l86 l^ffeds of Opium counter aStsd, 



as herrings, &cc< as well as foups with bread, and light vege-* 

 tables. 



'^ 2d, In regard to the ufc of the medicine itfclf, a large 

 tea fpoonful of No. i. mull be given to the patient every two 

 hours. This nuill be continued for two or three days until 

 the patient feels the motion of the worm in the inteftines. 



'' 3d, A large tea fpoonful of No. a. mud then be given 

 to the patient every two hours till the worm is evacuated. 

 When the evacuation is too long in taking place, fome fpoon- 

 fuls of frefti callor oil may be given to the patient, and an 

 injection of the fame oil may be adminiftered. 



^' 4th, As the age, fex, and conftitution of the patient may 

 require a confiderable difference in the application of the re- 

 medies and the quantity of the dofes, it will be indifpenfably 

 neceffary that the diredion and modification of the treatment 

 fliould be entrufted to a fkilful phyfician. 



^^ In the lafttplacc, it mud be obferved, that the efficacy 

 of tl>e tirft remedy will depend chiefly on the quality of the 

 fern ; and that it is abfolutely neceffary to employ the root of 

 the jUix viasy and not that of any other. Care alfo muff be 

 taken to pulverife only the interior folid part; and that the 

 powder obtained have a reddidi colour.'* 



l^he following cafe of the deleterious effe6ls of opium re- 

 medied by the exeitement of pain, has been publiflied in the 

 third volume of the American Medical Rcpofitory, by Va- 

 lentine Seaman, M. D.— '^ Having fo frequently obferved," 

 fays Dr. Seaman, "the great quantity of opium that a perfon, 

 mxler the operation of acute pain, v.'ill take, without having 

 any foporific effects induced by it, I have long been of the 

 mind, that pain might be ufefuHy excited to remove the deadly 

 influence of a large dofe that may have Ixicn previouily taken. 



*^ Ycfterday I had an opportunity of putting my principles 

 to the ted of experiment, being called to fee a female patient 

 who had, about two hours before, taken an ounce of lauda- 

 num, and then lay in a deadly dupor, from which alL the 

 efforts of her friends were infufficicnt to awaken her. At- 

 tempts liad been made to get fome vinegar into her domach, 

 but, I believe, with little efietl; nor did I fucceed much 



better 



