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TAP serve as ti vehicle. If the medi- cine occasion nausea, any aroma- tic may be chewed, but without swallowing it ; or, strong vinegar may be inhaled, in order to check the sickness; but if, notwithstand- ing these endeavours, the powder be rejefted, the dose is to be re- peated, and the patient should en- deavour to rest, as soon as the sickness subsides. About two hours after, one half of the following preparation should be given, name- ly : Mercur)-, fourteen times sub- limed (calomel will answer the same purpose) ; and select resin of scammony, ten grains each ; fresh gamboge, 6 or 7 grains : reduce the whole into a fine powder, and form it into two boluses, by means of a conserve : these are to be taken at two different times. Dur- ing the operation, as well as after administering each bolus, weak tea should be allowed in copious draughts. When the worm is ex- pelled, a bason of broth, and the customary diet, may again be re- sorted to. If, howevei, the crea- ture should be discharged pre- viously to using the second dose, only the greater half of it, or, a portion of Epsom salt, is to be ad- ministered. 2, The method of carrying off the tape-worm, recommended by Herrenschwandt, is as follows: The patient must swallow one dravi of the male fern two successive mornings, before breakfast 5 and, in the evening, two hours after a light supper. On the third morn- ing, the following powder is like- "U'ise to be taken before breakfast, and followed by large potions of weak tea : Take of purified gam- boge, 12 grains J salt of worm- Avodd 20 grains, and Starkey's soap (a composition of distilled oil TAP [189 and fixed vegetable alkali) 2 grains; the whole to be duly incorporated : three hours after, 1 oz. of castor- oil is to be swallowed in a cup of beef-tea, and repeated once or twice at similar intervals. If the worm be still retained, a clyster, consisting of equal parts of milk and water, with 3 oz. of castor- oil, must be injeded in the even- ing, which is generally productive of the desired effcft. 3. The last of these specifics (as they are vainly styled), is that which Mathieu, an apothecary of Ber- lin, lately asserted to have disco- vered ; and for which the present King of Prussia honoured him with a title, and pension for life : the following are its ingredients : Take filings of pure tin, 1 oz. ; pow- dered male fern, drams ; worm- seed, I oz. ; powdered root of ja- lap, and polychrest salt fvitrio- lated kalij, of each J oz. ; the whole' to be properly mixed with a suffi- cient quantity of honey, so as to form an eleduary, which may be marked No. 1. Farther, take pow- dered root of jalap, polychrest salt, of each 2 scruples ; scammony (of Aleppo), 1 scruple j gamboge, 10 grains : these articles are also to be formed into an eleftuary with ho- ney, and to be noted No. 2. The patient should, for several days previous to the use of this remedy, observe a very moderate diet, con- sisting of panada, and light vegeta- ble food ; but he ought especially to use salted provisions, such as herrings, &c. After these prepa- ratory measures, a tea-spoonful of the eleduary. No. 1, is to be taken every two hours, for two or three days, until a sensation of the worm be felt in the intestines ; when one tea-spoonful of the electuary, No.2, is to be given everj' two hours, till the