He drunkened polyphemus and while he was sleeping he stabbed his eye
A microorganism, especially a bacterium causing disease or fermentation.
At every point of Swift proposal the reader from today gets the idea he is being ironic.This way he is critisizing the attitudes an ideas of the time.In order to improve a financial situation people would sell their souls.Contemporaries could not understand and tought of it as a sacrifice, today it is something different, the idea is satirizised