NATURAL 
fymptoms of pyrexia. But what 
difesied him the moft, was a con- 
ftant and extreme coidnefs in the 
lower extremities, which neither a 
fire nor the warmeft covering had 
power to relieve for any time toge- 
ther. 
It is unneceffary to give a par- 
ticular detail of the means ufed for 
his recovery ; fuffice it to fay, that 
by repeated bleedings (his blood 
being very fizy) cooling purgatives, 
‘nitrous medicines, and blilters over 
the hepatic region, in about a fort- 
night he was much recovered, and 
finding every complaint, except the 
coldnefs in his legs and feet, nearly 
gone, he went home about 4fteen 
_.miles from this city.. My pre- 
{criptions. now were powders of the 
columbo root, witha folution of /al 
diureticus, and once a week a calo- 
mel bolus at night, with an opening 
draught next morning. 
. In about a.month [ had a letter 
from his apothecary, from which the 
following is an extract: 
«© Mr. Watfon has continued his 
powders regulariy till within this 
week, when he reduced the num- 
ber. He finds his appetite encreafe 
_ even to be deemed voracious, yet 
is careful not to overload his fto- 
mach. Notwithfanding after each 
meal he complains of pain about 
the breaft, with a fenfe of fulnefs. 
Tn general he is regular for ftools, 
but laft night, being more than 
_ ufually coftive, he took the purga- 
tive, with which he had two ftools 
in the morning, and difcharged an 
_ immenfe number of worms, two or 
three of which at his defire I fend 
herewith, they were all very lively. 
His pulie is good, and he thinks 
himtelf in every refpect vailly bet- 
_ ter; his legs have begun to gain 
_ their natural warmth, yet he con- 
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tinues the additional covering and - 
fri€tions. I hope the worms will 
reach you alive.” 
Thus far his apothecary. I re- 
ceived the worms, which were evi- 
dently a fpecies of maggot, in a 
very lively ftate; putting them out 
of the pill box, they crept about 
with furprifing quicknefs, not with 
the wriggling motion of the com- 
mon maggot, but very nimbly upon 
their numerous feet, in which they 
feem to differ from the commion 
ones, which I think have no feet. 
Being replaced into the box, they 
were depofited in a defk, when, 
after fome weeks, examining them 
again, I found them metamorphofe@ 
from a worm ftate into beautiful 
infe&ts of the fly kind, but thefe 
were dead from want of nourifhment 
and air. ‘The chryfales being now 
become dry and empty hufks. 
The following Remarks, with a Draw- 
ing of the Infect, were communi- 
cated by Mr. Church, One of the 
Council of the Medical Society. 
The infect mentioned in Dr. 
White’s paper, is the Mufca Ciba- 
ria of Linneus. The larva of it is 
found in old culinary fubfances, 
efpecially in old rotten cheefe, and 
it feems highly probable that the 
patient had {wallowed fome of them 
with his food, which pafled unhurt 
through the ftomach, into the liver, 
after having entered by the biliary 
ducts. This I am the more readily 
induced to belicve was the cafe 
from a circuinflance which hap- 
pened to me in practice fome years 
ago: achild difcharged per anum, 
a live worm with feet, which proved 
to be the larva of the Phryganea 
grandis, or cadworm, ufed as a bait 
by anglers ; now as this is an aquatic 
infest, 
