LECTURE IV. 



Illustrations of the Relative Value of Particular Drugs Cases IX. 

 and X. Uselessness of Santonin in Tapeworm Impropriety of 

 giving Remedies which exert no Poisonous Action on the Para- 

 site Reasons for Discountenancing the Employment of the Oil 

 of Turpentine Case XI. affords an instance of the Anthelmintic 

 Activity of Turpentine, the Head being dislodged under circum- 

 stances of peculiar interest No necessity for long Fasting before 

 taking Vermifuges Relative Merits of Kousso and Male- fern 

 Case XII., in which the Head of the Worm was Found. 



GENTLEMEN, Towards the close of my last lecture 

 I was speaking of the inappropriateness of certain 

 remedies still commonly in vogue. Here are two 

 cases bearing upon the point then raised. 



CASE IX. K. H., a captain in the Royal Fusiliers, 

 consulted me on the 23rd of July, 1869. He had 

 contracted tapeworm in India four years previously, 

 and had taken the usual remedies without more 

 than a partial success. He suffered from anorexia, 

 nausea, vertigo, and general loss of health. By the 

 male-fern method of treatment I brought away no less 

 than sixteen feet of a pork- tapeworm, some of the 

 lowermost neck-segments being present. No further 

 treatment being at the time pursued, and there 

 being no evidence that the head was expelled, this 



