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Tape-Worm
The common anise and cinnamon, with gum camphor and male-fern root is a certain remedy for the tartaric acid, of each 1 ounce. Mix. Dose, of each ounce. Mix. Dose, tape-worm. 2 or 3 drachms of the powdered 1 tea-spoonful in a little warm water sweetenroot 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 due 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. Dr. Dowler expelled a tape-worm 1.55 feet long by prescribing the continued use of eim-bark. He ordered the bark to be chewed and swallowed in moderate quantities.