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VI. TREATMENT OF THE LUMBRICOIDES. 



§. CLXIX. We do not, says Rosenstein,[2S5) 

 so easily succeed ia expelling the lumbricoides ; 

 for this purpose he prescribes the five following 

 rules, by the aid of which I can affirm, that I have 

 never failed to destroy them. 



1. The medicines should be administered in the 

 morning, at the hour of breakfast, because the worms 

 also acquire the habit of taking food at this time, 

 and in this manner they are disposed to eat those 

 substances which destroy them. 



2. The medicines about to be taken are first dis* 

 solved in tepid milk, hydromel, or mercurial wa- 

 ter,(536) and before the patient goes to stool, he 

 should take a clyster of lukewarm milk, in order 

 to bring the worms to the interior portion of the 

 rectum. 



3. The patient should take care not to prepare 

 the mediciiies himself which he is to take, or to smell 

 of them, because these worms secrete themselves in. 

 order to avoid their odour. 



4. When a physician proposes to expel them 

 by internal means, he should omit the use of exter- 

 nal applications, that the worms may not hide 

 themselves. If however the patient, after having 

 swallowed the vermifuge, should experience vio- 

 lent pain in any particular part of the lower belly, 

 and convulsions should occur, this would indicate 



