A guide to therapeutics / by Robert Farquharson.

  • Farquharson, Robert, 1836-1918.
Date:
1877
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Credit: A guide to therapeutics / by Robert Farquharson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Or we may avail ourselves of the following formula, which acts well in concealing the nauseous flavour of the drug:— Extracti filicis liquidi fl. 5jss.; mucilaginis tragacanthse fl. Jss.; syrupi zingiberis fl. 5ij.; aqupe ad fl. |jss. Misce, fiat haustus nocte vel primo mane sumendus. ANTHELMINTICS. The human ijody being infested with various pai-asites whose l^resence is inconvenient and even dangerous, it is necessary for us to be provided with means for theii* safe and speedy removal. Some of these unwelcome guests are, unfortunately, out of the range of medicine, but otliei-s ai-e so placed that they can readily l)e destroyed ; and we shall arrange them in classes, according to the special drugs which act specially upon them. 1. Tape-woi-ms, as the 1. The best remedy for the tjenia solium, derived from eat- taeniae is now allowed to be ing measly pork; the taenia medio-canellata, from veal or beef; and the taenia lata, from salmon. These occupy the small intestines, and give lise to various ill-defined but un- comfortable sensations. 2. The round worm, or male-fern oil given on an empty stomach; hnt if this should possibly foil, we may have re- course to kousso, turpentine, pomegranate root, or areca nut. We must remember that, although these remedies kill the worms, they do not neces- sarily expel them from the intestines, and that a purgative may be required foi* this pur- pose ; and it is also essential to find the head of the tape- worm before we can assure our patient that he is freed from his tormentor. 2. Santonin acts as a true