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and about half an Inch wide 5 and put into it the liv- 
ing Worm, together vvith fome crums of very old and 
fat Cheefe, in order to try if the Worm feeding upon 
the Cheefe would come to its full growth. . ^ - r 
I ftoppd the Glafs with a Cork for 1 Dm 0htivQ 
that a Worm may li^e and grow in a Glafs as wdi as 
in a firm Cheefe cpverUup all aboutt , . ,^ v.iiU?^'^* 
Being -confident that both the dead Worms and the 
living one were of the atjiDte-meiui^n'd^Torr, I got a 
Cheeferaonger to fingle out that fori of dd Cheefe^ 
and bring fome of its little Worms to my houfc. 
I put 6 or 8 of the greateft of thefe WormB in two 
diiinft little Glaffes, together with one of the dead 
Worms you fef]t i:me , defignitag to, cpmpare 
living; and dead Worms before a Magnifying- 
Glafs and could not defcry the leaft difference either 
in the Head or the whole Bpdy. .^ . i j 
When thefe Worms had been fl^ut up 5:'^ayS',witb" 
out any food, I pbferv'd em gnawing the Corks -that 
ftopp*d the Glafles,: Then I put in a, litrl^ Cheefe, that 
if they did not arrive at their full Gfowth, they; might 
not want Food , in order to their diaqge into 
Flies* 
I Tike wife endeaviour'd to bring one of thefej^Worms 
to an extended and- quiet pofttire , ini order to 
view the internal parts 5 which fucceeded with; me fe- 
veral times: and fo I fawto my great admiration fudi 
moving inftruments all over the Body within, that not 
one of a thoufand would be perfwaded to believe, that 
in fuch a contemptible Infeft there is fo much to be 
feen : for in one place I thought 1 faw the motion of 
the Heart, and not far from that the motion of the 
Stomach : But after all the narroweft: enquiry, 1 could 
not defcry any morion in the Blood m thofe parts 
which I took for Veins. If one of tb rfe Worms were 
cut up, and its Bovv^els prefented to view, they'll pre- 
fent 
