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which however, some months after, quite disap- 

 peared. 



Dr. Frank is disposed to think these worms 

 had their seat in the sinus frontales, in the two an- 

 tra highmoreana, and the cavum uaricum, which 

 supposition seems to be, in some measure, confirm- 

 ed, by the patient's feeling much pain in the ossa 

 frontis, which induced her to take the resolution of 

 having several teeth successively extracted. He 

 also thinks the constant irritation of the worms in 

 these parts, might have brought on a chronic in- 

 flammation, productive of the pseudo-membranes, 

 voided after the worms. Med, and Phijs. Jon^rnalf 

 vol. XXXV, p. S53.] 



VII. TREATMENT OF GENERAL VERMINOUS 

 AFFECTIONS. 



§ CLXXV. If we call to mind, that worm fe- 

 vers, like gastric fevers, are really nervous fe- 

 vers,(263) and that the worms which appear dur- 

 ing their course originate from the asthenia which 

 prevails in the whole body, and particularly in the 

 stomach and intestines, (^64) and that in mucous 

 diseases the origin of worms is the same ; the prac- 

 titioner has therefore nothing more to do, than to 

 cure the general asthenic diathesis, whether it be 

 severe or slight, in order to expel the worms, and 

 to remove the tendency to their return. 



V CLXXVI. The use of emetics, so much re- 

 commended by writers, and especially Vanden- 

 'Bosch,[2Q5) is, without doubt, sometimes advanta- 



