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infect, and feeds under water on other 
aquatic infects, it is almoft certain it 
mutt have been {wallowed-with fome 
water, and paffed unhurt through 
the inteftinal a#be till it was dif- 
charged. 
That the action of the ftomach 
will not always kill infects, is evi- 
dent from the circumftance of the 
Afcaris Lumbricoides living in it un- 
hort. The phalena pinguinalis alfo 
not only lives but is nourifhed, and 
undergoes feveral metamorphofes in 
the ftomach, till at fength it pro- 
duces its moth. The worms dif- 
charged by Dr. White’s patient, 
appear to have been in the chryfa- 
lis ftate, and though the circum- 
ftance of their having feet and mov- 
ing them is rather fingular, as the 
pepe of mo mufce are entirely 
motionlefs, yet as we know that the 
pupz of fome other infects as grylli, 
blatte, &c. have the fame power, 
it is poflible that fome mufcz poffefs 
it alfo. 
P.S. The fuppofition that thefe 
infe€ts were nourifhed in the liver, 
and produced the difeafe under 
which the patient laboured, feems 
to be much ftrengthened by a cafe 
related by Dr. Thomas Bond, of 
Philadelphia, in vol. i. of the Lon- 
don Medical Obervations and In- 
quiries, where he defcribes a kind 
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of leech of an uncommon fize which 
had long had its refidence in the 
liver of a patient, and was at length 
difcharged per anum. 
A fimilar cafe is likewife related 
by Mr. Paifley, in vol. ii. of the 
Edinburgh Medical Effays. 
Dy. Dancer’s Account of the Cinna- ~ 
mon Trees growing in the Iland of — 
Jamaica. From Tranfafions of 
the Society of Arts, Manufadures, 
and Gommerce, vo}. Viii. 
* HE cinnamon-trees of this 
ifland have been raifed from 
a few plants taken along with a 
large collection of other orientat 
exotics in. a French fhip, bound 
from the [fle of France to Hifpa- 
niola, and prefented to the botanic 
garden by lord Rodney, when he 
came down here, after his glorious 
vigtory of the 12th of April; 1782. 
Upon comparing the parts of the 
tree with the defcription and figure 
given by Burman and other bota- 
nifts, it appears to be the real Ceylon 
cinnamon, and of the beft kind, 
called by the natives * Raffle Co- 
ronde: but the fpecimens of bark 
taken put it out of all doubt, being, — 
in the opinion of the beft judges, of 
* Quafi dicas: acre, fuave, ac dulce cinnamomum, quod verum et praftan- 
tifimum habetur cinnamomum. 
Burmanni Thefaurus. 
Alterx fpecies funt, 
2, Cahette Coronde, five amarum. 
3. Cappare Coronde, quia caphura 
faporem odoremque potentifimum red- 
dit. 
4. Weile Coronde, five arenofum. 
5. Sewel Coronde, vel mucilagino-~ 
fum. 
6. Nicke Coronde. 
7. Dawel Coronde, five tympani. 
8. Catte Coronde, feu fpinofum. 
9. Mace @orande, five floridum. 
Pater memoratas jam fpecies, alice etiam cinnamomi diverfitates in Zeylona 
ob{ervautur, 
an 
