20:2 TREATMENT OF ^ 



cases of taenia, where JYovffer^s remedy had failed. 

 These trials, variously multiplied, lead us to con- 

 clude, that the seeds of the cevadilla produce the 

 desired effects, and that their use is not followed 

 by any bad consequence. 



Schrniicker prescribed them in powder, in the 

 dose of half a scruple, blended with a little sugar 

 and a few drops of oil of fennel, taken for four days, 

 directing the patient to drink some decoction of 

 chamomile flowers after it ; on the fifteenth day he 

 augmented the dose to fifteen grains, forming it in- 

 to pills with honey : every five days he subjoined 

 the use of a purgative. 



TIjus he administered the remedy to adults. 

 He followed tiie same method with children, ex- 

 cepting that the dose of the powdered seeds was 

 but two, four, or at most six grains, mixed with 

 syrup of rhubard. 



In cases of vermicular ascarides, he rendered this 

 treatment more active by means of enemas of the 

 decoction of the cevadilla seeds, adding to it an 

 equal portion of milk. 



Uer%{7^) lias repeated the experiments of 

 Sclimucker, with equal success. 



It however appears from the observations of 

 Odhelius,{7S) that the virtue of Schmucker^s ver- 

 mifuges is rather to be attributed to the combined 

 use of jalap and submuriate of mercury, given to- 

 jretber as a cathartic. 



In whatever mode this remedy may act, it is 

 well to know that the seeds of the cevadilla con- 



