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counts we have of the Faculty of Digeftion, would 

 certainly grind them to Pieces very foon. There- 

 fore when Worms are call up by the Mouth and 

 Noftrils of Human Bodiei, it may be fuppofed they 

 could not abide the Heat and triturating Quality of 

 the Stomi'.ch, fo that they quit that Habitation, and 

 make the bell: of their Way either upwards or down- 

 wards. And I cannot fay I ever teok Notice of 

 Worms \'omited up, which were lively, but either 

 dead or very near it. Yet they are often in the 

 Duodenum or firil of the fmall Guts next the Sto- 

 mach, for as foon a? the Creature dies they rife up 

 thither ; wKere being found upon opening the Car- 

 cafs, it is erroneoufly concluded that they were bred 

 there. 



Bots are a Kind of fmall ihort and thick Worms, Bots, 

 with grcn Heads, and fmall Tails \ they are moilly 

 in the RcBum or Gut next the F'j -dament ; as the 

 fmall white Worms in Human Bodies, v/hich we 

 call AfcartcicSi from cL^fiLiv^ mo^ve'}, to move, {o 

 termed from their continual troublefome Motion 

 caufmg intolerable Itching. 



Truncheons are fhort thick Worms of a pretty big- chcons. 

 nefs, and have black and hard Heads. 



" Monfieur Solleyfell takes Notice of a fourth ;^ ff^i^> 

 " Sort of Worms which refem.ble Wood-lice, only ^y^j.^^^ 

 ** they have fewer Feet, ar> of a deep reddili 

 <* Colour, velveted on the Back like a I- at, and 

 *' made up of feveral Folds : and thet"'" are the 

 ** Worms he believes are bred in the Stou.ach, 

 " and abiding there deftroy all the iN'ourifhment ; 

 ** fo that a Horfe, if he be never fo great a Feeder, 

 " cannot thrive w^iilil they are in his Maw." And 

 this Author farther obferves, " that this Kind of 

 '* Worms is oftentimes the Occafion of a Horfe*s 

 ** Death, by eating Holes through his Stomach ; 

 ** and tells us, that he has feen Thoufands of them 

 *' iu the Stomachs of Dead Hoifes.'" 



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