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most easily expelled, and next to this T. solium ; T. mediocanellata 

 is difficult, and so, apparently, is the Tcenia of the Hottentots. 

 It is only those who expel the last two species with certainty, 

 or totally in many cases, that can claim to be able really to expel 

 tape-worms. For T. nana, which escapes diagnosis, we have 

 also no prognosis and no therapeutics. 



Treatment. If the multitude of remedies recommended for 

 any disorder is an evidence of their want of power against it, 

 we must say that the therapeutics of the tape-worm is ex- 

 tremely defective. And, in fact, it leaves much to be desired, at 

 least as regards the pleasantness of the remedies, and the dis- 

 agreeable secondary effects which sometimes accompany the best 

 remedies and destroy their action. 



I pass over the particular remedies which Seeger reproduces in 

 detail (pp. 89 198), such as cold water ; or the popular remedies, 

 such as a quantity of water in which green flax has been steeped 

 for ten days, taken early every day, mare's milk, sea water or 

 solution of common salt ; and also sal ammoniac, flowers of 

 sulphur, the Oleum nucum Juglandium, the Amara of the Schools, 

 the Semina Sabadillte, the Cicuta, hydrocyanic acid (two drops 

 every half-hour), bitter almonds (6 8 daily), opium, the Semina 

 Santonici or Cma>, the Rad, Valeriante offidnalis, camphor, 

 assafoetida, petroleum (20 30 drops on three consecutive days, 

 with a purgative on the fourth day), or the Tinctura Assafcetidce, 

 3vj, and petroleum, together (forty drops four times a day, increased 

 after two days to a tea-spoonful every three hours a tedious 

 method), the uncertain 01. anim. rectif. sive Dippelii (5 6 drops 

 daily in broth), the 01. anthelm. Chaberti (also recommended by 

 Bremser; close 5 10 drops, rising to sixty drops, which requires 

 great caution), the bark of Geoffroya Surinamensis and G. inermis, 

 the bark of the root of the black mulberry tree, Morus nigra 

 (a popular remedy much in vogue in Asia Minor), the root of 

 Pteris aquilina and the drastic purgatives, such as tartar emetic, 

 calomel, castor oil, croton oil, jalap, gamboge, and elaterium : and 

 I also pass over the numerous new remedies which have been 

 recently mentioned by Dr. Walpers in the 'Pharmac. Centralblatt' 

 for 1851, p. 618, as Abyssinian remedies for tape-worms, namely, 

 the Radix Ogkert = Sasari, from Silene makrosolen (dose 5iiiss) ; 

 the Radix Habbe Tphokko = Habba Dchoggo = Madjamedjo = 

 Mitschamilscho, that is, the bulbs of Oxalis anthelmintica (dose 

 3xv) ; the Radix Adaudasch from Euphorbia, depauperata (dose 



