Pinworms.

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In your journal for June Dr. F. M. Kirk asks for a specific for pin worms. The following has been for me a never failing remedy. Make a strong infusion of spearmint and use this once in a day or two as an injection into the rectum. For internal treatment I take of pink root, senna, chenopodium and manna of each one-half an ounce of the herb, and steep these for one hour in one and one-half pints of water. During the course of twenty-four hours I give about four ounces of this infusion in one-half as much new milk sweetened.

H. M. FRANK, M. D.

Ellingwood's Therapeutist, Vol. 2, 1908, was edited by Finley Ellingwood M.D.