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tic, than thofe oils, which freeze by cold, and will 
not dry in the open air ; * fuch as thofe from olives or 
almonds. Andry tells us, that at Milan the mothers 
have a cuftom to give their children once or twice a 
week toafts dipt in nut oil, with a little wine, to kill 
the worms : and I know a lady in the country, who 
gives the poor children in her neighbourhood the fame 
oil with great fuccefs. 
I would recommend this remedy to be ufed in as 
large dofes as the ftomach will well bear : to which 
purpofe it may be advifeable to join it either with aro- 
matics, bitters, or eflential oils, fuch as the cafe may 
require. Andry orders the oil to be taken failing, 
aiTigning this for a reafon, that the ftomach being 
then moil empty, it more readily embraces and ftifles 
the worms. During this courfe it will be neceftary, 
at proper intervals^ to give rhubarb, mercurial or alg- 
etic medicines. 
I cannot clofe this paper without obferving, that, 
from the hiftory of the Norfolk Boy, we may learn, 
in ftmilar cafes, where the head is not idiopathic, 
never to defpair abfolutely of a cure, notwithstanding 
the difeafe has been of very long ftanding. For in 
this boy, though the oppreftion in the brain and 
nerves had continued many years, and had been fo 
violent, as to deprive him not only of his intellectual 
faculties, but almoft all his fenfations; yet were not 
the organs much impaired thereby, but he recovered 
all his fenfes again, as foon as the irritation and fpafms 
* All oils dry more readily after they have been boiled ; by 
which the fuperfluous aqueous parts are carried off. Drying oils 
are alfo made by the addition of fuch fubftances, as abforb hu- 
midities. 
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