ascarides

The 'ascarides' are small thread-like worms, generally not more than six or ten lines in length, of a white colour, the head obtuse, and the tail terminating in a transparent prolongation.

The Dog William Youatt 1811

Then, having bruised the root of seseli to a very fine powder, and poured in some water, let it macerate for four days, and, mixing the water with honey, let the patient drink it, fasting, to the amount of three cyathi, and at the same time purge away the ascarides.

On Fistulae 2007

To may be added, liberty of disputing against absolute power by pretenders to political prudence; which though bred for the most part in the lees of the people, yet animated by false doctrines are perpetually meddling with the fundamental laws, to the molestation of the Commonwealth, like the little worms which physicians call ascarides.

Leviathan 2007

The species mentioned specifically are lumbrici and ascarides or cucubitini, though the terms long, round, short and broad are also employed, and probably include the tape worm or taenia lata.

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

-- The large round-worms or ascarides and the sclerostomes are the most injurious intestinal parasites of solipeds.

Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

Then, there are some gratuitous and unredeemed vulgarities; some images whose barbarity makes us shudder, of creeping ascarides and inexpugnable tapeworms.

Burke Morley, John 1907

The older records contain instances of continued infantile priapism caused by the constant irritation of ascarides and also records of prolonged priapism associated with intense agony and spasmodic cramps.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Pole 15.223 mentions the expulsion of 441 lumbricoid worms in thirty-four days, and Fauconneau-Dufresne 15.224 has reported a most remarkable case in which 5000 ascarides were discharged in less than three years, mostly by vomiting.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

The number of ascarides or round-worms in one subject is sometimes enormous.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Delisle 9.243 mentions a young person who during a whole year passed pieces of ascarides and tenia, during which time he could not endure music.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896