An account of the breeding of worms in human bodies. Their nature, and several sorts; their effects, symptoms, and prognostics. With the true means to avoid them, and med'cines to cure them / By Nicholas Andry ... With letters to the author on this subject, from M. Nicholas Hartsoeker at Amsterdam, and M. George Baglivi. At Rome ... Done from the French original, with figures.

  • Andry de Bois-Regard, Nicolas, 1658-1742.
Date:
1701
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the breeding of worms in human bodies. Their nature, and several sorts; their effects, symptoms, and prognostics. With the true means to avoid them, and med'cines to cure them / By Nicholas Andry ... With letters to the author on this subject, from M. Nicholas Hartsoeker at Amsterdam, and M. George Baglivi. At Rome ... Done from the French original, with figures. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ occafon theincompleatnefs of its growth, as. wellas want of time ; for there are Animals — which ftill grow in proportion to the a- as well as others which do not furpafs a de- termined Size. Thus we fee fome Flies al- moft as big as Maybugs; and the Worms which in Vinegar Bottles, are almoft unper- ceivable, become much longer and bigger in tients {wallowing fomething that contained. theSeed of this Infe& is a fufficient Reafon one ask me, how that Seed got into the Vi- there, as the Seed of an infinity of other Worms in Fruits, Cheefe, Herbs, és’. But” after all, to avoid defending an Opinion that wants not its own Difficulties, why might not one fay, that in cafe the Seed of the Worm did not enter the Patients Body along with the Victuals, perhaps it might, have accompanied the Blood of his Father from the time of his Conception? For fince no other Place either of Earth or V Vater prefents us with fuch Jong VVorms, why fhould we think their Seed is forreign to a Man? May not werather conceive that thefe fame very Seeds were created in the Seed of Seed of Lice, which arepeculiar to Men, in- fomuch that their Species would fink,if that of Fe Man