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clso subject to spectral illusions ; all the symptoms 

 being attributed to the presence of a tapeworm. 

 Here, again, perfect success followed the employment 

 of the male-fern remedy, which brought away a 

 Tcenia mediocanellata fourteen feet in length ; the 

 head, which was unusually well supplied with black 

 pigment granules, being detached separately. Before 

 this patient left London all the nervous symptoms 

 had entirely disappeared. 



CASE XXIII. H. II. J.j a gentleman residing in 

 the neighbourhood of Newcastle, had been treated 

 for tapeworm homoeopathically, without success. 

 The parasite had, I understood, been contracted 

 several years previously, during which period he had 

 simply experienced a very gradual though sensible 

 loss of health. In the treatment of this case I had 

 another very obstinate parasite to deal with ; repeated 

 and powerful doses of male-fern bringing away 

 separately, large portions of the worm, in all 

 amounting to about twelve feet. With the fifth 

 or final dose I succeeded not only in dislodging the 

 isolated head, but in detecting its presence in the 

 evacuations after a prolonged search. 



In reference to this case, which I think can only 

 be characterized as a truly remarkable success, 

 permit me to say that no person unfamiliar with the 

 appearances presented by the so-called heads of taenia 

 \could possibly have discovered the head. Altogether 

 I must have spent five or six hours in conducting the 



