98 LECTURES. 



From his mother's account the boy's sufferings were 

 extreme, the irritation causing irritability and dis- 

 tress during the day and convulsive twitchings at 

 night. He was pale and emaciated. Anxious to 

 try a remedy much extolled in India, I at 

 first gave small doses of the powdered seeds 

 of Butea frondosa, with scammony and ginger. 

 Though the medicine operated efficiently no para- 

 sites came away until the employment of the 

 third dose, the action of which had been in- 

 creased by a spoonful of Epsom salts. Only a 

 score or so of the oxyurides having been thus 

 dislodged, I subsequently advised the employ- 

 ment of calomel and compound scammony powder ; 

 but I had no opportunity of further watching 

 the case. 



CASES LVI. AND LVIL H. A. W. and P. W., 

 young gentlemen of seven and ten years of age 

 respectively, and brothers, visited me on the 

 25th October, 1870. In each case there was 

 anaemia, loss of flesh and tone, with nasal and anal 

 irritation. The younger boy had a remarkably 

 weak pulse, with a constant watery suffusion of 

 the eyes. They had been treated with turpentine, 

 which produced violent dysuria and other un- 

 pleasant symptoms. For the one I prescribed 

 scammony and salt, and for the other scammony, 

 calomel, and santonin. These remedies were fol- 

 lowed by the employment of cold water enemata 



