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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    degree of agitation, and to appear as if coH'- yulfed by his efforts in fhrieking. His eyes appeared as if ready to ftart from their fockets-, and his pulfe was quick, and irre- gular. I iirft ordered a warm bath to be got ready, into which he was to be put, for an hour, and in the mean time, a common clyf- ter was adminiftered. ^ I alfo direfted a fa- line draught, with twenty drops of tindtura thebaica, which I -attempted to give him, but he fpit the greatefl part of it out. I then prepared another* but had no occa- fion to give it, for, after he had been in the bath about three quarters of an hour, he became quiet, and fell alleep. He was then taken out, and laid in a clean, warm bed, where he flept foundly Jixteeh hours, with- out once awaking, though in that time feveral attempts were made to roufc him, but to no purpofe. His breathing was free and unopprefled, all the while, and his lleep, in all refpedts, like that of a perfon in per- fe£l health. I was at no lofs, from the firft, to guefs at the chief caufe of his complamt. His belly F 2 , was