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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    from two to five lines long, small, white, and very elastic. This worm is commonly found in the rectum ; but is erratic: it is observed more especially in children; but not unfrequently is met with in adults also. The Oxyures vermiculares are most commonly found €71 troupe in the intestines, in the form of a ball, and frequently so covered with mucus as not to be easily accessible to vermifuges. They are said by Frank to be more numerous and viva- cious at the approach of spring than in the au- tumnal season. These worms do not reside en- tirely in the intestines, but occasionally, in young females, escape and lodge in the external parts of generation, or in the urethra, irritating these parts, and occasioning a sort of leucorrhoea and considerable annoyance** A great number of these worms is said to have been found in the in- testines of a newly born child ; and cases have occurred in which large quantities of them have been thrown olf the stomach by vomiting. Cysts full of the oxyures have also been discovered '* ZiMMEUMANN, Disntrt. dc Fliiore Albo. Goetting. 1788.