o4 PASSIFLOREM. 
the quantity may be given to children between 7 and 10 yearso 
(Bengal Dispensatory, p. 352), that he had administered thi 
milky juice as an anthelmintic, in doses of from 20 to 60 dro 
without obvious effect, is fully explained. It is principall 
effectual in the expulsion of lumbrici. On teenia it is reported 
to have little effect. Anthelmintic virtues have also been 
assigned to the seeds, but the evidence of their efficacy is v 
inconclusive. A belief in their emmenagogue properties p 
vails amongst all classes of women in Southern and Wester 
India, and also in Bengal; so much so, that they assert that if. 
a pregnant woman partake of them, even in moderate qua 
ties, abortion will be the probable result; the same prejudice 
exists against eating the fruit. Facts in support of the allege 
emmenagogue properties of the Papaw are still wanting. (Pha 
of India, p. 97.) Lt.-Col. Cox has brought to the notice of 
_ Madras ‘Agri-Horti-caltural Society that the leaves ai 
the south to extract guinea-worms; an ounce of the leaf is rub! 
with 60 grains of opium and 60 grains of common salt, and the 
paste applied to the part. ‘‘Of course the worm has to b 
wound out in the usual manner, but it aware comes out mo 
quickly and easily when treated in this way.” 
__ Evers has employed the milk in the treatment of splenic 
hepatic enlargement with good results ; a teaspoonful with y 
equal quantity of sugar divided into three. doses was administere 
daily. (Ind. Med. Gaz., Feb, 1875.) In1877, the milky j 
began to attract attention in Europe as a digestive ferme 
and Herr Wittmack (1878) examined its properties with the 
following results :—He obtained, after repeated incision of | 
half ripe fruit, 1°195 grammes of white milky juice of» 
consistence of cream. This dried in a watch glass to a h 
vitreous white mass, having what appeared to be greasy spt 
on the surface, but which really were flocks of a o 
substance that always adheres to the more hardened | 
