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cheefe, was found the moft efFedtual in eafing the 

 pain ; and the event confirmed, that the infect was 

 allured by this application to leave the fiefh ; as- 

 on its removal, this worm, no longer than the 

 fixth of an inch^ was found in it, and thus the 

 caufe of this painful difeafe explained. Lin- 

 N^us himfelf once fuffered from this animal 

 the effed here fpoken of : but we owe the com- 

 plete hiftory of it, and its place in the Syftem, 

 to Dr. SoLANDER, who gave it in to the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences at Upfal. This worm ftands 

 in the Syftem under the name of Furia Infernalis^ 

 p. 1325 ; but by what means this creature is raifed 

 into the air, is as yet unknown. 



45. NoxA Insectorum. M. a. Baeckner. 1752. 



A curious and ufeful paper, particularly fpeci- 

 lying all thoft infeds that are more immediately 

 hurtful to animals and vegetables. They are clafled 

 in eleven divifions, according to the feveral fub- 

 jtcls on which they prey, or to which they bring 

 devaftation. 



1. Such as are particularly offenfive to man. 

 Under this head, the author feems inclined to- 

 favour that opinion v/hich Mr, St, Aftdre^ and feme 

 ether French^ phyficians and philofophers have 

 held, in afcrrbing to Acari the caufe of many cu- 

 taneous and contagious difeafes. 



2. Such as are deilrui^live within doors, ta 

 furniture, cloaths, grain, ^c. Among thefe is 

 particularly mentioned the Seed Beetle, (Bruchus 

 Pifiy Syft. 604.) the caufe of great deftrudtion to 



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