VERMINOUS DESEASES. 19: 



It is given in pills, or in some other manner, 

 in doses from two to ten grains, several times a 

 day; it is sometimes combined with other medi. 

 cines, as myrrh, the Mack oxide of iron, submu- 

 riate of mercury, etc.(83 Enemas of as»at'oetida, 

 and cataplasms, in which this article enters, (34) 

 seem to me better, on account of the lepugnaiice of 

 many sick people to swallow this medicine, whose 

 odour is so disgusting. Frictions of assafoetida dis- 

 solved in the gastric juice,(3r>) are preferable. 



§) CXX. Geoffi'oija snnnamensis.(S6) Cab- 

 bage-bark tree, or wormhark tree. The bark 

 of this plant has latterly been recommended against 

 worms. I have many times used, and witnessed 

 its efficacy against lumbricoides and the ascarides 

 vermiculares. I have given it in powder and in 

 extract ; 1 think the decoction however prefera- 

 ble.( >7) 



§ CXXT. Jugla7is regia.{SS) The walnut tree. 

 AVith the green bark of the nut I have made a de- 

 coction, an infusion, an extract, and a rob,(39) 

 which all possess a corroborant, astringent, and a 

 vermifuge property, as the observations of An- 

 dry,[4*0) and of Fisher{'H) evince. It has lung 

 been observed that oil was injurious to insects; 

 those even, which heat revives after submersion in 

 water, die if immerged in oil, or covered with it. 

 Redi and Malpighi have made many experiments 

 on this subject ; the result is that the oil closes all 

 the air vessels, which in these small animals are 

 very numerous, and distributed almost over every 



