A practical treatise on the efficacy of stizolobium, or, cowhage, internally administered, in diseases occasioned by worms. To which are added, observations on other anthelmintic medicines of the West-Indies / by William Chamberlaine.

Date:: 1785

Credit: A practical treatise on the efficacy of stizolobium, or, cowhage, internally administered, in diseases occasioned by worms. To which are added, observations on other anthelmintic medicines of the West-Indies / by William Chamberlaine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$[ 1° ] folution, as they call it, to every negro that has a little fore on his leg, does more harm than good. I have known many good conftitutions much injured by its ufe, and dropfies brought on by thofe medi- cines that were intended at firll to cure a foreleg. In like manner, mercury adminiftered with intent to kill worms has often brought on a worfe difeafe^ rheumatifm—bone-ach, from taking cold—confumption, afthma—con- firmed afcites—have but too often followed the injudicious ufe of that medicine. If mercury be given at all for the expul- fion of worms, the fafeft way of adminiftring it has always appeared to me to be in fmall dofes of Dimfdale's powder*—But even this is not always effectual. And it is very extraordinary, that where Nature h'a.s pointed out and fupplied us with the nobleft and fafeft anthelmintics, the • preparations of y^rt {hould be fubftituted, and preferred, though, inferior in virtue, and more hazardous in their confequences, * Calomel cc Pulv. e chel. Cancror. comp.. H gr. iij, Tartar Emetic, gr. ^ vel -^V- Few$