5645. Remedy for Worms

5645.    Remedy for Worms. Take 6 grains santonin; 2 grains powdered gamboge; | 3 grains calomel; and 12 grains powdered white sugar. Make into 6 powders. Give 1 powder 3 times a day for a child one year old, and a dose of castor oil the day after taking the powders.

5646. Oil of Worm-seed Mixture

5646.    Oil of Worm-seed Mixture. Take l1/2 fluid drachms oil of worm-seed, 3 ounces castor oil, and 10 drops oil of anise; mix them together, and add 1 fluid ounce aromatic syrup of rhubarb. Shake well before using. Dose for a child of 2 years, 1 tea-spoonful night and morning.

5647. A Simple and Safe Vermifuge

5647.    A Simple and Safe Vermifuge. Powdered rust of iron is a good vermifuge. It expels the worms and strengthens the constitution. To a child 6 years old from 10 to 40 grains may be given. An adult may take i ounce or more. It may be given in molasses or in beer. Dr. Rush says that he knows of no safer and more certain remedy than this simple preparation of iron. It should always be followed by an aperient.

5648. Worm Pills

5648.     Worm Pills. Ethereal extract of male-fern, 30 drops; extract of dandelion, 1 drachm; powdered gum enough to make 30 pills. Dose, from 6 to 20; followed half an hour later by a strong dose of castor oil.

5649. Tape-Worm

5649.        Tape-Worm. The common male-fern root is a certain remedy for the tape - worm. 2 or 3 drachms of tho powdered root to be taken in the morning, no supper having been taken the night before. It generally sickens a little. A brisk purgative is to be given a few hours after, which sometimes brings off the worm entire; if not, the same course must be followed at duo intervals. For the success of this remedy, the root should be recently gathered; as, after being kept long in the stores, its activity is diminished or destroyed.

5650. Dowler's Treatment of Tape-Worm

5650.    Dowler's Treatment of Tape-Worm. Dr. Dowler expelled a tape-worm 135 feet long by prescribing the continued use of eim-bark. He ordered tho bark to be chewed and swallowed in moderate quantities.

5651. Beach's Treatment of Tape-Worm

5651.    Beach's Treatment of Tape-Worm. Dr. Beach effectually cured a patient who had been tormented with a tapeworm for 25 years. His treatment was as follows: Cowhage stripped from the pod, a small tea-spoonful 3 times a day; to be taken, fasting, in a little arrow-root jelly; then occasionally a purgative of mandrake. In connection with this, eat freely of garlic and fine common salt. This treatment is to be continued until the tape- worm is killed or so sickened that it will lose its hold on the bowels, when it will be expelled entire. "When once the tape-worm begins to pass tho bowels, care must be taken not to break it off, for it will then grow again ; it has this peculiar property.