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malcules, are thus introduced into their night- 

 stools ; but a professional friend to whom I have 

 since mentioned this case has advised such a step. 



CASE LXXV. A. F. D., a gentleman from 

 Worksop, called in November, 1870, stating that he 

 was suffering from ^ot^. He did not look like a 

 person in ill health ; neither did the case offer any 

 symptoms worth noting. He could only be said to 

 be labouring under a slight attack of dyspepsia. 

 As, however, he insisted, pertinaciously enough, upon 

 the existence of bots in his interior and he had 

 been professionally informed that he had undoubt- 

 edly passed bots I prescribed powders containing 

 santonin, calomel, and scammony. I particularly 

 requested that any specimens which passed should 

 be sent to me ; and on the 2nd of the following 

 January I received a phial containing eleven of 

 these alleged parasites. To the naked eye, it must 

 be admitted that these foreign bodies did more or 

 less resemble the larvae of restrus. They varied in 

 size up to seven-tenths of an inch, and, with one 

 exception, were of a yellow colour. Further ex- 

 amination showed that the exceptional specimen 

 was only an undigested and entire raisin, retain- 

 ing its pulp cells and numerous crystals ; whilst 

 all the other bot-like bodies were only undi- 

 gested masses of imperfectly cooked, waxy pota- 

 toes. The cells, varying from l-140th to l-80th 

 of an inch in length, gave the usual purple 



