A simple and effective method of administering anthelmintics : from the Department of Gastroenterology of the University of Maryland / by W. Horsley Gantt and Paul Foreman Wiest.

  • W Horsley Gantt
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[1922]
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Credit: A simple and effective method of administering anthelmintics : from the Department of Gastroenterology of the University of Maryland / by W. Horsley Gantt and Paul Foreman Wiest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Reprinted from the Therapexttic Gazette, July, 1922] A Simple and Effective Method of Administering Anthelmintics. BY W. HORSLEY GANTT, M.D. AND PAUL FOREMAN WIEST, M.D. It is not unusual to note that the treat¬ ment of intestinal teniasis as it is ordinarily administered is frequently ineffective. The failure to expel the entire worm with the head may be due to the character of the drug employed, its deterioration, or -the method of its administration. Certain of the anthelmintics are worthless, others deteriorate with age; again, unless the patient be previously properly prepared by means of cathartics as well as by careful dietetic regulations the entire worm may not be expelled, due to the fact that an intestine filled with contents as well as mucus may prevent the thorough access of the vermi¬ fuge to the worm. Nausea and vomiting are frequently the result of the treatment and often render it futile, and entail upon the patient the dis¬ comfort of a repetition of the treatment after a number of months. Owing to the unsatisfactory results obtained in administering anthelmintics by the usual method, Dr. T. R. Boggs advised the treatment through the duodenal tube in the first of our cases. The result was so