violence, they cause grievous and great pains, yea, and oftimes they creep up to the stomach, and so come forth by the mouth, and sometimes they ascend into the holes of the palace, and come forth at the nose. Worms are of three sorts; for some are round and long, others broad and long, others short and slender. The first are called by the Antients Teretes, that is, round; for that they are long and round. The second are named Teniae, for that their bodies are long and broad, like a rowler or swathe. The third are termed Ascarides, for that they commonly wrap themselves up round. Other differences of worms are taken from their colours, as red, white, black, ash-colou∣red, yellowish. Some also are hairy, with a great head like the little fish which the French call Chabot, we, a Millers-Thumb; in some diseases many worms are generated and cast forth by the fundament, as small as hairs, and usually of color white, and these are they which are called As∣carides. The diversity of colours in worms proceedeth not from the like distinct diversity of humors whereof they are generated. For the melancholick and cholerick humor by their qualities are wholly unfit to generate worms. But this manifold variety in colour, is by reason of the different corruption of the chylous or phlegmatick humor whereof they are bred. The long and broad worms are oftentimes stretched alongst all the guts, being like to a mucous or albuminous substance; and verily I saw one voided by a woman, which was like to a Serpent, and some six foot long, which ought not to seem strange, seeing it is noted by the Antients, that they have seen worms so long, as the length of the whole guts, that is, seven times the length of ones bodie. Wierus writes, that he saw a Country-man who voided a worm eight foot and one inch long, in head and mouth resem∣bling a Duck, which therefore I have thought good here to express.
Valeriola affirmeth, that he saw a worm above nine foot long. Now as worms differ in shape, so are their places of generation also different. For the round and long worms are commonly gene∣rated in the smaller guts, the rest in the greater, but especially the Ascarides: none breed in the stomach, as that which is the place of the first concoction. There truly the matter which b••eedeth these worms, gets the first rudiment of corruption, but comes to perfection only in the guts; they breed in some infants in their mothers bellies, by the pravity and corrupt nature of the humor flowing from the mother for the nourishment of the childe, which for that then they do not ex∣pe••l it by siege, it by delay putrefieth the more, and yields fit matter for the breeding of worms, as some have observed out of Hippocrates. Lastly, worms breed in people of any age that are Bel∣ly-gods, and given to gluttony, as also in such as feed upon meats of ill juice, and apt to corrupt, as crude summer-fruits, cheese, and milk-meats. But to know in what part of the guts the worms do lurk, you must note, that when they are in the small guts, the patients complain of a pain in their stomach, with a dog-like appetite, whereby they require many and several things without reason, a great part of the nourishment being consumed by the worms lying there; they are also subject to often fainting, by reason of the sympathy which the stomach, being a part of most ex∣quisite sense, hath with the heart, the nose itches, the breath stinks, by reason of the exhalations sent up from the meat corrupting in the stomach; through which occasion they are also given to sleep, but are now and then waked there-from by sudden startings and fears; they are held with a continued and slow fever, a dry cough, a winking with their eye-lids, and often changeing of the colour of their faces. But long and broad worms, being the innates of the greater guts, shew themselves by stools replenished with many sloughs, here and there resembling the seeds of a Musk-melon or Cucumber. Ascarides are known by the itching they cause in the fundament, cau∣sing a sense as if it were Ants running up and down; causing also a tenasmus, and falling down of the fundament. This is the cause of all these symptoms; their sleep is turbulent and often clamo∣rous, when as hot, acrid and subtill vapors, raised by the worms from the like humor and their food, are sent up to the head; but sound sleep by the contrary, as when a misty vapor is sent up from a gross and cold matter. They dream they eat in their sleep, for that while the worms do more greedily consume the chylous matter in the guts, they stir up the sense of the like action in the phantasie, They grate or gnash their teeth by reason of a certain colvulsifick repletion, the mus∣cles of the temples and jaws being distended by plenty of vapors. A dry cough comes by the con∣sent