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centimetres long. Thi-ee clays after, having again 

 suffered pain, he decided to repair to the Clinical 

 Hospital of Pavia, then under my care. Besides 

 the symptoms already mentioned, I found his pulse 

 very small and feeble. February 32(1, I direct- 

 ed him the soup-panada, prescribed by JSToiifferf 

 and the day folh.wing, gave him in Uie evening a 

 drachm of the pulverized root of the filix raas, and 

 then his purgative agreeably to the precepts of 

 .A'oiifer. The patient followed this regimen ex- 

 actly, and was again seized with griping pains, dur- 

 ing which he discharged, in several pieces, the 

 armed taenia, represented Plate I, fig. i, ii. The 

 same evening he took again the soup-panada, and 

 on the S3d he took, early in the morning, the fern 

 powder, and soon after the usual purgative. The 

 patient had no pain ; the remedy produced reach- 

 ing to vomit, which gave way on sucking a lemon. 

 He voided, without having pain, in his fecal dis- 

 charges, a lumbricoides, and two pieces more of tae- 

 nia, which, with the preceding, measured ten me- 

 tres sixty decimetres. Tlie head (PI. 1, fig. i,) and 

 the tail were among these pieces. The same treat- 

 ment was continued three days longer, but dis- 

 charging no more taeniae, and the patient being in 

 other respects restored, he returned to his house. 

 Near the end of August of the same year, he came 

 to consult me, because he again felt the pains of 

 the abdomen, and again discharged pieces of tae- 

 nia, which according to him were larger, broader, 

 and longer than the other pieces. I advised him 



