A theologico-philosophical dissertation concerning worms in all parts of human bodies: containing several most curious ... observations of natural productions. In a letter to a friend / [William Ramesey].

  • William Ramesey
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1727
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Credit: A theologico-philosophical dissertation concerning worms in all parts of human bodies: containing several most curious ... observations of natural productions. In a letter to a friend / [William Ramesey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The ntxt IS Herod the Great; znd yofephus tells us of him, that he was fo forely afflicted with Worms^ that he was devour’d by them, and that his privy Members were all confumed by innume¬ rable Worms and Lice which yielded a moft horrid Stench *: And withal, he fays, that his Diftemper was held to be Judicial. Another was Herod Agrippa^ the Nephew of He-^ rod the Great; his Death is mention’d in holy Writ, Atis 12. 23. where it is faid, That the Angel of the Lord fmote him ■ —- and he was eaten up of Worms, and gave up the Ghoft : The original Word is (jm\moC^cd]ou which is render’d ^ermihus corrofus, eaten up of Worms; and that thefe Worms were Lice appears, becaufe that Word is render’d by SchreveliuSy Qui Phthiriaji periit^ d njermihus arrofuf^ who died of the Loufy Difeafe, being eat up by Worms: And Pliny tells us, that (p^neUct^ is morhus Pedicularis^ the Loufy Diflemper f. And in Dr. gory^s Edition of the Greek Teftamentf, we find that the Greek Writers have underflood it fo ; for in the Greek Annotations theWord is explain’d by eat up by Lice^ for that 0 is a Loufe every School- Boy can tell us : and fofephus gives us the like Ac¬ count **: and modern Commentators agree entire¬ ly that it was the loufy Difeafe ; that God by the Miniftry of the Angel gave a Loofe to all the Ver¬ min within him, reftrain’d them not, but quicken’d them, whereby he was confum’d and eat up. Dr. Lightfoot has obferv’d, that fofephus relating the Death of this Man, has been very modefl ,* fay¬ ing only, that he was fuddenly taken with a vio¬ lent Cholick, and concealed the Caufe of it, and / ^ Jofephus Antiq. I. 17. c. 8. Edit. Sir Roger /’ Eflrange. f Plinyy 1. 20. I. j ^ Gregory's N. T. Grace, in Schol. in |oc. OxonV'A'ft. 3 ofephm c, wit? Beza in doc.-Pafer.'liex. 154.