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than 700 have been thrown up by the stomach at different times 

 since the commencement of my attendance. The first discharge 

 took place after a violent mental emotion, and was preceded by a 

 discharge of blood from the mouth, nose, and ears." " We cannot 

 attempt to describe [the reviewers say] the various insects in all 

 stages of larva, pupa, and perfect animal, minutely detailed by Dr. 

 Pickle, and presented in the plates. The doctor and other medical 

 gentlemen were frequently witnesses of the ejection of these ani- 

 mals, and there appears no reason whatever to suspect any disposi- 

 tion to imposture on the part of the patient." 



It is afterward stated that " for a period of three months a 

 number were thrown up from the stomach almost daily, in some in- 

 stances to the amount of thirty at a time. A great proportion were 

 destroyed from an anxiety to avoid publicity, and many escaped 

 immediately after being vomited, by extricating themselves quickly 

 from the vomit. and running into holes in the floor. Upwards of 

 ninety were submitted for Dr. Thompson's examination, nearly all of 

 which, including two of the specimens {teredris molitdr), I saw my- 

 self thrown up ai different times. The average size Was about an 

 inch and a half in length, and four were an inch and a half in length 

 and four lines and a half in girth* The larvae of the dipterous insect, 

 though voided only seven or eight times, came up almost literally 

 in myriads ; they were alive and moving. The larvae of 1:he beetle 

 were vigorous in the extreme; nor was it possible, without a feeling 

 of horror.to view them rushing along the bottom of the vessel in which 

 they were preserved, occasionally expanding their jaws and extend- 

 ing their denticulated feet. Mr. Clear, of this city, has succeeded in 

 keeping some of them alive now, after an interval of a year, in little 

 pots filled with clay, and so secured as not tp exclude the air." ' 



