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6. That lice are bred of eggs or nits, laid by their female parent ; he having 

 discerned by a microscope some nits yet pregnant with young ones, others 

 emptied of them. 7- That all living creatures are subject to lice or some such 

 kind of vermin ; the ass not being exempted from them, as Aristotle, and 

 upon his authority Pliny, Mouffet, &c. would have it : and that all sorts of 

 fowl (except ostriches, in which he never could meet with any vermin in any 

 season,) and fish have each sort their peculiar lice: of which he has represented 

 divers of several sorts. 



[While Redi proved so satisfactorily the generation of certain insects in putre- 

 fying substances from eggs, it is surprising he was not aware that gall insects 

 and the worms in the liver of sheep must have a similar origin.] 



II. Pharmacopoeia Regia, sive Dispensatorium Novum locupletatum et ab- 

 solutum, cum annexa Mantissa Spagyrica, et gemino Discursu Apologetico 

 contra Ott. Tachenium, et Franc. Vernis. Auth. Johan. Zwelfer, M. D. 

 1668, fol. 



To notice the contents of this book would not now be desirable, the phar- 

 maceutical art having undergone a thorough change since the time when this 

 dispensatory was written. 



III. AfFectionum quae dicuntur Hystericae et Hypochondriacae Pathologia 

 Spasmodica Vindicata, contra Responsion. Epistol. Nathanaelis Highmori, 

 M. D. cui accessere Exercitat. Medico-physicae duae, 1 . De Sanguinis Accen- 

 sione. 2. De Motu Musculari, Auth. Tho. Willis, M. D. Nat. Phil. Prof. 

 Oxon. nee non Med. Coll. Londini et Soc. Regiae Sodalis. Lond. in 4to. 



The learned author of this book makes it his chief business, to vindicate 

 his doctrine, that the two affections, expressed in the title, belong to the 

 brain and the nerves, from the arguments alleged by the other learned physi- 

 cian, Dr. Highmore, who makes the one to be a distemper of the blood and 

 lungs, and the other of the stomach. In doing which, our author first under- 

 takes to show, by several arguments, that the affections, called hysterical, 

 cannot proceed from, the lungs stuffed up to a great degree of stiffness with 

 flatulent blood ; seconding them by some histories and observations, which 

 seem very pertinent : which done, he proceeds to remove the difficulties and 

 objections, alleged by Dr. Highmore in his epistle, formerly printed and taken 

 notice of in Number 54 of these Transactions. 



2dly, He endeavours to evince that the hypochondriac passion is wrongfully 

 ascribed to the stomach. Where he takes occasion, both to deny to the spleen 

 the office of warming the stomach, and to assert the fermentative function of 

 the same : teaching withal, that the acidity is not produced in the stomach 

 alone, nor thence only communicated to the blood and other humours ; and 



