The Medicines given, atr.r I v^iscairdin, were chiefly 
of the Puherarj and Dtgefllva Kiiidb : That which did her 
nioft fervice, (bat it was ^rter the UUiders werti Omeoff) 
was a Tw3nre of Myrrh and Gentian^ in large and i sequent 
Dbfes^ and with a proper Vehicle : Under theufe riiis 
iliglit, but advantageous Medicine, from a very weak 
condition, Ihe recovered an Appetite, &c. and is now 
perfeftly well. 
Exeter^ Sept. 26. 1704 
IV/ J Letter from Mr John Thorpe, M. J. 0/ Uni- 
verfity College in Oxford, to Dr Hans Sloane^ 
S. S. cojicerning Worms in the Heads of Sheeny 
• Sec. 
With this you receive the delineation of a Worm, 
found in diflefting the Head of a Sheep, in the 
Cells form'd between the Lamina of the Os frontis : It is 
an Afode^ and feeras to be a fpccies of the EhU 5 tho 
much different from the common fort breeding in putrid 
FleOi. It is every where of a fair pale colour, excepting its 
Tail," which ends a little obliquely in a Plane 5 on which 
are imprefs'd two remarkable black fpots, ( as in Fig. 8. ^ 
Befidcs two fmall white €ormcHl£^ its Head is arm'd with 
a pair of black, ftiarp, and crooked forcipes, which, in 
contrafting, and extending its Body, it draws in, and 
puts out at pleafure z With thefe it is, that in creeping it 
takes hold of the furface of the Body, on which it moves ^ 
and drawi it felf forward on pretty large, protuberant, 
and fomewhat flattifh loruli^ fewer in number than thofe 
^lOn its Back, ( liide Fig. 9.) which alternately fwell'd and 
Jtelax'd, fcem inftruraental to its motion, and fupply the 
