the very Bowels (12); and inmoft Receffes of

the

and other Parts, by a Woman at Leicester, which they were Eyewitneffes of. These and divers others mentioned in the Transactions, may be seen together in Mr. Lowthorp's Abridg. Vol. 3. P. 132.

Narrat mihi vir fide dignus Gasp. Wendlandt — se in Polonia, puero cuidam ruftico duorum annorum, Vermiculum album e palbebra extraxiffe, magnitudinis Eruc Eruca.. Similem fere buic cafum mihi [Schulzio] D. Segero narravit hoc. Anno 1676. chirurgus nofter Ant. Statlender, qui cuidam puero, ex Aure, extraxit Vermiculum talem, qualis in nucibus avellanis perforatis latitare folet, fed paulo majorem, coloris albiffimi alteri minores 5 ejufdem generis fimiliter ex Aure: Omnes aliquot boras fupervixerunt Vermiculos adbuc viventes oculis noftris vidimus. Ephem. Germ. T. 2. Obf. 24. ubi Vermiculi Icon. Many other Inftances may be met with in the fame Tome. Obf. 147, 148, 154.

The Worms in Deer are mentioned often among ancient Writers. Ariftotle faith, Σκώληκας αυτοι πάντες έχεσιν, ἐν τῇ NEDAAN (ärtus &c. They [Deer] all have live Worms in their Heads; bred under the Tongue, in a Cavity near the Vertebra, on which the Head is placed; their Size not less than of the largest Maggots they are bred all together, in number about 20. "Ariftot. Hift. Animal. 1. 2. c. 15.

To thefe Examples may be added the Generation of the Ichneumon-Fly in the Bodies of Caterpillars, and other Nymphe of Infects. In many of which, that I have laid up to be hatched in Boxes, instead of Papilios, &c. as I expected, I have found a great Number of fmall Ichneumon-Flies, whofe Parent-Animal had wounded those Nymphæ, and darted its Eggs into them, and so made them the Fofter-Mother of its Young. More Particulars of this Way of Generation may be seen in the great Mr. Willugbby's Obfervations in Philof. Trans. No. 76. But concerning the farther Generation of this Infect, I have taken Notice of other Particulars in other Places of these Notes. Ju 1

(12) The Animals ordinarily bred in the Stomach and Guts, are the three forts of Worms, called Lati, Teretes, and Afcarides; concerning which, it would be irkfome to fpeak in particular, and therefore I fhall refer to Moufet, L. 2. c. 31, 32, 33. Dr. Tyson's Anatomy of them in Mr. Lowthorp's Abridg. V. 3. p. 121, Seignior Red's Obf. and others that have written of them.

And

the Bodies of Man and other Creatures (13); And

And not only Worms, but other Creatures alfo are faid to be found in the Stomach; Inftances of which are fo innumerable, that I fhall only felect a few related by Perfons of the best Credit. And first of all, by fome of our own Country-men. Dr. Lifter (whose Credit and Judgment will hardly be queftioned) gives an Account of true Caterpillers, vomited up by a Boy of nine Years old; and another odd Animal by a poor Man. Mr. Jeffop (another very judicious, curious and ingenious Gentleman) faw Hexapods vomited up by a Girl; which Hexapods lived and fed for 5 Weeks. See Lowth. ib, P135.

And as to Foreigners, it is a very ftrange Story (but attefted by Perfons of great Repute) of Catharina Geileria, that died in Feb. 1662, in the Hofpital of Altenburg, in Germa ny, who for 20 Years voided by Vomit and Stool, Toads and Lizards, &c. Ephemer. Germ. T. 1. Obf. 103, See alfo the 109. Obfervation of a Kitten bred in the Stomach, and vomited up; of Whelps alfo, and other Animals, bred in like manner. But I fear a Stretch of Fancy might help in fome of those laft Inftances, in thofe Days when fpontaneous Generation was held, when the Philofophers feem to have more flightly examined fuch Appearances than now they do. But for the breeding of Frogs or Toads, or Lacerta Aquatica in the Stomach, when their Spawn happeneth to be drank, there is a Story in the 2d Tome of the Ephem. Germ. Obf. 56. that favours it; viz. In the Year 1667. A Butcher's Man going to buy fome Lambs in the Spring, being thirty, drank greedily of fome Standing Water, which a while after, caufed great Pains in his Stomach, which grew worfe and worse, and ended in dangerous Symptons. At last he thought Somewhat was alive in his Stomach, and after that, vomited up three live Toads; and forecovered bis for mer Health..

Such another Story, Dr. Sorbait tells, and avoucheth it feen with his own Eyes, of one that had a Toad came out of an Abfcefs, which came upon drinking foul Water. Obf. 103.

(13) Not only in the Guts, and in the Flesh, but in many other Parts of the Body, Worms have been discovered. One was voided by Urine, by Mr. Mat. Milford, fuppofed to have come from the Kidneys. Lowth. ib. p. 135. More fuch Examples Moufet tells of, ibid. So the Vermes Cucurbitini are very common in the Veffels in Sheeps Livers: and Dr. Lifter tells of them, found in the Kidney of a Dog, and thinks that the Snakes and Toads, &c. faid to be found in

Animals

And as for others to whom none of thefe Methods are proper, but make themfelves Nefts by Perforations in the Earth, in Wood, or Combs they build, or fuch like Ways, 'tis admirable to fee with what Labour and Care they carry in, and feal up Provifions, that ferve both for the Producti

on

Animals Bodies, may be nothing else. Lowth. ib. p. 120.
Nay, more than all this: In Dr. Bern. Verzafcha's 6th Obferva,
tion, there are divers Inftances of Worms bred in the Brain of
Man, One, a patient of his, troubled with a vi
violent Headach,

and an itching about the Noftrils, and frequent Sneezing, who,
with the Ufe of a fneezing-Powder, voided a Worm, with a
great deal of Snot from his Nofe. A like Inftance he gives from
Bartholine, of a Worm voided from the Nose of 0. w. which he
gueffeth was the famous Olaus Wormius; Another, from a
Country Woman of Dietmar; and others in Tulpins, F. Hil
danus, Schenckins, &c. Thefe Worms he thinks are undoubted-
ly bred in the Brain: But what way they can come from thence,
I can't tell. Wherefore I rather think, they are fuch Worms
as are mentioned in Note 10, and even that Worm that was
actually found in the Brain of the Paris Girl (when opened). I
guefs might be laid in the Lamine of the Noftrils, by some of
the Ichneumon, or other Infect Kind, and might gnaw its way
into the Brain, through the Os cribriforme. Of this he tells
us from Bartholine, Tandem cum tabida obtiffet, ftatim aperto
cranio præfentes Medici totam cerebelli fubftantiam, qua ad dextrum
vergit, a reliquo corpore fejundam, nigraque tunica involutam depre-
henderunt: hac tunica rupta, latentem Vermen vivum, & pilofum,
duobus pun&tis fplendidis loco oculorum prodidit, ejufdem fere molis
cum reliqua Cerebri portione, qui duarum horarum fpacio fupervixit,
B. Verzal. Obf. Medicæ, p. 16.

Hildanus tells us fuch another Story, viz. Filius Theod. anff der Roulen, Avunculi mei, diuturno vexabatur dolore capiti. Deinde febricula, & fternutatione exorta, ruptus eft Abfceffus circa os cibrofum- Vermis prorepfit. By his Figure of it, the Maggot was an Inch long, and full of Briftles. Fabri Hildan. Cent. I. Obf.

Galenus Wierus (Phyfician to the Princ. Jul. & Cleve) he faith, told him, that he had, at divers Times, found Worms in the Gall-bladder in Perfons he had opened at Dufeldorp. Id. ib. Obf. 60.

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on of their Young, as alfo for their Food and Nur ture when produced (14).

The other Piece of remarkable Art and Care about the Production of their Young, is their Curiofity and Neatnefs in repofiting their Eggs, and in their Nidification.

As to the first of which, we may obferve that great Curiofity, and nice Order is generally obferved by them in this Matter. You fhall always fee their Eggs laid carefully and commodiously up (15). When upon the Leaves of Vegetables, or other Material on Land, always glued thereon with Care, with one certain End lowermoft, and with handfom juxta Pofitions (16). Or if in the Waters, in neat and beautiful Rows oftentimes, in that Spermatick, Gelatine Matter, in which they are repofited, and that Matter carefully tied and faftned in the Waters, to prevent its Diffipation (17), or if made to float, fo carefully fpread and poi

(14) See before Book 4. Chap. 13. Note 2.

(15) Some Infects lay up their Eggs in Clufters, as in Holes of Flesh, and fuch Places, where it is neceffary they should be crowded together; which, no queftion, prevents their being too much dried up in dry Places, and proniotes their hatching. But,

(16) As for fuch as are not to be cluftered up, great Order is used. I have feen upon the Poft and Sides of Windows, little round Eggs refembling fmall Pearl, which produ ced fmall hairy Caterpillers, that were very neatly and orderly laid. And to name no more, the White Butterfly lays its neat Eggs on the Cabbage Leaves in good order, always gluing one certain End of the Egg to the Leaf. I call them neat Eggs, because if we view them in a Microfcope, we fhall find them very curioufly furrowed, and handfomely made and adorned.

(17) By reafon it would be endless to fpecify the various Generation of Infects in the Water, I fhall therefore (because it is little obferved) take Pliny's Inftance of the Gnat a mean and contemned Animal, but a notable Inftance of Nature's Work, as he faith,

The

The first thing confiderable in the Generation of this Infect is for the fize of the Animal) its vaft Spawn, being fome of them above an Inch long, and half a quarter Diameter; made to float in the Waters, and tied to fome Stick, Stone, or other fix'd thing in the Waters, by a mall Stern, or Stalk. In this gelatine, transparent Spawn, the Eggs are neatly laid; in fome Spawns in a fingle, in fome in a double fpiral Line, running round from end to end, as in Fig. 9, and 10, and in fome tranfverfly, as Fig. 8.

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When the Eggs are by the Heat of the Sun, and Warmth of the Seafon hatched into fmall Maggots, thefe Maggots. defcend to the bottom, and by means of fome of the gelatine Matter of the Spawn (which they take along with them) they ftick to Stones, and other Bodies at the bottom, and there make themselves little Cafes or Cells, which they creep into, and out of at Pleasure, until they are arrived to a more mature Nypha-State, and can swim about here and there, to seek for what Food they have occafion for : at which time, they are a kind of Red-worms, above half an Inch long, as in Fig. 11.

Thus far mean Infect is a good Instance of the di vine Providence towards it. But it we farther confider, and compare the three States it undergoes after it is hatched," we fhall find yet greater Signals of the Creator's Manage ment, even i in thefe meaneft of Creatures. The three States, I mean, are its Nympha-Vermicular State, its Aurelia, and Mature-State, all as different as to Shape and Accoutrements, as if the Infect was three different Animals. In its Vermicular State, it is a Red-Maggot, as I faid, and hath a Mouth and other Parts accommodated to Food: In its Aurelia-State it hath no fuch Parts, because it then fubfifts without Food; but in its Mature, Grat-State, it hath a curious well-made Spear, to wound, and fuck the Blood of other Animals. In its Vermicular-State, it hath a long Worm-like Body, and fomething analogous to Fins or Feathers, ftanding erect near its Tail, and running parallel with the Body, by means of which refifting the Waters, it is enabled to fwim about by Curvations, or flapping its Body, fide-ways this way and that, as in Fig. 12.

But in its Aurelia-State, it hath a quite different Body, with a Club-Head (in which the Head, Thorax, and Wings of the Gnat are inclosed) a flender Alvus, and a neat finny-Tail, ftanding at right Angles with the Body, quite contrary to what it was be fore; by which means, inftead of eafy flapping fide-ways, it fwims by rapid, brisk Jirks, the quite contrary way: as is in fome measure represented in Fig. 13. But when it becomes Gnat, no finny Tail, no Club-Head, but all is made in the moft accurate manner for Flight and Motion in the Air, as before it was for the Waters.

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