(1688) I did take several of these tiny Peppers , each of which lay very firmly enclosed in its own wrapping inside their Seed - capsule , wholly and undamaged out of it , and laid the same in my mouth on my tongue , with the intention that the warm saliva might cause the wrappings of each tiny Pepper to become soft , in order that by this means to be able the better to discover the floury substance of which these small Peppers consist .In doing so I became aware that these undamaged small Peppers caused such a stinging on my tongue , which we call heat , as if it had been the crushed Pepper itself .From which I then concluded that the floury substance of these tiny Peppers , which , in size and structure , corresponded to those of our common Pepper , cannot cause the slightest prickling with their sharp parts which , as I said heretofore , we can see through the magnifyingglass .