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to use local treatment. For this purpose the following applica- 

 tions are particularly recommended : Soft poultices of the Aloe 

 lit t oralis, as relaxing the skin and facilitating the creeping forth 

 of the worm ; binding below the limb, with fomentations of laurel 

 berries and oil (Aetius) ; rubbing in of mercurials (Bajon), or 

 when the worm comes away with great difficulty, with Tinct. 

 Myrrh., Aloe, or Aqua vulneraria; or a poultice of onions and 

 bread, boiled in milk (after which the worm is said to roll itself 

 up into a coil, and, according to Bancroft, Griffith, and Hughes, 

 may be easily removed by the addition of a worm-mixture, which 

 is also especially extolled by Hillary) ; or a poultice of the burnt 

 leaves of the cotton-tree, with Aouara oil; the pouring in of 

 tobacco oil (Barere), and tobacco powder (Dam pin), and the 

 blowing in of tobacco smoke (Ludw. Frank). An assafcetida 

 mixture internally, and oil of sesamum externally, have also been 

 strongly recommended. That mercurial pills administered in- 

 ternally, even until salivation is produced, are of no use, has 

 already been stated bv Gallandat. Nevertheless, corrosive 

 sublimate given internally, and mercurial rubbings in, which, 

 according to Loffler, are quite useless, play a great part. The 

 passage of electrical shocks through the worm is useless. Isert 

 ran about much in the water even after the opening. Kampfer 

 recommends cold douches or cataplasms, and also the application 

 of roasted onions (popular remedy). Linschot recommends the 

 application of butter, Leiter that of sprouting onions boiled in 

 milk, and Loffler that of Liniraentum volatile with Laudan. 

 liquid. But according to Paulus iEgineta, and Bremser, the 

 best remedies appear to be soft poultices, with the addition of 

 aloes and roasted onions, which accelerate the suppuration. 



Although at present I possess no personal experience on this 

 subject, the most advisable process appears to me to be the follow- 

 ing local one, to which bleedings might be added in case of very 

 violent inflammation. 



To relax the skin, let it be rubbed on the spots attacked with an 

 ointment of Belladonna and Digitalis; the patients should be put 

 once or twice a day, for three quarters to one hour or longer, in a 

 general tepid bath, or when the worm has its seat in one extre- 

 mity, in a local bath of soap and water, or of common salt or sea 

 salt, and attempts made in the bath at extracting the worm. 

 If it be found that the worm comes away very quickly by this 

 process, the bath and the manipulation in it are repeated. In the 



