DEP/DUA/1/46/15 (Transcript version)

David Sheriff

1789

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No1 Novr 3^d. 1789.

David Sheriff at 29, by trade a sailor, frequently discharges by the anus, worms which evidently appear to be joints of a Taenia. These joints are of different sizes, but most of them are about half an inch in length & three [tenths] of an inch in breadth

In colour & shape they have some resemblance to the seeds of a cucumber. They are discharged without any uneasiness not only when he is at stool, but also upon using any exercise, when they are in general passed alive & unmixed with any foeces.

In other respects he is in perfect health, Pulse, heat & belly natural, but he thinks his appetite & strength somewhat diminishd.

He first observd the discharge of these worms about three years ago & for a very considerable length of time scarce a day elapsed without his passing some of them. But all of them have been discharged by the anus, & never as far as he could observe by vomiting. They have at no time been productive of much uneasiness, but he has sometimes been affected with slight pains in his bowels & a sense of weight in his stomach.

He was a patient at the Dispensary for this complaint in February last, & upon taking a large dose of the Pulvis Stanni he afterwards discharged when at stool a number of joints of the Taenia connected together extending to about five feet in length, & terminating in a filum which however was very short & not very fine. After that he saw no joints of the Taenia for some months. Upon their reappearing he had again recourse to the Tin powder, but without effect, all the portions of the worm which have of late been discharged coming away in single joints only.

Rx Tinct. Aromat

Amar. aa ℥ ii

Ag. Font. ℥ ii M cap. ℥ p. ter de die ex

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