Tapeworms (human entozoa) : their sources, varieties, and treatment ; with one hundred cases / by T. Spencer Cobbold.

  • Cobbold, T. Spencer (Thomas Spencer), 1828-1886.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Tapeworms (human entozoa) : their sources, varieties, and treatment ; with one hundred cases / by T. Spencer Cobbold. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    so much as even looked for (no opportunities having been afforded for the necessary explorations), I con- jecture that as many as 13 were cures. Consequently I conclude that, out of the whole 60 cases submitted to treatment, as many as 50 were permanently cured. In other words, as I have elsewhere re- marked, in all cases where this affection is properly treated—where the necessary facilities are offered for exploration, where the physician is thoroughly well informed as to the natural history and varying appearances presented by the entozoon in its dif- ferent stages of growth, where every antecedent feature in the history of the case is carefully looked into5 or where, in short, there is an exhaustive knowledge of all the surroundings and possibilities occurring in any case submitted for diagnosis and treatment, then, and then only, can that full measure of success be attainable in the management of the disorder which in my own experience cer- tainly gives not less than four-fifths of cures in all cases either actually treated by myself or upon which I have been called to pronounce and advise professionally. As already more than hinted, the cures* may have amounted to five-sixths of the whole ; yet, satisfactory as this result undoubtedly is, I think we have not yet pushed the practical and scientific management of this disorder to that degree of perfection which we may yet hope to realise. Such, at all events, are my facts and deductions.