they firft come out J they are fmall like a Thread , and 
afterwards grow bigger and ftronger by degrees ; they 
wrap them up upon a little bit of Stick or Cotton, 
and put upon them Onions and flower of Rice boil- 
ed in Milk. The chief care is to be taken not to break 
them, for then it is that they do Mifchief. When mine 
firft came out for about Forty or Fifty Days it came 
cut every Day by little- and little, without putting me 
to much Pain, but that I could go up and down till 
it was come out a Yard and a Quarter ; but after- 
•'Wards, one Day ftirring too much, I hurt the Worm 
and inraged him, fo that he broke off of himfelf , and 
going in, caufed my Foot and Leg (up to the Calf) 
to Swell till the Skin was ready to burft, which kept 
<me Sleeplefs, and caft meintaa Fever. I hadaChi- 
rurgcon, and kept my Bed for about Twenty Days , 
in which time had feveral Fits of the faid Fever ,- the 
Worm was broke to pieces, and came out in feveral 
farts of my Foot ; but the Chirurgeon applied fuch 
things as killed the Worm, and turned it to Matter; 
he then Lanced my Leg a little above the Ankle, and 
another place of my Foot , and fo with Drawing 
Plaifters drew it all out, fo that I am now by God's 
BleflTing, clear altogether of that troublefomc Crea- 
ture., the Chirurgion having left me about Ten Days 
:^go. 
