Death. Thus Sphererius writes, That a Florentine Gentleman discoursing one Day with a Stranger, in the Great Duke of Tus∣cany's Court, drop'd down dead, on a sud∣den; and his Body being open'd on Suspi∣cion of Poison, a live Worm was found in the Heart.
The Pleurisy has been often observ'd to be occasion'd by Worms. Gabucinus visited a Maid, seiz'd with a Pleurisy, and observing her cold and hot reciprocally, and in her hot Fits one of her Cheeks very red, the other continuing pale, suspecting Worms, he pre∣scrib'd her a Medicine for that purpose, which, brought away a great Number of Worms, and thereupon the Pleurisy left her.
Several ancient Men, as Quercitan testifies, defunct, of Pleurisies, had their Intestines full of large Worms, which he concluded the Cause of that Distemper.
Dr. Loss, in his Observations, relates such a Case of a Youth about Fourteen Years of Age, of a thin and bilious Constitution, who in a very sharp Winter, having got∣ten Cold, was seiz'd with a true Pleurisy, attended with a continual Fever; a prick∣ing Pain in his lest Breast, reaching to his