162 ANIMAL PARASITES. 



macerated for twenty-four hours in cold water, and then boiled for 

 half an hour. This infuso-decoction is then taken whilst fasting 

 in two portions, without straining, and, therefore, with the flowers 

 in it; and two hours afterwards, 3J to ^ij of castor oil. From the 

 report in Hebra's ' Zeitschrift' for 1854, it appears that the 

 remedy was very well borne, and acted with certainty. 



Method with species of Aspidium. 



a. With Aspidium Filix mas (Male Fern). — This remedy, which 

 will always maintain its renown against the Bothriocephali, appears 

 hardly to maintain its reputation with regard to Ttenia. Buchheim, 

 of Dorpat, employs a soft resin obtained from this drug, with good 

 results, against Bothriocephali. Filicine (filicic acicl of Lutz) has as 

 yet found but little acceptance in practice. The most efficacious 

 preparation appears to be the etherial extract of Filix mas, and 

 it would not, perhaps, be unadvisable to administer the powder 

 of Filix mas, mixed with the etherial extract, so as to in- 

 crease the surface of contact of the medicine as much as possible. 

 For my own part, I prefer adding the extract to pomegranate 

 root. As regards the most favorable season for collecting the 

 root, authors are not yet agreed. 



a. AYawruch's method. — Preliminary treatment : 3 — 1 days of 

 low diet, consisting of strong beef tea, with white bread, three 

 times a day, with the employment, at the same time, of the fol- 

 lowing resolvent: R Rad. Taraxaci et Cichorei, aa Jj, fiat 

 decoct, per \ hor. ; Colaturas, 5 v j > adde Amnion. Chlor. prsep., 

 3j ; Syrup. Cichorei cum Rheo, ^ss. M. D. S. Two table-spoonfuls 

 every two hours. With this daily laxative clysters of milk, lin- 

 seed, Hb. Alth., Flor. Yerbasc, and Flor. Papav., are ordered, 

 and, on the evening before the expulsion, a very rich gruel 

 (i pound of water and 2 — i- ounces of butter and wheat bread). 



Expulsion. — In the morning, fasting, the patient takes a thick 

 gruel ; and about five, six, and seven o' clock, a clyster of linseed 

 and milk ; about eight o'clock, two table-spoonfuls of castor oil ; 

 at half-past eight, Pulv. Rad. Filic. Mar., 3ij — 3iv ; at nine o'clock, 

 two table-spoonfuls of castor oil ; at half-past nine, the Fern powder 

 again ; at ten o'clock, two table-spoonfuls of castor oil ; and at 

 half-past ten, the third powder. After each dose, the patient 

 washes his mouth out with tea made from Flor. Tilise and Summit. 

 Millefolii, and, in the intervals, he chews Flavid. Cortic. Aurantior., 

 of which a dose of 5ss is prescribed. At one o'clock, the patient 



