10-2 On the Guinea JVorm, 



2d, The fruit, well known in all the gardens of India, 

 called by the Tamuls katricahe, and by the Portuguese he- 

 ringclle. 



3d, Oil of sesamum, called by the Tamuls nalla-ycimie> 

 in sufficient quantity to fry the katricahe or herhigelle. 

 Bruise the assafoetida, and, after having divided the berin- 

 gelle into three equal parts with a knife, insert one-third 

 of the assafcetida in each portion of the fruit : after having 

 tied them with a thread, fry the beringelle in the oil of se- 

 samum in a convenient vessel ; let the patient take one por- 

 tion of the remedy upon going to bed, another next morning, 

 and the third upon going to bed the second night; rub the 

 part of the bodv where the worm is lodged with the oil 

 which fried the fruit containing the assafcetida, for three 

 days> and three times a-day. 



If this remedy is resorted to at the commencement of the 

 malady, it will arrest its progress and hinder the formation 

 of the worm ; if made use of after the worm is formed, it will 

 soon bring it away ; and in every case the pain ceases in 

 three or four days, unless the disease is very obstinate, when 

 the remedy must be repeated, and it never fails on the second 

 application. 



J)r. Anderson's Answer to the Rev. Mr. Dulois, 



DEAR SIR, 



T have read your letter with great pleasure and attention, 

 because I do not know that any thing similar has been pub- 

 lished in the English language; and, in fact, this Guinea 

 worm, or dracunculus, which you have described so exactly, 

 is one of the most dreadful maladies to which the inhabi- 

 tants of this great peninsula are subject. 



What you have said upon the Hindoostanee names of 

 these remedies, &c. is of real importance to Europeans, as 

 enabling them tr procure them from the natives when they 

 are in want of them. 



As the knowledge of these Tamul names, however, will 



be only useful in India, for the instruction of the naturalists 



of Europe, I have to observe, that the kaletchij, which 



you recommend as a remedy against the bite of winged 



j insects, 



