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other methods the worm is usually expelled in fragments, and 

 without the head, is untrue. This does not apply to my methods, 

 and I require that, with a good remedy for tape-worm, the entire 

 worm with its head should be expelled. 2. Strohl could not 

 account for the origin of a tape- worm in a child of two years old. 

 After long inquiry, he found that there were numerous cats in 

 the house, with which the child often played ! He continues, 

 " Should we not suppose in this case that the child had swallowed 

 the worm of a cat, which had then become developed in her 

 body ? In our district, however^it is the butchers that furnish 

 the greatest number of tape-worms." I think it is unnecessary 

 to reply to such zoological opinions, as they are expressed without 

 any knowledge of the natural history of the individual species of 

 Tcenice. Their contradiction will be found in the preceding pages. 

 c. Mucenna = Cortex Musennce, Abusenna, Besennce, from 

 Besenna ant helminthic a, a leguminous plant. It forms cylin- 

 drical pieces of bark, 5 10'" in length, with a smooth, green 

 epidermis. The bark of old stems is useless. The ordinary dose 

 is 5vj, as Pruner states in his ' Diseases of the East/ The remedy 

 is administered stirred with honey into a stiff paste. I have 

 given this agent, also received by the kindness of Professor 

 Martius, without any result. Single fragments of worm were 

 indeed given off, but the worm remained, and it was only in the 

 following year that I freed the patient from his two Tcenicp by 

 means of pomegranate bark. Perhaps the medicine had lost its 

 power by long keeping. 



Methods with Tin. 



a. Richard de Hautesiark's method. R Gi Gutti, gr. x ; Sem. 

 Coloc., gr. iij ; cum Amyg. amar. Triturentur et cum Syrup. 

 Absinth, f. boli ij. To be repeated every eight days. 



R Aloes Socotr., Assafcetid., aa gj ; Hb. Abysinth., gss. ; 

 Ol. Ror. Mar., ^ij, cum Elixir, purg. f. pillul., gr. x, pond. S. 

 Two pills morning and evening, and six ounces of a decoction of 

 fern root to be taken after them. 



R Stanni. puriss., Mercur. vivi, aa 3J ; Stanno liquefacto, 

 adde Argent. Viv., postquam mixtum refrixerit, in pulverem cum 

 Conch. Prsep., 3Jj redigatur. 



R Ejusdem Pulveris, Conserve Abysinth., aa ^ij, fiant c. 

 Syrup. Abysinth., q. s. S. D. Two drachms twice a day. 



By far too energetic a prescription. 



