[aruanan]

IIRC, until the late thirties in the U.S., tapeworms were being sold as weight reduction ‘systems’.

The all-natural, organic weight loss system.

[MHGinTN]

I'm 64. When I was in grade school we had a skinny little classmate who had chronic sore throat. It was said that he ‘got well’ when the school nurse looked down his throat and saw the tapeworm poking its nasty head up into his larynx.