1^2 TREATMENT OF 



§ ex. Pbysicians have been in the habit of 

 prescribing their remedies for verminous complaints, 

 both externally and internally. 



The internal administration is preferable to the 

 external, because the former is more eifectual than 

 the latter ; it is followed by more prompt and 

 sure success. 



A number of patients however, and particular - 

 ly children, dislike to swallow the necessary medi- 

 cines, because they are ordinarily very disagree- 

 able. 



Other patients, harrassed by sympathetic ver- 

 minous affections, can swallow nothing. Others, 

 with great weakness of the stomach, throw up eve- 

 ry thing given them. Lastly others, tormented by 

 the hemorrhoids, or some other local disease of the 

 anus, cannot receive enemas, by means of which 

 might be introduced into the body whatever could 

 not be swallowed, or retained on the stomach. 



In all these cases, the mere application of the 

 remedies appropriated to the exterior, particularly 

 over the surface corresponding to the part affected, 

 as the region of the stomach, of the small intes- 

 tines, and all the abdomen, is the only means of 

 conquering or diminishing the disease. 



Epithems compounded of the remedies which 

 are directed to be taken internally in similar cases, 

 applied to the region of the stomach, have been re- 

 garded as excellent to drive worms from the ij>tes- 

 tinal tube by Boify Frank and Weikard. These 

 remedies dissolved in the gastric juice of ani- 



