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select the large intestine ; l and others the small 

 ones ; 2 some even attack infants, and them 

 only. 3 Such are the ills that flesh is heir to 

 from these our internal assailants and devourers. 

 The recital is really enough to cause our hair 

 to stand on end. No one can believe that all 

 these instruments of punishment were at work 

 in the first pair when they came from the hands 

 of their Maker, and nothing, except death, can 

 prove with a greater strength of evidence, that 

 he is fallen from his original state of integrity 

 and favour with God, than such an army of 

 scourges set in array against him. I shall 

 enlarge a little upon a few of them, and then 

 bid adieu to the disgusting subject. 



There are few people, that have not heard of 

 the Jluke, or animal resembling a flat fish, and 

 which really has been mistaken for one, often 

 found in the liver of diseased sheep, and some- 

 times also in the human gall-bladder and bile- 

 vessels. The eyes of these animals are very 

 prominent, and set in a cartilaginous ring, seem- 

 ing to exhibit both iris and pupil ; they are both 

 planted in the upper side of the head, like those 

 of the fish 4 they resemble. Like the leech, the 

 fluke has two orifices the first in a tubular pro- 

 longation of the head, and the other underneath 



1 Trichocephalus Hominis. 2 Ascaris lumbricoides. 



3 Oxijurus Vermicularis. 



4 Leeuwen: Arcan. Nat. E. Tr. t. f. H K, i. K. 



