£36 TREATMENT OF 



la my journal, I have two cases of avmed tae- 

 Tiiae expelled by three ounces of this oil, takea by 

 a patient during three successive days, and by an- 

 other taken twice a day for a week. 



^ CLTU. Some practitioners have calculated 

 to render the root of the polypodium iilix mas more 

 active, when administered in doses of two or three 

 dnichms, by prescribing, two hours after, an ounce 

 and a half of oleum ricir/i, instead of the purgative 

 commonly given by .Yoaffer, which is attended 

 with some inconveniences, as vomiting, colicy pains, 

 abundant evacuation'-, prostration of strength, and 

 other siuiilar sympcoms. After this oil has heea 

 taken, the patient drinks some broth, and the dose 

 is repeated the second or third time, if the suffer- 

 er can bear it, in order to drive the taenia from the 

 intestinal tube. 



Sclle advises,(184) on the contrary, to take the 

 oleum ricini in the evening, and the next morning 

 ten grains of si;amboge, and to repeat it twice more, 

 drinking afterward some broth, provided no un- 

 pleasant irritation exists. 



METHOD OF DESAULT. 



Mercurials. 



§ CLIV. T)r. Besault, an eminent physician of 

 Bordeaux, having observed that taeniae (principal- 

 ly the armed) sometimes attach themselves to the 

 intestines in such a mmner, that it is difficult to 

 separate and expel them, proposed for this purpose 



