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the worms (he difcharged, which perhaps worked their way down- 

 wards from the lungs into the ftomach ; this however does not appear 

 probable ; her having been fubjedl to them for a feries of years, their 

 being frequently excited fuddenly by the application of cold, and 

 there terminating without the difcharge of any fuch animals, are 

 circumftances which militate ftrongly againft the idea. 



There can however I believe be little doubt that the com- 

 plaints of the ftomach with which fhe was feized, and the vo- 

 miting of blood, \NeTe occafioned by their prefence ; and that 

 they formed for themfelves a nidus in the coats of the ftomach 

 appears pretty evident from the purulent and bloody matter 

 which accompanied the difcharge of the laft portion of them. 



None of the fymptoms attending the vomiting of blood were 

 fuch as indicated the prefence of worms in the ftomach and in- 

 teftines ; nor when their prefence was afcertained did the ver- 

 mifuge medicines given appear to accelerate the cure ; ftill how- 

 ever the cafe may be inftrudive; as proving that the hasmate- 

 mefis or vomiting of blood fometimes arifes from this fource, 

 and therefore that the phyfician fhould keep fuch a caufe of the 

 diforder in view whenever it proves obftinate or dangerous ; and 

 the hiftory is curious, as affording one certain fad refpeding the 

 nidification of infeds in the internal parts of the human frame. 



Limerick, December i, 1794. 



P. S. I fend the worms themfelves preferved in fpirits of 

 wine to be depofited in the colledion of the Academy. 



