146 VERMINOUS DISEASES. 



The most experienced surgeons for several 

 years believed that the pains which the patient suf- 

 fered were occasioned by large calculi(i4) in the 

 bladder. 



I would relate several other similar cases, to 

 prove that the symptoms produced by worms are 

 connected with the parts which they occupy, if I 

 did not fear to dwell too long on a subject which 

 every practitioner sees daily confirmed at the bed 

 side of the sick. 



§ LXXX. Assured by the above symptoms, 

 of the presence of worms, it remains for the phy- 

 sician to decide what sort of worms occasion or 

 aggravate the disease to be treated, since every 

 particular species of worms is attended by signs 

 in a great measure peculiar, in addition to those 

 that are common and general. 



SYMPTOMS OF TAENIA. 



§. LXXXI. Persons affected with taeniae com- 

 plain of a sense of pain in the belly, produced by 

 something alive, with a turning motion and weight 

 in the side. 



Occasional prickings, or rather bitings, are felt 

 in the region of the stomach, the abdomen swells at 

 intervals, and then subsides almost by undulation ; 

 a sense of cold, from time to time, pervades the ab- 

 dominal viscera. The appetite is uncommonly 

 great, w hile the more the patient eats the leaner he 

 is. He is sensible of increasing weakness in all 

 his limbs ; his complexion is livid, and he is fre- 



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