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uppn a piece of bread fpread with honey, and eaten, killeth worms m 
children exceedingly." '^—BilTet fays, " The great baftard black Helle- 
bore, or Bear's-Foot, is by far the moft powerful vermifuge for long- 
round worms of any I have yet experienced. The anthelmintic virtue 
of this plant is w^ell known to the vulgar in the Dutchy of Cleveland, 
Yorkfhire, who generally give it to their children when they fufped: 
them to have worms. The decoction of about a dram of the green 
leaves, or about fifteen grains of the dried leaves in powder, is the 
ufual dofe adminiflered to children betwixt four and feven years of 
age ; a full or fufhcient dofe generally proves more or lefs emetic, 
and often loofens the belly a little. It is ufually repeated on two, and 
fometimes three fuccefTive mornings. The fecond dofe has commonly 
a greater efFed than the firft, and never fails to expel round worms 
by ftool, if there be any lodged in the alimentary tube." 
" The juice of the green leaves of the Bear's-Foot, made into a 
fyrup with coarfe fugar, is almofl the only vermifuge I have ufed 
againll round w^orms for three years paft. Before preffing out the 
juice, I moiften the bruifed leaves, which are a little fucculent, with 
Ibme vinegar, VN^hich is a corredor of this medicine, and prevents it 
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from inducing great ficknefs, or much 
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vomiting. 
Of this fyrup I 
give one tea-fpoonful at bed-time, and one or two in the morning 
on two or three fucceffive days, to children betwixt two and fix years 
of age ; increafmg or diminifhing the dofe a little, according to the 
flrength of the patient." [ When this does not open the body, an 
equal quantity of tindure of rhubarb is direded to be added. 
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« An EfTay on the Medical Conftitution of Great Britain, p. 235 
B. fpeaks of this plant as ufefulalfo in fome afthmatic and hypochon 
* Gerard, 1. c 
and p. 339. Dr. 
driacal diforders. 
We have tried the anthelminthic efFeas of this plant upon a girl of twenty years of 
age, (a patient in the Middlefex Difpenfary) with confiderable advantage. 
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