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the drug is generally given immediately the signs are observed, 

 before the parasite has time to become firmly established ; 

 and this appears to be the reason that the effect of the medicine 

 is always even more rapid than in the first instance. 



Concluding Remarks. 



The above are only a few examples from the very large 

 number of cases of threadworm disease which have come 

 under my care, and in which a uniformly successful result has 

 been attained by means of the tincture. I have carefully 

 avoided mentioning any case which was complicated by other 

 definite disease, because to do so would only have led to con- 

 fusion in describing the treatment. I have confined myself 

 to instances in which only such complications were present as 

 are common to nearly every case. 



Broadly speaking, the sufferers fall into two groups. There 

 are those who are aware that they have threadworms, and 

 those in whom the trouble is not suspected. The latter is the 

 commoner occurrence, and is mostly the case with children, 

 diagnosis being frequently difficult. Consequently, . when 

 consulted about ailing children, whatever their symptoms, 

 I make it an invariable rule to prescribe a few doses of the 

 tincture in addition to the other appropriate measures. I do 

 so with the knowledge that the minute quantity of the remedy 

 given cannot possibly result in any harm ; and my doing so 

 has been amply justified in the numberless cases where it has 

 led to the discovery of threadworms, not previously suspected. 

 My assumption that the parasite has been responsible for some, 

 if not all, of the troublesome symptoms has found indisputable 

 confirmation in the fact that the latter disappeared as soon as 

 the parasites had been got rid of. 



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