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sufficiently saline water of Friedrichshall, which 

 perhaps has an advantage over the Pullna in its 

 strong degree of bitterness. Of course there are 

 cases in which the use of these waters is contra- 

 indicated ; as, for example,, in patients who object to 

 large potations of any kind.. In such cases the 

 prepared salts may be prescribed with advantage ; 

 this being a method of treatment frequently adopted 

 on the Continent. In the few following cases, as 

 in all the foregoing, I have alike recorded perfectly 

 and imperfectly successful cases; for I have little 

 sympathy with those who think that medical science 

 js advanced only by recording remarkable or won- 

 derful cures. 



CASE LX. D. A., a member of the profession, 

 under middle age, visited me in December, 1868. 

 He informed me that the active duties of a large 

 practice were rendered doubly arduous by the 

 irritation arising from the presence of large num- 

 bers of threadworms ; and he has been afflicted in 

 this way, more or less, from boyhood. At first I 

 suggested the employment of jalapin, podophyllin, 

 and santonin, leaving the question of the frequent 

 use of enemata to his own experienced judgment. 

 However, little or no good following this and other 

 comparatively lenient modes of treatment, I lately 

 urged the employment of sulphur and charcoal 

 powders, followed by draughts of the bitter and 

 saline Friedrichshall waters. Unfortunately neither 



