INTESTINAL GRUBS AND ^ETLES. 



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larvae do not propagate, and that only one pupa and 

 one perfect insect were voided;* but the simple fact 

 that most beetles live several years in the state of 

 larvee sufficiently accounts for this. Their existing and 

 thriving in the stomach, too, will appear less wonder- 

 ful from the fact tliat it is exceedingly difficult to kill 

 this insect; for Mr Henry Baker repeatedly plunged 

 one into spirit of wine, so fatal to most insects, but it 

 revived, even alter being immersed a whole night, and 

 afterwards lived three years.! 



Churchyard beetle (Blaps mortisaga), in the grub and perfect state 

 from the figures of Dr Pickells. 



That there was no deception on the part of the 

 woman, is proved by the lact that she was always 

 anxious to conceal the circumstance; and that it was 

 only by accident that the medical gentlemen, Drs 

 Pickells, Herrick, and Thomson, discovered it. More- 

 over, it does not appear that, though poor, she ever 

 took advantage of it to extort money. It is interest- 



* Cooper's edition of Good's Study of Medicine, i> 358. 



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