126 Botanic Drugs 



depression independent of the effect upon circu- 

 lation. 



OIL OF CHENOPODIUM has long been known as an 

 efficient anthelmintic against the round worm in 

 doses of 3 to 10 drops three times a day for two 

 days, followed by a cathartic. It is now little used 

 in this connection, being displaced by santonine, 

 which is much less disagreeable to take. 



THERAPEUTICS. The important use of cheno- 

 podium is in the treatment of hookworm disease. 

 Keith, of Singapore, reports over one thousand 

 cases successfully treated. He has the patient fast 

 from after mid-day to next morning, when he gives 

 10 minims of the oil in a capsule. This dose is given 

 three mornings in succession, the last treatment 

 being followed by a full dose of castor oil. 



Schuffner and Baermann, of Sumatra, report forty 

 thousand successful cases with no ill effects from the 

 remedy. After an evening meal composed wholly 

 of liquids, and no breakfast, 16 minims of the oil 

 is placed on sugar, one-third of this being taken 

 hourly; three hours after the last dose 17 grammes 

 of castor oil and 3 grammes of chloroform are ad- 

 ministered. 



The oil is put up in five- and ten-minim soluble 

 elastic capsules, thus overcoming the objections to 

 its use. Thus administered, it is probable it will 

 "come back" as a remedy for round worm; and it is 

 even asserted that the drug is promising in the 

 eradication of tapeworm infestation. 



CHIMAPHILA 



PIPSISSEWA, Chimaphila umbellata. Official only 

 in the eighth U. S. P. This widely distributed Amer- 



