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of worms could be found, though he had several 

 symptoms of them, such as dilitatiou of the pupil, 

 salivation, itching of the nose, pains of the joints, 

 as well as the anamalous character of the disease, 

 which strengthened the suspicion of them. The 

 convulsion commenced, according to the patient, at 

 the region of the stomach, like a flame rising and 

 fixing with violence in the larynx. 



The stomach being strengthened by an electu- 

 ary of cinchona, valerian and opium, and continu- 

 ing for some days, the convulsive access gradual- 

 ly lessened in force and frequency, and finally dis- 

 appeared. 



(6^) See § LXXVI and the following. 



(69) Saiiuages ; JSTosol, metJiod^ etc. cl. iii, gen, 

 xxiii, sp. vii. 



(70) Ephemerides naturae curios, dec, iii, ob- 

 serv. cxxxv. 



A few days since I was called to visit a girl of 

 nine years, who after surmounting a scarlet fever, 

 exhibited all the signs of an effusion of water in 

 the ventricles of the brain, as they are pointed out 

 by Ludwig, in his excellent Dissertation de hydrope 

 cerebri puer or um. The disease which had pre- 

 ceded, the certainty that the child had never been 

 affected by worms, the deficiency of urine, the swell- 

 ing of the abdomen, as well as the oedema of the infe- 

 rior extremities, all contributed to the belief that this 

 disease was hydrocephalus internus. The wretch- 

 ed sufferer, reduced almost to the grave, presented 

 no hope of recovery, yet being unwilling to leave 



