Worms. : A series of lectures on practical helminthology, delivered at the medical college of the Middlesex Hospital; with cases illustrating the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of internal parasitical diseases / by T. Spencer Cobbold.

  • Cobbold, T. Spencer.
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1872
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    LECTURE IV. Illustrations of the Eelative Value of Particular Drugs—Cases IX. and X.—Uselessness of Santouin in Tapeworm—Impropriety of giving Remedies which exert no Poisonous Action on the Para- site—Reasons for discountenancing the Employment of the Oil of Turpentine—Case XI. affords an Instance of the Anthelmintic Activity of Turpentine, the Head being dislodged under circum- stances of peculiar Interest—-No Necessity for long Fasting before taking Vermifuges—Relative Merits of Kousso and Male- fern — Case XII., in which the Head of the Worm was Found pp. 20—26 LECTURE V. Caution to be observed before definitely pronouncing a Cure— Case XIII., where Two Worms existed and One Head only came away—Always Search for the Head of the Worm if possible—Case XIV. gives a Cure in which the Vision was affected, the Head of the Worm not having been sought for— Cases XV. to XIX. afford Instances of Cures where the Head of the Worm was either not discovered or not sutficiently searched for—A Trichocephalus dislodged by the Action of Male- fern pp. 27—33 LECTURE VI. Four Successful Cases (XX. to XXIII.) in which the Head of the Tapeworm was expelled and found—Possibility of dislodging and finding the Head when nothing else is left to operate on— The Head of a Bird's Tapeworm obtained under still greater Difficulties—Supposed Case (XXIV.) of the Bioad Tapeworm or Botliriocephalus Case XXV., illustrating the apparent Superiority of Male-fern over Areca Nut in the Treatment of Tapeworm PP- 3^—42