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drawn off, and so tender, that the weight of the bed 

 clothes cou'd not be borne. 



*^ A very careful examination was again made 

 with the sonod, and produced the same feeling as be- 

 fore, of its striking against a ball in the bladder. 

 This was followed by an exceedingly violent con- 

 vulsive fit, in which the patient was so agitated, that 

 five or six persons were required to hold her." 



Soon after this *^Mr. Bavnett was much sur- 

 prised, on removing the catheter, to find insinuated 

 through its orifices, what appeared to him a round- 

 ish worm, about the size of a piece of bobbin, an 

 inch and a half in length, and of a white colour. 

 At this time Mr. B. gave me an opportunity of see- 

 ing the case ; we examined very carefully with the 

 sound, with the same result as before, and agreed 

 that the catheter should be again left in the urethra, 

 as it had been before, in order to throw further 

 light on the cause of the patient's sufferings. 



" Three worms were now brought away, two of 

 them most curiously entangled in the orifices of the 

 instrument, and the third coiled round the end. As 

 we had now gained some information concerning 

 the cause of the symptoms, Mr. Burnett attempted 

 for its removal, at my suggestion, to dilate the ure- 

 thra on the plan recommended by Mr. Thomas, in 

 the first volume of the Medico- Chirurg. Transac- 

 tions, The sufferings of the patient were so con- 

 siderable, that this could not be followed to the de- 

 sired extent. The effects of the spirit of turpen- 

 tine in cases of taeniae, determined us to try this 



