Show gentian violet nw new tre treatment a ament for pin worms by DR JAMES W BARTON released by western newspaper Newa paper union NE of the distressing ailments ONE 0 of young children Is pin worms as the intensive itching gets gradually worse toward evening and is at its worst at bedtime HEALTH during the night there COLUMN is sleeplessness I 1 or a disturbed sleep with night terrors the child loses weight and his blood becomes thin the prevention of infection or aggravation gra of af the symptoms can often be effected by keeping the fingernails clean and cut short and washing the hands many times a day getting rid of these tiny worms WOMB which loo look k like short pieces of white thread is I 1 sometimes difficult in my student days we were taught that giving tablets of dr barton and calomel and enemas of an infusion of chips was considered the most effective treatment for many years the routine treatment in childrens hospitals has been enemas of infusion of chips every morning for 7 to 10 days two ounces of chips are put la in a quart of water and the wa water ter allowed to boll boil down to one pint the water is ii then strained tree free of the chips and used as an enema this whole process is repeated each morning for the week or 10 days water being allowed to cool the new treatment A new treatment that may take the place of these other methods is gentian violet now used in staining organisms and injection of vessels drs max J miller laurent choquette wilfred audet B R F kelso and J A guenette in the canadian medical Asso association clation journal report their results in the use of gentian violet in tablet form in 29 school children ranging from 8 0 to 13 years of age the tablets were given over a period of 10 consecutive days the c hildren children 6 to 9 getting two 3 20 grain tablets three times a day and those 10 to 13 years of age getting a grain tablet three times a day these gentian violet tablets cleared away the pin worms in 26 of the 29 cases |