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to know that nothing of the kind recurred. We 

 must, of course, be always on our guard lest we 



1 infer that the maggots occasionally found on re- 

 moving bandages have necessarily proceeded from 

 the diseased or injured parts. 



CASE LXXVIL H. H. G., a spare and highly 

 nervous young man from the East End of London, 

 called on me on the 1 Ith of September, 1869. He 

 brought with him a very peculiar looking insect 

 larva, specimens of which he alleged were constantly 

 passing from him by the lower bowel. He be- 

 lieved, I fear correctly enough, that the severe 

 symptoms from which he was suffering were entirely 

 due to the presence of these parasites ; but he de- 

 clined to let me prescribe for him. His manner, 

 appearance, and style of address betokened extreme 

 irritability and sensitiveness, and he told me that 

 he was subject to epileptiform seizures. His exces- 

 sively agitated, hurried, and anxious manner, pre- 

 vented my gathering any other particulars, but the 

 impression I received was to the effect that these 

 pseudhelminths were the sole cause of his sufferings. 

 I have mislaid the parasite, which I believe to have 

 been the larva of an Anthomyia. 



CASE LXXVIIL E. D. W., aged sixty, residing 

 in Newport, Monmouthshire, informed me by letter 

 that he had passed several worms, the nature of 

 which, his medical friends tell him, " is unknown." 

 He is very much out of health, but is in doubt as 



