The Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.
however, used both the hot and cold baths in the most liberal maimer, together with the vapor and warm air baths, both of which he introduced into the practice of our Hospital. Though naturally of a delicate constitution, Dr. Bond, by strict attention to his health, attained the age of seventy-two. He died March 26th, 1784.
Dr. Bond communicated to the "Medical Observations and Inquiries" of London, two papers, the first, giving a minutely detailed history and dissection of an unusual case which fell under his observation in 1753, viz., of a lady who, after an illness of eighteen months, attended with peculiar symptoms, discharged by stool a worm twenty inches long, and an inch in diameter, and soon afterwards died. Upon dissection, the liver was found to be much enlarged and hardened, containing a cavity holding nearly two quarts, filled with bloody water, and a few lumps of coagulated blood. On the side of this cavity was an opening into the hepatic duct, and the biliary ducts were so dilated as readily to admit the end of a common tallow candle. The worm, a figure of which accompanies the case, was annular, "of a red color, and filled with blood in the manner of a leech," and was discharged in two parts. The worm was preserved and sent over to London to William
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