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drachms of this extract in four drachms of canella 

 water, and gives fifty drops of this solution to a 

 child from two to three years old ; and after seven 

 or eight days he prescribes a mercurial laxative, 

 I have several times directed, with success, the oil 

 of walnut expressed without heat, particularly when 

 rendered more active by the juice of lemon, and af- 

 terward purging with oleum ricini. 



^ CLXXIIl. But of all the remedies hitherto 

 announced, there is no one of them, according to 

 my observations, whicli is more active or more 

 certain than camphor. 



This substance, administered according to rule, 

 expels lumbricoides with facility and promptitude, 

 and at the same time strengthens the intestinal tube 

 and the whole body, as we have already said. (258) 

 This remedy kills these worms in an instant, per- 

 haps because its penetrating and volatile odour 

 acts by restoring in a surprising manner the ex- 

 citement of the first passages, and those parts which 

 are sympathetically connected with these organs, 

 relieving the convulsions and spasms occasioned by 

 worms, and preventing the cause of them. 



§ CLXXIV. Other remedies have of late been 

 recommended against worms and among these 

 Fordichey(2^^) bestows many praises on the filings 

 of tin and the seeds of the asteraisia santonica, And 

 SchewandimannC^^QO) equally commends the con- 

 serve and other pharmacuetic preparations of hel' 

 minthochorton.{2Qi) Having no particular expe- 

 rience of this last remedy, I can only relate what 



