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her without any resourse, I prescribed some diuret- 

 ic and tonic raediciue, which possessed anthelmin- 

 tic properties, as the sudden appearance of the dis- 

 ease made me suspect it might arise from worms. 

 Submuriate of mercury in powder, and a saturated 

 infusion of valerian, made stronger by the addition 

 of a good dose of camphor, were the remedies I 

 chose to produce these effects. 



I obtained no success during the two first days 

 of this treatment; the disease on the contrary was 

 worse, but on the third day she vomited a living 

 lumbricoides, and some mucous and bilious matter. 



The next day she voided four lumbricoides; 

 and in a short time she was fully restored to health. 



(7 1) Sauvages, JStosol. Method., class, xi, gen. 

 ix, spec. XV, speaks of a verminous dysentery, 

 which, from iVugustto November, attacked a fourth 

 part of the inhabitants of the country, and destroy- 

 ed a number of tliera. 



The pains of the abdomen were sudden and 

 severe ; a sense of heat became violent in the vis- 

 cera, and a vomiting of mucous matter, resembling 

 the spawn of a frog, aggravated this complaint. 

 It gave way to the use of anthelmintic remedies, 

 after the worms were expelled from the body. 



(73) In the Ejihemerides nat. ciiriosor. ann. 

 iv. ohserv. clxxxvii, we meet with a case of St. 

 Vitus's dance, occasioned by worms. A sim- 

 ilar case is reported by Sihlot in the Journal de 

 Medicine de juillct ann. 1783, torn, ii, p. 22* A 



