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and also the insect scolopendra, sco]oppndre.{'S.'i^3) 

 It should be remarked that men, by swallowing the 

 eggs of worms, which inhabit the viscera of animals, 

 are exposed, in certain circumstances, to have these 

 eggs developed in their own intestines. 



In this way we are liable to be preyed on by 

 worms, which are not proper to our species. 



Afterward he had an opportunity of convincing himself of 

 the truth of this persuasion hy pinching the celluKar scar of sim- 

 ple hiles, as he tliereby obtained the same result. 



M. Larrey has acknowledged that without knowing it at the 

 time, he found himself in opinion with Dr. Labor^Je, who being 

 at Cayenne, had expressed the same sentiment, after a great 

 number of observations. 



See Le Bulletin des sciences de la Societe Phllomatique de 

 Paris, pluviose an 12. F. Trs. 



EXD OF THK FIRST I,F.CTU«K, 



