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disorder in Norway ; and he has been professionally 

 treated for it at St. Petersburg without any 

 success whatever. The remedies employed were 

 kousso, male-fern, and turpentine. Beyond the 

 inconvenience of carrying the creature about with 

 him he has suffered little or nothing, though com- 

 plaining occasionally of giddiness. Being a remark- 

 ably powerful man I resolved upon adopting the 

 mosfc active treatment, and I had the satisfaction of 

 bringing away no less than fourteen feet of a well 

 nourished beef tapeworm by the first administration 

 of the male-fern extract. Ten weeks subsequently 

 the parasite returned, when a similar course of 

 treatment was again advised. This was in February, 

 1871. On this second occasion we succeeded in 

 dislodging no less than sixteen feet of the tape- 

 worm ; nevertheless the head remained behind. 

 At the expiration of another nine weeks the parasite 

 returned for the third time ; and on this occasion I 

 resolved to try the areca-nut method. This drug, 

 like the previous preparations of male-fern, acted 

 most efficiently > and this time the parasite dis- 

 lodged measured no less than seventeen feet in 

 length. Here, however, it may be remarked that 

 the body of the worm came away alive, whereas 

 under the male-fern poison it was always dead at 

 the time of expulsion. On yet another occasion 

 this unusually fine cestode returned, when, for the 

 fourth time, I sought to expel it. This was in 



