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mixed up with butter or lard into one dose. Three of 

 these doses to be given — one every other morning. 



A table spoonful or two of linseed oil, given the first 

 thing in a morning, will frequently bring away a quantity 

 of worms : but it can never be depended on as an effec- 

 tual remedy, for the following reason : — upon the linseed 

 oil being swallowed, those worms with which it comes in 

 contact, that are not fastened on the intestines, but loose 

 as it were, in expectation of food, will be brought away ; 

 but such as are fast to the intestines (and many will 

 be found so situated) stick like leeches, and thus prevent 

 the effects of the oil. There is nothing so effectual as 

 calomel. Calomel administered externally, in tolerable 

 plenty, upon the human subject, will destroy Avorms in 

 the stomach. — If the worms are situated near the anus, 

 the calomel may be so completely absorbed, when taken 

 inwardly, as to lose its effect before it reaches that part ; 

 some tobacco smoke blown up the anus (which may 

 be easily done by inserting the thin end of a pipe) will 

 most completely destroy these noxious vermin, and they 

 will be voided, most likely, in prodigious numbers. 



The remark which was made on the last article would 

 equally apply in this place, respecting the numerous 

 remedies prescribed for the same disease. What are 

 mentioned throughout are such as will be found to answer 

 the purpose ; and to give a number of doubtful and inef- 

 fectual recipes, for the sake of making a long list, or 

 giving a false air of importance to the subject, would be 

 as perplexing to the reader as it would be contemptible 

 and even dishonest, in the writer. 



However, for worms, generally speaking, the following 



