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XYtll. Letter from Dr. De Carro to the Editors of the 

 Bihliot heque Brit anni que, on the Guinea Worm, and the 

 Sting of the Scorpions of India*. 



GENTLEMEN, Vienna, Sept. 24, 1805. 



W hen I last wrote to you on the subject of that celebrated 

 quadruped the shawl goat of India f, I think I informed you 

 that I intended to lay my philosophical friends in Asia under 

 contribution, by requesting communications from them of 

 any thing remarkable in medicine, surgery, or the materia 

 medica. The most zealous and most regular of my corre- 

 spondents is Dr. Milne, at present residing at Goa, and from 

 him I have received some interesting details upon two of the 

 diseases of India, as communicated by the Rev. Mr. Dubois, 

 the missionary, to Dr. Anderson, physician-general to the 

 government of Madras ; and Dr. Anderson's answer; both 

 of which are subjoined. 



These observations upon the Guinea worm (dracuncnlus) 

 will be so much the more interesting to your readers, as a 

 short time ago you gave an account of the work of Mr. 

 M'Gregor upon the diseases of the expedition to Egypt £. 

 The following details cannot fail to arrest the attention of 

 the public, when we consider that they describe the efficacy 

 of a remedy which seemed to be completely unknown to 

 Mr. M'Grc-gor and such medical men as have written on 

 the subject : 



Letter of the Rev. Mr. Dubois to Dr. Anderson, Physician- 

 general. 

 dear sir., 

 The principal object of this letter is to communicate to 

 you two remedies, the efficacy of which I have remarked in 

 a great number of instances, in two diseases very common 

 in this district and in some others : I allude to the disease 

 known among Europeans by the name of the Guinea norm, 



' Protn BibliothZque BriUmnique, vol. xxx. 



f See Philosophical Magazine, vol. xxiv. p. 97. 



j See Philosophical Magazine, vol. xxii. p- 350. 



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