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daring he felt it no more, nor did he afterwards 
complain of it. 
ii. Taenia. The Tape-worm. 
The Tape-worm, which has of late years en- 
gaged the attention of many great Phyficians, is a 
plague, from which the inhabitants of Egypt are 
not exempted, and which, in this country, affords 
opportunities enough for a Phyfician to enquire 
into its nature, of which we know very little. 
Mr. Foumace, l'urgeon to the French nation, at 
Cairo, was the firft who told me this plague was 
very common in Egypt, and fhewed me three 
pieces of a Tape- worm, which he had, at various 
times, forced out of a woman : one of them was 
forty, the other about fifteen, and the third ten 
French pique ; it was near half an inch broad. 
After I had got this information, I ufed my belt 
endeavours to be better informed, and to colled 
what obfervations I could get from him, and every 
body elfe who pradifed phyfic here, relative to a 
fubjed of fo much importance. I here commu- 
tate them as they were related to me. The Tape- 
worm is fo common, that Mr. Foumace, who has 
pradifed phyfick here for feveral years, believes 
two-thirds of the inhabitants of Cairo to be trou- 
bled with them. The Jews, and the common 
people of Egypt, are moft afflided with this dif- 
order ; many of the Coptites are alfo tormented 
with them, but not many of the Turks. I did 
not fail afking the Praditioners of Cairo, why the 
people in this country are more tormented with 
them than in other places, and why fome forts of 
the people here, are more fubjed to them than 
others ? But I got no fatisfadory anfwers. They 
