The history of a case in which animals were found in blood drawn from the veins of a boy : with remarks / by J. Stevenson Bushnan.

  • Bushnan, J. Stevenson (John Stevenson), 1808?-1884.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The history of a case in which animals were found in blood drawn from the veins of a boy : with remarks / by J. Stevenson Bushnan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Borelli took for a new kind of worm, and an inhabitant of the veins, was in fact the common Fluke^—^Distoma Hepaticum—and an inmate of the Gall-ducts ; * and certainly both the form which he assigns to them, and the means which he recommends for procuring them, are in favour of this sup- position. Si ilia cernere cupias, says he, accipe jecora Vervecina vel Bovina ; seca ilia frustulatim, et in aqua projice, ea manibus mulgendo et attrectando, &c.— At the same time there are some points in his description which seem to me to corres- pond much better with the characters of the Animals described above by Mr Rhind, than with those of the Fluke, or any other common parasite of the Human body—but of this again in future. Among the principal authors who have drawn attention to the occurrence of Ani- mals in the Veins is Nicholas Andry, who affirms that he himself had twice met with them. He states also that a certain Pari- * CJericus. Hist. Lat. Lumb. e. 18. C