19th Century Medic's Royal Navy Records Reveal Girl Vomited 2 Metre Parasitic Worm: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk...
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"Power's notes state: "Complained yesterday evening of pain in the bottom of the belly increased on pressure, abdomen hard and swollen, picks her nose, starts in her sleep, bowels constipated, pyrexia, tongue foul, pulse quick, skin hot, great thirst. Her mother brought me a lumbricus [worm] this morning 87in long which the patient vomited.""
- Graham Sergeant