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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    fier only in the Night, but never in the Day. I prefcribed her a Remedy for the Worms; never telling her, that ‘twas for that Diftem- per, but only bid her inform me what Effeé ithad. Eight Daysafter fhe came tome again, and told me, that ever fince fhe took the Phyfick, which I gave her, fhe had voided Worms every Day, and that fhe thought her ‘Breafts were grown big. I was then defirous ‘to fee whether I could obferve the fame things Thad obferved before : but I found the Chaps in her Breafts gone, the Circle: about ‘her Nipple was no ‘longer fo very pale, nor did her Urine change any more after it had fet- tied for fometime: Then not doubting but that her M4 would return again, as plen- tifully as it had ufédto do, if1 ftill gave her” ‘Remedies for the Worms, this Idid, and it had that Succefs, ‘that 15 Days after fhe came “to meagain; with a lufty Child in her Arms, that fuckt with full Content. : I was willing “to relate this Matter of Fac, with all the Cir- “cumftances, that fuch ‘Phyficians who read it; may make their Reflections upon it. | ~~ The Round-worms, called Afcaredes, caufe. itching in the Fundament, and many times - through the Irritation, which they caufe in Li] oftentimes Tenefnuss. | The Effe@s:of. the Worm calld Solsam, are : .almoft the fame with thofe of» the Long and . Round-worms, but more violent, as os VA e