i64 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIOisfS 



Art. XV. 



jh6(? anthelmintic Virtue of the Bark of the wild 

 Cabbage or Balge-water Tree ; by the late Mr. 

 PeT£r DuGuiD late Surgeon in Jamaica, 

 in a Letter /o Alexander Monro jenior, 

 M.D. & l^.A. 



THE Writers on the difeafes of the 

 Wefi-tndies generdly take little notice 

 of the Inhabitants oi Jamaica^ young and 

 old, white and black, being much troubled 

 with worms, efpecially the long round fort. 

 They are however fo frequent, that every 

 pradlifer ought to have regard to them in 

 treating moft of his patients. I imagine thefe 

 worms infeft the inhabitants here on account 

 of their fweet vifcid bread-kind, to wit, plan- 

 tains, yams, bananos, fweetifli 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 

 vomiting and convulfions. In its inteftines 

 there were twelve large worms : one of 



them 



* May I. 1755. 



