««3 TREATMENT OF 



[Since the French edition of Brera, several ar- 

 ticles have been used as remedies against the tae- 

 nia, and with so much success, that they are like- 

 ly to supersede the further employment of sora« 

 substances, which formerly acquired, for a time, 

 a reputation, which they have not been able to sus- 

 tain. The most valuable of the new remedies is 

 spirit of turpentine, whose origin, as a vermifuge 

 in England, is given in the following paper from 

 the second volume of the Medico- Chirurgical 

 Transactions for 18 il. 



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^^ On the use of oil of turpentine in taeniae, com- 

 municated in a letter from John Ralph Fen- 

 wick, J\J. D. of Durham, to Matthew Bailie^ 

 M, B. F. R. S, Read January ti, 1810. 



« Sir, Durham, Dec. 19, 1809. 



"Having been informed that you are desirous 

 of a fuller account of the efficacy of oleum terebin- 

 thini in expelling the tape-worm, and knowing no 

 one, who, by his influence in the medical world, and 

 his zeal for the improvement of medicine, is more 

 likely to diffuse a knowledge of that remedy, I 

 shall now lay before you a detail of all the infor- 

 mation I have received, and of all that my own 

 experience has taught me on the subject. 



" You will make what use you please of the 

 communication, as my only wish is to make the 

 i'emedy generally known. 



" In tiie month of August last, T was told that 

 Mr. John Hall, of this city, had been cured of the 



