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encountered, as the worm for a time successfully 

 resisted the most vigorous treatment. However, 

 this patient's great courage at length enabled me 

 by perseverance to accomplish the desired end. She 

 is now perfectly free of the parasite. 



CASE XVIII. Y. Y., a gentleman residing in 

 Dublin, requested me to advise and prescribe for 

 him (July, 1866), although I should have no oppor- 

 tunity of personally ascertaining by inspection the 

 results of my treatment. He had suffered from 

 tapeworm for two or more years. The male-fern 

 preparations which he procured with my sanction 

 in Dublin apparently produced little or no effect ; 

 but the medicines (made up from the same pre- 

 scriptions) which I subsequently instructed a 

 London druggist to send him, were most effica- 

 cious. It seems that the whole parasite came 

 away at the first dose ; at all events, there has 

 been no return of the disease. This patient ap- 

 peared considerably astonished, and was certainly 

 gratified by the result. / 



CASE XIX. B. C. C., a lady residing at the 

 west end of London, had contracted tapeworm at 

 Poonah, in India, and had been passing segments 

 continually during the last six months. She con- 

 sulted me in January, 1868, when I found that 

 her general health had suffered considerably, and 

 though of stout build, she was remarkably anaemic. 

 The male-fern method of treatment brought away 



