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creation. Some avow thQ,iv animalcule, or 

 eggs, to take place in the impurities of flimy 

 mucus, accumulated in the ftomach, and there 

 brought to perfedtion ; others affert their form- 

 ation and confequent progrefs to be carried on 

 in the inteflines ; and many are not without 

 belief that the aiitmalcula , or eggs, are conveyed 

 into the body with a part of the vegetable 

 world upon which they fubfift, and there 

 brought to their flate of perfedion. 



I fhall barely venture to hint at tYi^poffibility 

 of their undergoing (in fhape or appearance) 

 ia the different parts of the body, as xhQ ftomach, 

 intejtines, or return, thofe changes that we 

 well know take place in tht Jilk-worm, cater- 

 pillar, &c. fecming to conftitute a different 

 fpecies, though the contrary is univerfally proved 

 by even ocular demonilration of the very aft 

 of mutation. As enlarging upon the great 

 confiftency and probability of this circumftancc 

 can only extend the field for imagination, with- 

 out adding at all to the utility or elucidation 

 of the fubjcft, that indeterminate point ihall 

 remain undifturbed, while we proceed to the 

 more material inveftigation of confequences 

 and cure. 



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