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surprized him so much. Yet this we might reasonably have expected from a Treatise written by one of the Faculty, and one who, without any Scruple, professes that it had taken up so much of his Thoughts.

It should seem, that this irregular and violent Inclination, by which this Woman render'd herself infamous, must either proceed from some Error in Nature, or from some Disorder or Perversion in the Imagination. As to the first of these, the Author seems to have removed all Doubt; since, from the Account he gives of the Dissection of the Body, it is very evident that there was nothing amiss; and we have good Reason to believe, that he meant to insinuate so much at least to his Readers, by insisting so long upon a