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^ets their body's, which afterwards the^^ ^nd is 
found in thebotcome of theGlafs in the form of a mucous 
Coat. So Earth-Worms do void a large quantity of a mu- 
cous liquor, at feveral parts of their body j fo Snailes, &c. 
of which more in my Anatomy oit\\o^t yfmmak. Upon the 
whole, I fee nothing why w emay not juftly afcribe that 
life, we find here:> to the Liimhricm Latus it felf x and 
not to zny j^nmalsj we may fancy it pregnant v. ith. And 
what I do give to ihtWhole^ 1 muft attribute likewife to 
the feveral parts of it, even when feparated from the reft 
of the body; and can'c but think that they do live like - 
wife. Not that I think thok Cucurbitim, are to be reck- 
oned as the partus of the Latus which that paffage.. in ^ 
j4ri/{otle (tQtns to intimate:* where he tells us that ic does 
d'jrovKrttv h^v fftKua ff<arip(iA ^ aliquid fimile femtni Cucurbitiz 
parity f or ^ H^/^^^^mi^^j- denyes this of the Latusy thohe 
does allow it to the Terepesh where he faith ^^ V4^ ^%^y- 
yjKeuTiKTitffiPieu'^T^ct'lftcu'iiKhTi, Neither likewife are they 
to be thought a fourth of Worms | as many would 
have it. 
But they are onely tht^oy?its or/^/^^^i* broken oiF from 
the Latusj and when they are voided inthe StoolSg art 
a furefign of a Joynted Worm. And the cure inufl: accord ^ 
ingly be adapted. But that all thefe fingle y^^y/zfj whilft 
in the body do live^ befides thofe confiderations I have a!» 
ready delivered to prove that in every joynt there is zmouth 
for receiving the food; and no doubc anfwerable Organs 
for the digeftion^ and diftrihurion of it ^ fo I am the farther 
induced to believe it 9 becaufe ic has been often obferved 
by my felf, and others j that bothfingle Joynrs, and of- 
tener larger pieces have been voided alive ? and v here 
vaft quantities of this, TF^/Tw too have been voided at the 
fame time • in abundance of pieces^ I have obferved them 
d Anft,h'ifl, Anlmvlib. 5. c. 19. 
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