128 VEGETABLE PAEASITES. 



usually attributed to some other form of disease of the stomach, 

 and the treatment is directed accordingly. On physiological 

 principles, the treatment must be conducted to meet the two 

 following indications : 



1. The removal of the spores through laxatives and emetics. 



2. The destruction of the cells, and thereby the prevention of 

 their development. 



At present we have no means of carrying out this indication. 

 The so-called Parasiticida, copper and corrosive sublimate, which 

 are effective as against the development of fungi generally, 

 are not applicable here, as they can only be applied where the 

 plant affects the surface of the body. The means hitherto pro- 

 posed effect but little good. Hasse praises nitrate of potash; 

 also silver, but according to Wunderlich, it has proved of no 

 more value than creosote. In recent times, Neale and Hassall 

 have commended the hyposulphite of soda (9j 3ss), in an 

 infusion of quassia (3s), three times a day. With the first it 

 produced no actual cure, and with the second only a suspension 

 of the disease for five weeks. 



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 Griesinger's ' Archiv fiir Phys. Heilk./ 1848, part i, and in 

 Heller's ' Archiv fiir physiol. und pathol. Chemie und Micro- 

 scopic/ 1852, part i, p. 30 ; Busk, l Microscopical Journal/ 

 1843 ; Virchow, Sarcina in his and Reinhardt's ' Archiv fur 

 pathol. Anatomic Physiol. und Klinischen Medicin/ i, 1847, 

 p. 264; Schlossberger, ' Wiirtemb. Correspondenzbl./ 1846, No. 

 26, and in Vierordt's < Arch./ 1846, vi, pp. 747768; Hasse, 

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 Dissert, inaug./ Halle, 1847 ; Naegeli, ' Gattungen einzelliger 

 Algen/ &c., Zurich, 1849, p. 2, where the Sarcina is falsely 

 regarded as a fungus ; Lehmann, ' Lehrbuch der physiolog. 

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 Clinical Medicine/ Edinburgh, 1853, p. 214, fig. 80; O. Funke, 

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 Atlas, tab. i, fig. 8, and tab. xii, fig. 1. 



