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Relations of Swallows living after they had been frozen under Water; of Barnacles and Solan Geese, of a new Way of hatching Pigeons; of the Way of hatching Chickens in Egypt; of Eggs proving fruitful, after they had been frozen; of recovering a tired Horse with Sheep's Blood.

Relations of several Monsters with their Anatomies; of the Measure of a Giant-Child; of Stones found in several Parts of the Body; of an unusual Way of cutting the Stone out of the Bladder; of a Woman's voiding the Bones of a Child out of her Side, eighteen Years after her having been with Child; of grafting Teeth, and making the Teeth of one Man grow in the Mouth of another.

Relations of several Chirurgical Operations; of renewing the beating of the Heart, by blowing into the Receptaculum Chyli; of the Art of perfectly restoring Nerves transversely cut, practis'd in France; of a Mummy found in the Ruins of St. Paul's, after it had lain buried above 200 Years; of breaking the Nerve to the Diaphragm, and of its Effects; of cutting a Steatoma out of a Woman's Breast; of making the Blood florid with Volatile, and coagulating with Acid Salts.

Relations of sympathetick Cures and Trials; of the Effects of Tobacco Oil for casting into Convulsion Fits; of Moors killing themselves by holding their Breaths; of walking on the Water by the Help of a Girdle filled with Wind; of Pendulum Clocks; of several rare Guns, and Experiments with them; of new Quadrants and Astronomical Instruments; of Experiments of Refraction made by the French Academy; of a Way to make use of Eggs in Painting, instead of Oil; of the Island Hirta in Scotland; of the whispering Place at Gloucester; of the Pike of Teneriffe.

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