Garfinkel mentions a case which has been
extensively quoted, of a peasant who voided 238 feet of
tapeworms, 12 heads being found. Laveran reports a case in which
23 teniae were expelled in the same day. Greenhow mentions the
occurrence of two teniae mediocanellata.
The size of a tapeworm in a small child is sometimes quite
surprising. Even the new-born have exhibited signs of teniae, and
Haussmann has discussed this subject. Armor speaks of a
fully-matured tapeworm being expelled from a child five days old.
Kennedy reports cases in which tapeworms have been expelled from
infants five, and five and one-half months old. Heisberg gives an
account of a tapeworm eight feet in length which came from a
child of two. Twiggs describes a case in which a tapeworm 36 feet
long was expelled from a child of four; and Fabre mentions the
expulsion of eight teniae from a child. Occasionally the tapeworm
is expelled from the mouth. Such cases are mentioned by Hitch and
Martel. White speaks of a tapeworm which was discharged from the
stomach after the use of an emetic. Lile mentions the removal of
a tapeworm which had been in the bowel twenty-four years.
The peculiar effects of a tapeworm are exaggerated appetite and
thirst, nausea, headaches, vertigo, ocular symptoms, cardiac
palpitation, and Mursinna has even observed a case of trismus, or
lockjaw, due to taenia solium.
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