Note 438 — THE KING’S DAUGHTER AND THE APE.
Richard Francis Burton translation
Easterns, attribute many complaints (such as toothache) to worms, visible as well as microscopic; which may be held a fair prolepsis of the “germ-theory” the bacterium, the bacillus, the microbe. Nymphomania, the disease alluded to in these two tales is always attributed to worms in the vagina.