VERMINOUS DISEASES. 227 



the celebrity it had acquired. The king ordered 

 the publication of it for the benefit of suffering; hu- 

 niduity, in the following tenns.(159) 



Preparation of the patients, 



^^This treatment requires no preparation, unless 

 it be to take for supper, seven hours after a com- 

 mon dinner, a soup-panada, made in the following 

 manner: take a pound and a half of water, from 

 two to tliree ounces of fresh butter, and two ounces 

 of bread cut into small pieces; add a sufficient 

 quantity of salt to season it, boil the whole over a 

 good fire, stirring it frequently till it is well mixed 

 and reduced to a panada. Fifteen minutes after, 

 give the patient two middling sized biscuits^ and a 

 glass of white wine, or pure water, if he does not 

 commonly drink wine. 



" If the patient be costive, give him the follow- 

 ing clyster fifteen or thirty minutes after supper: 

 take a good pinch of mallows and of marshmallows, 

 boil them a little in half a pint of water, add to it 

 a little muriate of soda, strain it. and mix. with it 

 two ounces of olive oil. 



Treatment of the patients. 



" The next morning, eight or nine hours after 

 supper, the following specific is administered : take 

 three drachms of the root of the filix mas,(l60) re- 

 duced to a very fine power, mixed with four or six 

 ounces of the distilled water of tlie male fern or 

 of the flowers of the tildcn or lime tree (t'dleulyj 



