LECTURE X. 



Patients are commonly only pleased with Advice which is in entire 

 Harmony with their Preconceived Ideas Cases XXXIV. 

 and XXXV. Parsimonious Reluctance of Wealthy People to 

 obtain Medical Advice Case XXXVL, il'ustrating the Im- 

 portance of a Correct Opinion Different Species of Eutozoa are 

 sometimes associated together Case XXXVII. 



GENTLEMEN, The following is a characteristic 

 instance in which I thought it my duty to resist 

 the wishes of a parent that active treatment should 

 be pursued : 



CASE XXXIV. H. C., a lad thirteen years of 

 age, called with his father to see me on the 7th of 

 May, 1870. For fully three years he has been 

 troubled with tapeworm. As he was fond of under- 

 done beef, and only rarely partook of pork, it was 

 easy to conjecture the true character of the parasite. 

 He had taken kousso very frequently; its action 

 usually causing the expulsion of short fragments only. 

 However, some three weeks back, he passed as 

 much as twelve feet of the worm at a single sitting; 

 yet he was desirous of being treated afresh. Of 

 course I resisted the pressure in this instance; and 



