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attention in England, where stomach complaints 

 disturb the gastronomieal " John Bull," as the " sair 

 head " does the plodding Scot, and "smotherings about 

 the heart " affect the Irish Celt. The discovery at- 

 tracted many by its novelty, though parasitical growth 

 had for some time been a matter of discussion. In 

 this country, Professor Owen (1832) detected the 

 presence of a greenish vegetable mould in the lungs of 

 the Phcenicopterus, and was led to infer that internal 

 parasites embrace entophyta as well as entozoa. 

 Italian, French, and German observers, and notably 

 Mcynier, Schonlein, and Langenbeck, had written on 

 parasitic growths ; and Gruby of Vienna (Valentin's 

 Repertorium, 1841) had given a complete history of 

 them, bestowing special attention on the crusts of the 

 Tinea favosa made up of M ycodermata. Hughes Ben- 

 nett in Edinburgh, Raycr and Cazenave in Paris, con- 

 firmed Gruby 's views. Mr. George Busk gave an 

 excellent review in the Microscopic Journal (December 

 18-11) of all that had been done, and embodied his 

 own researches with it, so that parasitic formation was 

 one of the questions of the day when Goodsir dis- 

 covered the stomachic enemy/"' As Sarcina affects all 

 phases of life, from Lazarus at the gate to Dives in the 

 palace, Goodsir became involved in a large amount of 

 correspondence with doctors and patients soliciting 

 information and curative means. The history of the 



If Edinburgh was Brat made acquainted with the Sarcina, so was its 

 Philosophical Journal the fi avej bo the world, in L819, Sir J. rlerschel's 



researches on the hypo'Sulphiti H of such significance in counteracting 



the parasite. 



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