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Preliminary Treatment. 



"For three or four days before the cure, nothing 

 but easily digested food is to be taken ; all sorts of 

 flour, gruel, and cakes are to be avoided, as well as 

 potatoes, and all spirituous liquors ; because to dogs, 

 to which the latter were administered, the Panna pro- 

 duced no result. 



" For habitual costiveness, Carlsbad salts or lave- 

 ments are to be administered. 



" Day of Cure. In the morning, fasting, every quar- 

 ter of an hour 20 to 30 grs. of Panna powder in as 

 little water as possible or in light beer, until 5j to jss 

 have been consumed, according to the age and condi- 

 tion of the individual. If the bowels are not moved, 

 Castor oil is given some time after the last dose. It is 

 best given two hours after the last dose. If the oil be 

 given too early, the worm is torn ; if too late, it is also 

 injurious ; and if the bowels are moved too violently, 

 or too much of the medicine be given, the worm 

 passes away in fragments." 



Kiichenmeister rather ridicules its use as a remedy; 

 and certainly, from the above rules, it would seem as 

 though it were not an altogether reliable medicine. 



Pomegranate root (Pun: Gran: Had: Cort:). This 

 remedy is prepared from the bark of the root, which 

 is collected in spring, and dried in the shade. It is 

 frequently adulterated, principally with the box shrub 

 (Buxus sempervirens), the barberry (Berberis vulgaris), 

 and the caper (Capparis spinosa). In this drug, it is 

 absolutely requisite that the bark be fresh, as it acts 



