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i)bse7n\ XXII ; in the urinary bladder, Brera, SijU 

 loge ojjusculorum selectorum, etc. ; Ticini, 17i;9) 

 vol. IV. p. 1. Comm. Jliict. KuJin ; in the uterus, 

 Merciirialis, de morbis miilierum lib. iv. cap. 2. , 

 in the vagina, Brus;nateUi, Giornale Fisico-med- 

 hco, Pavicif ij^jj, tome iv. 2?. 71 ; i» abscesses of the 

 abdominal muscles, Acta Helvetica, vol. i. p. 7^ ; 

 m those of the arms and other parts, Bartlwlinus, 

 Histor. anatom. cent. v. Hist. 43 ; and even in the 

 marrow of the bones, ijommevcimn Litter avium ^ 

 J\*orimbergense, ann. 1741,2?. 71* 



(3) Some writers have made mention of sever- 

 al worms peculiar to the human body, of an exter- 

 nal structure so extravagant, that they have been 

 questioned by other obsers'ers. Such for example 

 are the rough bristly raacroc( phalous worm of ^0- 

 rely Ohservationiunmedico-j/Lysicarum. cent. 11. obs. 

 70 ; the worm (^ Gaminariis^ J of Fabriciiis Hilda- 

 niiSy Of era omma, cent. ni. obs. 53 ; the villous and 

 cruciform worms of Pare, (Euvres, lib. xxiv. 

 caj). 19 5 the shaggy worm of Gallo, Hell' use del 

 latte, tome 11. p. 133 ; the worm with feet, of HoJ- 

 enSf Mfectiium totius corporis hmnani pra.ecipu- 

 orum Theoria et Praxis, Fraucofuvti, 1664, 4°, p. 

 S19 ; the worm of several feet, of Heister, Medi- 

 cinische tmd chirurgische und anatomische iVahrne- 

 hmimgen : Jiostock, 17^3, 4°, 11, B; the serpents 



* It is doubtless by mistake that Dr. Brera makes this ci- 

 tation here ; for in the observation of Fabricius Iliklanus lie 

 alludes oalj' to tb.c fatal syinpton>s orr n-ioned bv sw allowing- 

 a-livi«g lobster. /'. Trii. 



