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Hirscliel.VQ) affirms that he thus succeeded in 

 curing a sufferer who bad been for a very long time 

 incommoded with a taenia, and who, to obtain re- 

 lief, had taken, without advantage, several highly 

 extolled remedies. I have employed, with the 

 greatest success, in cases of lumbricoides, particu- 

 larly in children, the anthelmintic drops of Dr. Hart- 

 mcLYin/in which the liquid aniseted Ramsey' carbonate 

 of ammonia is combined with assafoetida and a bit- 

 ter essence. (77) 



§, CXXX. Barytes. The muriate of barytes, 

 prepared with all the precautions of modern chem- 

 ists, is a remedy endowed with great exciting pow- 

 er, extending its effects chiefly over the system of 

 lymphatic vessels. 



For this reason, this salt has been employed, witk 

 the best effects, by Crawford{7^) and Clark 79) 

 in scrophulous diseases, and in chronic elastic tu- 

 mors; by Altholf[8[)) in scirrhosities, and obstruc- 



" It is affected like cheese, by the acids, alkalis, and distil- 

 lation ; the presence of caseous matter in a vegetable is not 

 surprising. Proust has already found it in the emulsion of 

 almonds. This concrete matter furnishes by analysis the 

 phosphate of lime and carbonate of ammonia, which brings them 

 very near to animal substances." 



" In like manner the liquid juice of the papaya, or the concrete 

 juice when dissolved, presents also two remarkable substances." 

 " The first retained on the filtre is the caseous matter, mix- 

 ed without doubt with a small portion of albumen ; the second 

 is a solution of the malate of lime with excess of malic acid in 

 the natural liquid juice j without excess of acid in the concrete 

 juice." F. Trs. 



