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patient herself, who, on being shown a figure of 

 Bothriocephalus latus, at once declared that the 

 portion referred to exactly corresponded with the 

 drawing I exhibited. Here, as my opinion only 

 was sought, I had no opportunity of trying the 

 effects either of male-fern or of any other remedy. 



The above happens to be the only case where 

 this particular aberrant type of tapeworm has come 

 before me in actual practice ; nevertheless I need 

 hardly say that I have examined and dissected many 

 specimens of the worm procured from other sources. 

 One of the examples thus obtained had been ex- 

 pelled from an Irish girl by a dose of male-fern ; 

 and I entertain very little doubt, from the observa- 

 tions of Leuckart, Weinland, Kuchenmeister, and 

 others, that the ordinary treatment pursued in cases 

 of tsenia will equally well suffice for those of 

 bothriocephalus. A case recently presented itself 

 at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and was successfully 

 treated, as I understood, by the male-fern method. 

 To quote one excellent Continental authority, I may 

 refer you to Dr. Weinland, who has remarked in 

 his " Essay on the Tapeworms of Man" that the 

 remedies against this worm are the same as those 

 employed in cases of Tcenia solium ; and he might 

 have added, as well as against all other forms of 

 cestodes, liable to infest the human body in their 

 adult state. 



You will not have forgotten, perhaps, that when 



