Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part II. For the year 1758.: Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.Various
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Philosophical transactions, Vol. L. Part II. For the year 1758.: Giving some account of the present undertakings, studies, and labours, of the ingenious, in many considerable parts of the world.
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I cannot close this paper without observing, that, from the history
of the Norfolk Boy, we may learn, in similar cases, where the head is
not idiopathic, never to despair absolutely of a cure, notwithstanding
the disease has been of very long standing. For in this boy, though
the oppression in the brain and nerves had continued many years, and
had been so violent, as to deprive him not only of his intellectual
faculties, but almost all his sensations; yet were not the organs much
impaired thereby, but he recovered all his senses again, as soon as
the irritation and spasms in the intestines, which first caused all
these terrible symptoms, were removed. The same thing in a less degree
was observable in the Feckenham Boy, mentioned before; and we have had
two remarkable instances of the same kind at the Worcester Infirmary;
where a boy and his sister, of the name of Moyses, received a perfect
cure, and recovered the entire use of their senses, after having been
rendered idiots (though not in so high a degree as the Norfolk Boy) for
more than two years, by epileptic fits proceeding from worms.
J. Wall.
Worcester Dec. 7, 1748.
_P. S._ As the following history has some analogy with the subject we
are now upon, I beg leave to subjoin it by way of postscript.
A young girl of the name of Lowbridge, at Ledbury, in
Herefordshire, nine years old, had been long troubled with a gnawing
pain at the stomach, which growing gradually more violent, I was at
last called to her. About a quarter of an hour before I reached the
house, she was seized with a violent vomiting, whereby she brought
up an amazing number of living animals supposed, to be upwards of
a thousand, together with a vast quantity of clear viscid phlegm.
In shape they exactly resembled millepedes, except that some of
them, being examined by a magnifying glass, appeared to have a
small filament, which arose from the middle of the belly, and might
probably have served to fix them to their nidus. They were of
different sizes, from that of the largest millepede, to some, that
were scarce perceptible; so that they appeared to have been generated
at different times, and grown in the stomach. As the child was
suddenly seized with this effort to vomit, she discharged her stomach
on the floor of the parlour where she was sitting. The millepedes,
they told me, were at first very lively, and crept briskly different
ways; but they did not live long in the open air. They were lying in
the slime when I came to her, so that I could not be imposed on as to
the verity of the fact. After this evacuation, the child’s stomach
grew perfectly easy, and continued so.
CXII. _Observations upon the_ Corona Solis Marina Americana; _The_
American Sea-Sun-Crown. _By_ John Andrew Peyssonel, _M.D. F.R.S.
Translated from the_ French.
[Read Dec. 14, 1758.]
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