'Excrercenec This Author cft;eais it not abfurd to affirmc i that that Jnimi or '.Power i 
which is able to produce flowers and Fruics in living Plants, may alike capabie to breed 
Worms in them j fince that Saul is fopoveerful i as to caufe Plants to feed , togrewaijid 
to produce feed , as it doth in Animals. For confirmation of which, he obrervcth> that 
botli the generation of Worms in Vegetables is always and condantly the fame { not at at( 
cafual J ) and that all Gdls grow conftantly in one determinat part of the branches, and 
always in the new branches*, a.salfo, thatthofe lictle Galb j which grow on the Jeavei 
of the Oak Holm (^c. do all grow conftantly on titc fibres or ftrings of thcfe leaves, not 
one of them being feen to grew on the ftiiooth part betwixt two firings Fartherjthat there 
are found many leaves of other rrees, on which grow Veficles, or fmall baggs, or fom« 
wrinkled ofnvsliM places, full of worms, fpringing forth with thofe leaves. BefiJe$arhat 
there is not one Gali,but i: hath its proper worra ; and that each fort of galls hath itj pecu- 
liar and determinate race of worms and flyes, which never vary : Where he takes notice cf 
the fingular Arc of N ture both in forming the Egg>which is found in the center of Galls» 
and in preparing its place therin, furnifhing it with many filaments , that pafs from t^c 
Gall-aplc to the Eg| , as fo many veins an X Arteries, ferving for the formation of the 
Egg and Worm/and tot the nouriihment rcquifitc thereto. To which he adds this Obfcr* 
vation,that5there being certain forts of Galls ) which breed more worms at a time than one» 
Nature iiath carefully provided and diftinguiftit places for them , as flie doth in thofe A' 
nimslsjthat are multiparou^ 
Having eftablifht this ground agsinft JEjuivocal generation , he proccedj to pariicu* 
lars , and refutes the opinion of thofe, that will have Bees to be bred of the putrifyed flefh 
of Bullocks 5 VVafpsj of Alfcsor Mules- fleft i Drones, of Horfes ; $co pions,cf buried 
Crafi(hes , or the herb Bafilicd, or dead i'corpions : Toads, of Ducki buried in Dung ; 
Mites, of Cheefe , affirming, that none of thefe Infers have any fuch origin mcntioRcd % 
bat that all thofe fubflances have been lirft blown upon by fomc f lye or other. 
He intertpcrleth through the whole Book many curious and conlidcrablc Obfervationy, 
relating to this Sub jcd : As,thatfome Flyes are viviparous , others oviparous only , yet 
not denying , but that the fame Flyes may fomctimcs breed Itve worms , fometimes lay 
rggs, according to the more or iefs heat of the feafon. 2. That Humane bodies breed 
Worms , but not immediately a but by Infefts blowing on them. 3. That Fruit 
and Herbs, crude or boyled, kept dofed up, breed no Vtrmin» but in an 0- 
f enf lace, do breed fome. 4. That there are no Animals partly antmated,panly yet canhyy 
nor Animafshalf animated, and half wood. §, That worms breed in the Livers of 
Mutton , and the Heads of Staggs,he having feen divers of them in botk thefe kinds of 
Animals,andefleeming,ihatthcloulof the fuperiour animal was able to breed thofe infe- 
liour animals. 6 . That Lice are bred of Eggs or nits, laid by their Femal-parent 5 lie 
having difcerned by a Microfcope fome nits yet pregnant with young ones, others, empti- 
ed of them. 7. That all living Creatures arc fubjeifl to lice or fomc fuch kind of Vermine j 
the Ajfe not being exempted from them , as JriftotlCj and upon his authority, Pliny 9 
Monffet &c. would have it r And that all forrs of fowie Ccxcept Oflridges, in which he 
never could meet with any Vermin in any feafon , J and fifh , have each fort their pecu- 
liar lice ; Of which he hath reprefented divers of fcveral forts. 
N B. The Author prcmifcs in this Treatife a very particular Hiflory of the Various 
Fruits and Animals, that arc generated of Oaks and other Trees. 
II. PhamxcDpoeia Kegia , pve Bifpenfmrium Navum locupUutJtm ahfolutm, 
cum ii»«ex4 Mantifla Spagjrica, gemino Difcurfu Jpologetico contrA Ott. Ta- 
chcnium,& Franc. Vernis. Auth]oh. Xwelfer. M. D. A. i662, in folii. 
T He Author of this Volume , after he had pub/ifht to the World his Anfmdverfi- 
9ns upon the Pharmmpoeia Augujfandf and after rhat^a Phamac^poein Regid» 
and then , an Appendix fuperadded to both , pretends now in this vafl Work to deliver 
fomething compleat of this kind , fallowing the Experiments and Operations made in his 
Laboratory , by which he affirms to have given us theCom portions aud preparationof 
the choifert Medicaments , performed by agenuia and' aceurajc Method, according to-tbe 
