I. SIMPLE CURE VERSUS DRASTIC TREATMENTS. 



I have written this little book on the Threadworm 1 (Oxyuris 

 Vermicularis 2 ) because I know a certain means of curing the 

 disease familiarly spoken of as the ' ' worms 3 ." The chief agent 

 in the cure is a vegetable extract, a weak solution of which, 

 when taken internally, expels or kills all the worms along the 

 whole course of the intestine within a few hours, without caus- 

 ing the sufferer any pain, inconvenience, or injury. In this 

 last particular this tincture differs very markedly from the 

 multitude of popular worm-cakes and worm-powders, which 

 are mostly composed of some powerful drug, and often have 

 a lasting deleterious effect upon the constitution of the patient, 

 more especially if a delicate child. 



1 " The human threadworms, 

 properly so called, refer exclusively 

 to the species termed Oxyuris 

 Vermicularis." (CoBBOLD, T. S., 

 Worms, a series of lectures, London, 

 1872, p. 80.) 



2 Synonyma : 'A<r*ap/y (Hippo- 

 crates, Aristotle, Galen, Oribasius, 

 Aetius, etc.); Ascaris (Pierre de 

 Albano, Coelius Aerulianus, Mer- 

 curialis, etc.) ; Ascaris parvus 

 (Avicenna in the translation of 

 P. de Albano) ; Lumbriculus 

 (Aldrovande) ; parvus, gracilis 

 (Serapion) ; parvus et rotundus 

 (Lillanus) ; parvus ac tenuis (Act- 

 uarius) ; curtus, gracilis (Gordon) ; 

 curtus et rotundus (Arn. de Ville- 

 neuve) ; le petit et grele, ascaride 

 (Ambr. Pare) ; Ascaris pollicaris. 

 (Linnaeus in Fauna suecica, No. 

 1269) ; Ascaris vermicularis (Lin- 

 naeus, 1767, System, natur. xii., 

 1076) ; Ascaride vermiculaire 

 (Cuvier) ; Ascaris Graecorum (Pal- 



las) ; Ascaris cauda setacea (Miiller, 

 Hist. verm. 1, 2, 34) ; Ascaris 

 vermicularis cauda subulata (Goeze, 

 1782) ; Vermis Ascaris (Clericus) ; 

 Fusaria vermicularis (Zeder, 1800) ; 

 Ascaride vermicolare (Brera) ; 

 Oxyuris vermicularis (Bremser 

 (1819), Dujardin, von Siebold, / 

 Rudolphi, Diesing) ; Oxyurfs vermi- *7 

 cularis (R. Blanchard, 1889). 



3 English : Threadworm, maw- 

 worm, pin-worm, seat-worm. 



German : Pfriemenschwanz, 

 Springwurm, Afterwurm, Maden- 

 wurm, Arschmade, Aftermade, 

 Kinderwurm, Mastdarmwurm, 



Darmschabe, Spitzschwanz. 



French : Ver court. 



Italian : Vermicciolo. 



Spanish : Lombricilla filiforme. 



Dutch : Barnmask. 



Swedish : Aarsmade. 



Danish : Smaa spolerme, boer- 

 neorm. 



