815 TREATMENT OF 



every appearance of the patient's sinking ; wheu 

 it burst into that cavity, she was greatly relieved. 



The whole nimiber of worms discharged to this 

 time, could not be less than eight hundred or one 

 tnousaad. In figures xii and xiii, plate IV. of this 

 work, is an engraving of a large and a small worm, 

 of the natural size. The latter were only voided 

 on one occasion. 



<'The large worms are mostly from four to six 

 inches in length, and the largest was eight inches; 

 they are slender in the middle, where they appear 

 uniformly as if broken ; they increase gradually in 

 both directions from this mi Idle point, and then 

 decrease again to the two extremities. 



" When placed in water, after immersion in spi- 

 rit, they are bent at this middle point, and lie in the 

 form represente«l in the drawing. — They are soft 

 when voided, and of a yellowish hue. The numer- 

 ous figures and descriptix)ns of Goeze^ do not make 

 us scquainted with any such worms." 



Dr. Fisher^ as above quoted, says, " worms of 

 various kinds, and their eggs, must be frequently 

 conveyed with our food into the stomach ; where 

 they generally perish : in some few instances how- 

 ever they have been known to live and grow ; but 

 they have been supposed incapable of propagating, 

 either in the alimentary canal, or any other part of 

 the body. 



" Perhaps the following case may furnish an ex- 

 ception to the general rule. 



