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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    and are sometimes met with on the dissection of old people*. T<jeniai are mre in childhood, but more com- mon during youth and in after periods. The Tricocephalus and Filaria medinensis do not seem peculiar to any age. Nothing precise in this respect is known of the other worms which infest the human body. In the younger brute ani« mals, worms would also seem to be more com- mon ; as the Tcenia in the sucking lamb; Asca~ rides in the calf; and Distomata in young birds. Entozoa are, however, by no means rare in the older animalsf. Pallas, Werner, Frank, and the greater part of authors, have considered that the female sex are more especially subject to worms ; and Ru- dolphi affirms, that of three cases of Tcenia which occurred to him in town, and of numerous others * J'ai retire a peine quelques uns de ces vers f Ascaridcs lomhricotdesJ sur beaucoup de corps ouverts a I'hospice de la Salpetri^re, ou I'on ne re^oit que des personnes ag^es : I'ho- pital des enfants, au contraire, m'en a fourni en abondance ; j'en ai recueilli quarante-deux sur un seal sujet.—J. Cloquet, Libri cilati, p. 4. + RuDOLPHi, Libri citaii, vol. i. p. 408.