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.

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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    [ , '7 ] A dofe of fome medicine of the purgative kind fhould be then interpofed—fuch as jalap —rhubarb-^.fal. glaub. or what is ftill bet- ter, as more immediately anfwering the in- tention, an ounce of oleum ricini. It is furprizing to fee what efFe(5bs will fometimes follow the exhibition of thefe medicines. Large knots of worms, amount- ing to fome hundreds, have been voided, and the-patient, from being reduced to the laft extremity, has recovered health and vigour. But if, as fometimes happens,. the iirft three or four dofes of the dccoftion fhould not have the defired efFedl, the medicine muft be continued for a few days longer, omit- ting it on. thofe mornings on which the purge, is given j and it rarely happens, that fo many as eight or nine dofes are taken, without producing a favourable event. Bad confequences have been faid to arife from the too liberal ufe of this medicine. For my own part, I never found any; and I think I have tried it. in as many different forms, and' on as many different fubjedls, as moft of the medical profeffion. It is true, I have known an over-dofe of it oc- C cafion