LECTURE XVII. 



Value of Santonin in Ascarides or Lumbrici Trichiniasis first 

 discovered in the Living Subject by Zenker Symptoms of 

 the Trichinous Disease Recent Outbreak in England Home- 

 fed Swine generally free from this Parasite Dr. Dickinson's 

 published Cases His Claims as being the First Person to 

 recognise and treat the Disease in England are said to have 

 been disputed Further Explanation required. 



GENTLEMEN,, Here I must draw to a close what 

 I have to say respecting the commoner forms 

 of nematode entozoa, only adding my assurances 

 as to the value of santonin in the treatment of 

 lumbrici ; though, as I have repeatedly stated 

 before, its inefficacy in oxyurides is pretty well 

 proven. As an instance of the almost specific 

 action of santonin in Ascaris lumbricoides, I 

 may mention the interesting circumstance that 

 on one occasion a man passing through the labo- 

 ratory of a pharmaceutical firm in the City 

 picked up a santonin lozenge and swallowed it. 

 During the following night or morning, to the 

 astonishment of his wife, he passed a huge lum- 

 bricus, which had thus evidently been expelled by 



