Note n — BOOK VIII.
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Not only in the Guts, and in the Flesh; but in many other Parts of the Body, Worms have been discover’d. One was voided by Urine, by Mr. Mat. Milford, suppos’d to have come from the Kidneys. Lowth. ib. p. 135. More such Examples Moufet tells of. Ibid. So the Vermes Cucurbitini are very common in the Vessels in Sheeps Livers: And Dr. Lister tells of them, found in the Kidney of a Dog, and thinks that the Snakes and Toads, &c. said to be found in Animals Bodies, may be nothing else. Lowth. ib. p. 120. Nay, more than all this: In Dr. Bern. Verzascha’s sixth Observation, there are divers Instances of Worms bred in the Brain of Man. One, a patient of his, troubled with a violent Headach, and an itching about the Nostrils, and frequent Sneezing; who, with the Use of a Sneezing-Powder, voided a Worm, with a great deal of Snot from his Nose. A like Instance he gives from Bartholine, of a Worm voided from the Nose of O. W. which he guesseth was the famous Olaus Wormius: Another, from a Country Woman of Dietmarsh; and others in Tulpius, F. Hildanus, Schenchius, &c. These Worms he thinks are undoubtedly bred in the Brain: But what way they can come from thence, I can’t tell. Wherefore I rather think, they are such Worms as are mentioned in Note (k), and even that Worm that was actually found in the Brain of the Paris Girl (when opened) I guess might be laid in the Laminæ of the Nostrils, by some of the Ichneumon, or other Insect Kind, and might gnaw its way into the Brain, through the Os cribiforme. Of this he tells us from Bartholine, Tandem cùm tabida obiisset, statim aperto cranio præsentes Medici totam cerebelli substantiam, quæ ad dexterum vergit, à reliquo corpore sejunctam, nigrâque tunicâ involutam deprehenderunt: hæc tunica ruptæ, latentem Vermem vivum, & pilosum, duobus punctis splendidis loco oculorum prodidit, ejusdem fere molis cum reliquâ Cerebri portione, qui duarum horaram spacio supervixit. B. Verzas. Obs. Medicæ, p. 16.
Hildanus tells us such another Story, viz. Filius Theod. aust der Roulen, Avunculi mei, diuturno vexabatur dolore capitis.——Deinde febriculâ & sternutatione exortâ, ruptus est Abscessus circa os cribrosum——& Vermis prorepsit. By his Figure of it, the Maggot was an Inch long, and full of Bristles. Fabri Hildan. Cent. 1. Obs.
Galenus Wierus (Physician to the Princ. Jul. & Cleve) he saith, told him, that he had, at divers Times, found Worms in the Gall-bladder in Persons he had opened at Dusseldorp. Id. ib. Obs. 60.