LECTURE VIII. 



Obstinate Cases will occasionally occur in Practice Case XXVII. 

 -Instances of the Value of Kousso Cases XXVIII. 

 and XXIX. Large Doses of Male-fern may give rise to 

 Symptoms of Jaundice Rapidity of the Growth of Tapeworms 

 shown by the Fact that in the last-named Case upwards of 

 Sixty Feet of Tapeworm were developed from a Single Head 

 within Eleven Months. 



GENTLEMEN, Before completing this part of the 

 course I shall have occasion to lay before you some 

 other instances of supposed tapeworm where none 

 existed ; but in the meantime let me bring before 

 you one or two of the obstinate cases previously 

 referred to. My object is not to pretend that no 

 such cases could occur under the methods of treat- 

 ment I employ, but rather to illustrate the certainty 

 of their occasional occurrence. 



CASE XXVII. J. T., a resident at Battersea, 

 about sixty years of age, first saw me on the 12th of 

 December, 1870. He had been previously treated 

 with partial success both as a private and hospital 

 patient. He had a remarkably spare, not to say 

 emaciated and gloomy look; and this was partly 

 due, in my judgment, to the fact of his being a 



