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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    quent than amongft the white people ^ in- fomuch that it is very rare to fee a negro- child without a fwoln belly, and other fymptom,s of this difeafe. Symptoms. There is no appearance, which this com- plaint, in fome conftitutions, will not af- fume^ infomuch, that an eminent praditi- oner in the Weft Indies frequently declared, that whenever he faw any uncommon and violent fymptoms, not immediately to be accounted for, and which fuperftitious or ignorant people would be apt to attribute to witchcraft, he would without hefitation ex- hibit anthelmintics, and that in ninety-nine cafes out of an hundred, he found himfelf right in his conjedures. In general, it is not difficult to know when a patient is troubled with worms. A hard fwelled belly, difagreeable breath—a particular heavinefs, or languid, livid look, about the eyes, a fwelling and palenefs of the lips—and efpecially of the upper lip—an enlargement of the noftrils j itching of the nofe, and an appetite, fonietimes loathing all