/J50 TREATMENT OF 



From what I have witnessed of its effects, I 

 should deem it important, before its exhibition, 

 freely to evacuate the alimentary canal. This ena- 

 bles the remedy to act both with mort certainty and 

 expedition. Whatever ijuantity it may be thought 

 proper to give at one trial of the remedy, should 

 usually be given in one dose. Throe ounces of the 

 spirit of turpentine taken at once will be more like- 

 ly to destroy the worm or worms, than the same 

 quantity taken one third at once and repeated after 

 an interval of one, two, or three hours, and will be 

 much iess tedious to the patient. In some cases 

 where the stomach or intestines, or both, ai^e dis- 

 eased, and their sensibility and irritability are great- 

 ly increased, the requisite quantity of the remedy 

 may perhaps be better borne, if given in two or 

 three doses, one or two hours apart. 



If this idea should be confirmed by a more per- 

 fect knovvledge of the effects of the turpentine, 

 when variously administered, we think these cases 

 will be found to be rare exceptions to the best 

 mode of giving it in a great majority of cases. 



The greatest inconvenience 1 have noticed from 

 taking this medicine has arisen from the prohibition 

 of drinking — or in other words, the inconvenience 

 has been such as mild, mucilaginous drinks would 

 have relieved. Now if the stomach and bowels 

 be freely evacuated before the spirit of turpentine is 

 directed, and this be taken in sufficient quantity, it 

 will commonly pass through the body in an hour 

 and a half, or in less time than this ; and so soon 



