Of Scales on 
•merit may deflroy all the living Animalcules , 
it may not probably kill their Young Ones 
in the Eggs, laid in Neds in the Skin; 
which, coming to hatch, may renew the 
Diftemper. For this Reafon it is advifeable 
to continue the Anointing for fome Days, 
even after the Cure feems perfect. 
C H A P, XIX. 
Of Scales on the Human Skin. 
H E Cuticula , Scarf-fain, or outward 
JL Covering of the Body, is remarkable 
for its Scales and for its Pores . 
Its Scales are a Difcovery of the Micro- 
fcope for being fo minute that * two hun~ 
dred of them may be covered with a Grain 
of Sand, they could never be difcerned by 
the naked Eye, They are placed as on 
Fifties, *f* three deep, that is, each Scale is fo 
far covered by two others, that only a third 
Part thereof appears : which lying over one 
another, may be the Caufe why the Skin of 
the Body appears J white; for about the 
Mouth and Lips, where they only juft meet 
together, and do not fold over, the Blood- 
# Vid. Arc. Nat, Tom. I. Par. II. p. 208. Again, 
Tom, IV. p. 46, f p. 47. % Ibid. p. 51. 
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