Commentaries on diseases of the stomach and bowels of children / by Robley Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Commentaries on diseases of the stomach and bowels of children / by Robley Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    where union had taken place between the colon and bladder, ulceration followed, and the flatus and excrements were discharg-ed with the urine. If any large Ascarides lumhricoides had escaped in this way, they might have been taken for the Strongyli gigantes; a mistake which, however, would not have been a very im- portant one, in a therapeutical point of view. None of the genera of the family Acanihoce- phala have been hitherto discovered in the hu- man subject. To the order Trematoda*, belong those worms with a soft, depressed, or roundish body, having a solitary pore. Of this order, three species, the Distoma he- paticuniy Poly stoma pinguicolum, and the Poly- stoma venarum, have been found in the human body; and of these, the first only in the intes- tines, and there but rarely. The Distomata, in general, have a depressed or roundish and soft body ; the anterior and ven- tral pores, solitary. * Hdminlhi Trematodei.—Cor^oxe molli, de])resso, vel te-