testines ; and the small white worm, which infests the rectum. ‘The 
tape-worm is white, very long, and full of joints. trad E. 
Cause.—Eggs of insects received with the food, and a weak 2 Ps 
Symrroms.—Of the round worm—squeamishness, vomiting, disa- _- 
greeable breath, gripes, looseness, swelling of the belly, fainti : 
loathing of food, and at other times a voracious appetite, a dry 
convulsions, epileptic fits, and sometimesa privation of speech ; greasy 
excrements, grinding of the teeth, slavering, picking of the nose, 
flushing heats, &c. 3 “hai # ft Sey ee 
The peculiar symptoms of tape-worm are, swoonings, privation 
of speech, emaciation, and voracious appetite. The small worms 
of the rectum cause itching of the anus, looseness, and frequent in- 
clination to go to stool. a 
{f they remain long in the bowels, they produce a variety of un- 
accountable disorders: strange and incredible are the effects which 
are occasioned by these detestable vermin. Few persons are wholly 
free from them, particularly females: old people are not exempt from 
their attacks, although they often suppose so. After they are des _ 
_troyed, they must be conveyed out of the body, by strong purges, __ 
otherwise they will create a putrid acrimony in the bowels. — 
Tur Curr.—Numberless medicines are extolled for killing worms, 
though all of them fail sometimes: One rule to, be observed, how- 
ever, in the administration of all worm remedies, is, that they be 
prepared or given in molasses or other sweet substances, which serve 
as a decoy for the vermin. 
I have formed the following compound very effectual in removin, 
worms: take snakehead, the dried herb. 1-4th Jb., boil in water to 
apint: add aloes, 2oz., assafeetida 1-2 oz., and alum, 1-2 oz; dis- 
solve them, and then add to the whole a pint of molasses. Dose for 
a child two years old, a tea spoonful every fifteen minutes till it ope 
rates as physic; when it will usually bring Away a stringy, slimy 
mass, the remains of the vermin. > ete 
Or, the snakehead alone, in decoction of an ounce of the d 
herb boiled to a half pint, and sweetened, may be drank in the course 
ef two hours; with short intervals, and then followed with a brisk ca- 
a tic, as aloes, blue flag, culver’s root, ormandrake. This is usu- 
y sucee 
Salt water, drank and laid with cloths upon the stomach, will often 
destroy worms; or, 2 dose-of sulphur may be taken at night, and - 
salt and water in the morning. ; 
For the small pin worms in the rectum, injections must be used ; 
as of salt water, or solution of assafeetida. Oily, clysters, sweete 2 
with suga ror honey, are very efficacious in bringing these worms aw. 
_ fo expel worms by an external application, take beefs-gall an 
the fresh juice of rue, equal quantities, (or a strong decoction 
#Ke proportion of the dry herb,) add to these a little aloe 
_ Bead, or wormwood, if convenient, and boil the whole to t 
_ tence ofa plaster. Then apply n plaster of this abou 
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