And while on the subject of "worms" everybody does not know the trick to
catch a tape-worm! - simplicity itself! - and it works. The tape-worms seems to
have a great liking for pumpkin seed! Get one ounce of fresh pumpkin seed, and
take off the shell and pound and mix with two ounces of honey. Give fasting
in the morning in three doses one hour apart. The worms may come away or it
may need a dose of castor oil. And here a caution: if the worm is coming away,
it is necessary not to stir till it is passed, head and all, otherwise the
worm will grow again from the head. One has had such tape-worms brought in a
bottle for examination as to the presence of the small head. The explanation
given is that the tape-worm gormandizes on the pumpkin seed till stupid and
comatose, when its hooks relax, and it gets passed on and out. But "a Carrive!"
for that one can vouch."
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