VERMI\OUS DISEASES. o$3 



to enter the hospital where he arrived August 29th. 

 I treated him for seven days agreeably to tue plan 

 of JVoufer, as had been done in the month of Feb- 

 ruary ; but no effect was produced, as he discharg- 

 ed merely some small fragments of taenia, as hap- 

 pened before he entered on this course of treat- 

 ment, and the symptoms increasing for two days, 

 I subjected him to the trial of the root of the male 

 fern, according to the mode orHerrenschicand,(i7i) 

 in lieu of tliat of JTouffer ; but all was useless. 

 The griping pains returned with augmented vio- 

 lence ; the alvine evacuations were more frequent, 

 the patient very weak ; frequent fainting fits ren- 

 dered the disease more severe, and the taenia seem- 

 ed more and more diflicult to be expelled. 



In a case to me so singular, I determined to try 

 Alston's i^Un; and accordingly, September 8th, 

 I prescribed for him, to be taken in the morning;, a 

 bolus, compounded often grains of filings of tin, with 

 a sufficient quantity of conserve of roses, to be re- 

 peated every two hours. After the third dose 

 he voided, in several pieces, a very large armed 

 taenia, in length twenty five metres one hundred 

 and fifty decimetres ;(17S) he recovered his health 

 perfectly, and was no more troubled with taeniae. 



§ CXLIX. If we attentively consider this case, 

 it will teach us that the method of J\^iiffer may 

 be successfully adopted even in cases of armed 

 taeniae, if they are small or young, because this 

 worm, before his size and strength are completed, 

 is not yet firmly attached by the faugs of his head, 

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