LECTURE VI. 



Four Successful Cases (XX. to XXIII.) in which the Head of the 

 Tapeworm was expelled and found Possibility of dislodging 

 and finding the Head when nothing else is left to operate on 

 The Head of a Bird's Tapeworm obtained under still greater 

 Difficulties Supposed Case (XXIV.) of the Broad Tapeworm 

 or Bothriocephalus latu* Case XXV., illustrating the apparent 

 Superiority of Male-fern over Areca Nut in the Treatment of 

 Tapeworm. 



GENTLEMEN, Before concluding this section of my 

 subject I have still a few more cases to bring under 

 your notice, several of them being of remarkable 

 interest. / 



CASE XX. B. D., a gentleman from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Manchester, consulted me in the 

 month of December, 1865. For a period of eighteen 

 months he had been more or less troubled with 

 fainting fits, accompanied by much general depres- 

 sion. The frequent passage of " joints" occasioned 

 him great annoyance and disgust. He has been treated 

 for tapeworm hitherto without success. After some 

 slight preliminary treatment, I ordered him a male- 

 fern mixture followed by a cathartic. One dose 

 sufficed in this case to bring away a perfect Tania 

 mediocanellata with the head and neck attached. 



