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the worm hangs out of the anus, 3\-j ^j of Epsom salts, dissolved 

 in warm water, are given. If the worm be not expelled by this, 

 the gruel and powder are repeated at night, but the next morning 

 Epsom salts are given instead of the bolus. Instead of the latter, 

 Odier gives a table-spoonful of castor oil with meat broth, every 

 half hour. This is extolled as a very certain method against 

 Bothriocephali. 



g. The method of Blossfeld and Rapp, which is very much ex- 

 tolled. On the previous evening, a thick paste of bread and milk. 

 In the morning, 3J Pulv. Radic. Filic. Maris is given every hour, 

 in an ounce and a half of nutmeg tea (Muskat-Lunel). After six or 

 eight doses the worm is expelled. Rapp advises the root to be 

 always procured fresh, and administers 3vj ^j of it in one dose. 



h. Dubois' method. After a preliminary treatment of eight 

 or nine days, consisting in a scanty diet, to which garlic roasted 

 under the ashes is added, he prescribes rubbing of the abdomen 

 several times a day with a liniment made of camphor, balsams, 

 and nut oil, and also with crushed bulbs of garlic; also a ptisane 

 of Helminthochordon and Filix mas, and a nightly clyster of marsh- 

 mallow water. After this has passed off, a clyster of milk ; and 

 early in the morning, 5 3S Filix Mas in broth, and, every half hour, 

 a portion of the following mixture : R Res. Jalapp., Scammonii, 

 Gi Gutti, aa 3ss; Syrup. Rhamni cathart., q. s. ut f. Boli, gr. vj. 



i. Wolffheim's method. On the day before the cure the 

 patient has a scanty diet and herring salad ; on the next 

 morning, fasting, 3188, Rad Filic. Mar. in a little tea; in half an 

 hour the same dose; in another half hour, one table- spoonful Ol. 

 Jecor. Aselli, with a little lemon juice, until ^iij are consumed. 

 Then, after the last dose of cod-liver oil, three or four ounces of 

 Epsom salts are drunk until the worm is expelled, which gene- 

 rally takes place in ten or twelve hours. In case of thirst, black, 

 sweet coffee is given, and in case of vomiting, this is stopped. 

 According to Bockling this method answers equally well without 

 the cod-liver oil. 



k. BecVs method. About four or five o'clock in the after- 

 noon the patient takes a powder. R Mercur. Dulcis, 9j ; Cornu 

 Cervi ust., Cinnabar. Antimon., aa gr. x, in a table-spoonful of 

 water or gruel. At night he takes gruel, and afterwards $\j of 

 oil of almonds. The next morning, fasting, he takes a powder 

 of the following composition in a table-spoonful of syrup : R Rad. 

 Filic. Mar., 33 ; Rad. Jalapp., Gi Gutti, Hb. Cardui Bened., Ebur. 



