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The French commissioners however, who were 

 chosen to examine the remedy of .Confer, and oth- 

 er physicians who liave often tried the method ot 

 Harrenschwand and tliat of JVovffer, certify, that 

 ihis remedy is fatal to the human unarmed taenia, 

 but that it produces no effect against the armed 

 human taenia.(l6L) The Russians, the French, 

 and the Swiss have chiefly contrihuted to the ce- 

 lebrity of these two methods ;(165) in fact, the in- 

 habitants of these countries are more subject to the 

 unarmed taenia than to the other species.(l()6) 



It follows that in Russia, in Switzerland, and 

 in France, one of these methods must be more effi- 

 cient, than in Lower Saxony,(l67) and in Italy, 

 where the inhabitants are tormented by the armed 

 human taenia,(l68) more than by the unarmed 



species. 



^ CXLVIH' In spite of the fine observations of 

 some celebrated individuals, who testify to the sue- 

 eess of jXo'uffer's method in the treatment of tae- 

 niae, I must however say, that the maxim of be- 

 lievina; it efficacious only against unarmed taeniae 

 is suijject to some restrictions. The celebrated 

 Palletta relates, that the'Milanese physician, Gal- 

 laroli, drove both species of this worm from the 

 human body with Mufers remedy.(l69) 



I have also had several patients attacked by 

 the armed taenia, who were happily cured by the 

 same rc5imen.(i70) Though these observations 

 seem to contradict the maxim announced by the 

 French physicians and other practitioners, I ought 



