Considering that the Gammeleira would have a drastic effect, I therefore prescribed two grammes of elaterium, to be divided into eight doses, of which he should take one every three hours.” Dissatisfied with this advice, however, Dr Wucherer goes on to say that on reaching home he carefully looked up the literature of the subject. “In a ‘Geologico-Medical Report’ by Professor Hirch, recorded in the ninety-sixth volume of ‘Schmidt’s Jahrbucher,’ I found how Griesinger had recognised the _Anchylostoma_ as the cause of the Egyptian chlorosis, which was clearly identical with our _hypoæmia_. He had employed this commended anthelmintic. I resolved the more to prescribe the pulp of the Gammeleira when I found it described as a worm-expelling remedy in Martin’s ‘Systema Materiæ Vegetabilis Braziliensis.’ The next morning, however, when I arrived at the monastery I learnt that my patient died about two hours after a slight evacuation. Only after much resistance would they permit the _sectio cadaveris_. I merely opened the abdomen, and was surprised to find everything as Griesinger had described. During the next season, through the courtesy of my colleagues attached to the General Infirmary at Bahia, especially of Drs Silva Lima, Faria, and Caldos, I was enabled to open more than twenty bodies of anæmically deceased individuals. All were selected as miserably poor in condition, but only five were bodies of persons in whom hypoæmia was diagnosed, and in these there were a great number of Anchylostomes in the small intestine. The intestines of the other bodies contained either none, one, or a few.” Dr Wucherer next states that he compared the characters presented by his entozoa with those given by Dubini, Diesing, and Von Siebold, and found a perfect agreement throughout. He sent several examples to Griesinger, who also established their identity, and communicated the results of his investigations accordingly (‘Archiv für Heilkunde,’ 1866, s. 387. See also Leuckart, ‘Die Mensch. Par.,’ Bd ii, s. 411). Dr Wucherer also forwarded a number of specimens to Dr Weber, who published a brief account of them with excellent figures (‘Path. Soc. Trans.,’ vol. xviii, 1867, p. 274). As mentioned in the text of his memoir (s. 394), Dr Wucherer also transmitted some strongyloids to myself. “The publication of my observations,” adds Dr Wucherer (‘Gazeta Medica da Bahia,’ 1866, p. 27 _et seq._), “had a result in that Dr J. R. de Moura, of Thersepolis, in the province of Rio de Janeiro, sought for Anchylostomes in the bodies of tropical anæmics (_Hypöæmikern_). He at once found these parasites, as stated in the same journal (for 1866, p. 132). As occurred to myself, he saw no enduring results from the application of the remedies which appeared to be called for, whilst he well knew that unprofessional persons (Nichtärzte) succeeded in obtaining marked results by the exhibition of the pulp of the Gammeleira (_Ficus doliaria_). The anthelmintic action of this remedy was also