maw-worm

Updated: May 10, 2025

The tape-worm infests the whole course of the bowels, both small and large: the long round-worm, principally the small bowels, occasionally the stomach; it sometimes crawls out of the child's mouth, causing alarm to the mother; there is, of course, no danger in its doing so: the common thread-worm or maw-worm infests the rectum or fundament. What are the causes of Worms?

Pye Henry Chavasse - Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children

It ought, by means of the finger, to be frequently smeared on the parts affected. Have the goodness to inform me of the different varieties of Worms that infest a child's bowels? Principally three 1, The tape-worm; 2, the long round-worm; and 3, the most frequent of all, the common thread or maw-worm.

Pye Henry Chavasse - Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children