168 ANIMAL PARASITES. 



Filic. Mar. ^Etli. twice at bedtime, and the next morning an 

 aperient. Kieser and Hiller gave the extract for several days 

 together to the total amount of 3iij, with good results. 



After several days of sparing diet, Mosing gave fifteen of 

 Peschier's pills to the fasting patient at nine o'clock, and again at 

 half-past nine ; his prescription is as follows : B: Extr. Filic. Mar. 

 ^Eth., 3iss ; Pulv. Had. Filic. Mar., q. s. ut fiant pill. xxx. Soon 

 after the administration of the last dose he gave 3"j Infus. Senn. 

 compos, at once. 



Funk gave the extract, night, and morning, with syrup and 

 a little gum, and then gave castor oil every hour until it 

 operated. 



Noss gives an aperient on the preceding day, and then gives 

 the extract to the fasting patient with syrup ; 9ss 353 of the 

 extract twice, with an interval of an hour. He then gives castor 

 oil every hour. 



Friedrich, on the day when segments have passed spon- 

 taneously, lets the patient eat a herring salad at night, and after- 

 wards drink a glass of wine with a biscuit. He then gives 533 

 of the extract at bedtime. The next morning, from six o'clock, 

 he gives every hour two table-spoonfuls of castor oil, or a table- 

 spoonful of a mixture of 3 gr. Ol. Crotonis and $\j Syrup, 

 commun. If the patient has a tendency to vomit, croton oil 

 must be avoided. In the intervals between the purgatives the 

 patient may drink a cup of broth or chamomile tea. If the worm 

 be not expelled by nine or ten o'clock, he abstains from all 

 attempts at expulsion by aperients. 



Albers makes the patient observe a strict diet for 1 3 days, 

 and on the day before the cure relaxes him with Glauber's salts. 

 On the following morning the patient takes 333 of extract of 

 fern whilst fasting, and the same quantity an hour afterwards ; 

 1 2 hours afterwards he takes castor oil. 



Rayer gives 72 drops of Peschier's thin extract of fern, made 

 into pills with the powder of the root, of which eight are to be 

 taken at night and eight in the morning. Two hours afterwards, 

 castor oil. 



Magendie prepared a tincture from the buds of the fern, and had 

 pills made from it, each containing a drop of the tincture. From 

 eight to thirty pills were sufficient for expulsion. 



B. With Aspldium athamanticum (Kunze) = Panna. In 

 his 'Prodromus Florae Capensis/ p. 306, published in 1850, 



