INTESTINAL WORMS. 



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are here represented, from the splendid work of 

 Bremser. 



Intestinal worms. 



That insects are, in some rare cases, intro- 

 duced into the human stomach, has been more than 

 once proved ; though the greater number of the 

 accounts of such facts in medical books are too 

 inaccurate to be trusted.* But one extraordinary 

 case has been completely authenticated, both by me- 

 dical men and competent naturalists; and is pub- 

 lished in the Dublin Transactions, by Dr Pickells 

 of Cork. | Mary Riordan, aged 28, had been much 

 affected by the death of her mother, and at one of 

 her many visits to the grave seems to have partially 

 lost her senses, having been found lying there on 

 the morning of a winter's day, and having been ex- 

 posed to heavy rain during the night. When she 

 was about fifteen, two popular Catholic priests had 

 died, and she was told by some old women that if she 



* See Good's Nosologia, Helminthia Alvi; and Study of Med. 

 vol. i, p. 336 



t Trans, of Assoc. Phys. in Ireland, iv, vii, and v., p. 177, 

 8vo. Dublin, 1824 1828. 



