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 / [William Chamberlaine].

Chamberlaine, William, 1749-

Date:: 1784

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 / [William Chamberlaine]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$bred in the human body would affedfc thoie animals wh^n expelled from the body, I waited not long before I had an opportunity cf making the experiment. A calabaffi full of very large ones, cf the teres kind, in full vigour, void- ed by a poor emaciated patient, was brought to me. Among thefe, I fprinkled fome of the fetas. For a minute or two, no. vifible effect was produced * but in a lit-, tie time they began to writhe and twift themfelves in an unufual manner, and exhibited evident figns of extreme torture, I took one of the worms, and viewing it through a magnifying glafs, perceived that feveral of the fetse had pierced very deep, .and others' were {ticking loofely in vari¬ ous parts of its body, but that none of the fpiculss, which had once entered into the {kin, dropped off. Convinced in, a ffiort time, both from what I had heard, and from my own experi¬ ments, on the internal exhibition of cow¬ itch, of the fafety and efficacy of this in-, comparable medicine, I laid afide the cab¬ bage-tree-bark, and for feveral years have ufed no other vermifuge than this. • b ■ : v ■ ' ’ ' , m7 %$