144 VERMINOUS DISEASES. 



viscera which are immediately or sympathetically 

 connected with it ; 10) thus when worms have pass- 

 ed into other parts of the b -dy from the stomach 

 and intestines, the patient will present signs result- 

 ing from a local affeciion, even some which arise 

 from the sympathy of the parts connected with the 

 seat of the disease. 



A woman who had fallen into the w^ater, was 

 seized with a violent pain in her head, a vspasmo- 

 dic contraction of tlie eyes, particularly the right, 

 and vertigo, so that she could not stand ; often af- 

 ter dinner, or in the evening, she was surprised by 

 a giddiness and sort of apoplexy, which deprived 

 her of sense ; she became blind for a few moments, 

 her eyes rolled about, and the whole surface of her 

 body became red. Believing the disorder to orig- 

 inate from nervous weakness, the remedies recom- 

 mended in vertigo, were ordered, but without suc- 

 cess. One day feeling something in her nose, she 

 introduced a lon-^ needle, in form of a hook, and 

 extracted first a living lurabricoides, then two more, 

 then a third, and afterwards a fourth ; the disease 

 abated but did not entirely disappear. The neces- 

 sary remedies were directed, seven more worms 

 were brought away, and this woman was perfectly 

 cured of this terrible disease. (11) 



A man, about thirty eight years old, of a pale coun- 

 tenance and feeble constitution, had complained 

 for three years of a fixed obtuse pain in the right 

 hypochondriac region. Except a putrid fever ten 



