INTESTINAL Disomumts.—Naphthalin, in 5-grain doses, has been used with ap parent benefit in typhoid fever (Wolff), in acute and chronic intestinal catarrh, in fermentative diarrhcea, and in cholera. It diminishes the activity of the intes tinal bacteria, as shown by C. Sehrwald, who advises its use in conjunction with calomel. In dysentery- 10 Or 15 grains may be given in a warm decoction of altha (marshmallow) by rectal injec tion.
In the summer diarrhcea of children, 78 to V, grain may be given every two to four hours.
.,.9.NTHELMINTIC.—Naphthalin in doses of 3 to 10 grains, combined with castor oil and disguised with a couple of drops of oil of bergamot, is useful in treating ascarides (Mirowitch). Seat-worms are best treated by the injection of 10 or 15 grains of naphthalin in 2 or 3 ounces of oil into the rectum. For tape-worm, 15 grains should be given before eating, fol lowed some hours later by a full dose of castor-oil.
In treatment of tape-worm, a single dose of naphthalin usually suffices. Alter three meals containing excess of salty and vegetable acid food about 20 grains of the drug are administered in capsule; this is followed in four hours by a free dose of calomel with soda. and this in turn by eastor-oil. Hard (Cincinnati Med., p. 711, '94).
Naphthalin is an excellent remedy against Oxyuris vcrm feu/anis. Dose varies from 2 '/, grains for a child 1 V, years old to 6 grains for one of 12 or 13 years. It is best given in powder mixed with sugar or in capsule. A good purge is first given, then 4 doses of the naph thalin are given daily for 2 days, re peated days after the first dose, and again repeated after an interval of 14 days. Schmitz (Jahr. f. Kinderh., B. 39, S. 121).