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firm cartiliginous substance, and to the inferior part of each 

 body were attached a considerable number of legs." Dr. S. 

 " considers them to belong to the order of vermes, molusca, 

 and to that genus termed Actinia." His paper is accompa- 

 nied by drawings of them. 



Dr. Crumpe has published in the sixth vol. of the Transac- 

 tions of the Royal Irish Academy, a case very similar to the 

 above. Another, very analogous, has been inserted by Dr. 

 Pascalis, in the seventh vol. of the Med. Repository, p. 342. 



Dr. John Archer, of Maryland, communicated to Dr. Mitch- 

 ill of this city, in 1808, an instance of his opening a tumour, 

 and " extracting from it a worm eight or nine inches long, 

 which appeared to be like a lumbricus, and alive." Med. 

 Repos. vol. XII, p. 367. 



Dr. Hazard, of S. Kingston, Rhode Island, while attending 

 Mr. S. Chappel, (of that town,) aged about 70, " while view- 

 ing attentively the tumour, discovered an undulating mo- 

 tion, like that arising from the movement of some living 

 creature. He opened the tumour, and on examination with 

 a probe, he raised up and immediately extracted a worm, 

 which bore an exact resemblance to the lumbricus, was 

 about nine inches in length, and very active. The phenom- 

 enon was witnessed by a large number of respectable char- 

 acters." See also Med. Rep. Hex. Ill, vol. 2, p. 388. 



I trust that these, and the other instances related by the au- 

 thors before mentioned, will at least establish the possibility 

 that larva may pass from the urethra or bladder — and that, 

 although uncommon, it does occasionally occur. 



For accounts of larvae voided through natural passages of 

 the human body, I may refer to Rudolphi Entozoa, Vol. II. 

 p. 164-5. 



