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ma,*(70) of dysentery,(71)of St. Vitus's dance,(7S) 

 of catalepsy,(73) of tetanus,(7'i) of epilepsy,(75) 



region. A cataplasm of garlic, wormwood and tansy wms applied 

 over all the abdomen. Tliese symptoms rcajjpe»red for three 

 hours in the night of the 8th and 9th. 



The patient evacuated with his feces fifteen lumbrici, and a 

 considerable quantity of blackish matters. A brisk cathartic, 

 procured the next day, copious dark, fetid evacuations, loaded 

 with an enormous quantity of putrid v/orms, among which forty 

 lumbrici were counted.! From this epoch to April 11th, the 

 anthelmintics were continued ; the patient was six times purged, 

 and again discharged fifteen worms, and a quantity of matter 

 containing the fragments of many more. 



From the last date M. seemed radically well, till the begin- 

 ning of August, when he experienced some slight indications 

 of worms. On the 13th and 14th, convulsions, itching of the 

 nose, and spasmodic twitchings of the abdominal muscles, took 

 place. The 23d and £4tli, he had loss of sight, hearing, and 

 speech; a ptisan and anthelmintic pills were administered. 

 The presence of taenia was suspected, and M. de JVo/(^er's rem- 

 edy was prescribed. Pronounced better from the first dose ; 

 the symptoms abated almost instantly. This remedy taken 

 three times more, produced the discharge of thirty lumbrici. 

 The patient has been six times purged ; he continued the anthel- 

 mintics, and the treatment w as terminated by the use of cincho- 

 na and preparations of iron, with so much success that on the 

 22d of October, 1804, the patient had complained no more 

 after the month of August, 1803. Vermifuges however, com- 

 bined with purgatives, were still occasionally administered. 



* Our colleague Esquirol, piiysician of the Lunatic Hospi- 

 tal opposite la Salpetriere, has just published in the Jiecueil 



•j- Of this number, one was found ten inches long-, as large as tlie ring- 

 finger of an adult person, covered with very short hairs, vi<ibli\^'iththe 

 glass, and appearing black. 



