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A YOUNG lad of about twelve years of age was afflided with 

 excruciating pains in his limbs to fuch a degree as to render 

 life miferable. The pains were deemed rheumatic, and the ufual 

 remedies for that diforder applied without fuccefs. At length 

 fome worms worked their way out of different parts of his body, 

 particularly the knees, breaft and forehead ; and he was imme- 

 diately after confiderably relieved. The worms are defcribed as 

 near an inch long, all in joints on the back, and with hard 

 fcales on them. The attending phyfician afcribes their origin 

 to fome flies having pierced the fkin and lodged their ova in the 

 pundures. Several other boys in the fame part of the country 

 were that feafon affeded in a fimilar manner. 



Many inftances have been given by medical authors, of in- 

 flammatory and other affedions of the lungs occafioned by worms, 

 fome of which proved fatal ; fome being relieved, or totally re- 

 moved by the difcharge of thefe animals. Morgagni in the 2d 

 book of his incomparable work De Catijis £if Sedibus Morborum., 

 gives us the cafe of a patient, who laboured under every fymp- 

 tom of pleurify, which terminated by his fpitting up a quantity 

 of blood with a round worm ; after which he immediately got 

 well. He in the fame place quotes a work publiflied by Ignatius 

 Pedratti on the pleurify from worms. 



We have other inftances of worms difcharged from the lungs 

 by coughing, in Schenkius Obferv. De Pidmonibus^ lib. 2, in Lieutuad 

 Hift. Anatom. med, in Percival's Effays, and in the works of fe- 

 veral other medical writers. 



It may perhaps be imagined that the pulmonic affcdions 

 ■under which our patient laboured might have been owing to 



the 



