290 ESSAYS anp OBSERVATIONS 
ArT. XV. 
The anthelmmite Virtue of the Bark of the 
wild Cabbage or Bulge-water Tree ; by 
the late MrPeterR Ducuip, Surgeon in. 
Jamaica, ma Letter to ALEXANDER 
Monro fenior, M. D. & P. A. 
HE writers on the difeafes of the 
Weft-Indies generally take little no- 
"tice of the inhabitants of Jamaica, young 
and old, white and black, being much 
troubled with worms, efpecially the long 
round fort. They are however fo frequent, 
that every prafifer ought to have regard 
to them in treating moft of his patients. 
I imagine thefe worms infeft the inha- 
bitants here on account of their fweet 
vifcid bread-kind, to wit, plantains, yams, 
bananas, {weetifh potatoes, &c. which are 
fit nourifhment for thefe vermin, I was 
lately allowed to open a Gentleman’s child, 
that, at feven months of age, died of vo- 
miting 
* May i 1755; 
