1^4 ainIMAlcula of infusions. % 



tows were perceptible on various parts of the 

 body, which by little and little was tranfmutec^ 

 into a new clufier, perfectly fimilar to the old. 

 The new group then decompofed into other 

 corpufcles or animalcula, which in fize and num- 

 ber were equal to the former. I had the fame 

 refults from experiments on three different cluf- 

 ters : and we can make no conclufion,, but that 

 this is a new mode of a real and actual divifion. 



But the mofl furpnfmg and fmgular multipli- 

 cation is that of certain animated globules, often 

 rolling along like pellets at the bottom of marfli 

 lentil infufions, and vifible by the naked eye. 

 They are compofed of external tumours, which 

 are fo many animalcula, fituated above one an- 

 other, and ready to efcape, PL i. fig, 8. N M,- 

 Let the reader figure a body almoft fpherieal", 

 formed of concentric ftrata, each of which is an 

 aggregate of animalcula, — and he will have a fen- 

 fible idea of thefe globules, Th« animalcula 

 compofmg the exterior, or firfl ftratum, feparate 

 from the body, and fwim in the infufion : then' 

 is the fecond ftratum, compofed of fmiilar ani- 

 malcula, laid open. When all the firfl have de- 

 parted, thefe feparate from the body ; and the 

 third appears. This alfo vaniflies by the depar- 

 ture of the animalcula that formed it. There 

 are even a fourth and a fifth flratum, and others- 

 "«.'ithin to the iaft in the centre j fo that the whole- 

 globe. 



