A TREATISE 



VERMINOUS DISEASESe 



LECTURE FIRST. 



AN EXAMINATION OF THE PRINCIPAL HUMAN WORMS, 



§1 I. The subject we propose to examiue is 

 doubtless very extensive, if we would form an ex- 

 act idea of all the worms which are occasionally 

 found in the living human body.(l) If we admit all 

 that has been said by a number of distinguished 

 and faithful observers, worms of various sizes are 

 met with in almost every part of the human body^ 

 even the most hidden,(i ) and which physicians have 

 described in a manner too satisfactory not to secure 

 attention. 



If we reflect however that most of these worms 

 do not preserve at all times the same form, that 

 they do not always occupy the same parts of th© 

 body, and that we are not acquainted with any pe- 

 culiar phenomena arising from their presence in 

 any particular organ, their history seems rather 

 interesting to the curiosity of the naturalist, than 

 important to the physician, whose chief attention is 

 devoted to what may be immediately useful to suf- 

 fering humanity.(8) 



1 See the Notes at the eud of this Lecture.. 



