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stay for several months. I may also mention that 

 she willingly assented to my proposal that she 

 should again see me on her return from the Con- 

 tinent if the parasitic enemy reappeared. 



CASE XXXI. L. D., a lady-like young person, 

 sought my advice in the early part of May, 1870. 

 She came from Staffordshire, and stated that she 

 had been the victim of a tapeworm for some three 

 years past. In view of a cure, she had been very 

 properly advised to try male-fern, kousso, and other 

 parasiticides. No very marked success had at- 

 tended this kind of treatment; nevertheless she 

 admitted that she had parted with a portion of her 

 " guest," to the extent of perhaps six feet, only 

 three weeks previously. As she could not wait 

 the requisite time necessary for the full re-develop- 

 ment of the parasite, I prescribed for her at once, 

 though somewhat unwillingly. With far more 

 success, under these circumstances, than I antici- 

 pated, the male-fern method brought away, after 

 the first dose, the body of the creature, whilst a 

 second administration sufficed to dislodge all that 

 remained of the parasite except its head. Alto- 

 gether the fragments of the finely attenuated neck 

 and the body included measured twelve feet, so that 

 the animal allowing some eighteen inches for the 

 growth accomplished during the interval which had 

 elapsed since her previous treatment could not 

 have been less than seventeen feet. In this case I 



