NICOLAUS PECHLIN (1646 to 1706), professor of medicine at Kiel, testifies to having seen five such dental worms, like maggots, come out by the use of honey, though he does not say whether they issued from several cavities or from one only! GOTTFRIED SCHULZ. But all this is nothing compared to what Gottfried Schulz has dared to assert, viz., that by using the gastric juice of the pig, worms of great size can be enticed out of decayed teeth; some of these even reaching the dimension of an earth-worm! It is not much to be wondered at that these things should have been blindly believed in, if we reflect that only a short time previous to this the story of the golden tooth had been taken seriously by men of great erudition, and that in the very epoch of which we are speaking the illustrious anatomist THOMAS BARTHOLIN (1616 to 1680), of Copenhagen, relates having seen a man, at Padua, who had an iron tooth! Besides, the possibility of such a phenomenon was explained in a most curious manner by THOMAS MINADOUS, who explained that in the same way as iron is generated in the macrocosm, that is, in the world, so it is equally admissible that it may be generated in the microcosm, that is, in man![349] NATHANIEL HIGHMORE. In the year 1651 the English physician and anatomist Nathaniel Highmore (1613 to 1684), of Hampton, published a treatise on anatomy (_Corporis humani disquisitio anatomica_, etc.), by which he acquired a celebrity superior, perhaps, to his merits. This work, however, served without doubt to diffuse the knowledge of an anatomical fact of the highest importance, especially from the point of view of dentistry and surgery.