A practical treatise on the efficacy of stizolobium, or cowhage, (the Dolichos pruriens of Linnaeus) internally administered, in diseases occasioned by worms : to which are added, observations on other anthelmintics of the West-Indies / by William Chamberlaine.

  • Chamberlaine, William, 1749-
Date:
1792
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Credit: A practical treatise on the efficacy of stizolobium, or cowhage, (the Dolichos pruriens of Linnaeus) internally administered, in diseases occasioned by worms : to which are added, observations on other anthelmintics of the West-Indies / by William Chamberlaine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [ * ] It is the bark of a tree, very frequently to be met with in the mountainous parts of Jamaica, which grows to a confiderable height. The bark is of an am colour, fome- times fpotted with reddilh, or iron coloured fpots.—The outer thin bark, or epidermis, being peeled off, the inner bark appears, when dry, of a rutty iron colour, and its interior furface of a cineritious hue. Al- together, when Gripped off the tree, and kept for ufe, it is not unlike the eleutheria, or cafcarilla bark. The wood of the baftard cabbage-tree is exceedingly hard and durable, and much ufed for the purpofes of building where ftrength and liability are required. The leaves are oblong, oval, fmooth, and of a beautiful green colour, difpofed in a pin- nate form along the ftem. Of this tree, there are two forts, the male, and the female. The bark of the female only is applied to the purpofes of medicine. This latter, in the months of April, May, June, and July, appears molt beautifully adorned with very large fpikes of papiliona- ceous bloffoms of a purple colour, which are fucceeded by a fruit, of the fhape, fize, and appearance of a green walnut; being a drur