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Lad done no good, and they had brought nothing 

 away. At length it was happily remarked, that as 

 she contemplated remaining in London two or 

 three days longer, perhaps in the interval a portion 

 of the creature might make its appearance, and in 

 this event an opportunity would be afforded me of 

 pronouncing upon the true nature of the entozoon 

 and of advising as to further treatment. Fortu- 

 nately, on the morning of the sixth day succeeding 

 that on which my opinion was first sought, frag- 

 ments of the said parasite duly appeared. You 

 may imagine that I lost no time in making the 

 necessary stool- examination, when, sure enough, in 

 place of any tapeworm, I found several long rolls 

 of exudation-membrane, portions of them being 

 considerably more than a foot in length. Thus 

 the whole mystery was cleared up. The rolls were 

 tolerably uniform in thickness, and sufficiently 

 tenacious to admit of their being held up between 

 the blades of a pair of forceps. As, however, their 

 appearance was semi-transparent, almost gelatinous, 

 devoid of jointing, and marked by oblique Hues of 

 twisting, it was clear that the coils in question 

 offered no fair grounds for the persistently asserted 

 opinion that this lady was suffering from tapeworm. 

 Proceeding therefore to explain to my patient the 

 pseud-helminthic character of the creature she had 

 passed, she had the satisfaction of learning and be- 

 lieving that for some six years past she had been 



