MicrocraPHitta. 
___ chings,thefe feem'd to be the veins and arteries, for that which is analogus 
- toblood in all Infeéts is milk-white. Asi 
the skin in the palms of a man’s hand, and when the belly is empty,grows > 
very flaccid and wrinkled 5 at, the upper end of ‘this is placed thefto- 
mach H Hand perhapsalfo the white {por} may be:the liver.or pancreas, 
which. by the perifialtick motion of the guts, isa little mov’d to and -fro, 
not witha /yfole and diafiole, but rather witha thronging or. jultling. 
motion... Viewingone of thefe Creatures, after it had fafted two dayes, 
mov-d,; moft.of the white branchings difappeai’d ;-,and moftalfo of the: 
rednefs or fucked, blood. in the guts, the. perifaltick motion of : which: 
wasiicarce dilcernables but upon the faffering it to fucks , it prefently 
fill’d the thin of the belly, and of the fix {colop'd/embofinents on ‘either 
fide, as full as. it could -be {tuft ;. the {tomach and guts were as full as’ 
they could hold 3 ' the periffaltick motion of the gut grew quick,and the 
juftling motion of IJ accordingly 5, multitudes of. milk-white -veflels 
feem‘d quickly filled, and turgid, which were perhapsthe veins and ar- 
teries,| and the Creature was fo greedy, that though it could not contain 
more, yet it continued fucking as fattasever, and as faft emptying. it felf 
_ behind: the digeftion of this Creature, mutt needs be very quick; for! 
though I perceiv’d | the blood: thicker ‘and blacker when fack'd, yety: 
when. in the gitts, it was of a very lovely ruby colour, and that part of} 
it, which was digefted into the veins, feemed) white 5. whence ‘it appears,! 
_ that.a further digeftion of blood may make it milk, at leaft dfarefem- 
bling colour: -What is elfe ob{ervable.inthe figure of this Creature, may 
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eS ee aL have bichempimet ith, a Mites a Creatute 
whereof there are fome fo very fmall , that the fharpeft fight, un 
themfelves, they move on a black and fmooth. furface; and, the Eggs, 
out of, which a Creatures feem tobe hatch’d, are-yet fmaller,, thofe 
being ufually not above a four or five hundredth. part of a well rown 
Mite, and. thofe well grown: Mites 09% much, above one hundredth 
of aninch in thicknefs;, fo s rec 
thena million of well grown Mites contain’d in a 
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{mall movable fpecks to be very prettily thapd Infetts, each of them - 
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__ between the legs, out of which,-on either fide, were many. finall brane. 
E The belly is covered witha tranfparent fubftance likewife, biadiden. 
_ fefembling a fkinthen a fhell, for ‘tis grain’d allover the. belly jutt likes 
d with Glafles, is not able to difcern, them, though, being, white,of 
that.according to Eines honing ea maybe | 
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; | all the hinder part;was lank and faccid., andthe white {pot LI hardly: ®: °°” 
