An enquiry into the natural history, cehmical properties, and medical virtues, of the rock oil, or green mineral naphtha, of Barbados : particularising the successful experiments ... observations on digestion ... / by C.H. Wilkinson.

  • Wilkinson, C. H. (Charles Henry)
Date:
1830
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Credit: An enquiry into the natural history, cehmical properties, and medical virtues, of the rock oil, or green mineral naphtha, of Barbados : particularising the successful experiments ... observations on digestion ... / by C.H. Wilkinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gentlemen of the first respectability, uninfluenced by any other motive than that of humanity, concur in warmly recommending this production of Nature in all oppres- sive cutaneous affections, in the milder, as well as the more advanced stages of Leprosy. WORMS. When the actions of any organs in the animal body become morbid and depraved, we find many of them sub- ject to become the repository of worms. We are not to con- sider that their existence constitutes the primitive disease, but as the resulting products; and which sometimes pass off without any corporeal derangements, and at other times are productive of the greatest constitutional disturbance. It is surprising the account of great numbers of worms being discovered by dissection, and which did not appa- rently produce any uneasiness to the individual: on the contrary, we have many instances of their dreadful effects. Whether worms assume a different character, according to the Nidus, where they appear to have been formed, cer- tainly most of those which arc found in the human body are not found in any other part of animated nature; thus the tape-worm in man is jointed, but in sheep no such appearance is observed, but more resembling a tape. We have many instances of worms found in the human foetus. Kerkring has given an account of tho intestinal canal of a foetus, six months and a half old, being full of worms; Pallas and Bloch have found taenia in the foetus: and I have seen a tape-worm seven feet long in a foetus of six months, the mother being accidentally killed gave rise to the exa- mination. In Switzerland the tape-worm is very prevalent;
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