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 ... / [William Chamberlaine].

Chamberlaine, William, 1749-

Date:: 1792

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 ... / [William Chamberlaine]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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${[ 92 ] From that time all her fymptoms very much decreafed, and, after a few gentle purges, her complaints entirely left her _ The laft time I faw her, the faid her health was perfectly. re-eftablifhed ; the had refumed her ufual occupation, and was firong and hearty. C070 td AMONG the many derangements which take place in the human frame from a fuperabundance of worms, affections of the eyes are not unfrequent. Very obftinate ophrhalmias oftert arife from this caufe alone. To that juftly eminent and re- fpectable Surgeon, Mr. Wathen, of Walbrook, I am indebted for much information on that fubject. : A young lady of Cambridgefhire was under that gentle« man’s care, on account of an ophthalmia, which having obfti- nately refifled every mode of treatment, Mr. Wathen conceived that the complaint might originate from worms, and recome mended to the father of the young lady a trial of my prepara- tion of Cowhage, for his daughter. It was attended with fuch happy fuccefs, that he recommended it very ftrongly to be tried in the cafe of Mifs H , daughter of J. H. efq. who was fome time afterwards under Mr. Wathen’s care for a fimilar complaint.— In a very fhort time after the young lady had began a courfe of the medicine, I had the pleafure of receiving a line from Mrs. H——., informing me, that ‘* her daughter’s eyes were much ¢¢ better, and that the Cowhage had brought away a great num- €¢ ber of afcarides, all alive.” The fanction and patronage given to this medicine by gena- tlemen of known and acknowledged eminence in the medical world, have been the means of introducing it much into pracs ~ tice.—To Mr. Wathen Iam highly obliged for his recommens dations of its ufe in many cafes. To enumerate but a few of them would exceed the bounds I have prefcribed to myfelf s- fuffice it to fay, the refult of moft of the trials have proved favourable to the reputation of the Medicine, fatisfaétory to the recommender; and, to myfelf productive not only of much mental gratification, but feveral very genteel prefents—in a word, both PLEASURE and PROFIT. THE END.$