'Eaten of worms' / by W. Curran.

  • Curran, William, 1927-
Date:
1886
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 'Eaten of worms' / by W. Curran. 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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    ADDENDUM. From, the Medical Pkess & Cikcitlab, Sept. 15th, 1886. “Eaten of Worms.” The papers under this heading, which are concluded in our present number, deserve a passing reference at our hands. Based as they are on the writer’s personal observa- tions in the East, and referring as they do to the teach- ings or traditions of a somewhat narrow exegesis or exclu- sive theology, they disclose facts or features that can only be satisfactorily explained by the physician or the patholo- gist. They also show that these features do not require or justify the strained or far-fetched interpretation that has hitherto been so liberally placed upon them, but that “familiar by our pathways” the causes that explain them are still operating daily in our own midst. The range of reading and depth of research they exhibit are rarely found amongst us nowadays, and had we space for the elaborate and exhaustive notes with which their erudite author had so copiously illustrated or established his points, the extent of these would be more manifest than it is at present. But these were beyond our space, and we were reluctantly compelled to compress them according, to the exigencies of journalism.