£44 TREATMENT OF 



tape-worm, apparently not quite dead. The med- 

 icine produced giddiness, like that which follows 

 tlie use of ardent spirits, a slight headache, and 

 a tendency to sickness, but he felt no other incon- 

 vtMiience, and he has since continued well. Though 

 I had no reason, from Mr. HalPs character, to 

 douht the truth of his account, yet the extraordina- 

 ry dose, in wliich the medicine was said to have 

 been taken, determined me, before I ventured to 

 employ it, to examine carefully, and apart, those 

 inhabitants of this city, to whom he told me it had 

 been successfully administered. As their account 

 entirely confirmed his, I shall now give the out- 

 line of their cases. 



" 1. Grreathead, aged 70, bad been afflicteu 

 with the tape-worm above twenty years, during 

 which time he had taken many remedies ; and 

 among others Madam J\roujfer''Sf with temporary 

 relief, but with no permanent advantage. He took 

 olei terebinthini two ounces undiluted, fasting; ; and 

 in two hours after one ounce more. A tipe-worm 

 came away soon after in a dead state, and he has 

 since experienced no return. 



<< This took place near three years ago. The 

 medicine acted as a brisk purgative, and produced 

 considerable sickness, but no other inconvenience. 



^^ 3. Edward Dodd, Sergeant Major to the 

 Durham volunteers, also took the oleum terebinthi- 

 ni rather more than two years ago. He had had 

 the disease about fifteen years, and had tried 

 Madam JS'oiiffev^s and othei: remedies in vain. 



