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
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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 / [William Chamberlaine]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3° ] fent to deftroy. Oil is, therefore, an im¬ proper vehicle; and this will appear flili plainer, if we confider, that to defend our hands from the troublefome effedls of the fetaej when handling cowitch, it is neceflary to oil the fingers. No anat^Aiift will afk. Whether thefefpi- tula may not be injurious to the coats of the flomach and intefines ? But, as I have been afked this queftion by many people, who, ignorant of the ftrudhire of the in¬ terlines, and the nature of this mucus, were apprehenfive of danger—and there¬ fore afraid to venture on the medicine; it may not be amifs to remark, for the fatisfadtion of fuch as are in doubt con¬ cerning that point, that if a little honey or treacle is fufficient to defend the tender nervous papilli of the mouth and fauces, from the troublefome effedt$ of the fetas, (which, when applied externally to any part of our fkin, caufe a moll tormenting and intolerable itching, fometimes almoft even to madnefs) certainly the mucus of th« flomach and inteftines will be very fufficient to defend thofe parts from the irritation of the fetse. * * Never-
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