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intensive course of the bromides, and it is less 

 effective than the bromides. Nevertheless, I have 

 found it useful when wishing to get an epileptic off 

 of bromide medication. I would not depend upon 

 solanum in the treatment of any form of convulsion 

 of toxic origin, such as eclampsia. The convulsions 

 of infancy and whooping cough have seemed to me 

 to yield as well to solanum as to any other anti- 

 spasmodic. Some gentlemen have been inclined 

 very much to over-rate solanum. The dose of the 

 fl. is 10 to 60 minims, but rarely over 30 minims. 



SOY BEAN 



Soja hispida. Soy bean meal is made into bread 

 and biscuits as a substitute for gluten bread in the 

 dietetic treatment of diabetes. UREASE, the urealytic 

 enzyme of soy bean, is employed in the determination 

 of the amount of urea in the body fluids. See "New 

 and Nonofficial Remedies" for the technic. 



SPIGELIA 



PINK ROOT, Spigelia Marilandica. Official only in 

 the U. S. An efficient anthelmintic against the 

 round worm or lumbricoid worm; it acts much as 

 does santonin. Toxic doses slow and weaken the 

 heart's action and depress the motor spinal cord 

 and the respiratory center (Wilcox). This drug 

 is in too common lay use, since many parents give 

 it to their children in ignorance of its toxic action, 

 and it makes the little ones drowsy and may even 

 occasion convulsions. 



The most satisfactory way to give the drug is 

 to combine one part fl. senna with 2 parts fl. spigelia, 

 the adult dose of the mixture being 2 fluidrachms for 



