366 ACTION OF POTASSIO-TARTRATE OF ANTIMONY. 
ball, daily, for three successive days, and on the fourth the 
same quantity combined with a purgative, and in some 
instances have had the faeces, when purging, literally a mass 
of ascarides. 
I scarcely know how to account for it, but New South 
Wales horses generally land in India troubled with these 
vermin, and being also in very low condition, purgation is a 
risk. Sometimes for months they will retain an unthrifty 
coat, eat ravenously, but make no condition, and then it 
becomes unavoidable. The Butea frees them from these 
parasites, and a change is immediately perceptible; although 
in some instances they require a second course after an 
interval. 
In the human subject it sometimes performs a cure almost 
miraculous. A child of my farrier-major, when three years 
old, was brought into a most pitiable state of attenuation by 
worms, which for months had resisted the effects of everything 
tried by our most able practitioner here with children. The 
father in despair was advised to try the Butea seed. He 
gave, on an empty stomach, grs. xv, four successive mornings, 
and two hours after the fourth dose a dose of castor-oil. 
The child must have been loaded with them, for the father 
brought me a pint bottle full to see, but assured me they 
were thrown off in myriads ; and from that hour the child, 
as might be expected, recovered, and is now in robust health : 
about 18 months having elapsed. 
If you will give it a trial, and should prove as successful with 
it as I have been, I shall have no cause I hope to apologise for 
troubling you to wade through my wild rambling writing. 
Yours very faithfully, &c. 
P.S. Since writing the above, I find my friend Hurford 
has been poaching a little on my manor. I need scarcely 
say it was no other than himself who enquired if I had ever 
given Potass. Tart. Ant. in solution ; and this gave rise to 
my experiment, which was patent to him. It appears he has 
pursued the same subject, and given you the result. Well, 
so much the better ; for his experiment will support mine, 
and thus doubly render it necessary that it should be looked 
to, for it is deplorable to suppose we may have been giving 
a stimulant under the impression it was a sedative. I have 
had some cases of fever lately, and think I have done quite 
as well without as with the Potass. Tart. Ant. 
