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IV. Two Cafes of Infects Voided by the urinary 
(pajJagCj communicated in a Letter to the Pub- 
lifber , by Dr. Daniel Turner, Coll. Med Loni. 
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Bee . 6. 1725. 
O N the 24th of November lafb, a poor Woman, in 
my Neighbourhood, came to crave my Advice 
for her Grand-child, an Infant of about 16 Months 
old, bringing with her a Worm, which fhe told me 
the Apothecary had juft then drawn out of the Child’s 
Penis, who had for feveral Days before labour’d un- 
der great Unealinefs*, which (as ufually ‘term’d by 
thefe People) Ihe call’d Convulfions of the Bowels. 
The Infant was continually drawing up the lower 
Limbs, and ftraining at both Sphinders the Urine 
feemed to pafs with Difficulty for fome Days, till at 
laft there came on a to'al Suppreffion, and the Worm, 
advancing, ffiew’d itfelf at the Extremity of the.T?r*- 
thra , when the Apothecary was called up to help 
them. I examined the Infect, and found it meafur’d 
above 4 Inches, refembling the Worms ufually ex - 
cern’d per Podicem , of the Earth-worm Kind, but 
whiter j which made me think at firft they had been 
miftaken, and that the fame had been that Way excre- 
ted. Having direded what 1 thought proper, I went 
to the Apothecary, who has the Worm now in his 
Cuftody, to be better inform’d. He allures me, that, 
when he came to the Child, he faw a preternatural 
Body, which at firft he knew notVhat to make of, 
hanging half an Inch out of the Gians , and lying 
double in the Paffiage : Perceiving it farther advancing, 
he took hold of it, and with little Difficulty drew 
forth the fame. 
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