498 TREATMENT OF 



*f,:Jlosenstein informs us, tlip.t he bas often prt- 

 scribed, with success, the sulphate of iron combined 

 with the seeds of the artemisia santonica and jal- 

 ap. (^53) He also recommends garlics as an excellent 

 remedy against worms, and advises them to be eat- 

 en fasting, or on bread and butter, or boiled in milk, 

 or to take the expressed juice, combined with an 

 equal quantity of oil of almonds, (oleum ricini I 

 think better,) adultorated with lemon juice, or sugar, 

 and then to purge the patient with the elixir of rLu- 

 barb.(353) 



Probably the smell of garlic and assafoetida 

 obliges these vermins to descend into the lower por- 

 tion of the intestines, where they are more easily 

 expelled by purgative medicines. 



§ CLXXI. jBisse^ boasts of fetid hellebore, (2it4) 

 against tiiese worms, which he administers dry and 

 in powder, in the dose of fifteen grains to an adult ; 

 he also gives a drachm of syrup prepared with its 

 juice. Lille strongly recommends(3i>5) a mixture 

 of a scruple of the extract of black hellebore, (V.^iG) 

 and half a scruple of sulphate of iron ; he dissolves 

 it in an ounce of centaurea benedicta, by adding to 

 them syrup of violet or honey ; the dose is a small 

 spoonful in the morning, fasting. 



§ CLXXIl. The green bark of the fruit of the 

 walnut, prepared in different ways, is a very ac- 

 tive and powerful remedy for the expulsion of 

 worms. (^57) Fischer says much in favour of the 

 extract, which, according to him, will destroy the 

 lumbricoides in two minutes. He dissolves two 



