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whitish acrimonious lymph, which immediately ex- 

 cites inflammation, and not unfrequently produces 

 afterward an abscess or gangrene. The worm in his 

 leg was twice broken, and twice occasioned an ab- 

 scess. At last, at his own request, the part affected was 

 rubbed with a preparation of mercury : and in eight 

 or ten days the effect surpassed his hopes ; for not 

 only the body of the insect came away in suppura- 

 tion, but the wound also, which was then more than 

 three inches long, and considerably inflamed, was 

 in this time almost entirely healed *. 



FURIA. 



The body of the Furia is linear, and of equal 

 ickness throughout. It has on each 

 row of close-pressed reflected prickles. 



thickness throughout. It has on each side a single 



Of this tribe only one species, the Furia infernalis, 

 has been hitherto discovered. In Finland, Bothnia, 

 and the northern provinces of Sweden, the people 

 were often seized with an acute pain, confined to a 

 mere point, in the face, or other exposed part of the 

 body, which afterwards increased to a most excruci- 

 ating degree, and sometimes, even within a few 

 hours after its commencement, proved fatal. This 

 disorder was more particularly observed in Finland, 

 especially about marshy places, and always in au- 



* D'Obsonville, p. 4.1. 



