3 “ak cients were well acquainted with the worms infest- 
have written concerning them. In modern times. 
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ANTHELMINTICS. 
Various parts of the human body form a domi 
cilium for different parasitic animals, but they 
chiefly infest the stomach and bowels. The an-— 
_ ing our bodies, and both, Hippocrates and Galen 
this subject has been more noticed and the habits of 
the intestinal and stomach worms and the disorders 
these parasitic pests produce have constituted 
fruitful sources of investigation ; indeed, there 
seems nothing further to be developed as far as_ 
regards the characteristic traits ,of the differen 
kinds, or as far as concerns their manners, thougl 
there still exists and probably ever will, a confu- 
sion of the symptoms of worms and those of other 
diseases. As regards the animalcule, &c. few are 
necessary part of our bodies. or are wholly extra- 
neous to it. There is much reason to infer the 
truth of both these latter positions. Of those para- 
sites which appear naturally to belong to us, may 
be instanced, millions of animalcule, or organiset 
molecules, observed in some of our fluids. 0 
servations on the mesenteric blood, and s. mascul 
num, &c. The animalculz alluded to, are alwa 
present, only die with us, and if they do not, 
it isnot ascertained that they do, aid in the pe 
ance of any function, they still may be said | 
