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
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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.

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    [ ^3 ] tea-fpoonful to three table-fpoonfuls may be given as an emetic according to the age, con- iHtution, and flrengtli of the patient. The exprefled juice may alfo be made into a fyrup with fugar.—I have known it to bring away worms (after operating as an emetic) from patients in whom there never appeared any fymptoms of them. If there are any in the ftomach,it certainly diflodges them. When the crude juice is to be adminiftred, I would recommend an addition of an equal, or a double portion of lukewarm water with it, which makes it operate more gently, and likewife more effedlually. Browne fays, the juice is a powerful aftringent. I cannot fay I ever knew an in- ftance of its being aftringent, and therefore imagine he mufl have taken his account, not from his own -experience, but the re- port of others. The bark of the Bajiard Cabbage-'^ree (hitherto, by Botanifts, very imperfectly defcribed, but which the ingenious Botanift and Ornithologift, Mr. Robins, of St. Mary's, Jamaica, has called Geoffrea, Iner- jnisy) ftands among the firft, in the lift of powerful vermifuges. It