A cyclopaedia of practical receipts, and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, professions, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy : designed as a comprehensive supplement to the pharmacopœias, and general book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateur, and heads of families / by Arnold J. Cooley.

  • Arnold James Cooley
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1856
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    garis (Gmelin), or hroad tape-worm, a va- riety seldom found in this country, but common in Switzerland and the north of Europe. Causes. A debilitated state of the diges- tive organs; improper food; sedentary habits; impure air; bad water; and, appa- rently, an occasional hereditary tendency to worms. Symp. Gripingpains, especially about the navel; acid eructations ; slimy stools ; occa- sional nausea and vomiting, without any manifest cause; heat and itching about the anus; tenesmus; emaciation ; disturbed dreams ; grinding of the teeth during sleep; pallor of countenance; discoloration round the ey_es; feverisliness ; headache; vertigo ; &c. 'in many cases these symptoms are often highly aggravated, and mistaken for primary diseases. The only absolutely positive evidence of the existence of worms is, however, their being seen in the faeces. Treat. In common cases, an occasional moderately strong dose of calomel over- night, followed by a smart purgative the next morning, is an excellent remedy, where the use of mercurials is not contra-indicated. Cowhage, made into an electuary with honey or treacle, is also an excellent vermifuge. Oil of turpentine is useful against nearly every variety of worms, and when taken in sufficient doses to reach the rectum, is almost specific in ascarides. When this is inconvenient, an occasional enema of oil of turpentine is even more effective. Enemas of aloes are also very nseful in such cases. Scammony,under the form of Basilicpotvder, has long been employed to expel worms in children. Aloes, castor oil, worm-seed, tin flings, and sulphur, are likewise popular remedies. Cabbage-tree bark is a powerful anthelmintic; but its use requires caution. Most of the guackvermifuges contain either ahes and gamboge, or calomel and jalap. The substances which have been most highly extolled for the destruction or ex- pulsion of tape-worm (ta'nia) are koussa, oil of turpentine, male-fern, pomegranate, and tin-filings. The first two are those on which the most dependence may be placed. Madame Nouffer's celebrated Swiss re- medy for tape-worm, for which Louis XVI gave 18,000 francs, consisted of 2 or 3 dr. of powdered male-fern, taken in J pint of waier in the xamxixn^, fasting, followed in 2 hours by a bolus made of calomel and scammony, of each, 10 gr.; gamboge, C or 7 gr. Swai}i's Vermifuge is prepared from worm-seed, 2 oz.; valerian, rhubarb, pink root, and white agaric, of each, \ \ oz.; boiled in water, q. s. to yield 3 quarts of decoction, to which 30 drops of oil of tansy, and 45 drops of oil of cloves, dissolved in a quart of rectified spirit, are added. All purgatives may be regarded as vermifuges. Besides our efforts to destroy and expel the worms, the tone of the priniae viae should be raised by the use of stomachics and tonics, by which the tendency to their equivocal generation will beeitherremoved or lessened. See Anthelmintics,Decoctions, Enemas, Pills, Patent Medicines, &c.; and also the several vermifuges under their respective names. WORM BARK. Syn. Cabbage-tree Bark; Geoffrma Inermis,—Ph. D.1826. Geoffrceya Inermis,—Ph. E. 1817. A powerful astrin- gent, purgative, anthelmintic, and narcotic. Dose. 10 to 30 gr. In larger doses, or if cold water be drunk during its action, it is apt to occasion sickness, vomiting, and deli- rium. The remedy for this is copious draughts of warm water. WORM SEED. Syn. Semen Contra, Se- men Cince,—Lat. The broken peduncles, mixed with the calyces and flower buds of artemisia santonica, and some other species of artemisia, imported from the Levant. Dose. 10 to 30 gr., in powder; as a vermifuge. See Santonine. WORM TEA. A preparation sold in the shops of the United States, and much used, consisting, according to Brande, of spigelia or pink-root, savine, senna, and manna. WORMWOOD. Syn. Absinthium,— L. & E. The flowering herb of artemisia absinthium (Linn.), a well known plant indigenous to this country, and largely cultivated for medicinal purposes. It is a bitter tonic and stomachic, and also anthel- mintic. Dose. 20 to 40 gr., of the dried herb, either in powder, or made into a tea or infusion; in dyspepsia, dropsy, scurvy, sympathetic epilepsy, &c. See Absinthine and Absinthic Acid. WORT. The technical name for the fermentable infusion of malted grain. The strength of worts is ascertained by means of an instrument commonly termed a saccharometer. (Secjo. 1114.) Brewers, distillers, and the Excise, sometimes denote by the term ' gravity' the excess of weight of 1000 parts of a liquid by volume above the weight of a like volume of distilled water, so that if the specific gravity be 1045, 1070, 1090, &c., the gravity is said to be 45, 70, or 90; at others, they thereby denote the weight of saccharine matter in a barrel (36 gall.) of wort; and again, they denote, the excess in weight of a barrel of wort over a barrel of water, equal to 3G gallo;]S, or 360 lb. This and the first