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tine with the liquid carhonate of ammonia ; this 

 mixture he assures us 157) is a very powerful and 

 infallible means of expelling the taenia from do- 

 mestic animals. (158) Repeated ohservations prove, 

 that though this remedy acts with activity and 

 energy against taeniae, it produces not the least dis- 

 order in the system. It is also to be desired that 

 it should be adopted by ph^^sicians to expel taeniae 

 from the human body, since we have sern that the 

 essential oil of turpentine, muriate of ammonia, and 

 carbonate of liquid ammonia, are also remedies, 

 which have been advantageously employed both 

 against taeniae and lumbricoides. 



METHOD OF NOUFFER. 



The root of folypodmm filix mas, 



§ CXLYI. Toward the middle of the last cen- 

 tury a great number of persons, troubled with tae- 

 niae, went to Morat in Switzerland, where madam 

 JS'ouffeVf ifter the death of her husband, continu- 

 ed to cure them with promptitude and success, by 

 means of a secret which she held from her husband. 

 The king of France gave a considerable sum to ob- 

 tain the formula of this celebrated remedy, and 

 charged the physicians Lassone, Macqiier, Lamothey 

 de Jiissieu and Carhuri, to examine it, nnd make 

 such trials with it as they might think proper. 

 This committee made their report, July 13, 1765, 

 whence it appeared that the remedy of JSTouffer 

 answered very well in practice, and that it merited 



