The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation : In two parts. viz. the heavenly bodies, elements, meteors, fossils, vegetables, animals, (beasts, birds, fishes, and insects) more particularly in the body of the earth, its figure, motion, and consistency, and in the admirable structure of the bodies of man, and other animals, as also in their generation, &c / By John Ray.

  • John Ray
Date:
1692
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Credit: The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the creation : In two parts. viz. the heavenly bodies, elements, meteors, fossils, vegetables, animals, (beasts, birds, fishes, and insects) more particularly in the body of the earth, its figure, motion, and consistency, and in the admirable structure of the bodies of man, and other animals, as also in their generation, &c / By John Ray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tk W^om us ) live upon jts own Fat. For in the Au¬ tumn, when it (huts it felf up in its hole ( which it digs with its feet like a Rabbet, making a Neft with Hay or Straw, to lodge it felf warm) it is very fat 5 [ Hildanus took out above a Pound and half of Fat between the Skin and Mufcles, and a Pound out of the abdomen ] but bn the contrary, in the Spring time when it comes forth again, very lean, as the Hunters experience in thofe they then take. 3. The internal Fat ferveS for the Defence and Security of the Veflels, that they might lie fofc, and be lafely conveyed in their pafTage, wherefore it is efpecially ga¬ thered about them ? By what Pores, or Paflages, ot Veflels the Fat is feparated from the Blood when it is re¬ dundant, and again abforpt into it when it is deficient, is a matter of curious Enquiry, and worthy to be induftrioufly fought out by the moft fagacious and dextrous Anato* miffs. The Veflels whereinto it is received, and wherein contained , are by the Micro- fcope dete£fed to be Bladders , and thofe doubtlefs perforated and pervious one into another 5 and though for their exceffive fub« tlety and thinnefs they appear not in a lean Body , yet f^em to have been primitively formed and provided by Nature to receive the Fat upon occafion. Why the Fat is col- lefted J.\ /
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