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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![[73 ] Towards evening, flie paffed two vety large worms. On the morning of the third day, an ounce of caftor oil was given, which brought away an incredible number • lome ' alive, others dead. She had no retui:. of her convulfions after the firfl dofe j but t thought it proper to continue the uie of the Cowhage a few days long'er. In lefs t-in a week, its good effedls were manifeft. Her eyes regained their natural vivacity; ' her pulfe became regular; the hardnefs and fwelling of the belly were leffened, and by degrees entirely difappeared, fo that in a fhort time flie. regained a perfed Hate of health. CASE VII. Charles Thompfon, a cabin-boy belonging to a fhip in the Weft-India trade, was, foon , after her departure from England, for the Weft-Indies, attacked with violent griping pains in the bowels.—Hi=s 'face and lips were exceeding pale, and he was conftdera- bly emaciated j nothing could perfuade him to ftir out of his hammock, or ta'ke anyk:in(i of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963915_0091.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
