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"I saw her on the 13th instant, and she had 

 not since felt any symptom of the disease. The 

 patient was seen by Mr. Clifton also. The third 

 (fourth ?) case was that of Welford, shoemaker, 

 aged nineteen. He had before twice taken the 

 oleum terebinthini. After the first trial, he remain- 

 ed free from all complaint for nearly six months 5 

 after the second, not quite so long ; with both, a 

 great quantity of worm had been passed. He took 

 the medicine August S5th, and passed several por- 

 tions of worm, the operation of the turpentine be- 

 ing that of a severe purgative, producing consider- 

 able sickness ; but as he felt quite well the next 

 day, and the effect had not been quite satisfactory, 

 I advised Mr. Clifton again to give it to him on 

 the 27th of August. He accordingly did so ; with 

 this dose however no tape-worm passed, but only 

 a very large lumbricus. During the month of No- 

 vember, he again had evidence of the presence of 

 tape-worm, on which he once more had recourse 

 to the oleum terebinthini, which brought away an 

 entire tape-worm, which was dead when it passed. 

 I saw it in Mr. Clifton's possession. I shall now 

 offer a few observations. 



^* From the general failure of purgative medi- 

 cines in this disease, and from the circumstance 

 of all the worms being dead, when passed (except 

 perhaps in Mr. Hall's case,) we may safely con- 

 clude, that besides its purgative quality, the oleum 

 terebinthini is really poisonous to the taenia. 

 But though destructive to the worms present, wft 



