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Ib this case also, a second dose of one ounce 

 was given two iiours after the first, as that did not 

 affect tbe bowels. 



This, iu less than an hour, was followed by 

 the expulsion of a dead tape- worm, fifteen feet long, 

 which he had preserved and showed rae. He has 

 had no return. Edward Dodd stated, that he had 

 given it to a young girl 10 years of age, in the 

 dose of one ounce with complete success. 



^< 3. Robson, shoemaker, aged 45, took the ole- 

 um terebinthini two years ago, after breakfast, 

 with considerable relief; but his complaint return- 

 ing in about six weeks, he took it in the usual dose, 

 and fasting. He did not attend to the nature of 

 what passed, except so far as to observe that there 

 were numerous portions of worm ; but he has since 

 been free from all complaint. 



" This patient having drunk some malt liquor 

 in the evening, before the action of the medicine 

 had ceased, was seized with such violent vomiting 

 and diarrhoea as greatly alarmed his family. He 

 did not remark that the liquor was hard, stale, or 

 otherwise bad in i'.j quality. 



^* Besides these, five other cases were mention- 

 ed to me, by Mr. Hali ; but as I had not an oppor- 

 tunity to examine the patients, I do not notice them 

 here. 



'^ Conceiving myself now fully justified in try- 

 ing the remedy, I recommended it to Francis How- 

 ard of this city, butcher. He had laboured under 

 the disease for several years, and was much eraa- 



