Practice of medicine : a manual for students and practitioners . i Proglottides of (a) tnnnia saginata (l>) t. solium (Leuckart), and (<•) bothriocephaluslatus (Eichhorst); natural size and enlarged three times to show arrangementof uterus. month or with food or cooking-utensils. This advice appliesnot only to patients, but to physicians as well. Tapeworm—treatment: For a day or two the individualshould fast, or live only upon articles that will afford the Fig. a be Eggs of (a) t. saginata; (6) t. solium; (c) bothriocephalus latus; X 300 (Eichhorst). worm little nourishment and at t
Practice of medicine : a manual for students and practitioners . i Proglottides of (a) tnnnia saginata (l>) t. solium (Leuckart), and (<•) bothriocephaluslatus (Eichhorst); natural size and enlarged three times to show arrangementof uterus. month or with food or cooking-utensils. This advice appliesnot only to patients, but to physicians as well. Tapeworm—treatment: For a day or two the individualshould fast, or live only upon articles that will afford the Fig. a be Eggs of (a) t. saginata; (6) t. solium; (c) bothriocephalus latus; X 300 (Eichhorst). worm little nourishment and at the same time appease thepatients appetite: black coffee, pickles, cabbage, raspberryjam, wine, and water. A purgative, such as calomel, may be 148 INFECTIONS. administered in the evening; and next morning, the patientfasting, a tseniacide may be administered, sometimes best witha cup of black coffee, and the patient instructed to remain inbed. Among the remedies in common use as tseniacides are theethereal extract or oleoresin of male fern ; the rind of thefresh pomegranate root in powder or decoction ; or, better, thetannate of pelletierin. Turpentine and pumpkin-seed areused. If the worm does not pass within an hour, a purgativeshould be administered ; best a Seidlitz powder or a glass ofHunyadi water. If nothing passes within another hour, thepatient should receive an enema. Among other tseniacides are cusso, which should not begiven in pregnancy ; kamala, used
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