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pared sulphate of iron, aa 51 v — 9j, according to age, are adminis- 

 tered, and repeated in case of vomiting. The worm is generally 

 expelled in the evening ; when this is not the case, a rich gruel 

 is given on the same evening, and on the following morning, 

 fasting, rhubarb and Had. Jalapp., aa gr. x — xv — 3ij. 



d. Alibert's method. — On the first day, R Rad. Filic. Mar., 

 5iv, coq. c. Aq. Font., lb.iij, usque ad remanentiam, lb. ij ; Cola- 

 turae adde Syrup. Helminthochort., 5'j- ^- -D- S., to be drunk in 

 cupfuls during the day. After three hours of repose, Alibert 

 administers Calomel and Cornu Cervi Ust., aa gr. iij, made into a 

 bolus with Couserv. Rosar., q.s. ; in the evening 5 j of cil of sweet 

 almonds, and, on the second day, the following purgative : 

 R Scammonii, gr. xviij ; Rad. Fil. Mar., gj; Gi Gutti, Calomel, 

 aa gr. xij, to be taken in three portions, in sugar and water. 



e. Backing's method. — This method commences with a sort 

 of cold-water cure ; with drinking and clysters of cold water, and 

 a strong diet, such as we meet with in hydropathic establishments, 

 in which also a cold bath every evening, with a douche upon the 

 stomach and liver, and in summer a shower bath is emploved. 

 When the tape-worm is very troublesome, the Neptune's girdle 

 of these establishments ; and lastly, animal magnetism must 

 not be forgotten. With this diet a saturated decoction of 

 ^ss of fern root is drunk cold after every meal, when the worm 

 will be expelled in from three, six, eight, to fourteen days. 

 If this treatment be prescribed for nervous patients, as Seeger 

 has done, without the cold water appendix, there is nothing to be 

 said against it. Seeger's modification of it appears to me still 

 deserving of trial and recommendation with very irritable, sensi- 

 tive, and weak individuals. 



/. Nuffer's method, which has also been adopted by Odier, 

 with a slight alteration. — The evening before the treatment the 

 patient takes a thin gruel (two ounces of butter to a pound and a 

 half of water) ; a quarter of an hour afterwards, a glass of wine, 

 and, if necessary, a clyster. The next morning, fasting, ^iij Pulv. 

 Filic. Mar. in §iv — vj Aq. Tilise. In case of vomiting, the remedy 

 is repeated ; and if a little sickness be felt, black coffee is ad- 

 ministered. Two hours afterwards, the following aperient pill is 

 given: R Calom., Scamm., aa gr. x — xv; Gi Gutti, gr. v, 

 vij — viiiss ; Confect. Hyacinth., q.s. M. D. With weak patients, 

 and children, to be given in two doses. If the bolus should be 

 thrown up, or should it not have operated in four hours, or if 



