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years before^ no complaint had led him to take any 

 medicine. 



Afterward attacked with a slow fever, he died 

 very much emaciated. On opening the body, the 

 right lobe of the liver was found hard and large, 

 introducing the scalpel, a great quantity of yellow- 

 ish serum passed out, with several hundred hyda- 

 tids of different bigness. There was every reason 

 to believe they were social vesicular worms. (IS) 



Even apoplexy may be induced by worms in 

 the brain, and by other local diseases of that vis- 

 cus. The vesicular worms attached all along the 

 plexus choroides, which I discovered in the brain 

 of an apoplectic(13) doubtless confirm this opinion. 

 A lumbricoides in the urinary bladder produced 

 nephritis and a severe and mortal disease of the 

 bladder. (*) 



* Dr. Levacher of Feuterie, secretary general of the medic- 

 al society of Paris, was consulted by a country patient, who had 

 a complaint, for which the physicians of the country had not 

 found a remedy. It was a constant erection in a man forty 

 years old ; he was married and had children. During several 

 months this man had been much incommoded witli this state 

 of erection, which neither yielded to cooling nor antispasmodic 

 remedies, nor was it lessened by the venereal act. Tlie pains 

 were sharp and nothing could calm them, still there was no fever, 

 nor any other appearance of disease. Dr. Levacher gave it as 

 his opinion, that worms were the cause of this disorder. 



The consultation was ridiculed and neglected ; but after 

 some time the patient having spontaneously voided several lum- 

 bricoides, the advice of Levacher was brought to mind, and some 

 anthelmintic medicines were taken. The poor man discharged 

 more worms, and was cured, JP*". Trs. 

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