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passed out of the bowels soon after its injection, 

 together with dead or dying oxyurides ; the repe- 

 tition of the enemata upon two or tlnree occasions 

 usually suffices for the entire destruction of the 

 parasites, according to the author just mentioned. 



Panna. 



This is a species of fern (the Aspidium 

 aihamanticum), wliich is indigenous to Southern 

 Africa ; its root is employed by the Kaffirs for the 

 purpose of expelling the taenia. 



Dr. Behrens, in a paper published in the Deutsche 

 Klinih for 1856, states that he has found it successful 

 in procuring the expulsion of taenia. 



The patient should be placed upon a low diet for 

 a few days before the administration of the remedy, 

 and the powdered root is to be then given in doses 

 of a scruple or a scruple and a half in a little water, 

 repeated every quarter of an hour until three or four 

 doses have been administered ; a dose of castor oil 

 should be given at about two hours after the last 

 dose of the panna. 



This remedy sometimes causes sickness, or tem- 

 porary headache, but it never gives rise to any 

 serious complications. 



Papaya. 



The Cainca papaya is a tree which is foimd 

 in the West Indies ; its stem furnishes a milky juice 

 of a bitter taste, and very abundant in coagulable 

 azotised matter. 



This juice has been very favourably mentioned by 

 various writers, as an anthelmintic, its efficacy bemg 



