Muscular Cout, and Pulse of the Arteries, effe&ted by a kind of Conftri&tion, or peristaltick Motion, and not merely by a · Wave of the Blood every Pulse The wonderful Artifice of Nature in regulating the Motion of the Blood in the Veins and Arteries, by asifting and promoting it in the one, and moderating it in the other. The use of the E ghchly, of the Hand, its Stru&ture and various Vjes, not Ninthly, Of the Back-Bone, its Figure, and why divided into The Provision that is made for the easie and expedite Motion of the Bones in their Articulations by a two-fold Juice. 1. An and separated by certain Glandules made for that purpose "284, 285. This Inuntion of the Head of the Bones, with these Juices, is useful, 1. To faciliate Motion. 2. To prevent Why the Bones are mide hollopo Why the Belly is fleshy, and not inclosed with Bones like the The Motion of the Gurs 289. Of the Liver" and use of the ibid. dules, and Vreters, their composition and Uses ibid. The adapting all the Bones, Muscles, and Vejjels, to their sea veral Uses, and the j?yning and compacting of them together noted 290 The Geometrical Contrivance of the Muscles, and fitting them for their several Motions and Actions, according to the exact- ibid. and different Parts so close, that there mould be no unneces. ibid. Membranes capable of a prodigio:s extention, use, in Gejtation 291 The Parts that seem of little or 110 use, as the Fat, mewn to be greatly weful 292. How separated from the Blood, and re- ceived into it again 293, 294 The Confideration of the Formation of the Fæcus in the Womb waved, the aliy 295, 296 What - What a fitness the Seed bath to fashion and form, and why the Child resembles the Parent, and sometimes the AR- The Construction of a Set of Temporary Parts, for the use of the fæcus only while in the Womb, a clear Proof of Dea No equivocal or spontaneous Generation, but that all Animals are generated by Animal-Parents of their own kind 298, 299. and probably all Plants too produced ty Seed, and none spontaneous, proved and vindicated, and the Obje&tions That the Cossus of the Ancients was not the Hexapod of a Beetle, as I thought, but an Eruca, agreed with Dr. 7be Louse searching out fordid and nasty Cloths to harbour and breed in, probably designed to deter Men and Women from Sluttishness and Uncleanliness . An additional and most effe&tual Argument against Spontaneous Generation ; viz. That there are no new Species of Ani- Whence those vast Numbers of small Frogs, which have been observed to appear upon refreshing Sbovers, after Drought do probably proceed, mewon in an Instance of his own Observati. of Toads found in the Heart of Timber-trees, and in the middle" Miscellaneous Observations concerning the Stru&ture, Aitions, and Ules of some parts of Animals omitted in the first Part. As also the Reasons of some Instin&ts and A&tions of Brutes 325, 326, &c. The Swines Snout fitted for digging up of Roots, which are his Natural Food, as likewise the Porpese for rooting up of Sand- Eels Temper of Animals, their Place and Minner of Living Mewon in three forts of Respiration. 1. By Lungs, wilh two Ventricles of the Heart in hotter Animals 327. 2. By Lungs, with but one Ventricle. 3. By Gills, with men Ovale, is kept open in fome Amphibious Animals 330. In some of them the Epiglorris is large, and why 331. No Epiglcctis in Elephants, and why; and how that Crea. Two pot able Observations of the Sagacity of the Tortoise, the one of the Land, the other of the Sea-Tortoise 333, 334 The Armour of the Hedge-Hog, and Tacon, and their Power of contra&ting themselves into a round Ball, a great Instance of Design for their Defence and Security 335, 336 The manner and use of the extending and withdrawing the Cur. tain of the Periophchalmium, or ni&tating Membrane in Beasts and Birds 338, 339. That the Aqueous Humour of of the Make of a Camel's Foot, and his Bags to reserve Water The use of rapacious Crcatures swallowing some of the Hair, 344, 345 A Conje&ture by what means Cartilaginous Fishes raise and sink in analyzing of Bedies, and separating their Parts, and out- does them, and the several Particulars instanced in 347 Observations about the Gullet and Diaphragm An admirable Story out of Galen, about the taking a Kid out of the Womb of its Dain, and bringing it up by hand, and Re- The Natural Texture of Membranes fo made, as to be immensly dilatable, of great use and necesity in Gestation 353 A notable Instance of Providence, in the make of the Veins and An Answer to an Ohje&tion against the Wisdom of God, in making 367 evade all our Arguments and Instances, to demonstrate the mation of all the parts of the World, viz. That Things made Ures, and nor, Uses Things, precluded and con- of the use of those vast Numbers of prodigiously small Injelis An Obje&tion against the Wisdom of God, in creating such a mul- . titude of useless Insetts, and some also noxious and pernicious to Man, and other Animals, answered, and the various Vje Many Practical Inferences and Observations, from 375, to the End of the Book. THE Pfal. 104. 24 Horo manifold are thy Works, O Lord! In Wifi dom haft thou made them all. T N these Words are two Clauses, in the first whereof the Pfalmift adınires the Multitude of God's Works, How manifold are thy Works, O Lord! In the se cond he celebrates his Wisdoin in the Creation of them ; In Wisdom bast thou made them all. c . Of Of the first of these I shall say little, only briefly run over the Works of this visible World, and give some guess at the Number of them; whence it will appear, that upon this account they will deserve Admiration, the Number of them being uninvestigable by us, and so affording us a demonstrative Proof of the unlimited extent of the Creator's Skill, and the facundity of his Wisdom and Power. That the number of corporeal Creatures is unmeasurably great, and known only to the Creator himself, may thus probably be collected : First of all, The Numbers of fix'd Stars is on all hands acknowledg'd to be next to infinite : Secondly, Every fix'd Star, in the now-receiv'd Hypothesis, is a Sun or Sun-like Body, and in like manner incircled with a Chorus of Planets moving about it; for the fix'd Stars are not all placed in one and the same concave Spherical Superficies, and equidistant from us, as they seem to be, but are varioully and disorderly situate, some nearer, fome further off, just like Trees in a Wood or Forest; as Gassendus exemplifies thein. And as in a Wood, tho' the Trees grow never so irregularly, yet the Eye foever remov'd, describes still a Circle of Trees : So would it in like manner where-ever it were in the Forest or Stars, describe a spherical Superficies about it. Thirdly, Each of these Planets is in all likelihood furnished with as great variety of corporeal Creatures, animate and inanimate, as the Earth is, and all as different |