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jeetual functions, are observed in persons harrass- 

 ed with worms. 



§ LXXVIII. We are not to suppose that the 

 union of all these symptoms is requisite to enable 

 lis to judge of the presence of worms ; the principal 

 of them are sufficient, and they are, according to 

 Mouro,{6) unusual dilatation of the pupil, saliva- 

 tion, extraordinary appetite, wasting of the body, 

 a pricking sensation at the stomach, tumefaction of 

 the abdomen, anxiety and loathing of food. Ros- 

 enstein{7) affirms that the surest sign is the comfort- 

 able state of the patient after drinking a glass of 

 cold water, and voiding some worms or fragments 

 of worms. I have witnessed pains of the joints 

 similar to those of arthritic rheumatism, accompa- 

 nied by dilatation of the pupil, an abundance of sa- 

 liva in the mouth, and an intolerable itching at the 

 end of the nose. 



All these are so many almost certain signs, in 

 children and feeble women, of worms in the intes- 

 tines.(8) 



§ LXXIX. AVe have already proved, (9) that 

 worms of all species and sizes, may live concealed 

 in every part of the human fabric. The symp- 

 toms derived from worms have relation to the part 

 affected and injured. 



The functions assigned to each part, and the 

 mode of their performance in health and in sick- 

 ness, are soon made apparent by the morbid phe- 

 nomena, whether they arise from the affection of 

 a particular part, or from the lesion of some other 



