ftrange, that a hair lying over the edges of one or more 
Scales, Ihould caufe a motion in them, which being com- 
municated to the skin, may caufe that f. nfation. 
There has been carryed thro this Land to be fhow'ds. 
a Child about ten years old, whofe Body ( as they faid ) 
was all covered with i5/& Scales-. Having heard very 
much of this wonder, I went to lee it, but found it much 
different from the Report of it. For there appeared to 
my naled Eye and Microfcope, no part of "the Body 
which I could fay was covered with Fi/h Scales, but ra- 
ther with a thick Callus, and more efpecially witRln the 
hands and under the fe@t 5 upon fome parts of the Body 
aWo there were Excrefceneies like Ridges of Warts, 
I defired of thofe that took care of thef/;/74that I might 
have one of the "Particles, or Scales pluckt from the Bo- 
dy, but they refufed me, under pretence that the blood 
would follow it, when 1 lookt earneftly upon the Child, 
I perceived they were difpleafed with me s they told me, 
that the Scales fell off four times a year^ and others grew 
in their places: and that daily fome of the Scales were 
left in the bed, but they ftill refufed to-'give me, or fell 
me any of them 9 at length in fearching carefully 
about the Room I fo^ind a Clufter, which my repeated 
Obfervations do confirm to be nothing but natural and 
ordinary ^y^^aj/^j-, fuch as bodies ufeto be covered with. 
1 afterwards put it in water, and let it lye fome hours, 
till the parts would feparate with the leaft touch into a 
thoufand fmall Scales. Thefe were more then ordina- 
rily befet with Globules, and thereby were very like the 
Scales the Brawn of the in^fide of the hand. But no 
otherwife remarquable. 
1 have been a long time defirous to examine the flimy 
matter which lines the infideof the Guts, and io much 
the rather becaufe it is generally efteemed as a fuperfln« 
, ouspart, and fit to be removed; whereas on the cofltra- 
ry, it appears to me, to be apart inftrumental, and ne« 
ceflary 
