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HISTORY of a CASE/« which very UNCOMMON 

 WORMS were difcharged from the STOMACH; with 

 OBSERVATIONS thereon. By SAMUEL CRUMPE, 

 M. D. M. R. I. A. 



JL HE lady whofe cafe I am about to relate had been for many Read Decern- 

 years fubjed to inflammatory afFedions of the lungs, which gene- " *''^'^' 

 rally terminated in a copious and long continued expedoration. 

 I was called to her alTiftance for the firft time on the ad of 

 November 1788 ; fhe was then about twenty-fix years of age and 

 had been about two years married. She appeared to me to labour 

 under the fymptoms which charaderize the advanced flages of 

 phthifis pulmonalis, and which need not here be enumerated ; 

 and to thefe, according to her own account, fhe had been more 

 or lefs liable every winter and fpring for fome years back. As 

 lier fweats were very profufe, and fhe complained much of trou- 

 blefome cough, and want of reft, the principal remedies prefcri- - 

 bed were thofe calculated to reftrain the preffrng fymptoms ; 

 and confifled chiefly of the weak vitriolic acid, and thebaic 

 tindure. By thefe fhe found herfelf relieved until the 2 2d of 

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