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we call the head is this 5 tfiat by the means of thefe 
hooi^y and Spikes it might faften icfelE and fo prevent 
it's too eafy ejeBion out of the body. For it being fo very 
/t?j^^, and large too^ and it's body in many places winding* 
and convoluted:, tliQ defcent of the fd:ces upon all occafions 
would be apt to carry it out with ihcmh had it not this 
hold* which is fo faft, that rather than Joofen it felf, parts 
ofthe body are fooner broken ofFj wHichwe frequently fee 
in the ftool. When it penetrates the coat ot the lateftine 
it contrafts itshokf in, and draws up it's; head to a point 3 
then expands them* and takes firm hold ofthe Membrane, 
by darting it's kvttzXponmrds into it 5 which excites thofe 
intolerable pains^ which thofe that are troubled with them, 
fo much cojnplain ojafj that I have known it to that ex- 
tremity, that fome have been fcarcedifTwaded from offer- 
ing violence to themfelvs, to free themfelves, as they 
thought, from a great mifery, and hence it is that this 
Worm is of fo difficult a cure \ that tho by Medicines* and 
Purges, vaft quantities at times maybe brought away; yet 
fome can hardly get a perfeft cureall their life time ; as I 
know of one who for above twenty years has been affliiied 
with it ; that has had the advice of feveral able>and eminent 
Phyficians. And indeed all, who have wrote of this Worm> . 
do make rhe fame Prognoflickjol it ; that the Story of Hippys 
J{hegmus in ^ ALlianis not infignificant, where he tells us ; 
that a Woman being troubled with thhlVorm^ and the 
moft fkilful Phyficians defpairing of helping her* flie went 
at jaft for a cure to the Temple of j£[culapius at Epidaurus i 
but the being abfent, his servants there advifedher to , 
fit in the place, where he ufed to do his Cures * and then 
cutting off her head* one of them thrufting his hand into 
her belly, pulled out a huge Worm* and then endeavour- 
ed to place her head on again* but could not but the God 
by this time being returned, he feverely check't them, foe 
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