( 120 ) 



which I received from Sir Hans Sloane I kept by itfelf, and it was 

 alfo converted into a fly of tlie fame fpecics. 



Thefe maggots when firfl hatched from the egg, are no bigger 

 than a grain of fand, but afterwards grow to about four times that 

 fize ; they have two fmall teeth by wliich they are enabled to gnaw 

 tlieir way into the cheefe ; and as their fkin is very firm and hard 

 they are not eafily cruflied or deftroyed. Now, it is eafy to con- 

 ceive, that the perfon in whofe tooth the maggots firft mentioned 

 were found, might have been eating of fuch old cheefe, and that 

 the maggots, or the eggs producing them, might have been lodged 

 uninjured in the cavity of the tooth, where, when they began to 

 gnaw, they muft caufe great pain ; and we may elfo eafily imagine 

 that by the fumigation they might have been driven out of the 

 part. 





