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ness, vertigo, occasional difficulty in " keeping the 

 saddle/' and consequent depression of spirits, are 

 some of the more important symptoms. As hap- 

 pened in several of the foregoing cases, this patient 

 had taken kousso and other remedies without success. 

 My first administration in this obstinate case only 

 dislodged a few feet of the worm, but, after allowing 

 the creature to redevelop itself, I treated the " host" 

 again, bringing away a well-nourished specimen of 

 the beef-tapeworm measuring about ten feet in 

 length. In this instance the head was not found 

 at the time ; but, as there appears to have been no 

 return of the parasite, the head probably passed at 

 an evacuation subsequent to those discharges imme- 

 diately resulting from the employment of the drug. 

 This patient contracted the disease in India. 



The next case is in some respects similar ; and in 

 all probability was attended with an entirely satis- 

 factory result : 



CASE XVI. S. A., a gentleman from Peru, 

 South America, has been infested by tapeworm for 

 several years, having taken the usual remedies 

 without success. Consulting me (in February, 

 1869), he complains chiefly of nausea, frequent 

 gnawing pains at the pit of the stomach, rendering 

 him at times almost hypochondriacal. He appears 

 to have contracted the disease in England, before 

 going abroad. Here, again, pursuing the male-fern 

 method, I brought away, at the second dose, a 



