in the Teeth. i6j 
that nothing with the leaf! Token of Life is 
to be difcovered by the bed: Glades, either 
in the Blood, Spittle, Urine, Gall, Chyce, 
or any of the Humours, except the Semen 
only, 
CHAP. XVII. 
Of Animalcules in the Teeth. 
t | "iHough no Animalcules can be found in 
the Saliva or Spittle, great Numbers 
of different Kinds may be difcovered in the 
whitijh Matter flicking between the Teeth, 
if it be picked out with a Pin or Needle, 
mixt with a little Rain-Water and Spittle 
without Bubbles, and applied before the Mi- 
crofcope. And fometimes they are fo incre¬ 
dibly numerous, and fo full of Motion, that 
the whole Mafs appears alive. 
* The largell: Sort (fhewn Plate XIII. 
Fig. I. Numb, i.) move along very fwiftly 
in the Spittle or Water; of thefe there are 
but few. 
The fecond Sort are more numerous, and 
have a Motion peculiar to themfelves, as re¬ 
presented Numb. 2. 
* Vide Arc . Nat, Tom. IV. p. 40. Again, Tom. IVo 
Epift. 75.. p. 310. " , 
' The 
