SNAKE iw a - HORSE’s EYE. 39% 
I remember once to have feen them in the human kidneys, 
and fuch as are more frequently met with in the kidneys 
of dogs. That worms have been fometimes found in the 
brain, no body can deny who will be at the trouble of 
turning over the writings of authors of high repute.” 
By what paflages thofe animals or their eggs were in- 
finuated into the interior parts of the body, is not eafy to 
determine. It does not feem probable that they could 
reach the forementioned places through the pores of the 
fkin or the organs of refpiration; much lefs that their eggs 
were taken in at the mouth, and from thence proceeded 
to their refpective places; nor yet is it likely they could 
remain entire in the ftomach, where, in the procefs of chy- 
lification, there is a remarkable fermentation and breaking 
down the parts of the food. Nor can the chyliferous or 
lacteal veflels afford a paflage to the eggs in their rout; 
and laftly, no one alledges that he has ever feen exactly 
fimilar worms out of the body. 
Were I fo difpofed, or did the defign of this paper re- 
quire it, I could to thofe obfervations add many extraordi- 
nary inftances, of ftrange, rare, and furprizing productions 
of animals in the human body, from the works of the 
celebrated Bartholine, phyfician to the king of Denmark, 
and from other grave and learned authors of unexcepti- 
onable repute. But here I paufe, to reverence the hand 
that framed not only our bodies, but thofe of the meaneft 
reptiles, with an exuberance of {fkill, which proclaims 
that they are not the effect of chance; and acknowledging 
I am loft in wonder, I leave the fuller explanation of the 
uncommon produdtions, to fome happy genius that may 
arife, if ever it fhould pleafe God to produce fuch an one 
into the world, who by tracing out the footfteps of the 
Creator, fhall be able to throw clearer lights than we yet 
have, upon thefe abftrufe fubjeCs. 
Ddd 2 Some 
