15i ANIMAL PARASITES. 



Methods with some newer and rarer remedies. 



a. Schebdi = Phytolacca dodecandra or abyssinica, Zatze. Pro- 

 fessor Martius, of Erlangen, had the kindness to send me some of 

 this medicine. I gave ten pieces of this fruit to a child, although, 

 according to prescription, nine of them should be sufficient for an 

 adult. Only a few fragments of the worm are expelled, the rest of 

 the tape-worm remained, and has again shown itself, according to 

 the statements of the parents. This remedy probably acts only 

 by the sharp angles of its coat, and the small spines or hairs on 

 its outer surface. 



b. Fructus Saorice, according to Martius Soarice, Sauarjae, the 

 fruit of Mcesa picta, Hochstetter [vide ' Med. Neuigkeiten/ 1854, 

 No. 13, p. 101). Walpers describes the medicine as follows: 

 " The fruits are berry-like, measuring li'" in diameter above the 

 middle, with the tips of the calyx persistent, and containing 

 about twelve reddish-brown, nearly tetrahedral seeds." The 

 powder of the seeds is taken in pea-soup. According to the ex- 

 perience of Walpers and myself, the medicine acts harmlessly. 

 Dose, 3j — *\ss. I S ave ** ouce i n a ^ u ^ dose (Jj) to a weak 

 woman-cook, who, according to the statement of the medical man 

 attending her, was suffering from T. solium. He had been mis- 

 taken, and it proved that the patient had suffered from Ascaris 

 lumbricoides, and the remedy, a present from Professor Martius, 

 had been administered to no purpose. The consequence of its 

 administration was slight diarrhoea. A bo}' of ten years old 

 received ^ss of the remedy in pea-soup. About three yards of 

 worm passed off the next morning, still alive. Several attempts 

 to expel segments were made five months after the administration 

 of the medicine, without producing any result, No portion of 

 tape-worm was expelled. Nevertheless, at Christmas, after he had 

 eaten carp cooked with gingerbread sauce, the boy was imme- 

 diately attacked with vomiting and stomach-ache just as at the 

 time when he harboured his tape-worm. He could not be per- 

 suaded, therefore, for the time that he did not still suffer from 

 tape- worm. Nevertheless, it is quite possible that the worm was 

 really dead and had passed off gradually unobserved. Dr. Ziirn 

 gave the remedy once with and once without result. 



Dr. Strohl, of Strasburgh, in an article in the f Gazette 

 Medicale de Paris/ for 1854 (Des principaux Tsenifuges 

 actuellement employes, et de deux nouveaux medicaments de ce 



