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opening medicines operated the evening after I gave them, 

 and brought away a great number of the afcarides worms 

 which I far from thinking were the caufe of her diforder, 

 as the fyniptoms ftill continued with as much violence as 



I cannot help remarking here, that two of the moil 

 powerful vermifuge medicines we are acquainted with, viz. 

 xhtAnthelmMh or Worm Grafs of Jamaica,^ and theCarolina 

 Fink Root ^ are both confiderably narcotic, and when taken in 

 too large quantities produce effeds fomewhat fmiilar to 

 thofe of theStrammonium. Do their vermifuge depend 

 upon their narcotic qualities alone? Are all narcotic fub- 

 ftances vermifuge? Or may not they be rendered fo, by 

 dminiftering purges after them, in the manner we are 

 diredcd, after ufing the worm grafs or pink root? Thefe 

 are qucftions, which are perhaps foreign to our prefent 

 fubjcdl, and yet when refolved, may have their ufes in me- 



But to return; the mother of the child finding 

 raoil; of the remedies wc had ufed ineffedual, informed me 

 for the firft time, that they had a quantity o{ Stramonium 

 growing in tlieh^ garden, where the child generally play- 

 ed, and that fne rccolleded that (he had been once difor- 

 dered in a flight manner, from eating fomc of the feeds of 

 it. This led me immediately to treat her complaints in a 

 very different manner from that I had formerly done. T 

 gave her a puke of two grains of Tart. Emetic, diffolved 

 in water by fpoonfuls. It vomited her feveral times, but 



brought nothing but phlegm from her ftomach. After 

 this I gave her fweet oil in large quantities, mixed with a 

 little of the oleum Ricini, which in a little time brought 

 away a great number of the Strammonium feeds. The 

 relief fhe got from this evacuation, encouraged me to re- 

 peat the fame medicine, which I did every day for near a 

 week, till I began to flatter myfelf they were all difcharged 

 from the body. But notwithftanding this, fhe was far 



The tremors 

 ftill continued in her hands at times; her delirium abated, 



from recovering fo rapidly as we wifted. 



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