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' faClily ittenrptirig what -i^r^ was able to 
do; and having fet it on himfelf, he difnfiift the woman 
perfectly cured : But Gnce in th\$headwe find no mouth 1 
we muft feek ic fomewhere elfeg andf conie now to dif- 
courfe of it, which is my fixth Particular. 
Ian\ very fenfible with how great difficulty my prefent 
thonghts concerning this will be received ^ how obvious 
to all 'cwill be to raife objeftions ; and how liable I am 
to the cenfure of many of along Magot, in propofing fo 
many jnmths. But before they pafstoo fevereafentenc^^ 
on me 5 I would lec then:) know, 1iow little 'obftinatel am 
in my H^pothefis of Philofopby i how miftruftful of my 
own tyt% where I have reafon to thinks that others are 
quicker fighted. And a notion tho never fo fondly re- 
ceived St firftj yet is as eafily repudiated by me^ upon 
better information. What I here oSer if true, others will 
find it likewife; if not, I think my feifas little obliged 
as any of them, to believe it. But why at prefent I think 
thofe Orifices in every Joynt to be fo many mouths^ ifbal! 
now give my Reafons. 
i have already obferved them to be of ^ii?^?/^?^/^ that in 
feveral Worms both from human boc^ieSj as alfo in thofe 
of Brute Animals 5 they are placed much about the middle 
of the Joynts on the ed^es':^ raoft frequently alternatelyj 
in one joynt on the right hand, in the other on the lefr^ 
fomeumesin two, feldom in more on the fame fide; they 
^^areprotuberantfomethinglikea PapUazndin the mid- 
'die foramen eafily enough to be perceived by the naked 
eye, and will readily admit a Hogs brittle. In the other 
ibrtjj thefe protuberances are placed about the middle of 
thej?^^ of the Worm, towards the upper part of the Joynt, 
and feem to be reprefented by ^^^^//Wj-, Sennertus:, and 
Tulpius in their figures of this Worm ; tho with fomemi- 
ftakes; and is that, which Authors mean hyxhtw maculm 
fiigricantes in their defcriptions of it. * Oiaus Borriclms 
S « obferved 
