TANACETUM VULGARE, 
strong, and give better firmness and density to all the tissues and 
organs. 
The leaves and flowers of Tansy are tonic, stomachic, and 
anthelmintic. They were formerly regarded as a powerful 
remedy in intermittents, dropsy, hysteria, and obstructed men- 
struation. There is a common belief that it acts specially on 
the uterus, and hence the oil has frequently been resorted to for 
the production of abortion, and several cases of death have en- 
sued from the practice. A fatal case of poisoning with half an 
ounce of oil of tansy is recorded in the Medical Magazine for Nov. 
1834. Frequent and violent clonic spasms were experienced, 
with much disturbance of respiration, and the action of the heart 
gradually became weaker till death took place from its entire 
suspension.—(U. 8. Dis, ‘from Am. Jour. of Med. Sciences, 
XVI. 256). 
In medicine, the plant is rarely employed by the regular prac- 
titioner. Experience and the knowledge of better remedies have 
in a great measure set aside its use. An infusion of the whole 
herb in boiling water has been recommended as a preventative 
of the return of gout. It is also said that if fresh meat be rubbed 
with it, the flesh-fly will not injure it. 
As a vermifuge the plant certainly possesses some pretensions, 
rather, however, as a preventative of the generation of worms, 
than as an agent for their removal when they have become a 
source of annoyance. In the investigation of the pathology of 
the existence of worms, various plausible abnormal conditions 
of the intestines have been invoked for evidence in favor of a 
_ theory which contemplates the cold slime or mucous accumula- 
tion of the intestines as the essential elements of their existence, 
and which supposes that without this nourishment the worms 
could not find means of subsistence, and that by consequence 
their being would be ephemeral, or at least very contingent. The 
prophylactic power of Tanacerum Vuucare against worms is 
therefore chiefly to be ascribed to its power of improving the 
physilogical condition of the intestines, so as to change their 
3 eee and thus remove these parasites. _ 
_ Tansy tea (prepared by infusing two ounces of the herb in 
one pint of boiling water), may be taken in doses of from one 
a Paola fluid ounces. A — or two sean the: oil cond be oddey to 
