tellites_: where he exhorts all the Curious, that
have the conveniency of observing, to endeavor the discovery of a matter of
that importance, which would prove one of the greatest _Analogies_ for the
_Earth's Motion_.

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_An Account of Mr. _Richard Lower_'s newly published _Vindication_ of
Doctor _Willis_'s _Diatriba_ de _Febribus_._

The Title of this Curious piece, is _Diatribae Thomae Willisii Med. Doct. &
Profess. Oxon. De Febribus Vindicatio, Authore Richardo Lower, &c._ In it
are occasionally discussed many considerable Medical and Anatomical
inquiries, as, Whether a Fever does consist in an Effervescence of Blood?
And if so, of what kind? Whether there be a _Nervous_ and _Nutritious_
Juice? Whether the office of sanguification belongs to the Blood it self,
existing _before_ those _Viscera_ (at least) that are commonly esteemed to
be the Organs of sanguification? How _Nutrition_ is performed, and the
nourishing substance assimilated? Whether the Blood affords both the Matter
for the structure of the Body, and such parts also, as are fit for the
nourishment of the same? Whether the Pulse of the Heart ceasing, there
remains yet a certain Motion in the blood, arguing, that _Pulse_ and _Life_
do ultimately rest in the _Blood_? Whether the Umbilical Vessels convey the
blood of the Mother to the Child, or whether the _Foetus_ be for the most
part form'd and {78} acted by the circulating blood, before the existence
of the Umbilical Vessels, or before the connecting of the _Foetus_ with the
_Uterus_? A new Experiment to prove that the _Chyle_ is not transmuted into
_Blood_ by the _Liver_. A discourse of the Nature of the _Blood_, and what
difference there is between the _Venal_ and _Arterial_ blood, and for what
Uses both the one and the other are particularly designed. Where it is
considered, what _Life_ is, and whence the _Soul_ of _Brutes_, and its
subsistence, and operations do depend. It is also inquired into, what the
uses of the _Lungs_ are in _hot_ Animals? And many other such material
disquisitions are to be found in this small, but very Ingenious and Learned
Treatise.

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_A Note touching a Relation, inserted in the last _Transactions_._

In the Experiment of killing _Ratle-Snakes_, mentioned in the last of the
precedent Papers (wherein, by a mistake, these words, _The way_, were put
for _A way_, or _An Experiment_) it should ha