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at tMt tjm^ at leaft k may be thought Incapable of getting 
fcarce any thing at all : But the ufe l have affigned that part 
I am apt to think will fatisfy others, as well as at prefent 
it docs my felf. Therefore 4. Why I think thofe On- 
fces months is^ becaiife I cannot think what they are be* 
fi^S, ^ FiOr; to take them for fo many Vents of their excre^ 
ipent> t^ouM unrealonable fince 'tis pure C/^/^, 
■\vhich tjb€y receive 5 which will not afford much, at leafb 
ib grofs an excrement^ as to need fo many* and large 0- 
rijices for the voiding it. And why fo many jlnus'^s, when 
but one mouth J Tis eafie,r ti3 iniagin them Bronchw ov 
X2^^^>fo which in are obferyedi iht Annuli^ or 
Joynts of th^ body * bu t withal Iniuft obferve, with how 
much from dnr fubje£t. For in them, you fliall 
conftantly fee thefe Orifices oihoi\i{\dt^ ii\t^c\\ j4nnulus 
but in piif Worm never but of one fide : ^ In thofe? they 
are not near fo openi and large.5 as in this Worm, even 
fo muchj th^t I cannot fe^* how it can be avoided, but 
that the Chyle muft flip into them 5 and fo fpoil them for 
being Lungs. 
And indeed what ufe can we imagin of fuch here, which 
muft almoft eonftantly be occluded,eiiher by filth or Chyle, 
if I mifremember not, by prefSng them gently with my 
fingers whenfrefii, and turgid, -I obferved Chyle to iffue 
our of them, g Philip. Sdmuthus feems to hint fo much 
where he tells M^lailei quid emifijfe oh[ervavit:» and ' Olaus 
Borrichius ohrGtVQd thtm femper liquore crajjiufculo plena^ fo 
that that chylous Sediment in the Spirit of Wine I hadim- 
raerged them into, came hence* I think I have little reaf- 
on to doubt. 
Upon the whole, what I have hereoffered, I think is 
fufficient to render my conjecture probable. And yet 
I have more reafon to add why thefe Onj^^^^j- fhould be 
q Sdmuth. Cent, i,Obf, 95, 
r A^ud Bartholin* Acta Med, vol, 2. C 47. 
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