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into the hollow Tooth, wiiich I did with a GIvH In- 
ftrnnicnt, that couvey'd the Gyl to the looih v.iujuut 
injuring the Mui:ics.. 
r^ow it's pollibie ihe orght have got one or iiK.r: of 
thefe little Worms in the hollow Tooib, at a time 
wh^n^Qie ear heartily of oIdChce{c,wh.ich was feiz U wjth 
whitifh rotteniris, and had a great many little Worms 
in it, which fhe did not_obferve, tho (he fed often up- 
on it. Upon this fuppofition the pain might be occk- 
fion'd by thofc Worms, which were afterwards kill'd 
by the Oyl of Vitriol when we knew nothing ot 'ern. 
You acquaint me that the generation of Living 
Animals in the Male Seed, is one of the abflrufelt 
p oints of Phiiofophy, and that a further enquiry 
into that m^^tter would be ferviceable both to the Roy- 
al Society and\he Learned World.. 
This I do not think ftrange, fince all new advances 
areoffenfive, efpecially upon a point where much is 
written, and many miftakes committed 5 fome being 
over-born with prejudice, and others fo influemc*d by 
their teachers, that there s no*bringing them off from 
their received opinions. However, I am glad, that I 
have the Letters of Learned men to vouch, that others 
are guilty of many errors, where I have fpoken nothing 
but the truth. 
I have fome thoughts of purfuing that matter, and 
if I meet with any thing uncommonjl (hall acquaint you 
with it. 
