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usually set down to other causes; and it is only 

 when these indications are succeeded by restless- 

 ness, nervous irritability, and headache that proper 

 attention is paid to the true source of the malady." 

 Kather than take proper advice, many persons will 

 endure the annoyances arising from the frequent 

 passage of the segments per mas naturales. To 

 refined and educated minds, however, the mere idea 

 of harbouring such creatures as tapeworms is re- 

 volting in the extreme ; consequently such patients 

 display the greatest possible anxiety to be quickly rid 

 of their " guests." Although the gravest symptoms 

 are now and then encountered, it is fortunately 

 not often that the disease proves dangerous to life. 

 " In bad cases the headache is much increased, and 

 often accompanied with giddiness; the sight and 

 hearing may be affected ; noises in the head, itchings 

 at the nose and anus, obscure pains about the body 

 and limbs, loss of appetite, and other dyspeptic 

 symptoms show themselves in greater or less degree 

 in different cases. One of the most common 

 symptoms I have noticed is a tendency to faintness. 

 This is occasionally so marked as to create alarm, 

 and a person uninformed as to the true cause of 

 the disorder might be led to treat this symptom as 

 coming from a totally different source. In females 

 the nervous phenomena display features more or 

 less peculiar to the sex. The restlessness and 

 anxiety are excessive, and at times accompanied 



