Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
November 26, 1805
Primary Source Reference:
Clement Stanford, "Case of Worms, &c. discharged from the Stomach," Philadelphia Medical Museum, Conducted by John Redman Coxe, M.D. 2, No. 4 (February 1806): 408-410
Notes:
This report by Dr. Clement Sanford (d. 1832), who was "of Wicomico Lower Ferry, Somerset County, Maryland," was dated 26 November 1805 and relates his treatment of a woman who vomited the various worms and bugs he sent to John Redman Coxe (1773-1864). At the end of the published account Coxe added a note that "These bugs are deposited in Mr. Peale's Museum"; the acquisition is recorded in the Accessions Book, pp. 13-14.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
