extremely probable that the infection was
through the umbilical cord. All cases in which treatment was properly
carried out by competent nurses have survived. This treatment consisted
in dressing the cord with iodoform powder and antiseptic wool, the
breast-feeding of the baby from the first, and the administration of
one-grain doses of potassium bromid at short intervals. The infant
death-rate on the island of St. Kilda has, consequently, been much
reduced. The author suggests the use of a new iodin-preparation called
loretin for dressing the cord. The powder is free from odor and is
nonpoisonous.

Human Parasites.--Worms in the human body are of interest on account of
the immense length some species attain, the anomalous symptoms which
they cause, or because of their anomalous location and issue. According
to modern writers the famous Viennese collection of helminths contains
chains of tenia saginata 24 feet long. The older reports, according to
which the taenia solium (i.e., generally the taenia saginata) grew to
such lengths as 40, 50, 60, and even as much as 800 yards, are
generally regarded as erroneous. The observers have apparently taken
the total of all the fragments of the worm or worms evacuated at any
time and added them, thus obtaining results so colossal that it would
be impossible for such an immense mass to be contained in any human
intestine.

The name solium has no relation to the Latin solus, or solium. It is
quite possible for a number of tapeworms to exist simultaneously in the
human body. Palm mentions the fact of four tapeworms existing in one
person; and Mongeal has made observations of a number of cases in which
several teniae existed simultaneously in the stomach. David speaks of
the expulsion of five teniae by the ingestion of a quantity of sweet
wine. Cobbold reports the case of four simultaneous tapeworms; and
Aguiel describes the case of a man of twenty-four who expelled a mass
weighing a kilogram, 34.5 meters long, consisting of several different
worms. Garfinkel mentions a case which has been extensively quoted, of
a peasant who voided 238 feet of tapeworms, 12 heads being found.
Laveran reports a case in which 23 teniae were expelled in the same
day. Greenhow mentions the occurrence of two teniae mediocanellata.

The size of a tapeworm in a small child is sometimes quite surprising.
Even the new-born have exhibited signs of teniae, and Haussmann has
discussed this subject. Armor spea