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quently faint ; the pupil is unusually dilated^ his 

 eyes are suffused with tears ; vertigo confuses the 

 head of the patient and excites vomiting ; the legs 

 vacillate, and sometimes the whole body seems to be 

 affected with convulsive trembling. In other cases, 

 according to Hippocrates, speech fails ; often small 

 substances, resembling tha seeds of the lemon or 

 gourd,*^ are evacuated with the feces of the patient, 

 which are portions of the marginal papillae of these 

 worms. (15) 



§ LXXXII. Dr. Wagler mentions a young 

 man, troubled with taenia cucurbitina, who became 

 uneasy and impatient whenever he heard music, and 

 was obliged to retire. (16) Goeze also speaks of 

 several persons having taenia, on whom music pro- 

 duced disagreeable sensations. (17) 



In fine, these patients generally find themselves 

 ill at ease in church, so soon as the organ is touch- 

 ed. 



§ LXXXIII. The head of the armed human 

 taenia is furnished with two appendages in form of 

 pointed fangs ;( 18) sometimes it attaches itself with 



* Two years ago (1812) a woman who had long been trou- 

 bled with taenia, on taking the spirit of turpentine, voided a 

 large quantity of these bodies resembling orange seeds, togeth- 

 er with numberless small pieces of a thin skin or membrane. 

 These were supposed to be fragments of the worm, and were 

 the only signs of it that were found in the intestinal evacuations. 

 No symptoms of the worm have since appeared ; and her Iiealth, 

 which had long suffered from this worm, has, since its expul- 

 sion, been good. %S. T. 



