An inaugural dissertation on worms of the human intestines : submitted to the examination of the Rev. William Linn, D.D. P.T. president ; and to the trustees and faculty of Queen's College, New-Jersey ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, with the rights and immunities thereunto appertaining / by Henry M. Van Solingen, of New-York.

Date:
1792
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on worms of the human intestines : submitted to the examination of the Rev. William Linn, D.D. P.T. president ; and to the trustees and faculty of Queen's College, New-Jersey ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, with the rights and immunities thereunto appertaining / by Henry M. Van Solingen, of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    S A DISSERTATION' ON WO lucinus faw one hundred and ft : hat were voided at one turn by a girl; U nearer home, a woman in this city, a patient mine, p«ified, in four and twenty hours, confuler- ably more than an hundred, and molt of which were pretty long. Of the r,<EN Tl IE taenia, or lumbricus latus, by (am called the Solitary Worm, becaufe It has been be- lieved to be always alone. Hippocrates called it Teunm; hence its denomination, Tape-worm. No fpecies of inteftinal worms is more deftruc- tive to human nature, or more difficult to be to- tally deftroyed: It fometimes equals in length the whole inteftinal canal-, the breadth of it is various, both in the fame worm, and in different worms. It confifts of a great number of joints, fimply connected together-, and thefe joints are fo articu- lated, that the extreme edges of the preceding come over the fubfequent. The extremity where- on the head is fet, is fmaller than the other, and fome