prescribes it is able to conform to the golden rule of HIPPO- 

 CRATES " Never risk doing harm." 



The Constitutional Treatment. 



To sum up, the tincture is a true specific in clearing the 

 body of threadworms. It acts to quote the famous motto of 

 ASCLEPIADES "safely, quickly, and pleasantly" (tuto, cele- 

 riter, ac jucunde). And when, by its means, the parasites 

 have been expelled, the constitutional evils which accompany 

 their presence can be dealt with, according to the individual 

 case and its complications. In most cases a gentle course 

 of recuperative treatment (of which I shall give an outline 

 later on) will suffice to restore the patient's constitution x , and 

 I need hardly add that hygienic measures against re -infection 

 must simultaneously receive strict attention. 



Disease considered incurable by Authorities. 



Such is the simple cure which I have found invariably 

 efficacious for this complaint, the treatment of which has 

 baffled so many eminent specialists. Indeed, threadworm 

 disease has often been regarded as incurable by some who 

 found no difficulty with other parasites. At the same time 

 I do not wish, for a moment, to imply that medical men, as 

 a body, have ever admitted that they did not know how to 

 treat this malady. Probably no human ill has been more 

 minutely investigated ; probably none has called forth a more 

 prodigious number of " treatments," and probably none 

 better illustrates the perverted state of orthodox medical 

 science and practice. Everything has been learnt about this 

 common disease, its causes, its symptoms, its course and 

 complications ; in short, everything except its cure. 



The Study of the Disease. 



The parasite has been known for thousands of years, to the 

 laity no less than to medical men. It occurs in every country 

 and under every climate. Being visible to the naked eye, 



1 Constitutional treatment of 1'etat moral du malade est change 



some kind in Threadworm disease convenablement." (DUJARDIN, 



is demanded by many authori- M. F., Histoire naturelle des 



ties : " Dans tous les cas, leur helminthes on vers intestinaux, Paris, 



expulsion n'est definitive que si 1845, p. 139.) 

 le regime ou la constitution, ou 



