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ANIMALS, &C. IN THE HUMAN STOMACH.
scarcely quitted the house when he was seized with a vo-
miting, and brought up three living toads ; after which he
soon recovered his health.
If it should appear astonishing, that this man could
live so long with these enemies in his stomach, it must
be much more surprising to find, that a person can live
with a still more dangerous animal within him.
John Christian Frommann, doctor of medicine, and
professor of philosophy at the college of Coburg, in
Franconia, mentions a poor widow woman, aged twenty-
six years, who lived out of the town in an unhealthy
house, frequented by a great quantity of reptiles. This
woman being accustomed to sleep with her mouth open,
a snake half a yard long, and of proportionate thick-
ness, crept into her stomach. She was attacked with
different complaints, which the author describes at
length ; and by means of various medicines which he
administered, he at length succeeded in making her bring
it up, and ridding her of such a disagreeable inmate.
Taberna Montanas mentions the medicines he em-
ployed to make a man cast up a salamander, and to bring
from a woman three frogs she had swallowed. Tragus
likewise details those which he used to cause a child to
throw up a snake that had introduced itself into his sto-
mach. Fretegius relates a similar fact, in speaking of the
method by which he relieved a child only ten years old of
a live toad that was in his stomach. All these animals
had doubtless crept in at the mouth during sleep.
In the Ephemerides of the Curious for the year 1675,
it is related, that a shoemaker, having for ten years been
afflicted with violent pains in the abdomen, without find-
ing any relief from the medicines that were administered
to him, stabbed himself in a moment of despair, below
the stomach, and died of the wound. Preparations
were made for the funeral, and the corpse was already
inclosed
ANIMALS, &C. IN THE HUMAN STOMACH.
scarcely quitted the house when he was seized with a vo-
miting, and brought up three living toads ; after which he
soon recovered his health.
If it should appear astonishing, that this man could
live so long with these enemies in his stomach, it must
be much more surprising to find, that a person can live
with a still more dangerous animal within him.
John Christian Frommann, doctor of medicine, and
professor of philosophy at the college of Coburg, in
Franconia, mentions a poor widow woman, aged twenty-
six years, who lived out of the town in an unhealthy
house, frequented by a great quantity of reptiles. This
woman being accustomed to sleep with her mouth open,
a snake half a yard long, and of proportionate thick-
ness, crept into her stomach. She was attacked with
different complaints, which the author describes at
length ; and by means of various medicines which he
administered, he at length succeeded in making her bring
it up, and ridding her of such a disagreeable inmate.
Taberna Montanas mentions the medicines he em-
ployed to make a man cast up a salamander, and to bring
from a woman three frogs she had swallowed. Tragus
likewise details those which he used to cause a child to
throw up a snake that had introduced itself into his sto-
mach. Fretegius relates a similar fact, in speaking of the
method by which he relieved a child only ten years old of
a live toad that was in his stomach. All these animals
had doubtless crept in at the mouth during sleep.
In the Ephemerides of the Curious for the year 1675,
it is related, that a shoemaker, having for ten years been
afflicted with violent pains in the abdomen, without find-
ing any relief from the medicines that were administered
to him, stabbed himself in a moment of despair, below
the stomach, and died of the wound. Preparations
were made for the funeral, and the corpse was already
inclosed