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the employment of an injection containing ether 

 and quassia. The effect was described as magical, 

 the medicines causing the evacuation of " enormous 

 quantities" of parasites. Subsequent doses (with 

 some slight alteration of the prescriptions) only 

 brought away a very few more worms, for the 

 simple reason that only a very small number had 

 been left behind to operate on. The temporary 

 cure in this instance left little more to be desired 

 in the way of treatment, and at the expiration of 

 a month, when I last saw him, the good results were 

 fully maintained. 



Without needlessly multiplying cases like the 

 foregoing, I may observe that their record suffices 

 to illustrate the usual measure of success which 

 attends the more ordinary methods of treating 

 them. As you may have noticed, the results are 

 not entirely satisfactory, for the disorder is ca- 

 pricious, and constantly liable to return, even after 

 your success appears to be complete. Now and 

 then, however, one meets with a case where the cure 

 remains permanent, and I can remember one pa- 

 tient, a nonconformist minister, who obtained this 

 result simply by the use of aperients and enemata 

 containing two or three drachms of sulphuric ether. 

 Though, in deference to the statements of practi- 

 tioners abroad, I have often employed santonin, 

 podophyllin, and chenopodium, the latter both in 

 oil and powder, I am bound to say that any good 



