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patient take so much of the ordinary Electuar. Lenit. of the 

 English Pharmacopoeia, with the addition of Extract. Tanacet. 

 vulgar., 3ij, to the ounce of electuary, as is necessary to produce 

 a couple of soft motions daily ; he then takes the mixture, and 

 not before. Fasting the night before the cure is bad. The 

 medicine does not agree well with a perfectly empty stomach. 



Another method is as follows : 1^ Had. Punic. Granat., 3 v j '> 

 Pulv. Khamni cathart., Jj > Aq. Destill., Ib.ij ; Liquor Kali caus- 

 tici concentrati, gtt. x. Macera per horas 12 14, coque leni 

 calore in balneo vaporat. per hgras 24, ad remanentiam extracti 

 M. D. S. as above. As a matter of course, no Natr. Sulfuricum 

 is to be added in this case, and the woody parts are to be re- 

 moved by washing and pressing some time before the conclusion 

 of the evaporation, the washing water employed being evaporated 

 with the rest. As this extract may be kept as well as the 

 preceding one, all that is necessary, when it is kept in store, is 

 to discolour a portion corresponding with the dose of pomegranate 

 root prescribed, in 3 v j v "j f nofc water, and before adminis- 

 tration to add to it 9j 353 Extract. Filic. Mar. JEther. The 

 keeping of the extract cannot injure the action of the medicine 

 even in case of fermentation, as, according to Latour de Trie 

 and Ferrus, the remedy when undergoing fermentation is still 

 more certain in its action. 



I have no experience of the Extract. Had. Punic. Granat. 

 spirituosum. I administered it once combined with Kousso, 

 and Extr. Filic. Mar. JEther., made into an electuary with honey, 

 in a very obstinate case of Tcenia mediocanellata ; the only 

 result was that I expelled two of these Tceniae up to the neck, al- 

 though I gave after it an infusion prepared from %vj of mace- 

 rated Kousso (Raimann). I must, however, observe, that the 

 employment of the aqueous extract, prepared according to the 

 above prescription in a honey electuary, appears to be less 

 advisable than its solution in water. 



To sum up everything in a few words, I may give the follow- 

 ing general counsel : 



1. For the expulsion of the Bothriocephali, simple methods 

 with Filix mas, and especially with its etherial extract, are 

 sufficient. 



2. For the expulsion of Taenia solium, the methods just re- 

 commended of administering the aqueous extract of pomegranate 

 bark with the addition of Extract. Filic. Mar. Jjlther., are the 



