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elated. The medicine was administered by Mr. 

 Clifton, surgeon, on the morning of August 8th. 

 The first dose of two ounces not affecting the bow- 

 els, in two hours one ounce more was given, and 

 in about half an hour after, an entire tape-worm, 

 measuring fourteen feet and a half, came away 

 dead. Soon after taking the first dose, when I 

 saw him, he complained of giddiness and tenden- 

 cy to sickness. Neither his pulse nor the heat of 

 his skin was affected by it. It operated briskly 

 after the second dose, and produced great sick- 

 ness in the evening ; but he had no strangury or 

 heat in passing urine, or other inconvenience, and 

 was cheerful and at work early the next day. 

 Dr. Southey saw tliis patient as well as Mr. Clifton 

 and myself. Within the last three weeks the dis- 

 ease has returned, and he will shortly again take 

 the remedy. The second patient, to whom I re- 

 commended the oleum terebinthini, was Anne 

 liunsden, aged twenty. She took two ounces un- 

 diluted on the 23d of August, and that dose not 

 operating in two hours, she had one ounce more. 

 Nearly an(»ther hour passed before she had a mo- 

 tion, and the first being scanty and nearly natural, 

 and without any portion of worm, she took a third 

 dose, of the same strength as the second. The 

 medicine then operated briskly, bringing away a 

 large quantity of worms, broken into small por- 

 tions, with what had the appearance of skius and 

 much mucus. 



