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cats, dogs and pigs are very numerous; they enjoy unusually close rela- 

 tions with members of the community, and in the absence of a satis- 

 factory means of the disposal of their excreta these must always prove 

 a menace in infecting the probable harborers of the other phases of the 

 life cycle of the parasite. 



XIII. TREATMENT. 



!No form of treatment so far established is specific against the infec- 

 tion. Many different types of therapeutics have been used and some of 

 them, such as inhalations of antiseptic substances for the pulmonary 

 type, have been thought to benefit the patient. 



Taylor recommends rest in bed during times where there is haemoptysis 

 or when the cough is very severe. 



A general, tonic treatment, consisting both of good hygienic measures 

 and drugs, is recommended by all observers and a change of climate 

 to noninfected regions urged by some. 



In one of my cases the cough disappeared and the general condition 

 of the patient improved very much under large doses of potassium 

 iodide. 



XIV. LITERATURE REFERENCES. 



The following references include the principal articles noticed in the 

 text. Except for a few of recent date, they may all be found referred to 

 in the more extensive bibliographies of Stiles, Katsurada and Scheube. 



Baelz, E. 



Ueber parasitare Hamoptoe [Gregarinosis pulmonum) : Central, f. d. mcd. 



Wissensch. (1880), XVIII, 721. 

 Ueber einige neue Parasiten des Menschen: Berl. Klin. Wchnsch. (1883), 



XX, 234. 



COBBOLD, T. S. 



On some new forms of Entozoa: Trans. Linn. Soc. London (1859), XXII, 363. 

 List of Entozoa, including Pentastomes, from animals dying at the Society's 



menagerie, between the years 1857-1860, inclusive, with descriptions of 



several new species: Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1861), 117. 

 Entozoa : An introduction to the Study of Helminthology, with reference, 



more particularly, to the Internal Parasites of Man (1864). 

 Parasites: A Treatise on the Entozoa of Man and Animals, including some 



account of the Ectozoa (1879). 

 {Distoma ringeri) : See Manson's Tropical Diseases (1880), 130. 

 Katstjeada, P. 



Beitrag zur Kenntniss des Distomum ivestermanii : Beitr. s. path. Anat. u. 



z. allg. Path. (1900), XXVIII, 506. 

 Kerbeet, C. 



Zur Trematoden-Kenntnis : Zool, Ann. (1878), I, 271. 



Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Trematoden : Arch. f. Mikr. Anat. (1881), XIX, 



529. 

 Leuckaet, Etjdolf. 



Die Parasiten des Menschen und die von ihnen herriihrenden Krankheiten 



(1889), I, 2, 97. 



