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from vesicular worms ; but if this is not impossible, 

 it is doubtless very difficult to determine.! 310) 



The best method of cure, in my opinion, is to 

 use stimulating diuretics, and diaphoretics, com- 

 bined with the most permanent and efficient stim- 

 ulants. Squills, digitalis, purpurea,(211) colchi- 

 cum aututiinale, black hellK^bore, gratiola officina- 

 lis, opium, toxicodcndrum,(iil2) muriate of barytes, 

 muriate of soda, the preparations of iron, canthari- 

 des, sul>limed sulphur, liquid carbonate of ammonia, 

 and other similar remedies, are those from which 

 we ra;iy hope, if not the annihilation of vesicular 

 worms, at least for some relief from the diseases 

 the^ produce. 



As conducive to the success of these remedies, 

 a nourishing regimen of easy degestion should be 

 adopted, with good wine, cinchona, moderate ex- 

 ercise of body, an elevated, dry habitation, situated 

 in a temperate, mild and healthful climate. The 

 treatment, in fact, should be that which is practised 

 in dropsy. 



[The following account of hydatids, or vesicular 



worms, though long, is too valuable to be omitted 



in a treatise on the entozoa, or intestinal worms. 



It is from Monro's Morbid Anatomy^ Edinburghp 



1811, 8vo. 



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"By the term hydatid, is to be understood, a 

 round or oval-shaped semi-opaque pulpy bag, pos- 

 sessing a contractile power, without an external 



