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ance of his, who was born of German parents, and had never 

 travelled far, had scarcely left his dwelling-place, which was free 

 from traffic, when he suffered at once from Tcenia and Bothrio- 

 cephalus latus. He administered Kousso with Filix mas, and 

 relaxed the bowels carefully, some hours previously, with castor oil. 

 I have stated above that I had found it impossible to protect 

 animals from infection with cystic worms, by giving them pills of 

 Fllix mas and extract of pomegranate root, when the eggs of 

 tape- worms were administered to them at the same time. The 

 foresters about Holzminden state that they have never found the 

 wild swine of that locality infected with Cysticerci, but it \vas 

 remarked to Dr. Pockels that they were particularly fond of 

 ferns. 



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