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Show COWHAGE. 635 HrSeT ORY. It is a native of the West Indies, and flowers in September and October. MEDICAL USE. Class XVII. Diadelphia. Essent. Gen. Cuar. Order 1V. Decandria. Vexillum with two parallel oblong callosities at the base, compressing the wings underneath. Spec. Cuar. Stem twining: Legumes racemed, the valves slightly carinate, and hairy: Peduncles three together. —S DESCRIPTION. Tue stem is climbing, and twists round neighbouring trees, and so rises to a great height. The leaves are in threes, and stand uponlong footstalks, and are placed alternate; each pinna, or leaf, is entire, oval, pointed, smooth above, hirsute beneath. There are two small stipules at the footstalks of the compound leaves. Flowers verylarge, a deep purple, placedalso inthrees, upon short peduncles, and form pendent spikes, which arise from the axillz of the leaves, The vexillum, or standard, is small. The ale, or wings, extremely large. The carina, or keel, is also long, and furnished on each side with a short spur. The fruit is an oblong pod, in form of the letter f. TAY ok tS C.0O:W-H.A Gok. DOLICHOS PRURIENS. dicines and regimen as will invigorate the system, and prevent the accumulation of viscid mucus in the intestines. Many andvarious have been the medicines exhibited, and even celebrated, for the expulsion of these intestine enemies. Bitter purgatives, oily medicines, chalybeates, preparations of ae and, thirdly, to prevent a return of the complaint, by such me- A dicines as will oblige them to let go their hold, and dislodge them from their situation; secondly, to expel them from the body; Ze tient as possible. In this view the indications are, first, to administer such me- alt of them ‘as soon as we can, and withas little danger to the pa- ES considered, it is known, or suspected, that worms are the cause of disturbance in the system, it becomes our business to get rid Z The following account is extracted from Mr. Chamberlaine’s admirable ‘ Practical Treatise on the Stizolobium, or Cowhage :” —When from the existing symptoms, all other circumstances tin, iron, and zinc; garlic, hellebore, the root of the male fern. which is the basis of madam Nouffer’s celebrated Swiss remedy ; drastic and resinous cathartics: the juices of plants celebrated for their anthelmintic qualities, have all had their turn. Bitters will not prove effectual; for Le Clerc tells us, that he found worms, not only in the liver, but in the gall-bladder it. self, of a sheep which he dissected ; which wereactive and lively, swimming in the gall itself, the bitterest of all the secretions. Oil, which kills all other insects, will not answer here. It is true, it may destroy a fewascarides in the vicinity of the rectum, when administered as a glyster: But howis the oil to be conveyed into the jejunum, or ileum, unaltered, so as to drown the teres, or a tape-worm? ‘I'he tract of the intestines it has to pass through, and the changes it undergoes before it reaches the seat of worms, render it inert. But we are even told the experiment has been made of putting live teretes into commonoil, in which they have lived and movedfor several hours. Practitioners not attached to any particular remedy, among those generally considered as specifics, place dependence on mer- curials ; but mercury, inall its various forms, has been exhibited |