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The management of local parts is also to be conducted on gen- 

 eral principles. In swellings we are to proceed according to the 

 degree of heat. The same also is true of ulcers and the like. la 

 general the stimulating compresses are the most appropriate, because 

 the disease is seldom attended with high vascular excitement. 



TRANCE. 



Treatment In these cases, as in hysteria, there is nothing 

 that is at all comparable to water as a means of restoring the nervous 

 power. The treatment should be similar to that for hysteria. 



WARTS. 



Warts often disappear while the patient is undergoing a course 

 of water treatment. This happens in consequence of the purifying 

 and stimulating effects of a hydropathic course. Wearing stimulat- 

 ing wet bandages upon warts, and washing the parts often with cold 

 water, will not infrequently drive them off, even when other means 

 have failed. Paring them, as a preparatory measure, is useful. 



WORMS. 



The case should be managed like one of dyspepsia. The 

 strictest attention must be paid to the diet. The wet-girdle should 

 be worn constantly, night and day, if the weather is not too hot. 

 Sitting-baths, shallow-baths, and in short every thing that can be 

 made to act favorably upon the system generally, is useful. Cold 

 clysters are valuable; and if the worms should happen to lie within 

 reach of the water, that is, in the rectum or colon, which is some- 

 times the case, the effects, if repeated two or three times daily, will 

 be most excellent. Drinking freely of pure, soft water, when the 

 stomach is empty, will also be a valuable means of helping to dis- 

 lodge the animals from the beds of mucus in the abdomen. 



