VERMINOUS DISEASES. m 



the month and respiiation, so that the lambrkoules 

 are nearly aspliyxied and intoxicated with it. 



The employment of camphor is also attended 

 with this precious advantage, that it counteracts the 

 predisposition to the further development of ver- 

 minous seeds. 



1 have always used it with the greatest success ; 

 and I cannot too strongly recommend its use to phy- 

 sicians in worm complaints, 48) whether given m 

 the mode already mentioned, or some other, or com- 

 bined with other remedies. '49) 



^ CXXIII. PohjpodiumFilixmasJJrQ) Male 

 polypody, or fern. The anthelmintic virtue of this 

 plant has at all times been celebrated ; its taste is 

 disagreeable, mucilaginous, soft, styptic and bitter. 



It is recommended against worms, particular- 

 ly a-ainsfc taeniae and lumbricoides. Theoijhrastus, 

 Eresius,{5i) Galen,{^z) P^m//,(53) have prescrib- 

 ed Us use in doses of a drachm, and even to two 

 or three drachms, in powder, or dissolved in wa- 

 ter, as Windt[>A) advises. 



The powder of the root of the filix mas being 

 the principal remedy of the specific of .Yoiiffev, 

 proposed as infallible against the taenia; 55) it is 

 necessary to know that this root, kept for a long 

 time, loses its virtue. 



^ CXXIV. Spigelia anthelmla,^) V^ orm. 

 grass, or Indian pink. The herb and root of this- 

 plant indigenous in the West Indies, of which Lin^ 

 naeus has left us a very exact description, :57) pos- 

 sess, like opium, a narcotic quality. 



