“ But being viewed with one, every Pore looks like a little Fountain, and the sweat may be seen to stand therein, as clear as rock water, and as often as it is wiped off, to spring up within them again.
That which Nature intends in the position of these Ridges, is, That they may the better suit with the use and motion of the Hand: those of the lower side of every Triangle, to the bending in or clutching of the Fingers, and those of the other two sides, and of the Ellipticks, to the pressure of the Hand or Fingers ends against any body, requiring them to yield to the right and left. ”

“ In the pressing out of worms, I could tell whether there were hairs in them or no, for if the substance came out streight, then there were always hairs, but if bended and bow'd, none.
The make and conformation of these worms, I suppose to be after this manner. When the Root of a hair lying deep in the skin, supplies so much nourishment as to make the hair grow out and appear upon the face, the upper part of the hair by rubbing, or some other violence, comes often to be broke off, the Trunk of it still remaining in the skin. ”

“ They lie three deep upon the body, every part being covered with 3 scales succesively, tho not above 1/3, part of a scale discover it self to the Eye, the other 2/3 parts being hid by the other scales. As Fig. M. where the part exposed to view is marked 1, 2, 3, 4. the rest is covered by other scales. The point 3 is not always so sharp as I have here made it, but it being like the Original, which seem'd a perfect scale, I would not alter it.
The scales of Fishes also appear but in part, to the Eye, but it is very observable tho fishes never change their scales; yet men do often. ”

“ Upon these Ridges, the Pores are very providently placed, and not in the Furrows which lie between them. that so their structure might be the more sturdy, and less liable to be depraved by compression; whereby only the furrows are dilated or contracted, the Ridges constantly maintaining themselves, and so the Pores unalter'd. And for the same reason, the Pores are also very large, that they may still be the better preferred; tho the skin be never so much compressed and condens'd by the constant use and labour of the Hand. ”

“ In some bundles of hairs the part next the skin lay quite even, as if it had been cut with a pair of sizers. B. D. were the roots of hairs, lying one of them deeper than another.
I took the worms out of the Noses of 2 other persons, and I found the number of hairs in a bundle, to be from 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9. to 25, and 30. when the worms lay deepest in the Nose, they seldom contained any hairs, unless the person they came from were very black, and then the hairs were more easily perceivable. ”

“ From hence also may be gathered, that there are no pores in the Cuticula, for the conveying out of sweat, because that may owze out from between the scales, tho they stick never so close together, without supposing that there are channels made for its passage: Let us only reckon how many Vacuities a Scale has, whereby it is nourisht so as to grow, and that in the space of 1/3 part of a scale there may be 100 such Vacuities, thro which the humours of the body may pass, and that 200 such parts of a scale may be covered with a sand. ”

“ I confess this odd and unusual case raised my curiosity to view the Boy well and to discourse with him; there is no disease in the Organ that can be observd; no Vertigo or distemper in the head to interrupt or any way intercept the Spirits in their motions, but to all appearance the fabrick of the Organ is very true and exactly well, and never disturbed with fluxes any way. ”

“ Or that raising Resolvends out of assumed roots, those should make a store from whence to derive the roots of the Resolvend offered.
Or making quadratick Equations out of the dioristick and base limits, those might be interpoled, by aid of a Table of figurate numbers, or otherwise thereby, as in quadratick Equations to attain two roots of a biquadratick at once. which if performed the greatest difficulties are overcome, and why should not this seem probable, in regard the Curve or Locus, be the Equation what it will, makes indented porches. ”

“ The number of these Animals in the scurf of a mans Teeth, are so many that I believe they exceed the number of Men. in a kingdom. For upon the examination of a small parcel of it, no thicker thana Horse-hair, I found too many living Anima's therein, that I guess there might have been 1000 in a quantity of matter no bigger then the 1/100 part of a sand.
A certain man being said to have worms taken out of his face. I took a quantity of these imagined worms, which I laid upon a clean Glass, that I might view them at my leisure. ”

“ Draw a Base line and a perpendicular thereto, and from O in the Base line prick the negative resolvends downwards, and the affirmative ones upwards, and raise their roots upon them as ordinates, a Curve passing through the same is one Moity of the Curve or Locus on the right hand for affirmative roots, and the other moity on the left hand is described in the same manner by assuming a rank of negative roots, and raising resolvends thereunto. ”

“ The Spittle of another old man and a good fellow was like the former, but the Animals in the scurf upon the teeth, were not all killed by the parties continual drinking Brandy, Wine, and Tobacco, for I found a few living Animals of the 3d. sort, and in the scurf between the Teeth I found, many more small Animals of the 2 smallest sorts. ”

“ John Wallis Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, giving his thoughts about some Defects in Algebra. TO describe the Locus of a cubick Equation.
A Cardanick Equation convenient for the purpose, (viz. such as shall have the dioristick limits rational) must have the Coefficient of the roots to be the triple of a square number such is a3-48a=N.
Assume a rank of roots in Arithmetical progression, and raise resolvends thereto a3-48a=N or resolvends. ”

“ Neither is all this from the want of any vigorous influence from the Rays of the Sun, as I conceive; or when he is at home and in the house, he tumbles over Stools, runs his head against Doors, and cannot see or direct himself tolerably well either by the greater or lesser lights of the fire and candle ”

“ Car/lon; canons are but the sum of the roots of a solid quadratic equation arising out of half the diar;{li¢l= limit as the v of the rectangle, and the resolvent as the fumm 5' If the roots of those lfimmmlf are separately Erickt down as ordinates on their rejolizfenigtlqey begat cur-réf infinitely continued upward, and meeting in a point bisecting the root that is equal to a 'pair of equal roots, when the equation is Juli: limited, or dioristick as aforesaid in the Figure at, Q 6 If these /fimwwlr are prickt down as ordinates to their rcfolvends, Mr. ”

“ Briggs M. D. fellow of the College of Physicians, and Physician of St. Thomas's Hospital, Lond. Sr. I Received some time since an account of a remarkable Case in Vision, from Dr. Peter Parbarn a worthy Physician in Norwich; which because it so rarely occurs, and the like is mention'd but by few Authors, I imagin'd that the following Transcript of two Letters he was pleas'd to send me about it, might not be unwelcom to you, and therefore I took this opportunity of conveying it to your hands.
First Let. I was lately in Suffolk, and there met with a pretty odd but curious case relating Vision ”

“ Equation those ordinates are the roots P Dr Barre." liked the proposition as well grounded, and left a discourse about doing itin the conick Sections, in which there .ire 3 eaies, either the axes are parallel or being produced concur, beyond the vertexes of the figures without; or other wile intellect: within the figures. .i4r, (;1-/guy entred on the Rune contemplation, but death deprived us of the benefit of his thong; its
Of Analytick (alias Geometrick) Curves there are innumerable forts. ”