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who has wrote a whole Book of it^ and with t^^t greateft 
accuratenefs of any before him; yet tells us^ after he had 
delivered the opinions of tliofe before him^ ego autem quan- 
quam nunquam caput videre potuerim^ non levi ratione comjcio^ 
hide ejje parvum in acutum dejinens rojlratum^ut al^slumr 
hricisefi, and acquaints us that Gcdjucinus did feem to give 
it rojirum acutum J and to compare, it to that of the ^f^^/ 
marinm. But as I fhill fliew in my /^/? particular; *cwas 
Gabucinus's opinion that this Worm was nothing elfethana 
SpoUum of the Inteftine , which included tht Cucurbitmi^ 
which gave it life and motion. 
But in Htppolitus Brillus , who fometime before had 
wrote a book, de Vermibusin Corpora Immano genkis, I find 
nothing befides Quotations, and they too nothing re- 
markable to our pui ppfe. ^ Amatus Lujitanus makes Xx^Ver* 
rucofum et album ex qno Corpus latum proce debate & quo magis 
adcaudam accedebati eofintlius evadebat^ Which addition 
as I have obferved deftroyes the truth of his obfervationo 
« I{ondeletius faith 'tis longum^parvumi oculis dejiitutum^ and 
indeed what ufe of ^j'^/it fhouldhave, I cannot fee. So 
^ Forejius ohf^rytdil tnmucronemtanquamfubulamdejiij^e. 
Welfchius thinking all this nothing, tells us that all be- 
fore:, obferved thefe Worms to be '<«k^?*^o', and that the ;fr^ 
that difcovered* and gave them zhead v^zsTulpius --i and 
fince that, Jo Mich. Fehr. I fhall therefore give their 
obfervations of it ; and then deliver what I have obferved 
myfelf. 
Nic. Tulpius z noted Phyfician ;» and Burgomafter at 
jimfierdam in the former ^ Editions of his Medical Obfer^ 
u H- 3- ^^^^ons makes this Worm to be Biceps ; and to have tm 
headsi placed like the Horns of a Snail > not that he ob- 
h AmuLufitati.Cent. 6,mau 
c Kondeletm lib, de dignofc. nmh, cij* 
d Fonfius Obferv. lib. %6, e. 36. 
c mlfchius dt vem Medhmft €<ip* 4. p. 130, 131. 
i Amo 16$U &s. 
ferved 
