretend
to be heard besides him?

Whilst the unlearned, thro' these conduits of intelligence, were all
busied in getting down to the bottom of the well, where Truth keeps her
little court--were the learned in their way as busy in pumping her up
thro' the conduits of dialect induction--they concerned themselves not
with facts--they reasoned--

Not one profession had thrown more light upon this subject than the
Faculty--had not all their disputes about it run into the affair of Wens
and oedematous swellings, they could not keep clear of them for their
bloods and souls--the stranger's nose had nothing to do either with wens
or oedematous swellings.

It was demonstrated however very satisfactorily, that such a ponderous
mass of heterogenous matter could not be congested and conglomerated
to the nose, whilst the infant was in Utera, without destroying the
statical balance of the foetus, and throwing it plump upon its head nine
months before the time.--

--The opponents granted the theory--they denied the consequences.

And if a suitable provision of veins, arteries, &c. said they, was
not laid in, for the due nourishment of such a nose, in the very first
stamina and rudiments of its formation, before it came into the world
(bating the case of Wens) it could not regularly grow and be sustained
afterwards.

This was all answered by a dissertation upon nutriment, and the effect
which nutriment had in extending the vessels, and in the increase and
prolongation of the muscular parts to the greatest growth and expansion
imaginable--In the triumph of which theory, they went so far as to
affirm, that there was no cause in nature, why a nose might not grow to
the size of the man himself.

The respondents satisfied the world this event could never happen to
them so long as a man had but one stomach and one pair of lungs--For the
stomach, said they, being the only organ destined for the reception
of food, and turning it into chyle--and the lungs the only engine
of sa