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In reference to this case I may remark that we 

 have here an instance where the powdered male- 

 fern had been employed ineffectually whilst the 

 extract succeeded. In my small treatise on " Tape- 

 worms and Threadworms" I have figured at page 33 

 the head of the tapeworm removed from this 

 patient. It not only showed the so-called fifth 

 sucker very distinctly, but also, as you see by these 

 more highly magnified drawings, the vessels of the 

 water-vascular system. 



CASE XXI. C. F., a lady residing at the east 

 end of London, consulted me respecting a tapeworm 

 which had annoyed her for more than a twelve- 

 month, and for which she had undergone some 

 useless treatment. The only symptoms at the time 

 (December, 1866) were occasional nausea, lassitude, 

 and loss of appetite. In this case also, with some 

 preliminary steps, I advised and prescribed the 

 male-fern method. Here again a single exhibition of 

 the drug brought away a very fine specimen of the 

 Ttenia mediocandlata, the head of the parasite being 

 dislodged at the same time, though separately. 



CASE XXII. S. S., a marrieti lady from Roches- 

 ter, sought my advice and placed herself under my 

 care in June, 1867. Her case was one of the severe 

 kind, for throughout a period little short of a year 

 she had been repeatedly subject to attacks of partial 

 hemiplegia, accompanied by involuntary contrac- 

 tions of the muscles of the left cheek. She was 

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