156 VERMINOUS DISEASES. 



hiccough, convulsions, epilepsy, apoplexy, and au 

 iniiuite number of other diseases, which we have 

 mentioned only in part.(68)* 



* The Journal general de Medicine, edited by the learned 

 Sediltot, for tlie month of floreal year 12, contains observa- 

 tions communicated by M. Iloiizelot, surgeon in chief of the ci- 

 vil and military hospitals of Meaux, among which is a case too 

 interesting to be omitted in this place. 



Pierre M. , . . . , born of sound parents twelve years old, 

 ten of which he had passed in perfect health, which was not at 

 all impaired by the eruption of the small-pox or measles, when 

 in June, 1799, the following symptoms appeared ; a continual 

 spitting, whiteness of the tongue, countenance alternately pale 

 antl flushed, mouth often full of water, a moving of the alae 

 nasi, contraction of the muscles of the face and eyes, stricture 

 of the chest; constant agitation of the arms and head, and slight 

 convulsions. 



November 1, a sudden loss of sense; limbs flexible^ 

 nu)uth somewhat frothy ; in tlie evening at supper, a momentary 

 blir.dness, though he was perfectly sensible. A physician who 

 was consulted, did not perceive any thing more than a simple 

 nervous disease which he called epilepsy, the consequence of 

 a slight fright which tlte patient experienced six months be- 

 fore. He prescribed antispasmodics, which produced no effect. 

 A violent anthelmintic purge removed all the symptoms, which 

 returned the following June ; then he had a momentary loss 

 of si.i,ht, of hearing, and of speech ; a sense of oppression of the 

 chest ; and at last the strongest nervous symptoms. Some pur- 

 gatives being administered, tliey produced the discharge of an 

 enormous quantity of black and very fetid fecal substances. 

 The sjMnptoms subsided in part till the first of ventose year 9. 

 At this period, J/. Ilouzelot was called in ; he made the following 

 notes on the state of the patient; a changing colour of the face, 

 a dark semicircle under the eyes, itching of the nose, pains 

 about the epigastrium, general emaciation, an undulating motion 

 of the stomach, mobility of the wings of the nose, of the mus- 



