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Show MALE FERN. iti itious name, name, aas s an powder specific ¢ ordered infallible f metimes has times itit has bee: been ha : sold under 4 r the broad or tape- j be taken without any , mercury, and other purchased, for a n of of Sum mone the a medicine money, the recei} € } ¢ t <u rom an efiectual cure for € Lpe yorm, om < widow idow ofIaa surgeon surge Lu in minister :it. ; On discovery a i yowder,, which was to 7 fi | day before the pa ie ent take a dose of Switzerl a light + wast{ ye i was said: to be whose husband to proved1 to bebe be tak« som to makea very iit ( rich nada! 1 ! used to ade fern root reduce fern 1 red da iifiatlinten the aveuler, ier, tne walle’ ‘The following, manner: to take the 1 ‘J fern, he was to ling medicine, and after its operation supper; next morning he was I to take three t in a cup of lime flower » other grateful after anotherfull Two hours after the dose the following purging ny, mixed with | digested in spirit of in powder, the dose being rength of the paent is to drink tea, e, if he perceives that on the close-stool till of broth. If the first dose of medi ot tl Si itive should prove too weak, salts, and to drink freely the fern powderand of the purging effect, the powder and purge are if at any time the tenia is ob- served to be coming away, the greatest care must be taken not to break it. SETeus, i Bergius, persons cured by these one, and| two or tree think that i & CNA oti s ria ihis Medica, hat ivi@dl m . \ medicine failed i J : says that : he has seen several some of them had passe se with ms: and and he he Se seems to worms; e people who really had } l tenia, that itit has has | i its having having been beer under der-dosed. the been owing to its ‘hen to ; Theanhrast the it Theophrastus mentions by no means anew: remedy. This is j as well i as as Dios¢ Dioscotoot as employ 1 to destroy the tape-worm, as rides and Fragus. 881 Spigelius relates that he saw the tape-worm pass whole from a drachm of the root. A decoction of the whole plant may be used for tanning. The salt of this plant from burning produces the best soap, andfi nest glass, such ag we useforbottles. The leaves make the dryest andbest litter for horses and cows ; andeven children have had beds: made of it. It helps admirably to fill up in packa ges, being very dry, for the conveyance of fruit; and in times of scarci ty bread has been madeof the root; andthis is comm only given for swine, who fatten onit, |