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with three parts of oil of turpentine, and this mixture is left to 

 stand four days; it is then distilled in the sand bath from a glass 

 retort,, until three fourths of it has passed, and this is put into 

 bottles of about one ounce, which must be well closed. Of this 

 Bremser administered two tea-spoonfuls in a mouthful of water, 

 every morning and evening. With sickness, less at first. To those 

 who could not bear it fasting, he gave it half an hour after breakfast. 



2. Storck's much esteemed formula. R Sem. Cin., 5ij ; 

 Rad. Valer. min. pulv., 33 ; Rad. Jalapp. pulv., 535 ; Oxymel. 

 Squill., q. s. ut f. El. One tea-spoonful every three hours. 



3. Sellers strengthening worm-electuary. R Pulv. Sem. Cin., 

 ^vj ; Ferri sulf. cryst. ; Extr. Chin. fuse, aa., ^ij ; Syrup. 

 Cinnam., q. s. ut f. El. One tea-spoonful three times a day. 

 This may be the best when an after-treatment is to be observed. 



4. Hufeland's : R Pulv. Cinse, 3ss; Rad. Jalapp., 33; Rad. 

 Valer. pulv., 3Jss ; Kali Tartar, depur., $ij ; Oxymel Squill, 5vj ; 

 Syrup, simpl. q. s. ut f. El. One tea-spoonful every 2 3 hours. 



Who amongst us, who is getting on towards his fortieth year, 

 especially if he passed his youth in the country, and had the 

 benefit of the advice of a doctor who was already in years, has 

 not been furnished at least once, if not twice a year, with one of 

 the electuaries just mentioned, for the suspicion that he might 

 have worms? Who does not remember the joyful time when his 

 mother or tutor came before him with the spoon heaped up with 

 worm-electuary in the one hand, and in the other the honoured 

 birch, and compelled him, no matter whether with or without re- 

 sults, to swallow down the electuary, or at least to keep it in his 

 mouth until their backs were turned, and he could voluntarily 

 get rid of it, either with or without the help of his fingers? It 

 was, therefore, an indispensable requisite to see whether it could 

 not be contrived to administer the remedy in a more agreeable 

 form. The method of sprinkling the remedy, coarsely pounded, 

 npon bread, and spreading syrup or honey over it, and adminis- 

 tering 3ss j several times a day in this manner, followed every 

 third or fourth day by a gentle aperient, must always be the 

 most advisable if the cina seeds are to be employed at all. J. 

 Clarus extols these cina-slices above all worm-electuaries. 



Gradually, however, the cina seeds have been displaced by the 

 preparations obtained from them, and, in my opinion, with justice. 

 In practice we can only extol two of them, santonine and san- 

 tonate of soda ; all the rest are unnecessary. 



