378 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR, 
a wonderful power of life, as parts or half may come 
away, yet it lives and grows sometimes to enormous lengths. 
Dr. Beach, in his Reformed Practice of Medicine, mentions 
the case of an American lady who was infested for thirty 
years, and passed in that time pieces that, if joined, would 
reach one mile in length. We made a present of one which 
we had expelled from a person, 33 feet in length, to the Otazo 
University Anatomical Museum. To kill this parasite is some- 
times very easy, at other times not. We have known of 
persons suffering for years, although they had tried many 
doctors and remedies. We have generally found the following 
treatment successful :—First, eat no supper, but before going 
to bed take one drachm of extract of male fern in two ounces 
of the mucilage of gum acacia. In the morning take a table- 
spoonful of honey. In an hour after, before breakfast, take 
two tablespoonfuls of castor oil on a teaspoonful of bilious 
powder. When you feel that your bowels are going to move 
get a chamber half full of hot water, evacuate the bowels, and 
in all probability you will see the worm. “Wash it and see if 
the head is there; if not you had better repeat the same 
process ina fortnight. The object in using the hot water is 
to keep the worm, which is not dead, warm, for on feeling the 
cold it will cling to the bowels and only a portion will come 
away. » There are several other remedies which promise much, 
but we do not think any of them will be superior to this one, 
however, as we wish to give something to fall back upon, we 
will give one ortwo. Cowhage half a teaspoonful in arrowroot 
jelly, eat garlic and fine salt, take a purge twice a week with 
the compound mandrake powder. Kamala, a teaspoonful, may 
be taken instead of the cowhage. Kusso is another remedy. 
Half an ounce of it is taken in the morning, followed by a 
brisk purge; one dose in the week is sufficient of it. The 
very latest remedy is the cocoanut. Grate the whole of an 
ordinary-sized nut, take it all, in an hour after take a good 
purge. Examine the evacuation, and if there is not any part 
of the tape worm you may feel certain you do not have the 
trouble at that time. Having giving the treatment for ordinary 
