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

  • Samuel Musgrave
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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    The difficulty of curing what is called a Worm-Fever, arifes in my opinion from its being frequently at¬ tributed to Worms, when the caufe - / - r of the diiorder is of a quite different nature. I do not mean to deny that Worms do fometimes abound in the human body, nor that the irritation caufed by them does fometimes pro¬ duce a Fever; but I apprehend thefe cafes to be much more uncommon than it is generally imagined, and that great mifchief is done by treat¬ ing fome of the diforders of children as Worm-cafes, which really are not fo. That Practitioners are frequently deceived in this refped, is fufficiently afcertained by the teftimony of Dr. Hunter, who affures me that he has diffeded great numbers of children, who
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