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or, to speak more precisely, a small toy which formed the brass 

 " eye " of a lady's dress. Through the circular loop of this toy 

 the Ascaris had partially thrust its body, and becoming thus 

 strangulated, it probably perished before it was evacuated. In 

 Prichard's case one or two lumbrici had similarly trapped them- 

 selves in the eyes of buttons swallowed by the patient, and one 

 worm, not contented with a single strangulation, had succeeded in 

 passing part of its body through two buttons. This case is given 

 in the "British Medical Journal " (1859), whilst that by Barwell 

 wiU be found in the " Lancet " for 1857. 



In the "Boston Medical and Surgical Journal" for the year 

 1842, Mr. T. Gr. Stockbridge gives a similar case, in which he, not 

 inaptly, speaks of these " hooks and eyes" as constituting a new 

 remedy or "worm-trap" for lumbricus; and, singularly enough, a 

 namesake (see W. Stockbridge, in the Bibliography), in the same 

 periodical for the succeeding year, also records another like instance 

 of the " mechanical expulsion of worms" by metallic buttons. 

 Again, in the same serial, a third correspondent, under the initials 

 A. M., speaks of an open-topped thimble as constituting another 

 new " worm-trap," whilst he also gives a case of lumbrici pene- 

 trating " metallic suspensor buttons." Lastly, there is the case 

 of WiUiams, who, at a meeting of the Boston Society for Medical 

 Improvement, exhibited " a lumbricus with a dress-hook attached;" 

 this case being also reported in the Journal above mentioned for 

 the year 1857. 



The above, I believe, constitute the majority of the interesting 

 and important cases published in British and American periodical 

 literature ; but, whilst I have designedly passed over some of the less 

 noteworthy cases, it is just possible that one or two others of consider- 

 able import may have, unfortunately, escaped my research. I could 

 not undertake to refer to all the records where particular remedies 

 have been recommended, though some of these (as, for example, 

 those by Dr. Abbotts Smith, in which he found santonine so 

 valuable) possess much therapeutical interest. In like manner, I 



