Commentaries on diseases of the stomach and bowels of children / by Robley Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Commentaries on diseases of the stomach and bowels of children / by Robley Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sway in the causation of several diseases: viz.the hydatid. To this insect the pulmonary and other tubercles, the various tumours affecting the cor- poreal fabric, have been ascribed : but no clear evidence has as yet been adduced to render the notion indisputable. The best systems for the classification of the worms which infest the human body, are those of Rudolphi and Bremser; from whose united labours Frank* has taken his arrange- ment. In his interesting work they are divided into five families: viz. 1, Nematodea; 2, Acan- thocephala; 3, Tremaioda; 4, Cestoidea; and 5, Cystica. All the species, however, which fall under these families, are not met with in the human body. To the family of Nematoid(.a-\ belong those worms which have the outer skin more or less * De Ciirandis Hominum Morhis Epitome. Lib. vi, De re- tentionibus, p. 3. t Hebninthi Nematodei.—Corpore tereti, elastico, crassitie nunc aequali, nunc parte anteriore, vel posteriore, magis aut minus, pedetentira aut subito, acute aut obtuse deficiente, tractu intestinali hinc ore, illinc ano, terrainato, individuis tam masculis quam foemineis instruct!. Frank, p. 185. B 2