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OBSERVATIONS ann EXPERIMENTS 
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ON 
SOME SINGULAR ANIMALS WHICH MAY BE KILLED 
AND -REVIVED. 
SECTION I. 
THE WHEEL ANIMAL. 
Tw the hiftory of infufion animalcula, which i 
have treated fo much at large, it has been faid, 
when once they :perifhed from a-defe&t of water 
or humidity, they could never again be brought 
to life, though moifture was fupplied, and their 
immerfion continued long. Of this, I have had 
the moft convincing and repeated evidence in the 
experiments now to be narrated. But there are 
other animalcula which, notwithftanding they 
inhabit infufions, are fo much diftinguifhed and 
privileged by nature, as to enjoy the advantage of 
veal refurreCtion after death. Such, among 
H 4 others, 
