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feope withra fingle Glafs which drew about alfa hich,this thdd 'faitned 
into a little frame, almoft like a painof SpeGacles, which E placed:before 
mine eyes, and fo holding the Jeafof'a, Nettle atd convenient diftance 
from my ¢ye; I did: firft,with the thrufting: of Severahof thefe biiftles into 
my fkinsperceive that. prefently after Lad thrifhthem in ffelethe burns 
ing pain begin ; next I obfery din divers of them, chat upom thrufting 
my finger againft their tops, the Bodkim (if Emay fo call it) didnot in | 
the leaft bend, but I could perceivemoving up and: down withinitacers | 
tath liquor, which uponchrulting the Bodkin againftits bafis, orbagg B; 
I could perceive to rife towards the sop; and upon taking away thy hand; 
I-could fee:it again: fubfide, and fhrink into. the bagg ; this I did very 
often, and faw this Phenomenon as plain as J could'ever feeva ) of 
water afcend and defcerid ina pipe of Glafs, But the bafis underneath thefe 
Bodkins on which they were faft, were made of amore pliable fubftance, — 
and looked almoft likea:little bagg' of green Leather, or rather refem: 
bled the fhape and furface.of a wilde: Cucumber; \or cucumeris afinini, 
and I could plainly perceive them to becertaim little baggs; bladders,or 
receptacles full of warer;or as I ghéfs, the liquor of the Plant, which was 
ifonous, and thofe {niall Bodkins were but the Syringe-pipes, or Gly- 
er-pipes; which firft made way inte the fkin, and then ferved to convey 
that poifonous juice,npon:the prefling of thofe little bagegs, mto the in- 
terior and: fenfible parts of the fkin;which being’ fo difcharg’d, does coré 
rode, or, asit were, burn that pattof the fkinit touches 5 and this pain 
will demmeichenlatieae ieee eens the impreffion ismade deeper 
or ergiisinecise2rontaiiily ic esbuiition: 10) 2boms rea seiion 
f Tha cael parts of the leaf or furface of the Nettle; have'very little 
 eonfiderable; but what iscommon tomoft of thefé kinds of Plants, as the 
nefs-or indenting, and hairinefS, and other roughnefleés of the furs 
face or out-fide of the Plant, of which I may fay more in another place, 
As I fhall: likewife of certain little pretty cleer Balls or Apples which I 
have obferved to fttckto the fidesiof » leaves, both onthe upper and 
under fide, very much like the fmall Apples which Ihave often obferv'd 
to growon the leaves of an Oak call’d: Ozk-apples which are nothing but 
the Avatrices of an Infeéty.as 1 elfewhere fhew. 
- The chiefthing therefore is, how this Plant comes, by fo flight a touch, 
tocreate fo great a pain;andthe reafon of this feems to be nothing elfe,but 
the corrofive penetrant liquor contain'd inthe fmall baggs or bladders 
upon which grow out thofe fharp Syringe-pipes, as I before noted sand 
very confonant to this, is the reafon of the pain created by the fting of a 
Bee, Wafp, Gc. asl elewhére fhew: Forby the Dart,which is likewife a 
ipe, is madeéa deep paflage into the fkin, and them by the anger of the 
ly, ishis gally poifanous liquor injeCted 5 which being admitted among 
the fenfibleparts, and fo mix’d with the ‘humours or ftagn ating juices of | 
that part; does create ati Ebullition perhaps, or efferve/cens, as is tifually 
ebferv'd Gn ithe mingling of two: differing’ Chymical -faline liquors, by 
which méans'the parts aii fwell'd,’ hard; and he painfull; for 
thereby the'nervois'and fenfible partsarenot onely ftreteh’d and = . 
So 4% eyon 
