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emollient fomentations, and in general, agreeably 

 to the indication of peculiar circumstances. 



We should endeavour to supply the loss of 

 the natural mucus, destined to lubricate the inner 

 surface of the intestines, with enemas of mucous 

 and gelatinous substances. (319) 



§ CLXVl. The ascarides are certainly feeble 

 worms, but very difficult to destroy ; they are ca- 

 pable of exciting, for a long time, a number of 

 morbid phenomena.fisiSO) 



Hence it is necessary to continue the treatment, 

 even when these worms seem to have disappeared 

 entirely. The minute embrions of the female as> 

 caris vermicularis, though deposited alive, are not 

 perceptible at the instant,(221) and still less visible; 

 thus the sick, already subject to these worms, if 

 they too suddenly abandon the curative regimen, 

 are again attacked with them when they think them- 

 selves well. 



§ CLXVII. The use ot these injections is not 

 in general sufficient to distroy these worms, which 

 sometimes ascend the intestinal tube, and which 

 have been found not only in the small intestines, 

 but even in the stomach and oesophagus(SSii) ; for 

 this reason the treatment should be rendered more 

 active by remedies taken by the mouth, among 

 which are to be preferred camphor,(223) valeri- 

 an, (234) muriate of barytes,(22f») iron,(SS6) and 

 sublimed zinc,(337) etc. Rosenstein says, (228) that 

 these worms may be driven from the body by eat- 

 ing raw carrots, and by drinking a great quandty 



