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respecting a tapeworm which has troubled him 

 for six years past. For the cure of it he has taken 

 large doses of turpentine and other drugs. The 

 consideration that fully three months had elapsed 

 since he last passed any of the worm (as a result 

 of treatment), coupled with the circumstance that 

 he was not at the time passing " segments," at 

 once enabled me to express my belief that he was 

 already relieved of his enemy. The correctness of 

 this opinion was subsequently confirmed by the 

 absolutely negative results obtained after a most 

 vigorous course of treatment a measure which I 

 found necessary to adopt in order to dispel all 

 doubt and difficulty in the patient's mind. 



CASE V. C.A.,ageritleman,resident at Edinburgh, 

 wished to go through a course of treatment for 

 tapeworm. As he had not noticed the passage of 

 " joints" for an interval of something like a year, I 

 explained to him (June 15, 1868), that any remedial 

 measures would probably only secure a negative 

 result. Having taken certain medicines which I pre- 

 scribed, without, of course, passing any tapeworm, 

 this patient had also the good sense to rest satisfied 

 as to the correctness of the opinion I originally 

 offered. 



CASE VI. R. A. consulted me (September 11, 

 18G9) in reference to obscure pains in the throat 

 and other parts of the body, which he attributed 

 to the presence of tapeworm. This gentleman's 



