252 TREATMENT OF 



Dr. Fisher*- says of it, " The taenia may be des- 

 troyed by Fowler's mineral solution ; for this pur- 

 pose the patient should take it, two or three times 

 every day, in as large doses as the stomach will 

 bear ; and continue the use of it till the worms are 

 destroyed. Hitherto this remedy has not disap- 

 pointed me in a single instance." Medical com- 

 munications of the Mass, Med, Societyy vol. i, 

 Boston, 1808. 



The following case is taken from the Edinburgh 

 Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. x, p. 419. 



Jl case of taenia in an infant, cured hy decoction 

 of pomegranate By W. Pollock, M. J). Com.' 

 municated by Mam Biirt, M» 1), Superintend' 

 ing Surgeon f Bengal. 



^^I would have done myself the pleasure of tran- 

 scribing for you the case of taenia in an infant, the 

 moment I received your kind letter, but my jour- 

 nal for 1811 had been mislaid, and I have only 

 this morning discovered it. 



" I formerly communicated to you some cases of 

 taenia, cured by the pomegranate decoction, which 

 were inserted by Dr. Fleming in his catalogue of 

 Indian Medicinal Plants and Drugs, printed in 

 1810, and, since that period, 1 have found the rem- 

 edy invariably successful, in a very great number 

 of instances. In some of these the taenia had ac- 

 quired an enormous length, and in some of them 



* Joshua Fisher, M. D. President of the Mass. Med. So- 

 ciety. 



