VERMINOUS DISEASES. 2iS 



tape-worm by the use of oleum terebinthini, and 

 had since administered it with success, in several 

 other cases ; and lost no time to procure a confer- 

 ence with him, when 1 received the following in- 

 formation. 



*"• He stated that about five years ago, when suf- 

 fering severely from the tape-worm, he had met 

 with a seafaring man, who said he had cured him- 

 self of the complaint by taking oleum terebinthini. 

 He was induced, as he informed Mr. Hall, to try it, 

 by observing that whenever he drank rather free- 

 ly of gin, he always passed portions of the worm, 

 and experienced relief; w. ich led him to hope, 

 that if he could find some substance of the same na- 

 ture as gin, but stronger, it might effectually cure 

 him. 



^' Under this impression, he took, (his ship be- 

 ing at that time in the Baltick,) a wine glass full 

 of oleum terebinthini. The consequence was, that 

 about two hours afterwards he passed, with a pur- 

 gative stool, an entire tape- worm ; from which time 

 the complaint had not returned. 



" Disappointed in all the remedies employed 

 in regular practices, and encouraged by this state- 

 ment, Mr. Hall took two or three ounces (for he 

 was not at the trouble to measure it) of undiluted 

 oil of turpentine in the m<!rning, fasting ; and as it 

 did not operate in two hours, he had recourse to a 

 second dose, amounting, as near as he could guess, 

 to three fourths of the first. In about an hour af- 

 ter, he had a purgative stool, and witli it passed a 



