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\1I. singular Cure ofajoung IFoman, fffeSled hy expelling 

 from the Stoma:!;, &:c. the Larva: of certain Infeils. By 

 M. Odhelils '". 



JL HE account of this fingular cafe was tranfmitt.cd to M. 

 Odhelius, together ^vith fonic of the larvse, by M. Flank* 

 furseon of Carlltadt, who, during the courfe of forty years 

 practice, never faw any of the like kind difcharged from the 

 human bodv. The patient, who was fcvcnteen years of age, 

 and who for three vears had been quite regular, became in- 

 dlfpofed in the year 1786, and complained of a violent pain 

 and griping in lier flomach, with a head-ache and confufion 

 in the morning, a burning in the throat, and great laflitude. 

 Thefe fvmptoms were leflcned after repeated eruftation ; but 

 llie diforder ftill increafcd. Mineral water with jalcp pow- 

 der was prefcribed, and the larvae began gTadually to be dif- 

 charced ; but as the patient did not find much relief, and as 

 file naufeated jalep powder, aloe pills, with jalep rcfm, and 

 mercurius dulcis, were adminiftered in its ftead, and about 

 a quart of mineral water each time; by which means thefe 

 troublefome guefts were gradually fo completely expelled^ 

 that the patient, in the courfe of a few weeks, was perfectly 

 iftjred. The larvae were tranfmitted to the Cabinet of Cu- 

 riofities belonging to the Academy of Sciences. ProfeflTor 

 Wilke found, on examining them, that they were of the 

 fpecies dcfcribed by Reaumur under the name of Vers c 

 queue de rat\ , and which belong to a kind of two-winged 

 fiv, called I he Pendulous Fly, iV////?^ />cn//«/^ L. ; becaufe 

 the larvae are fufpended, as it were, by a long thread, which 

 is their oro-an of refpiration. Thefe larvae, which the Pro- 

 felTor examined, were of a yellow ifti-broun colour, from four 

 to fix lines in length, with a tail of about the fame extent j 

 a cylindric bodv, from half a line to a line in thickncfs, cut 



* From X'Tf Ir.vif.ifl'wn; of the Academy oiScler.ief at Stockholm, \'ol. X- 

 t Memoircs po\;r I'Hift. des Infcftes, T. IV. Mem. 11. p«443- 



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