(135; 
mouths 5 becaufe the Jcynts wheii broken oE ytt ftill do 
live i and that too, asmay be thought for fome confidera^ 
bletime* which they could not^ unlefs they hzd mouth 
in each/ which might receive the alimeflt for the fupport 
of it. Which brings to the /q/^ particular^ T propofed 
for the d\(^cvmhumg this Worm, ^ (^^^ others out of 
the body* and fliaii now difcourfe o£ But fiace it has 
been fo ftifly maintained by Juthors of great note both 
modern as well as thie Antients ; that the Worm it felf fcarce 
lives i but isonely a i5]&W/Wz Qr thelateftine, or at leaftic 
is not onehmmafiy Worms, included in that Membrane b 
I (hall confider how unlikely all fuch. Opinions are^ and 
wide of the truth > and then delivermy own Obfervati-; 
onsofic. . 
^ Hippocrates^ or who fo was the Author of thatBook^l 
atnongft his Works> tells us that this Worm is emSum^ hri^ 
pii^u<riA(x,.\ivKov quaji album r amentum Intejiimrum* And Ab'' 
tius^ and Paulus jEgineta are exprefs that 'tis onely the 
?W^r^ ^<9<a:^of the Inteftine turned* and changed into th^ 
figure of an Animal** and many more are of the fame O-- 
pinion not w.orth mentioning it feeming fo abfurd^ aS 
t Mercurmlis oblerves. He rather thinks it to be the 
Mucus^ which lines the infides of the Inteftines* and de- 
fends them from any afperities of the/^^r^A Andabun. 
dance there are of this opinion. But " Fratjcifcus Valleriola 
feeras the moft of any> to p^y the Philofopher f and la- 
bours to fliew, how this Vituim of the Guts, may be form- 
ed into a Membrane* and then endeavours to accounE 
For (fedDis invitis) boW thefe incifures, or jointings of 
the body, might happen likewife. ^^Ftelix platerus is very 
pofitive, that they mammals m^W * that they have 
no motiovh Sed ex ma tantum crafd, albh mucofA membra^ 
f Hipp, L 4. d& morbis, 
I Memrial de mrk fHer(^r, lib, 3. c* 7^ • 
7 Valletiol, obs. Med, L i. obs, 
a ?kux* <^(fs* lib, 3. f. S^r, 
