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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    who have been fuppofed to die of Worm-Fevers, and whofe com¬ plaints were of courfe treated as proceeding from Worms, in whom, however, there appeared upon dif- feftion to be not only no Worms, but evident proofs of the diforder hav¬ ing been of a very different nature. A fxngle cafe of this kind was pub- lifhed long ago in the Edinburgh Medical Eflays by ProfeflTor Sinclair, who, after informing us, that upon opening the body, no Worms were found, goes on to obferve, that “ A difappointment of this kind is “ no new thing; for all experien- “ ced Phyilcians know, that every (i fymptom commonly produced by “ Worms, (except voiding them) “ lometimes arifes from other tc caufes.” If this be the cafe, if it be no new thing for Phylicians to Prescribe
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