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more gently than the dried, although more is re- 

 quired, and, as by keeping, it loses its active proper- 

 ties. 



" The most efficacious form of administration is the 

 solution of the extract in a certain quantity of water. 

 The extract itself, made into an electuary with honey, 

 or administered in pills, is to be recommended where 

 there is a great tendency to vomit ; but, on the whole, 

 its aqueous solution is better." 



Kiichenmeister's method of giving this drug is the 

 one first practised by Von Klein, of Stuttgart; viz., 

 in combination with Extr: Filic: Mar: Ether, in the 

 following manner : 



"x. Extr: Rad: Punic: Granat : Aq : quant, adep. es ex 

 pad. 5iv-vj ; solve in aq. distill, ferv., vj-viij. Adde : Extr.: 

 Filic : Mar : Ether : 9j-5ss ; Extr : tanacet : vulg : 3ij ; Gi guttae 

 (Gambog.) gr. iv, vj, ad x. Shake. 



" S. A cupful to be taken in the morning (6 or 7 o'clock), 

 fasting ; a similar dose in three quarters of an hour. The third is 

 kept in reserve. If the worm should not be expelled in 1 hours 

 after the second dose, the last portion is also taken. If vomiting 

 occur, a table-spoonful of the medicine is given every ten minutes. 

 To alleviate the tendency to vomit, the patient should gargle after 

 every dose with fresh milk, but without swallowing any of it. Be- 

 tween the doses, also, he may take as much Elaeo-sacchari * citri 

 as will lie on the point of a knife, as often as he likes. If no evac- 

 uation have taken place three hours after the first dose, and the 

 worm has not been expelled, an aperient is administered. With 

 Taenia solium, Castor oil is usually sufficient, one or two table- 

 spoonfuls every half hour or hour, or Gi guttae, gr. vj to viij. 

 Pulv : jalap : gr. x-xv ; to be taken at once." 



1 In the German Pharmacopoeia, an Elaeo-saccharum consists of Sacchari 

 albi 3j et Guttae xxiv of the required oil (Weinland) ; e.g., Elaeo-sacchari citri 

 = Sacchari albi 1 j ; .01 : citri limon : gtt. xxiv. 



