SOO TREATMENT OF 



Among the Indians it is celebrated as a vermi- 

 fuge, and Brown was the first to make known its 

 utility in Europe ;(?8) afterward Rosenstein, Ber- 

 giiis^ and Dahlberg brought it into fashion in Rus- 

 sia and Sweden. 1 have also frequently ordered 

 it with the greatest success. From ten to twelve 

 grains, in powder, are given to children, morning 

 and evening, and from half a drachm to a drachm, 

 to adults. An infusion or decoction is made of tlie 

 herb ;(o9) the extract has not yet been made use of. 



Lining, a celebrated physician of Charleston, 

 S. C in place of the above, substituted the spigilia 

 marilandicay{60) or Carolina pink, another plant 

 which grows in South Carolina,(6l) which, ac- 

 cording to BergiiiSj is more efficacious than the 

 preceding species. Arnemann attributes the vermi- 

 fuge property solely to the root ;(63) and this re- 

 duced to powder is prescribed in milk, beginning, 

 for children, with a dose of half a scruple. The 

 use of all these powders generally renders the body- 

 costive ; practitioners therefore advise to keep the 

 bowels open, by administering, every third day, one 

 or two grains of submuriate of mercury, mixed with 

 a suitable quantity of rhubarb. 



§ CXXV. TanacetiimvulgareJ(iS) Common 

 tansy. Hoffman employed the seeds of tansy 

 against worms with go<.d effect. Several other 

 physicians have said much in their favourj and par- 

 ticularly Rosenstein,(J^-^) who was in the habit of 

 combining them with other anthelmintics. (65) One. 



