Volume 1
Commentaries on diseases of the stomach and bowels of children / By Robley Dunglison.
- Robley Dunglison
- Date:
- 1824
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Commentaries on diseases of the stomach and bowels of children / By Robley Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![advisable to assist its operation by one of the cathartics above mentioned, exhibited about twice a week during its administration. If, however, the mode of action of the stan- num be difficult of explanation, that of the Do- lachos prurtens, the Stizolobium or Cowhage, is still more extraordinary. The sete or pubes covering the pods of the Dolichos pruriens were at one time alone recommended ; and it is this species which has been admitted into, and is stil] retained in, the London Pharmacopeeia. Ac- cording to Persoon*, however, all the eight species of the Stzzolobrwm are equally prurient and ant- helminthic. That this pubes is useful in inver- mination, there can be but little doubt: the facts recorded by Kerr, Cochrane, Bancroft, Macbride, Chamberlaine, and others, are sufficient to prove this ; and I have myself seen its exhibition fol- lowed by the evacuation of worms, a result which had not supervened on the administration of other anthelminthics. It has by many writers been conceived, that if the cowhage possess any influence over worms, it ought equally to irritate ne RE EY Ns ae ihn * Synopsis Plantarum, P. ii. p- 208.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33287211_0001_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
