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.

  • Nicolas Andry
Date:
1701
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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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    of Dutt, would appear under: a; Microféope _ tobeän incredible: Pile: of {mall Eggs, fepas fated one from another; fo that if, we fuppofe thefe Eggs to furnifh the .fmall’ Seeds found inthe Excréments of the Patient, we need not. wonder that it gives them in füch abun: — |: ddeppocrates (a ) fays, ‘tis an etror to take thefe little Particles to be a production of the Worm ; but. it is prefumed-that,if Microfcopes had. been ufed in his time, ,and-if he had: feen ithe Experiment, ] .mentioned but now, ; he would have been of another mind.:, This is eafily infer'd from thereafon that:he gives for “his, Opinion : |For, fays he, how could.fo flat vandAmall. a Worm-contain fuch a..number of Æggss; as to produce;all thefe Gourd-like Par- | lcs in the Excrements of the fick: Perfon? _Aviftotle (b) fpeaksrof...thefe little Bodies, in shis Hiftoria, Animelium,, and; fays, they are ‘the. Genuine Production of this. Worm. As for. their, paflage:from the Worm,,.’tis probable they iffue, forth through penis Holes in -the Nipples, ‘or. perhaps by {ome. paflage hid “under the Rings:of the -foints, for thefe Rings ~ «may be likethe Gills of Fithes, which; open Baden se ubanuonne. Mu dneté NOR NES REY rifts Hips Animal, Lge, 19/0 LT MR CEM 1541 LUE Gb GET TOV EE : wham du ‘14 où De & Hour? à LEA nul My No