RESULT : To the mother's great astonishment, hundreds 

 of threadworms were passed in the excrements for a few days, 

 then they ceased to appear, and the child almost immediately 

 afterwards began to recover with encouraging rapidity. 



Case of a Girl of 17. 



HISTORY : This was the case of a girl of 17 who had 

 suffered from threadworms since childhood, and had been quite 

 unable to get rid of them. She was a delicate and very 

 anaemic girl, showing indications of a weak heart. The 

 worms caused her to experience extremely severe irritation, 

 which was always worse at night, when the nocturnal 

 migrations commenced. 



She had undergone treatment at the hands of several 

 medical men, most of whom prescribed injections, either of 

 warm water, soap and water, or salt and water. After an 

 injection, she had to lie down for a quarter of an hour, and they 

 gave her so much pain as to make her cry. This was most 

 marked when soap was used. Finally she decided that she 

 would rather endure the annoyance of the worms than the pain 

 due to the injections, especially as the latter only gave her 

 temporary relief for a day or two, unless repeated for 

 weeks on end. 



TREATMENT : The tincture was given, as in the other cases, 

 but no constitutional treatment was undertaken, at the request 

 of the patient. 



RESULT : All irritation ceased, to the patient's great 

 surprise, on the first day ; and within three days, all the 

 worms appeared to be gone. 



NOTE. Owing to a variety of circumstances, this patient 

 did not undergo a course of general constitutional treatment, 

 and so did not acquire that immunity from the attacks of 

 threadworms, which, as a rule, is not very difficult to attain 

 and which generally carries with it increased vitality in other 

 respects. Accordingly, she showed signs of fresh infection from 

 time to time ; and this occurred almost invariably if she partook 

 of green vegetables. But, the remedy being at hand, it was 

 at once applied, and a single dose nearly always sufficed to 

 remove all the worms. In these cases of fresh infection, 



