Anna Tyshinski

No.

So tapeworms are a kind of flatworm and famous for living in your tummy and eating all your food.

And they're things that you don't necessarily want living inside you.

And so in 1854, a doctor called Alpheus Myers patented a trap.

And it's so good.

I don't know why it wasn't mass produced, actually.

It's a hollow tube made of gold that contains a bit of cheese.

And you swallow the trap.

You leave it in your tummy.

And as he explains, the worm will eventually seize the cheese.

You have to fast for a few days so that the worm's really hungry.

It will seize the cheese and then the trap will spring shut on it and trap it.

And then you can pull it out with a string.

So he says, and he says the convenient thing is you can just fix the cord that hangs out of your mouth somewhere on your shirt.

Right.

A bit like a baby's dummy.

Right.

So you can go about your day.

But eventually he says you'll feel the tugging and you'll see the string move and it'll be the tapeworm tugging on the cheese and at that point you just pull the string up and you extract the tapeworm.

You know what, Andy?