KAMALA AS AN ANTHELMINTIC. 81 



This acted four or five times, and in each case the worm was 1858 - 



passed dead. 



***** 



" In almost every case the long slender neck of the worm ap- 

 peared in the motion. 



" To a native child of five years of age, I gave a dose of 40 

 grains, and a tape- worm was duly expelled. The dm 2 usually 

 purges speedily. In about half the cases, some degree of 

 nausea and slight griping were experienced ; in the remaining 

 half, no inconvenience whatever was sustained, some of the 

 patients declaring it to be the easiest purge they had ever taken 

 in their lives.* * * * " 



Dr. Mackinnon gives the following summary as the result of Dr. Mackin- 



i non's experi- 



his experience : ence f 



1. That Kamala is a safe and efficient remedy for tapeworm, 

 and more certain than either turpentine or kousso. 



2. That to a strong European 3 drachms may be safely given 

 as a dose. 



3. That to a person of feeble habit or to a female, 1^ drachms, 

 followed, if necessary, by half an ounce of castor-oil, is a suf- 

 ficient dose. 



Since the paper from which the foregoing are extracts was 

 published, Dr. Mackinnon has stated 1 that in subsequent more 

 extensive trials of Kamala, during which he has administered it 

 to nearly 50 patients, in two instances only was no worm ex- 

 pelled. 



Dr. Anderson, Assistant-Surgeon, 43rd Eegt. Light Infantry, 2 Dr - Anderson, 

 states that the occurrence of tapeworm is very common among 

 the Europeans serving in the Punjab, and that it is also preva- 

 lent among the Mussulman population of that province. 



" The vermifuge properties of Karnala," writes Dr. Anderson, 

 " are as well marked as those of any of the best reputed an- 

 thelmintics, not excepting the Abysinnian remedy Kousso. The 

 only objection to it is, that when the powder is used, consider- 

 able nausea occasionally follows, but certainly not more than 

 what is produced by the sickening preparation of pomegranate 

 root and other anthelmintics. 



1 Indian Annals of Medical Science, vol. iii. (1856), p. 86. 



2 On Eottlera tinctoria, as an article of the Materia Medica. Indian 

 Annals of Medical Science, vol. iii. (1856), p. 82. 



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