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for this exceptional activity in certain cases. Here 

 are other instances. 



CASE XXVIII. D. W., a gentlerrfan residing in 

 the east of London, has suffered from tapeworm for 

 rather more than a twelvemonth. He has taken the 

 usual remedies without any success; and this was 

 the more remarkable since the proglottides which I 

 examined proved to be those of the beef tapeworm. 

 I commenced treating the case on the 18th of 

 August, 1870, ordering a male-fern emulsion, 

 aperient pills, and a cathartic mixture. Almost no 

 result following the first trial I advised a repetition 

 of the remedies, which again proved ineffective. In 

 the second place I resorted to the areca-mit method, 

 followed by vigorous doses of castor-oil; nevertheless 

 only some score of isolated proglottides came away. 

 Guided by the above-mentioned and other experiences 

 I was in the next instance prepared to show that 

 kousso might again assert its apparent superiority 

 over the other remedies ; but he grew disheartened, 

 and refused to persevere with the necessary treat- 

 ment, under which it is by no means improbable 

 the parasite would have succumbed, at least to the 

 remarkable extent noticed in the previous case. 



CASE XXIX. G. J. M., a member of Parliament, 

 first consulted me on the 12th of September, 1870. 

 For some ten or eleven years he has played the un- 

 enviable part of host to a most obstinate tapeworm. 

 He is under the impression that he contracted the 



