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Materia Medica

Anthelmintics

it is said with much advantage. it is the Setae or bristles of the Pod
we use, their action is mechanical, the dose is 1 table spoonfull in a
little syrup, it has been used in Ascarides. Other remidies have
also been used as Blue Vitriol, Tin, Arsenic, &c.

Oleum Terebinthinae. It was not untill about 2
years ago that this medicine was used with this view and from the
cases on record seems entitled to notice. In one case where everything
else had fail’d it was given in a dose of ƷIX [9 drams] and with complete
success, another case where Ʒifs [1½ drams] was given twice a day and increased
to ℥fs [½ ounce] twice a day and even to ℥i [1 ounce] it produced a discharge of the
worms, these cases are recorded in the New York Medical Repository
the medium dose however to commence with is Ʒi [1 dram] twice a day, it
appears we have been too fearfull of the medicine and that our
medicines have been given in too small doses. Having now
remov’d the worms it becomes us to cure the diathesis which is suppos’d
to predispose to their formation, and as that depends chiefly on
debility it is best obviated by tonics, and of these the Rubigo Ferri
is certainly the best and fully adequate.