1 
Hagen.] 114 [November 27, 
here the plate is wanting. The description seems to me to designate 
the larva of Homalomyia. The sex of the patient is not given. 
No. 10. Dr. Stringham, Professor in Columbia College. New 
York Medical Repository, 1805, v1, 262, and vil, 342. Reports the 
case of a lady whose sufferings were relieved and cured after the 
passage of a great number of nondescript insects, which he considers 
to belong to the genus Actinia. The very rough figures resemble an 
- Oniscus. 
No. 11. V. L. Brera. Memorie fisico-mediche sopra i principali 
vermi del corpo umano, etc. Crema, 1811. 4°. p. 106, pl. 1, f. 26-27. A 
new species of the genus Cercosoma had been discharged with 
the urine by a lady. Prof. Canali in Perugia, dissected and de- 
scribed it in Giornale letterario di Pisa. The unique type came in 
the collection of Brera and was described and figured. Bremser, p. 
264, states that this worm is the well-known larva of Eristalis 
pendulus, and gives a copy of the figure on the title page. The proof 
that the larva, which was found in the chamber vessel, had been 
really discharged by the lady, is wanting. Bremser’s remarks about 
this history are rather sareastic. If all, he says. found in the cham- 
ber vessel must be considered as discharged, I have discharged in a 
sickness a pair of candle snuffers, which was found in the vessel, and 
which nobody would admit to have thrown into it. - 
J. G. Bremser. Ueber lebende Wuermer im lebenden Menschen. 
Wien, 1819..4°. In this well-known and prominent work, chap. xm 
gives in an appendix the so-called Pseudohelminthes found in the 
human body but not belonging to the intestinal worms. ‘The figures 
are given on the title page. In the same way (Brems., p. 261), Brera 
in his before quoted work, Part 11, has treated the insects found in 
men as Vermi metastatici. Dr. Bremser’s critical remarks for some 
species are very important. 
C. A. Rudolphi Entozoorum sive vermium intestinalium historia 
‘naturalis. Amstelod., 1808-10. 8°. 2vol. In the bibliographical part 
of this celebrated work, 1, 164, the published cases on larvae voided 
through natural passages of the human body are enumerated with 
short critical remarks. In chap. xx, De insectis animalium 
parasiticis, p. 524, he gives his opinion about the cases in which it is 
professed that larvae were discharged through the urethra. 
“ Qui in vesicam urinariam veniant, me fugit, casusque plurimos, 
ni omnes, in quibus insectorum larve in urina reperte dicuntur, ad 
praestigias referem. Larve aliaque insecta lotio misso facile illabi 
