A 26-year-old man was cured of an inexplainable epileptic fits after a 10cm-long tapeworm was removed from his brain. According to the South China Morning Post, doctors discovered a live tapeworm ...

In late April of 1880, the Muncie Daily Times wrote that Munsonian doctor William Egbert had removed a 46-foot-long tapeworm from an unnamed fellow citizen. This was the first of many ghastly tapeworm ...

Tapeworm infections were common in the late 19th century due to a lack of food safety laws and meat inspections. Historical accounts from Muncie detail tapeworms growing to dozens of feet long inside ...