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removing the verminous filth, especially as the bow- 
els were made Slippery by the oil. 
Oil has long been obferved to be noxious to infers 
of all kinds, fo that not only thofe, which Survive after 
being cut into Several pieces, but thoSe alSo, which live 
long with very little air, and thofe, which revive by 
warmth after Sub rner lion in water, die irrecoverably, 
if they are immerged in, or covered with oil. Rhe- 
di and Malpighi have made many experiments to this 
purpofe ; and account for the event very rationally 
from the oil flopping up ail the air-veffels, which in 
thefe animalcula are very numerous, and distributed 
almoft over their whole bodies. 
On this account oil has been recommended as a 
vermifuge both by Andry and Hoffmann, though I 
believe it has been Seldom ufed in practice in that in- 
tention ; or at leaf! has not been given in quantities 
fufficient to anfwer it. Indeed Hoffmann * himfelf 
Seems- 
* Oleofis magna tribuitur efticacia, quae maxime experimento- 
Fr. Rhedi videtur confirmata, dum mufcas et alia infedta variis- 
liquoribus immerfa in vivis perm-anftfte refert, exceptis aliis oleo 
peruncStis et infufts, quae invicem mortua vitam non receperunt, licet 
xadiis folaribus fuerint expoftta. Equidem libenter concedo haec 
omnia veritati efte confona, atque etiam oleofa, ut ol. oliv. rapar. 
et amygd. dulc. non fine fru&u adhiberi : fed fcire licet minime 
ilia eo unquam fcopo poffe offerri, ut vermes enecent,quia admcdum 
magna oleorum copia requir-eretur, ft immediate vermes per totum 
inteftinorum volumen difperfos deberent exlinguere. Multo magis- 
oleofa in gravibus a lumbricis fymptomatibus ideo cenferem utilia,. 
quia fenft’oiles inteftinorum tunicas fpafmo conftridtas relaxant, et 
muciiagine quaft obliniunt atque defendunt, ut poftea acriora quae- 
dam et purgantia remedia magis fecure et fine lacftone exhiberi pof- 
fint. Ita ego faepius mirabili cum effedlu ad vermes enecandos et 
fymptomata lenienda ol. amygd. d, ad aliquot cochlearia, imo 
vel 
