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quantity of sabadilla on the third and fourth d.ays in the mornin< 

 and evening. On the fifth morning, whilst fasting, an aperient 

 is administered, and the living or dead worm is purged away. 

 Then follows, according to Schmucker, a long treatment for the 

 worm-mucus, which may last, for twenty days, and which consists 

 in giving the patient three pills, each consisting of five grains of 

 sabadilla powder, made into a mass Avith honey, and every fifth 

 day an aperient. Children from 2 — 4 years old receive only 

 two grains of sabadilla powder. Moreover, Schmucker has seen 

 garden- worms and living Ascarides quickly die with convulsive 

 movements when he sprinkled them with sabadilla powder. 

 (This method should not be entirely forgotten for the Ascarides.) 



3. Sulphuric acid. — Weigel dissolves gss — j of Glauber's salts 

 in 21b. of well-water, and gives a cupful of it every night; and 

 twice a clay 30 drops Elix. Vitriol. Mynsicht., or 10 drops Elix. 

 Acidi Halleri, in half a cup of sugar and water. This is to be 

 continued even for months. (It is certainly now quite obsolete.) 



4. Drastic purgatives and mercurials. — a. Drastics with Oleum 

 Chaberti, or Bremser's method. — Of an electuarv made with Pulv. 

 Sem. Cinse, 3 SS > Rad. Valer., 31J ; Rad. Jalapp., 3iss — i j ; Tart. 

 Vitriol., 3iss — ij ; Oxym. Squill., q. s. ut f. elect. ; a tea-spoonful 

 is taken 2 — 3 times daily. Two tea-spoonfuls of Oleum Cha- 

 berti are then given every morning and evening in a mouthful of 

 water; water is taken after it, and a clove or a little cinnamon 

 may also be chewed, but no substances which produce eructation, 

 such as candied orange-peel. When sickness is produced by 

 taking this fasting, the remedy is administered 1 — 1| hour after 

 breakfast ; when giddiness follows it the dose is diminished ; and 

 when there is burning at stool or scalding urine, milk of almonds 

 or oil emulsion is given. Thus the patient in ten or twelve days 

 consumes ^\] — iiss, after which he takes a gentle aperient, for 

 example : R± Pulv. Rad. Jalapp., 3j ; Pulv. Fol. Sennse, 3SS ; 

 Pulv. Tart. Vitriol., 5J. M. f. pulv., div. in 3 part. aeq. D. S. 

 1 powder every hour. The oil is then again taken, and the 

 patient is allowed to use ^\v — v, or even vj — vij, in all. I do 

 not think that at the present day any one will bring this method 

 into use. The worm is never expelled in to to, but rots away ; it 

 is no wonder that any one who expels tape-worms in this fashion 

 should never, any more than Bremser, learn to distinguish the 

 Teenies of the human intestine. I advise that Oleum Chaberti 

 should be given up at once. 



