420 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO l6gg. 



being pulled up somewhat higher, covered the head hke a cap. We could not 

 discern the difference of sex, &c. and at the same time that it pulled off its 

 skin, it died. 



I discovered the salient parts, and the shape of the animalcula in the male 

 seed, and sent the same to you in the year 1677} which was printed in your 

 Phil. Trans. N° 142. But that one should find such a perfect human shape, 

 as abovementioned, I am persuaded you will not allow of. We know that the 

 small animals in the masculine seed of a frog have no similitude at all with 

 those that come out of the eggs of a frog. Now it is certain, although we 

 cannot discover the shape of a frog, in an animal that is come from the egg of 

 a frog, when we anatomise it, that yet notwithstanding the frog is locked 

 up in it. 



Now if an animal, in the masculine seed of a beast or fowl, was provided 

 perfectly with all its members, so that by the help of a magnifying glass they 

 might be discovered, they endeavour to make us believe also, then these animals 

 must from time to time, as they grow larger, increase in their perfection. But 

 that it is not so, we see by the observations that the highly learned Malpighi 

 has made, on the beginning of a chicken in the egg, for as much as was then 

 in his power. 



It perplexes me, because I cannot imagine, that an animal of the masculine 

 seed can pull off its skin or film, or to free itself of it, but that the membranes 

 or skins are strong, and more than one, and the membranes wherein the crea- 

 tures lie in the uterus are not depending from it, but that the animals that are 

 injected into the uterus, are only brought there to grow larger. 



I have a hundred times contemplated the male seed of a man ; but have not 

 yet discovered any such creature as that before mentioned. 



De Parlium SeplentrionaUnm qidbusdam Affectlhus el Remediis. Autore Philippo 



Lloyd, M. D. N° 256, p. 307. 



This paper contains some observations on the baths of the Cossacs ; on the 

 diet of the Muscovites and Tartars ; of a domestic remedy termed Barst 

 among the Polonese ; of the disease of the hair of the head termed plica 

 polonica ; together with some slight mention of 1 or 2 diseases observed in 

 Hungary. 



An Account of Coffee. By Mr. John Houghton, F. K. S. N° 25(5, p. 3 1 1 , 

 I cannot learn that any other use is made of this plant, than by boiling the 



