And if we
may Credit what Learned men deliver concerning the Little Feet of the
_Chinesses_, the _Macrocephali_ taken notice of by _Hippocrates_, will not
be the only Instance we might apply to our present purpose. And on this
occasion it will not perchance be Impertinent to add something of what I
have observ'd in other Animals, as that there is a sort of Hens that want
Rumps; And that (not to mention that in several places there is a sort of
Crows or Daws that are not Cole-black as ours, but partly of a Whitish
Colour) in spight of _Porphyries_ examples of Inseparable Accidents, I have
seen a perfectly White Raven, as to Bill as well as Feathers, which I
attentively considered, for fear of being impos'd upon. And this recalls
into my Memory, what a very Ingenious Physician has divers times related to
me of a young Lady, to whom being call'd, he found that though she much
complain'd of want of Health, yet there appear'd so little cause either in
her Body, or her Condition to Guess that She did any more than fancy her
self Sick, that scrupling to give her Physick, he perswaded her Friends
rather to divert her Mind by little Journeys of Pleasure, in one of which
going to Visit St. _Winifrids_ Well, this Lady, who was a _Catholick_, and
devout in her Religion, and a pretty while in the Water to perform some
Devotions, and had occasion to fix her Eyes very attentively upon the Red
pipple-stones, which in a scatter'd order made up a good part of those that
appear'd through the water, and a while after growing Bigg, she was
deliver'd of a Child, whose White Skin was Copiously speckl'd with spots of
the Colour and Bignesss of those Stones, and though now this Child have
already liv'd several years, yet she still retains them.
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