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it is in that of the Etherial Extract, from 30 to 50 

 drops, half to be taken at night, the rest in the morn- 

 ing ; the patient having previously fasted to be fol- 

 lowed in an hour by jss of Castor oil (Mayor). 



When given in the form of a powder, Blosfeld's 

 and Rapp's method is perhaps as good as any. " On 

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

 In the morning, 3j Pulv : Had : Filic : Maris : is given 

 in jss of nutmeg tea. After six or eight doses, the 

 worm is expelled. The use of Panna (Aspidium atha- 

 manticum) does not possess any advantages over the 

 A. filix mas, and it is doubtful if it be as efficacious. 

 Kiichenmeister says, in three cases in which he ad- 

 ministered it or saw it given, it did not fulfil the 

 expectations which might have been entertained with 

 regard to it. In the first case, the patient received no 

 benefit from two doses of it internally (besides its 

 exhibition as clysters) ; proglottides still being thrown 

 off at the end of nine months after. In the other two 

 cases, fragments were brought away (in one of the 

 cases at the end of twelve hours) ; but no head could 

 be found. 



The first two were cases of T. mediocanellata ; the 

 third, one of T. solium. 



Besides this, it possesses the disadvantages of being 

 slow in its action, requiring a tedious preliminary 

 treatment, and producing sickness, vomiting, and con- 

 gestion of the head. 



Should it, however, be considered advisable to give 

 this drug, he recommends that the following rules, 

 after Dr. Behrend, should be followed : 



