37 PANT. 
ics which will not more or less remove worms. The 
cold bath, external frictions, exercise, bitter arti- 
cles of food, as tansy pudding, and olives, &c. all 
act against them. The physician will err who as- 
sails his infested patient only by direct vermifuges. | 
The longer rout of constitutional invigoration, 
will most surely enable him to reach his end. 
Erroneous impressions are entertained with regard 
to the influence of certain kinds of diet in the pro- 
duction of worms:—sugar, for example, is sup- 
posed capable of generating them. ('n the other 
hand, there is as much reason to consider it an 
anthelmintic, as many other substances called so, — 
A well directed, generous diet, is inimical to the 
formation, growth, or tenacious lodgment of 
worms ; a spare and meagre regimen, whether from 
poverty or mistaken views of health, favours 
their existence, and renders their continuance cer- - 
tain, and their disturbance distressing and fatal. 
