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cx)nfult chiefly Mr. George Baglivi, Doctor of 

 Phyfick, and Anatomy ProfefTor, in the great 

 College at Naples^ who ingenuoufly owns, like 

 a truly able Man, that he is not capable to pene- 

 trate into thefe Myfteries of Nature: Humi jacet^ 

 faith he. But to make us amends, he gives a very 

 agreeable relation of all the wonderful particulars 

 of this Phenomenon (which he has often obferv- 

 ed, even in Apuglia^ with a perfed: exa^lnefs) in 

 his Dijfertatio de Nomine ^Natur a ^ Morfu^ & Effec- 

 tibus I'arafitulce : He there confirms every thing 

 that is related by Dr. SangenitOy in his Letter to 

 Mr. BulifoHy and adds fome other Particulars to it; 

 one of the moft fingular whereof is, that thefe 

 Infedts kill and eat one another when they meet. 

 When you come to Bedford^ I can help you to 

 a fight of Baglivi's Treatife, if you defire it. He 

 infills farther, viz, page 361, That not only their 

 Bites, but even the Liquors in which they arc 

 ftifled, are capable to produce pernicious efFedls, 

 as is manifeft from the experience of the In- 

 habitants of Apuglia. Nay, in chapter the firiT:, 

 that treats of this Infe(5l, he avers. How thofe 

 who are once bit by it, are never quite cured of the 

 Venom ; for it revives every year, and occafions 

 a long feries of Evils, which would be very annoy- 

 ing to the Patients, if they did not take due care of 

 their health by Dancing and Balls. They are a 

 hairy Animal, with two little Horns : and are fo 



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