[106] Joel ii. 25.

[107] On the Blight in Corn, p. 9.

[108] Leeuw. Epist. 98. 1696.

[109] Bingley, Anim. Biogr. first edition, iii. 437. St. Pierre's Studies, &c. i. 312.

[110] Hist. Animal. l. 5. c. 31.

[111] From the terms employed by Aristotle and Dr. Mead in their Account of these cases, it appears that the animal they meant could not be maggots, but something bearing a more general resemblance to lice.

[112] On Cutaneous Diseases, 87, 88; and t. 7. f. 4.

[113] Latreille at first considered this as belonging to a distinct genus from the common mite (Acarus domesticus), which he named Sarcoptes; but upon its being discovered that it also has mandibles, he has suppressed it. N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. xxi. 221.

[114] On Morbid Poisons, 306, 307.

[115] Mouffet, 267.