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facile pertundi posse videatur) femini, per Urethram, seu potius Virge canaliculum viam affectanti, exitum negat; unde per pudendum muliebre (refluum forte) excernitur.

Cum annorum esset se decim, Menstrua periodice & modo debito fluere caperunt, atque per biennium perseveraverunt. Quo elapso, iisdem non amplius comparentibus pullulavit Barba, & exinde totum corpus pilosum conspicitur; Vox corporisque habitus virilem æmulantur. Crinis se habet virorum ad instar: Mammæ nullæ exsurgunt: papillæ perquam exiguæ. Pectus latum est. Ischia non ita dissita. Nates quam sunt fæminarum contractiores.

Se ad utrumque sexum comparatum asserit, sed fæminis misceri præoptare; quas etiam cum videt, & concupiscit, erigitur Penis, qui quoties Virum appetit, flaccidus manet.

Unum hoc, idque nec extra oleas putem, Coronidis loco subnectam; Quod nempe, cum nocte quadam, quam rotam tripudiis, compotationibus, cæterisque id benus lasciviæ incitamentis, cum aliquot ejusdem farinæ congerronibus insumpserat, oculos in virum quendam formæ venustioris conjecerat, mox cum adeo deperibat, ut sequenti die, præ amoris œstro, in passionem hystericam incideret, quam revera talem fuisse, non solum Elevatio abdominie, Cantus, Risus, Fletus, (notissima illius intemperiei symptomata) sed & juvantiæ, satis liquido comprobarunt: Applicato quippe Emplastro ex Galbano regionis Umbilici, exhibitisque remediis hystericis ilico convaluit.

An Account of some Books.

1. Noveaux Elemens de Geometrie:

Or a Mathematical Treatise, entitled, New Elements of Geometry, printed at Paris in quarto, Anno 1667.

Divided into 15 Books or Sections, containing

A new Method and Order, and new Demonstrations of the most common Propositions in Geometry.

New ways to discover what Lines are incommensurable.

New measures of Angles not hitherto considered.

New ways of finding out, and demonstrating the Proportion of Lines.

Wherein we observe, that the Author delivers by a new Method and Order of his own, grounded upon Algebraical Elements, divers new Demonstrations of the more common Propositions, contained chiefly in the first six Books of Euclid's Elements, and without recourse to Euclid, or any other Geometrical Writer, for proof of any thing asserted in those new Elements.

Whereto is added, the Solution of an Arithmetical Problem, which the Author Calls Magick Squares, viz.

A Square of Cells being given, even or odd, filled with Numbers, either in an Arithmetical or Geometrical Progression; so to dispose all those Numbers

into