Dickinson eventually performed a successful
operation on this case. Modern literature has many similar
instances.
In the older literature it was not uncommon to find accounts of
persons passing worms from the bladder, no explanations being
given to account for their presence in this organ. Some of these
cases were doubtless instances of echinococcus, trichinae, or the
result of rectovesical fistula, but Riverius mentions an instance
in which, after drinking water containing worms, a person passed
worms in the urine. In the old Journal de physique de Rozier is
an account of a man of forty-five who enjoyed good health, but
who periodically urinated small worms from the bladder. They were
described as being about 1 1/2 lines long, and caused no
inconvenience. There is also mentioned the case of a woman who
voided worms from the bladder. Tupper describes a curious case of
a woman of sixty-nine who complained of a severe, stinging pain
that completely overcame her after micturition. An ulceration of
the neck of the bladder was suspected, and the usual remedies
were applied, but without effect. An examination of the urine was
negative. On recommendation of her friends the patient, before
going to bed, steeped and drank a decoction of knot-grass.
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