They have a cathartic effect, and especially to children have been successfully given in the character of a vermifuge for this purpose; an infusion of a dram of the flowers dried, or half an ounce in their recent state, is the requisite dose.
An infusion of the leaves is frequently given as a vermifuge with good effect.
The following vermifugecan be recommended: Santonin three to five grains, calomel five to eight grains.
Turpentine is the vermifugeusually administered to calves.
The occasional administration of a vermifuge for the purpose of ridding the digestive tract of worms, together with the frequent changing of pastures during the spring and summer, are the most effective preventive lines of treatment.
A very effective preventive measure, as we may term it, is the practice of administering a vermifuge to the ewes in the late summer and again in early winter.
They were supposed to originate from worms, and had been in vain attempted to be removed by vermifuge purges.
Cathartic and vermifugemedicines applied externally to the abdomen, seem to be taken up by the cutaneous branch of lymphatics, and poured on the intestines by the retrograde motions of the lacteals, without having passed the circulation.
Many of them are used as potherbs, and some of them are emetic and vermifuge in their medicinal properties.
Many of them are used as potherbs, and some are emetic and vermifuge in their medicinal properties.
Moreover, in Russia, the oil of the Birch is used as a vermifuge and a balsam in the cure of wounds.
It is said to be vermifuge and alterative, and has been used in some cutaneous and glandular diseases, but appears to be nearly inert.
Associated with calomel, rhubarb, or sulphate of potassa, it is useful in all cases in which an active cathartic or vermifuge may be required, especially for children.
Used as an external vermifugefor children; a portion is rubbed 2 or 3 times a day over the umbilical regions.
Wood soot was formerly officinal, and reputed vermifuge and antiseptic.
It is still a favourite with many practitioners, as an alterative purgative, and vermifuge for children.
On his absence being noted, Gram went up-stairs to inquire into his plight; and it was with a sense of exultation rather than proper pity, I fear, that Halse and I saw the old lady come down presently and get the Vermifuge Bottle.
Once after that, when Vermifuge was mentioned, Addison winked to me; and I think we were pretty well aware that something funny had started, unbeknown to Gram.
Gram followed him up there with theVermifuge bottle.
But with Wealthy, who was younger, the ingestion of Vermifuge was usually preceded by an orgy of tears and supplications.
On one occasion Halstead bolted, while the Vermifuge was being poured out, and escaped to the barn.
The episode put a damper on the Vermifuge Bottle, however; it was never quite so prominent afterwards.
It has vermifuge properties and is slightly diuretic.
It is alterative, cathartic, sialagogue, vermifuge and diuretic.
Jayne's Liver Pills for grown people andvermifuge for children.
Big boxes containing bottles of the stomach bitters, smaller boxes containing pills and vermifugewere received.
Sugar crackers, Scotch herring and cheese were Harrison's principal food and a few of the liver pills were used, but the vermifuge stood on the shelves in the press room covered with dust.
Woodville says their juice made into a syrup, with coarse sugar, is almost the only vermifuge he had used against round worms for three years past.
Of the dried leaves from five to twenty-five grains will act as a drastic vermifuge to expel worms.
In this country farriers give it to horses for bot-worms, and in Germany it is employed as a vermifuge for children.
The juice Aloes is extracted from the leaves of this plant and since antiquity has been regarded as a valuable drug, particularly for its laxative and vermifuge properties.
And so you see the giving of the vermifuge consumed considerable time.
As infection is always in lurk in kennels it is, I think, always advisable to give puppies that have passed the tenth week a dose of vermifuge occasionally until after the ninth month.
When the pups are four weeks old (I used to commence at five, but so many deaths have occurred in my kennels that of late I have commenced a week earlier), give them a mild vermifuge for worms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vermifuge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
