Word: calomel
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Treatment. No known drug will kill the parasite. The patient should take castor oil or calomel (under medical supervision), then epsom salts and intestinal antiseptics. Thereafter the doctor tries to build up the patient's constitution so it can kill off the trichinae. The disease is rarely fatal, yet always uncomfortable...
...first glimpse, "The Lawbreaker" at the St. James promised to be a rather well-coated pill of conventional morality. Then by dextrous sleight of hand the reform play became a potential tragedy, the theme of which was, "Mind your own business"; the calomel was changed for quinine. And at the last, of course, was dragged in the inevitable happy ending, for the sake of the sugar. A surprise play it was, in other words, with the plausible cleverly substituted for the logical at each turning point. A psychological study it was, too, of not inconsiderable power...