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sician. In a case where all circumstances unite, 

 seven grains of submuriate of mercury and as mucli 

 of the resin of scammony with a sufficient quanti- 

 ty of h^vacinth confection, are sufficient, without the 

 gamboge. 



^' This bolus has also been given at two times, 

 that is, one half of it two hours after the powder, 

 and the other part three hours after the first, be- 

 cause the first had operated but slightly. Immedi- 

 ately after the bolus, one or two small cups of green 

 tea ; and from the beginning of the evacuations, a 

 cup should be given from time to time till the worm 

 is discharged. After the bowels are opened, but 

 not before, the patient is to take some good broth, 

 and some time after, a second broth or light soup, 



"^ The patient may afterward dine temperately, 

 but throujrh the dav he is to be cautious and rather 

 abstemious ; if however the bolus has been partly 

 ejected from the stomach, or if retained, it has not 

 purged sufficiently in four hours, he must then take 

 from two to eight grains of sulphate of magnesia, 

 dissolved in a convenient quantity of boiling wa- 

 ter." 



% CXLVII. The powder of the male fern has 

 been employed with* success, as we have elsewhere 

 remarked, (162) for the expulsion of worms from 

 the intestines, and particularly taeniae and lum- 

 bricoides. Even before madam J\%uffer had un- 

 veiled her secret. Dr. Herrenschwand had used 

 this remedy in cases of taeniae, pursuing nearly the 

 same treatraent.(l63) 



