47 l 
* c ftools confifted of little elfe than thefe animals." He concludes 
by faying, " It is to be obferved, that this remedy is particularly 
" defigned againft the long round worm ; whether it is equally dele- 
" terious to the afcarides, or whether it has ever been ufed againft 
" them, I am uncertain," c Farther accounts, fhewing the efficacy 
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of this medicine, have fmce appeared in the Medical Commentai 
and in a treatife, profeffedly written on the fubjed by Mr. Chambe 
laine, e to which a number of cafes is fubjoined, and to which 
additions lately have been made on various and indubitable authorities, 
proving the Cowhage to be not lefs fuccefsful here than in the warmer 
imates of which it is a native ; and that all the different kinds of 
r orms, known to infefl the primse vise, have been expelled by this 
c 
anthelmintic. 
The manner, in which thefe hairy fpiculse acl: as a vermifuge, Teem* 
to be purely mechanical ; for neither the tindure, nor the deeoclion, 
poifefTes the leaft anthelmintic pow^r; f 
c Vide his EfFay on the natural hiftory of Guiana in South America* 
d See Vol. iu 
•* Pra&ical treatife on the efficacy of Stizolobium or Cowhage, publifhed ia 
1,785. As the Cowhage is feldom to be met with at the "" 
thofe who wifh to give it a trial, that it is to be had at his houfe in Aylefbury ftreet, 
Clerkenwell. 
dru£2:ifts«» Mr. C, informs 
f 
The following experiment, made by Mr. Chamberlaine, illuftrates this opinion :• 
calabafh, full of very large worms of the -teres kind, in full vigour, voided by 
was 
g thefe, I 
fete. Fi)rL_a minute or two no vifible effeft was produced 
ey 
nufual 
extreme torture. I 
g it through a magnifying 
d that feveral of the fetae had pierced very deep 
loofely in various parts of its body, but that none of the fpiculae^ which had 
entered into the Ikin, dropped ofF." L. c+ 
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