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i yie T^mbnci»

. T 'Hrive Persons aster the Lal . US . i y d?.

XXXIX. The curious Refearches of many \yx- 0 veries thereln, have Edw»td /°»-mannet of the Generation of Infects, and t ieit y et c ne great Diiti-rouch advanced the Doctrine of UnWocd Generatio,. ^ ~ rc \ >re d mculty jemainiwkh me, how to account fori [eve ' ai £\ rb y frotn die Egf» «AminalBodies; not such asweroay %pose tobe ha . ^ öf wb , ch

^hkeKind, that ave receivd with the Food 01 'Othei ^ ^ tb e Body,

? e cannot meet with a Parallel, or ot lhe' “ m . PV T, on jy so t'-vo, the,n rde whole World as is known besides. Hhal f / ny ot hers outLumbricus Latus, and Teres, which rernarkably may be any

°i theBody, frotn whence, ot frotn the Seed o - , we arc gravel’d m

^ays thought they may be propagated m it- -_ rn t \ ie Body; yet be-

affigning ho\V Erst these forts of Worms sttould on , i uni brim Teres tsmg ance there, there U nothiog more piam, than * a ^ rfe ct aDi-ptopagated by an Unwocd Generation ; there betng 1 , , -^ 2 !0 each fo

lüncTou ofSexts, Male and Female; and the °Jf further il-

cuviousty contriv’d, so consoicuous and piam, that y j ^ bc j toU sluftrate the late Inventions of forne; and do feem »»W 110"Nature is in prderving and propagatmg the itteane , „ . .. those on the

1 have made Obfervations upon both forts of thele Worm.

JitnudWorm 1 (hall here giveyou. Lumbricus tatas’, and by

t This Warm is Flat ; and hence us calld Lmti

Tape Worm.

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Hippocrates, Tt&ivia. i. e. Fascia, and by forne in Englifh, the■1 his F latness of the Body, fufficiently diflinguHhcs it from the others,which sre usuali y bred in the Body ; and are tither Short and finali, andthen call d AJcarides-, or Longer, as tl e 'Teretes. Nor is there any out ofthe Body, that I know of, that are thus Flat. The Breadth of this IFcrmis various, both in the ftveral parts of ihe Body of the fame Worm : ts also

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The Longer the Worm

m one Worm comp.ned with any other.

Broader ufually are the latter Joints, m

2. The. Joints of this Worm are so sit on, that the Lines or extrenn-^Edges of the former, come over the lacter; wh-ich is to be wtllob ervo,and maydirect us to that ravt or extream, where we may fupp de t.icUead to beplaced. These Edg-'s of the former Joynt, which Ihootsoverthe latter, in (ume I haveobferv’d to be Hain and Smooth i m ahers ore-nated, andlndented; in all, bydrawing it througb one’s Fingers born i -eTail to the Hr-ad, ycu will sind a great Roughneisj but is the other vay,

ftom the Head to the Tail, it seems Stnooth. , «

3- Many, who have observ’d this .Worm, do take notice 6 > re JJ ’rence ot it’s Extrem ; how much larger one is than the other; but not we»considering the fettmg on of the Jojnts, abundance have been wsoed m oan Errour, by taking the Head for the Tail Thus Sptgehus and ^Lufitamts make the Slender part of the Body to be the Tau- ^ut na1 have hitherto observ’d, I constantly found that Extream where the lieai« fet on sis we may allow it to have any) much Smaller than the otnei ,foitietimes not half a quarter sobroad ; in others lefler or gieater, o enVol m. 1 R cordm S