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in the inteftines, which firft caufed all thefc terrible 
fymptoms, were removed. 1 he fame thing in a lefs 
degree was obfervabie in the Feckenham Boy, men- 
tioned before ; and we have had two remarkable in- 
ftances of the fame kind at the Worcefter Infirmary; 
where a boy and his filler, of the name of Moyies, 
received a perfect cure, and recovered the entire ufe 
of their fenfes, after having been rendered idiots 
(though not in fo high a degree as the Norfolk Boy) 
for more than two years, by epileptic fits proceeding 
from worms. 
Worcefter T. Wall. 
Dec. 7, 1 748. J 
I 
P. S. As the following hiftory has fome analogy with 
the fubjedt we are now upon, 1 beg leave to fub- 
join it by way of poftcript. 
A young girl of the name of Lowbridge, at Led- 
bury, in Herefordfhire, nine years old, had been 
long troubled with a gnawing pain at the ftomach, 
which growing gradually more violent, I was at 
laft called to her. About a quarter of an hour 
before I reached the houfe, Ihe was feized with a 
violent vomiting, whereby Ihe brought up an 
amazing number of living animals fuppofed, to be 
upwards of a thoufand, together with a vaft quan- 
tity of clear vifcid phlegm. In fhape they exadtly 
refcmbled millepedes, except that lome of them, 
being examined by a magnifying glafs, appeared 
to have a fmall filament, which arofe from the 
middle of the belly, and might probably have 
ferved to fix them to their nidus. They were of dif- 
ferent fizes, from that of the largeft millepede, to 
fome 
