many Worms, linked together. Thus « Jfimius BenU 
venius gives an Hiftory of a Woiiian> who upon drinking 
the Bath-waters of Avigimn^ voided feveral Vermes Cucur-^ 
Utmost qui ita inter fefe (dum fc, alter alt eri mordtcus inh^re^ 
ret ) jungebantur» ut cum fua ipfiferie quatuor Cubitwum longi^ 
tudinem excederenty mum tantum Corpus , unum drintaxat 
vermem putar£s. So * Aldrovandus judges it: ex mult is ^ 
fi longus fueriti vermibuSy Semini Cucurbitm fimilibus, ftbique 
invtcem arUe coadunatis» conjiitui. jlrmldus ^ VtUamua^ 
mis mentions that ic was the opinion of foracj quod ijli Cu-- 
curbitini generantur in ventre cujuf dam maximi Lumbricij qui 
aliquando emittitur longior uno ^ vel duobus brachtjs. And 
Morardes tells us how that in a large Worm were cbferv^ 
ed abundance of thefe Cmurbitini. And this « Hieron, Ga^ 
bucinus delivers as his opinion, where he tells us> ego verb 
nil aliud latum Lumbricum ^jfe exijitmoy quam^ ut ivquit Hip, 
pocr. abrafionem veluti Intejlinorum alb am tot a complehlentem 
intejlina^ intra quam Cucurbits femini fimiles animantes pi o- 
creantur» ^ quidem vitam fenfilem viventes. And a lurle 
after he add ji quis vcro totamillamabrc^jionemammatum 
videritj fciat non abrafionem tllam» id eji latum vocatum Lum- 
bricumy jed Cucumeris [miles Animantes intra ipfum vivere i 
He all along denies the Lumbricus Latus'ut.i\\ditSpoltum 
of the Inteftines, as hecallsit^ xoht Animal ; but that 
it receives all irs fenfe, and naotion from thofe T^^a/rto/W^ 
included in it. This he very plainly, as he tells us , dif- 
covered in a part of this Wornb ihe wed him by a perfon^ 
that voided it. His Words becaufe the Book is not very 
common* I fhall meniicn. H(vc autem portio fefe commavc" 
bat^ quofaUum efiy ut avidius motus ipjius eaufam vejiigarem s 
diligetitJjfim^ tandem percjuirens per ejm totam cavitatem Cucu^ 
(^) Bcniv. £vcwp/. Med,obferv, 87. 
if ) Vlyfls. AldroYand. de Infe^i^s lib, 6, p. m, 6{i, 
(b) Arnold. Villanov- trev, lib, i. cap. 21, p, m. 1129. 
Oaluc. de Lnmbr» alvm occupant ib^Co ntnt» tf. 3. p. j 4. 
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