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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    Vom 32 Of the different forts of VVorms, which breed ‘in the Nofe, the Auricular, which are brd in the Ears, and) the Dentarsi, n which infeft the Teeth. sit aboli ‘o-'The Encephali ave very rare. They pre, yail in fome particular Diftempers. Some 4 Peftilential Fevers have been obferv'd to take rife from ‘them; witnef that raging one at | Beneventum; which fweeped off fo great a Number of People, without yielding to any | Remedy, till-at laft the Phyficians thinking fit to open up the Body of one that dyed of it, found in‘the Head a little live Worm, very fhort,. and all over red ; and having | try’d feveral Medicines for killing it, found nothing effe@ual, but the decoction of Ra- ‘difhes in Malmfey Wine, which was na ‘fooner poured upon the Worm, but imme- diately it died. After that Difcovery they adminiftred the fame Remedy to all their Pa-. fients , (2) and almoft all of them recove- red. Appranus Alexandrinus (b) tells us,that the | Romansan theirV Var with the Parthians,under the Conduct of Mark Antony, were reduc’d to! {uch Extremity, by want of Provifions, that they’ were forced to feed upon Field-Herbs, ‘and after ‘that were fized: with an Epide- imical Diftemper, infpiring them with fuch fary,that they fell a digging the Earth and rol- C29 ) Foreft. lib. 9. de variis capitis doloribus : Obferv..2. in tC. # 1 + b)-Appiun. Jélexandr, cape s..deibello Parthico. — a8 FE ling”