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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    \ PREFACE. rpiIE universality of complaints arifing from Worms, fo defir uClive to the bu- nyan body, mujl make every attempt to render thofe Maladies lefs frequent and fatal, a mat- importance to the public. y?/- lowing fheets were therefore written, only for the perufal of medical practitioners y but the information and benefit of the com- /• *” '/S' mumfy. 'The inefficacy of European medicines % even thofe efteerned the mofi powerful of vermi¬ fuges, induced me to offer this Hreatife to the public ; for, although fiome detached pieces re¬ lative to the exhibition of Cowhage, have at different times appeared in print, which * I have taken notice ,in the fubfequent part of this work) / not recollect that any thing has been written profefledly and practically gu that fubjeCt. It is therefore prefumed, the preferit publication may not be deemed unne- ceffary, being intended for the introduction of this ufeful anthelmintic, into more general ufe> and praClically to identify two circumfiances of the utmofi importance, namely, its safety, and efficacy. s . It I