54 LECTURES. 



July, 1871. Naturally anxious to overcome its 

 obstinacy I this time employed doses made up from 

 a recently prepared extract of male-fern, knowing 

 by previous experiences the great value of fresh 

 drugs. This medicine, prepared by Messrs. Allen 

 and Hanbury, acted even more rapidly and effec- 

 tively than any of those I had previously ad- 

 ministered; nevertheless we had again to content 

 ourselves with the expelled and dead body of a 

 tapeworm, to the extent of another seventeen feet 

 in length, including nearly all the neck without the 

 head. 



This case is certainly instructive, and within my 

 own experience, in some respects unique. You will 

 please to observe that all the remedies were good 

 and effective. In every instance the parasite was 

 dislodged, leaving only its head and a small portion 

 of the neck behind. Its growth was remarkably 

 rapid, attaining its mature size in a comparatively 

 short interval of time. There was no lack of 

 courage on the part of the patient, whilst the 

 previous treatment abroad had been utterly inade- 

 quate. In the probable event of its returning for 

 a fifth time there remain, of course, other drugs to 

 be tried. But here, again, (with much more apparent 

 reason than the last case afforded,) the patient 

 despaired of success, and gave me to understand 

 that no further treatment would be submitted to. 

 Be this as it may, I should certainly look for even- 



