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After these remarks I will give the particular methods of 

 expulsion which have been put forward, arranged according to 

 the remedies, and for this purpose I make use of that portion of 

 the work of Seeger-Wundt which refers to this subject, arid 

 of the historical treatise by Dr. Meyer, of Coswig (pp. 104 

 136) who, under the title of ( Die Wurmkrankheiten, eine 1830 

 in Berlin gekronte Preisschrift/ has just published a book, which, 

 being written without the least knowledge of modern helmin- 

 thology, contains nothing useful, except the enumeration of 

 methods, which, however, are thrown together in as disorderly a 

 manner as by Seeger. I shall also add something from my own 

 experience with other remedies. 



1. Spigelia ant helminthic a. In Martinique, according to Noverre, 

 they do not make an infusion, which has but little action, but a 

 syrup from specimens of this plant, which they collect at the 

 period of its weakest vegetation. The dose is three table- spoonfuls 

 for grown persons and one tea-spoonful for children of three years 

 old, administered on three consecutive days ; and on the fourth a 

 gentle aperient of manna, calcined magnesia, or castor oil, to 

 remove the dead worm. A little cold water and lemon juice are 

 added to each spoonful of the syrup at the moment of adminis- 

 tration. For two hours after taking it nothing should be eaten ; 

 but children are allowed a little bread or cake. A peculiar 

 secondary effect of the remedy is that it produces an instantaneous 

 amaurosis and bloated appearance when it is taken either in the 

 sunlight or in artificial light, for which reason it should be 

 administered at bedtime and the light immediately removed. 

 In cerebral affections alone this remedy is not to be given. This 

 method is one that could not easily be brought into use in 

 Europe. 



2. Sabadilla. Schmucker gets the yellow, elongated capsule, 

 with the blackish sabadilla seeds and the partitions in which this 

 pointed seed lies, reduced to a fine powder. After the patient 

 has been relaxed on the previous day with rhubarb and Glauber's 

 salts, half a drachm of the sabadilla powder is given to him in 

 the morning, with the same quantity of fennel sugar, and he 

 afterwards drinks 1 2 cups of chamomile or elder-flower tea. 

 Vomiting may easily be produced by this, and, according to 

 Schmucker, if there be worms in the stomach they are thrown 

 up. On the second day the same dose of sabadilla. If no more 

 of the worm makes its appearance, the patient takes half the 



