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confirmed to me by repeated trials, that 

 though the liquid folution of corrofive 

 fublimate may prove a poilbn to worms 

 in the ftomach, yet it is ineffedual in 

 the cure of worms in the bowels; which 

 probably muft be accounted for from its 

 being carried off chiefly by the abfor-j 

 bent vefTeis in the ftomach : Whereas, in 

 the above form of pills, they get into 

 the bowels before their folutioa is much 

 advanced. 



Not long after this, I gave thefe pills 

 to a maid fervant of one Mrs M'Gie, 

 about thirty fix years of age 5 flie had 

 been afflicTied with worms many years, 

 and was thereby rendered valetudinary, 

 complaining of pains in her ftomach 

 and bowels, coftivenefs, want of appe- 

 tite, and fometimes of want of reft. She 

 took two pills twice a day, upwards of 

 three weeks, taking a purging medicine 

 every feventh or eighth day. In the firft 

 fortnight of her taking thefe pills, {he 

 paffed a confiderable number of the 

 'vermes cucurbitini, and great quantities of 

 the afcarides ; but, during the laft ten 

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