An essay on the nature and cure of the (so called) worm-fever / [Samuel Musgrave].

  • Musgrave, Samuel, 1732-1780
Date:
1776
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Credit: An essay on the nature and cure of the (so called) worm-fever / [Samuel Musgrave]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prefcribe medicines againft Worms to patients who have none, I am afraid it is no new thing alfo, un¬ der this mifapprehenfion, to do a great deal of mifchief. The caufe oi thefe miftakes is Tt' plainly this, that people not only conclude too baftily from the exift- ence of a (ingle Worm, that there are many more behind ; but they often (as Dr. Sinclair alfo intimates) infer the exiftence of Worms from (igns that are very equivocal and uncertain , fuch as the ftools con¬ taining fometimes a curdly mat¬ ter, like the curd of milk, and fometimes a dark green fubftance, apparently full of filaments, like the conferva upon (landing waters, the urine, at the fame time, having a mixture of fomething creamy. With evacuations of this kind, if