The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body / by Matthew Baillie.

  • Baillie, Matthew, 1761-1823.
Date:
1793
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Credit: The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body / by Matthew Baillie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    The worms which are found in the hu- man subject, may be reduced to three gene- ral classes, viz. the lumbricus teres; taenia, and ascaris, Lumbricus Teres. The lumbricus teres, or round worm, is much more commonly found in the intes- tines of children, than in those of persons full grown, or advanced in life: it is very usually met with in the first, but rarely in the two last. The lumbricus teres has been often confounded with the common earth worm, to which it bears a general resem- blance, although it is really very different. By most practitioners, indeed, at present, there is known to be a difference, yet it is not very well understood in what this difference consists. The two species of worms, if at- tentively examined, will be found to differ a good deal from each other in their exter- nal appearance. The lumbricus teres is more pointed at both extremities, than the common earth worm ; the mouth of the