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REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCES OF DISEASE. 37
in the last century, when they were by him composed. The
expense of this concert is to be defrayed out of the general
fund, and not out of the professor’s salary; “ for he made a
rule never to be in debt to any man.” He also directed that
the amount of his property might not be made public when
he died; and requested that he might be buried in the vault
•under St. Margaret’s church, Westminster, near a very inti-
mate medical friend, who attended him many years. At first
he charges his executors with the payment of the interest of
his property to his daughter, but afterwards transfers the office
to Mr. Coutts the banker.
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ACCOUNT OF SOME REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCES OF
DISEASE.
Animals generated in the Human Body.
August 16, 1760, Mr. Thomas Clap, of Newhaven,
gives the following account of living animals found in the
skin of a child, belonging to Mr. Moses Beecher, of the
same place.
It had a cutaneous eruption, resembling the chicken pox ;
the pustules became very protuberant, near as big as a duck
shot, the head being dark coloured, and the rest yellowish.
Upon opening some of the pustules, there appeared to be a
great number of animals in them, which were scarce dis-
cernible to the naked eye, but seen to be animals by their
swift motion in crawling. One of them was brought to the
college, and being viewed in the microscope, it appeared to
be a perfect tortoise, or turtle, with upper and lower shells,
each divided into about ten partitions, which were beautifully
coloured, red, yellow, and white. The head, tail, and legs
appeared very distinct; but the eyes did not grow in the head,
but as it were out of the shoulders, and stood upon two pil-
lars, very much resembling those of a lobster. The eye ap-
in the last century, when they were by him composed. The
expense of this concert is to be defrayed out of the general
fund, and not out of the professor’s salary; “ for he made a
rule never to be in debt to any man.” He also directed that
the amount of his property might not be made public when
he died; and requested that he might be buried in the vault
•under St. Margaret’s church, Westminster, near a very inti-
mate medical friend, who attended him many years. At first
he charges his executors with the payment of the interest of
his property to his daughter, but afterwards transfers the office
to Mr. Coutts the banker.
*
ACCOUNT OF SOME REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCES OF
DISEASE.
Animals generated in the Human Body.
August 16, 1760, Mr. Thomas Clap, of Newhaven,
gives the following account of living animals found in the
skin of a child, belonging to Mr. Moses Beecher, of the
same place.
It had a cutaneous eruption, resembling the chicken pox ;
the pustules became very protuberant, near as big as a duck
shot, the head being dark coloured, and the rest yellowish.
Upon opening some of the pustules, there appeared to be a
great number of animals in them, which were scarce dis-
cernible to the naked eye, but seen to be animals by their
swift motion in crawling. One of them was brought to the
college, and being viewed in the microscope, it appeared to
be a perfect tortoise, or turtle, with upper and lower shells,
each divided into about ten partitions, which were beautifully
coloured, red, yellow, and white. The head, tail, and legs
appeared very distinct; but the eyes did not grow in the head,
but as it were out of the shoulders, and stood upon two pil-
lars, very much resembling those of a lobster. The eye ap-