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particularly their various convolutions in the small 

 iutestines, render it impossible to expel them with- 

 out incommoding the patient. 



A specific is still wanting to kill them without 

 disordering the stomach and bowels ; if such a rem- 

 edy should ever be found, they might be easily 

 dissolved and discharged w th the fecal matter, be- 

 cause once dead, they no longer adhere to the mu- 

 cous membrane which lines the alimentary canal. 



The armed human taeniae, by insinuating them- 

 selves with greater force into the substance of the 

 intestines, are more difficult to expel, than the tae- 

 nia without arms.(lS5) 



Thus the morbid symptoms they occasion, be- 

 ing consequently more intolerable,i^i26) demand 

 more prompt and efficient relief. 



§ CXXXIX. The principal remedies used by 

 practitioners to expel the taenia are taken from the 

 class of the most powerful eyacuants, and from the 

 most active stimulants ; the number of these reme- 

 dies is great because several of them are inefficient. 



On tbis point it is necessary to remark, that the 

 administration of these remedies should be adapt- 

 ed to the age, constitution and morbid predisposi- 

 tion to which the individual tends who is troubled 

 with the taenia; in a word, to the excitement of his 

 system. In an individual of middling strength, 

 att'ected with tbis worm, and who has a tendency to 

 asthenia, we can easily expel the worm that tor- 

 ments him by a simple evacuant, or a compound 

 drastic cathartic. 



