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genre importes d'Abyssinie, le Saoria et le Zatze), and in tlie 

 ' Deutsche Klinik/ No. 48, for 1856, lias reported upon some 

 experiments made with the Saoria. Notwithstanding the facility 

 with which the remedy is taken, it appears not to be advisable, as 

 its action is too uncertain. I may give a summary of Strohl's 

 results as follows : 



1. In two cases in which the remedy was administered where 

 Tanics were really present, the worm was never expelled up to 

 the head, but always in fragments, which frequently reached 

 nearly to the head. 



2. These fragments were usually expelled alive j they were 

 only dead in one case. 



3. It was hoped that the remedy would have such a poisonous 

 action that the worm would be destroyed by it, which the 

 Abyssiniaus indeed suppose to be the case with this remedy, 

 but not so much as with Kousso ; this, however, is by no means 

 proved, as all further check is wanting. 



4. Violent actions only occurred three times, and these are 

 attributed to the sickly state of the persons experimented on in 

 other respects. 



5. The remedy was easily taken ; its taste is less repulsive 

 than that of other remedies ; nausea, vomiting, and a little pain 

 in the abdomen are usually the only consequences. 



6. After taking the remedy the urine is always of a violet 

 colour, like a dilute solution of a persalt of iron to which a few 

 drops of a solution of tannic acid have been added. 



7. Strohl prescribed the remedy in the following way : The 

 night before the cure only broth ; the next morning ^j of freshly 

 powdered Saoria in one or two pints (for adults) of an aromatic 

 infusion, sweetened as much as possible, and taken in two doses. 

 In 2 — 3 hours the bowels are usually acted upon; should this 

 not be the case, Oleum Ricini. On the day of the cure a light 

 diet is to be observed. If the operation on the bowels be but 

 slight, purgatives are given on the following day to remove the 

 remains of the worm, and the remedy is repeated in a few days 

 if there be reason to suppose that the head remains. (This was 

 always the case.) 



8. For Ascarides and Oxyurides this remedy appears to be 

 deserving of recommendation. 



There are, however, two essential errors into which Strohl has 

 fallen, and which I must correct. 1. His assertion that even by 



