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the one nor the other of these remedies could be borne, 

 the water being described " as so bitter and salt 

 that the stomach would not retain it." Discarding 

 therefore these active remedies, he has been obliged 

 to content himself with a milder form of treatment, 

 and has since found considerable benefit by taking 

 " every morning, early, a tumblerful of strong 

 infusion of gentian on an empty stomach." Should 

 this measure of good not be maintained, it is pro- 

 posed to return to the mineral water treatment in 

 a modified form. 



CASE LXI. B. R., a retired lieutenant-colonel, 

 sought my advice on the 13th January, 1871. 

 His age is about seventy, and he has suffered from 

 these threadworm pests ever since he attained his 

 majority. He has been treated with aloes, sulphur, 

 and other drugs, aided by quassia and saline injec- 

 tions. He had likewise been induced to try the 

 homoeopathic method; the results being, as you would 

 naturally suppose, eminently unsatisfactory. In this 

 case I advised a continuance of the enemata, sub- 

 stituting steel instead of salt; but I relied more 

 especially upon the use of powders of scammony, 

 santonin, and sulphur, washed down by copious 

 draughts of Friedrichshall water. Unfortunately this 

 patient could only bear a trifling amount of purga- 

 tion ; nevertheless, the treatment proved decidedly 

 beneficial. 



CASE LXJI. N. H. J., a clergyman, from 



