An account of the breeding of worms in human bodies: their nature, and several sorts; their effects symptoms, and prognostics; with the true means to avoid them, and med'cines to cure them.

London: Printed for H. Rhodes at the Star, the corner of Bride-Lane, Fleetstreet; and A. Bell at the Cross-Keys and Bible in Cornhill, near Stocks-market, 1701.

"The first medical parasitology text-an exhaustive study of the parasites of man, the diseases associated with them and their treatment. Andry's views were often ahead of his time. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he did not believe in the spontaneous generation of parasites but clearly stated that their seeds entered the body from outside sources and that some foods were particularly liable to contain them" (Morton's Medical Bibliography, Fifth Edition, Edited by Jeremy M. Norman)..

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