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sisting of equal parts of the infusions of tansy and 

 quassia, some sulphuric ether being still added. 

 Excellent temporary results once more followed, to 

 be again and again experienced on subsequent re- 

 newals of this treatment, which, as the patient 

 himself admitted, had done him more good than 

 any of the other measures he had been previously 

 advised to adopt. 



CASE LI. M. R., a married middle-aged lady, 

 consulted me for threadworms on the 20th March, 

 1868. Her symptoms presented nothing remark- 

 able ; but the inconvenience thus occasioned almost 

 amounted to distress. I prescribed rhubarb, jalap, 

 and santonin, with the exhibition of enemata contain- 

 ing steel. I also recommended the local use of mer- 

 curial ointment, to prevent the nocturnal migration 

 of the parasites in the neighbourhood of the funda- 

 ment. At the expiration of a week I discontinued 

 the powders, substituting electuaries of jalap and 

 podophyllin, followed by a cathartic mixture. Con- 

 siderable advantage following this mode of treat- 

 ment, I finally advised its repetition as often as 

 occasion might require. The patient being rather 

 strengthless and antemic, I likewise prescribed a 

 tonic containing the ammonio-citrate of iron. 



CASE LII. R. T., a middle-aged clergyman, con- 

 sulted me in September, 1869. He has had tape- 

 worm, and was successfully treated by the male- 

 fern method, after the previous frequent and inef- 



