LECTURE III. 



Nervous Symptoms erroneously ascribed to Tapeworm Caselll. 

 Necessity of being free from Doubt as to the Presence or Absence 

 of Parasites The Patient's Mind must be fully informed and 

 satisfied Cases IV. to VIII. serve to illustrate this Point- 

 Supreme Importance of a correct Diagnosis Parasitic Diseases 

 frequently overlooked The Proper Remedies for Tapeworm 

 Anthelmintics to be employed with Discrimination Prevalence 

 of the Beef Tapeworm. 



GENTLEMEN, In my last discourse I dwelt espe- 

 cially upon the various symptoms to which patients 

 are liable when infested by tapeworms ; and you 

 will remember that I laid particular stress on the 

 nervous phenomena more commonly met with. 

 Finally, I offered you an instance where some of 

 the worst concomitants of this kind had remained, 

 long after the parasite had been got rid of. Let 

 me now offer you a case of a somewhat different cha- 

 racter; in which, however, the persistent symptoms 

 were again erroneously attributed to the actual pre- 

 sence of tapeworm. 



CASE III. A. L., a gentteman, from Hertford- 

 shire, has long been treated for tapeworm by 

 practitioners of distinction ; but when I first saw 

 him (March 27, 1869) he admitted, in the course 



