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quantity of sabadilla on the third and fourth days in the morning 

 and evening. On the fifth morning, whilst fasting, an aperient 

 is administered, and the living or dead worm is purged away. 

 Then follows, according to Schmucker, a long treatment for the 

 worm-mucus, which may last for twenty days, and which consists 

 in giving the patient three pills, each consisting of five grains of 

 sabadilla powder, made into a mass with honey, and every fifth 

 day an aperient. Children from 2 4 years old receive only 

 two grains of sabadilla powder. Moreover, Schmucker has seen 

 garden- worms and living Asca^ides quickly die with convulsive 

 movements when he sprinkled them with sabadilla powder. 

 (This method should not be entirely forgotten for the Ascarides.) 



3. Sulphuric acid. Weigel dissolves |ss j of Glauber's salts 

 in 2 Ib. of well-water, and gives a cupful of it every night ; and 

 twice a day 30 drops Elix. Vitriol. Mynsicht., or 10 drops Elix. 

 Acidi Halleri, in half a cup of sugar and water. This is to be 

 continued even for months. (It is certainly now quite obsolete.) 



4. Drastic purgatives and mercurials. a. Drastics with Oleum 

 Chaberti, or Bremser's method. Of an electuary made with Pulv. 

 Sem. Cinse, 3 SS J Rad. Valer., 5ij Rad. Jalapp., 3iss i j ; Tart. 

 Vitriol., ^iss ij ; Oxym. Squill., q. s. ut f. elect.; a tea-spoonful 

 is taken 2 3 times daily. Two tea-spoonfuls of Oleum Cha- 

 berti are then given every morning and evening in a mouthful of 

 water; water is taken after it, and a clove or a little cinnamon 

 may also be chewed, but no substances which produce eructation, 

 such as candied orange-peel. When sickness is produced by 

 taking this fasting, the remedy is administered 1 1| hour after 

 breakfast ; when giddiness follows it the dose is diminished ; and 

 when there is burning at stool or scalding urine, milk of almonds 

 or oil emulsion is given. Thus the patient in ten or twelve days 

 consumes %\] iiss, after which he takes a gentle aperient, for 

 example: R Pulv. Rad. Jalapp., 3 j ; Pulv. Fol. Sennse, ^ss; 

 Pulv. Tart. Vitriol., 53. M. f. pulv., div. in 3 part. seq. D. S. 

 1 powder every hour. The oil is then again taken, and the 

 patient is allowed to use %iv v, or even vj vij, in all. I do 

 not think that at the present day any one will bring this method 

 into use. The worm is never expelled in toto, but rots away ; it 

 is no wonder that any one who expels tape-worms in this fashion 

 should never, any more than Bremser, learn to distinguish the 

 Teenies of the human intestine. I advise that Oleum Chaberti 

 should be given up at once. 



