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The authors are giving results of treatment with Yomesan in 35 incidences of infectations with beef tapeworm (Taenia saginata). In the group composcd of 12 persons Yomesan was administered on an empty stomach, in cases of 2 tablets (at 0,5 g.); an hour later two tablets were gwen again and after two next hours the patients were gwen 300 ml of a 6 per cent solution of Magnesium sulfuricum which had to serve as a laxative. The results of faeces control carried out 3 to 4 months after the end of the treatment in 5 persons (41, 5 per cent) proved the patients were free from Taenia segments and its ova. In the remaining 7 persons the evacuation of the tapeworm segments began after 3 to 8 weeks. In the second group, counting 23 patients, the authors applied Yomesan in the same way as in the group number one, with the only difference that no laxative was given. Control investigations carried out 3 to 4 months after the treatment have not discovered any presence of Taenia in 18 patients (78.3 per cent). In 5 cases treatment with Yomesan proved to be unsucccssful. All patiens were given a light digestive food the day before the application of Yomesan. For supper they received cream of wheat. Nither laxative nor enema have been given after the administration of the drug. On base of results obbined after medication with Yomesan in cases of infestation with T. saginata the authors believe that: 1) Yomesan, i. c. amide N-/2'chloro-4-nitropheno-/i-chlorosalicylous is generally speaking, an efficacious preparaticn in infestations with beef tapeworm. Notice should be taken that better results are obtained when no laxative is applied after the cure. 2) It seems that Yomesan is all in all a preparation without noxious after - effects. 3) The easy application of Yomesan and its small toxicity could allow, after elaboration of a more suitable way of treatment than the present one, to introduce that drug for a general fight against the T. saginata infestation.