008 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1683. 



not warily examined, might easily make them think they are so many small 

 worms. For they are not viviparous but oviparous, as I have shown ; and their 

 containing so vast a number of eggs in the cornua uteri, as I have expressed, 

 sufficiently accounts for that prodigious quantity, that are sometimes observed 

 to be bred in animal bodies. 



Panarolus tells us, he once saw the stomach and guts stuffed with them 

 so that they ascended up to the throat. Baricellus, by the use of crude mer- 

 cury, brought away from a patient above a hundred. Jo. Jadoc. Weckerus did 

 the like, with the use of tansy seed and syrup of violets. Gabucinus saw 

 voided by stool 177* Benivenius saw voided by a child 7 years old 152 worms. 

 And Jacob Hollerius, out of Musa, gives us a history of a man of 82 years old, 

 who voided above 500. And Petrus Paulus Pereda saw a nobleman's child in a 

 few days void almost a thousand, and she voided 40 in 4 hours time. 



Those animals are usually the most multiparous, whose young are the most 

 exposed to danger; and were it not that the greatest part of the litter of this 

 worm is usually carried forth by the faeces, it could not be avoided but we 

 should be devoured by an enemy we breed in our own bowels. That caution 

 therefore of Henr. ab Heers I think is necessary ; to avoid the giving the powder 

 of these worms for expelling others; since we cannot be secure, but that at the 

 same time we may sow the seed for propagating more. 



The Explanation of the Figures. 



Plate 19, fig. 10, represents the male worm opened. Where, a shows 

 the three lips of the worm; b the oesophagus, or gullet; ccc the large intes- 

 tine; d the penis; ee the vesioula seminalis; f the testis. 



Fig. 11', represents the female worm opened. Where, a shows the mouth; 

 b the gullet; ccc the intestine, or gut; dddd the vagina uteri; e the two 

 cornua uteri ; fff the spermatic vessels; g the anus. 



Fig. 12, represents the genital parts of the female explicated. Where, a 

 shows the pudendum or foramen, as it appears on the outside of the skin; 

 b the vagina uteri ; cc the two cornua uteri; dd the spermatic vessels. 



Fig. 13, represents the eggs of this worm, as they appeared when viewed by 

 the microscope. 



A remarkable Relation of a Man bitten by a mad Dog, and dying of the Hydro- 

 phobia, In a Letter from Martin Lister, Esq. dated York, March 2d, l683. 

 N" 147, p. 162. 



James Gorton, a very strong and well made young man, was bit by a mad 

 dog in the right hand. The wound healed of itself, and the thing was for- 

 gotten even by himself and his wife. After about five or six weeks he com- 

 plained of pain all over his bones, but especially in his back and round about his 



