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ing, that morning ; ^. ^q, theriac. drach, 

 ii. aq. font* unc, lijs, puh. rad, anthelmia 

 (for fo I called the Indian pink) tart, rege- 

 nerate anafcrup. i. pulv. croci anglic. gf. v. 

 facch, q. f. M. fumat ccch> iinum fecunda qua- 

 que bora. Next morning, I ordered a re- 

 petition of the fame ; -and, in the after - 

 noon, when the child had a ftool, 30 large 

 worms, the tcreies^ were at once voided; 

 and, that afternoon, the fever went intirely 

 off, and did riot return. Next morning 

 I repeated the fame mixture; and, that 

 day, the child voided 9 more of the fame 

 kind of worms. 



When too great a dofe of the powder 

 or infulion is given, it has fome flrange 

 ^ffedls, which appear very foon after the 

 dofe is taken. Children become vertigi- 

 nous, complain of a pain in and over their 

 eyes, and the mufculi adduCtores and ah- 

 duSiores oculorum feem to be greatly af- 

 fected, from their irregular actions ; while 

 the other mufcles of the eye, fo far as I 

 have had an opportunity of oblerving, re- 

 main unaffecled. Thefefymptoms, how- 

 ever, foon go off; and their removal may 



be 



