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Show 646 COWHAGE. Jong; and after repeated doses, five more; but besides the emetic, we had given him some physic. After this, we paused awhile, and soon after the recommencement of our operations he produced in one dayno less than sixty worms (teretes) of different lengths, from three to sixteen or eighteen inches, all alive, and without any slime. We continued our mode of proceeding, but by some circumstances we were led to imagine that the action of digging assisted our endeavours ; we gave the ex. periment a fair trial, and found that we were more successful when he used that exercise than when he omitted it. Upon the whole, in the course of taking three or four pots of your medicine he evacuated 165 worms, between the sizes above mentioned, but most of them abovethe average size, and those all alive, and the greater part of them with the spiculz of the Cowhage sticking in them ; besides a great manydead ones. Weflattered ourselves he was quite relieved: but found it requisite within the year to have recourse to you again; he evacuated twenty worms, andhas been perfectly well ever since, This is, as far as I recollect, an exact and true account, and if it can serve the public or youto insert it in the next edition of COMMONLIQUORICE. GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA. your book, you are welcome to it for that purpose, and to the name also of Your most humble servant, P. B. Bronte. Rector of Winterslow, near Salisbury. July 23, 1792. Dr. Unperwoop. But one of the most powerful means, long in use with Class XVII. Diadelphia. Order 1V. Decandria. Essent, Gen. Cuar, Calyx two-lipped. Legumen ovate, compressed. Spec. Cnar, Legumes smooth. Stipules none. Pinnepetioled, ending with an odd one. country practitioners, and of late strongly recommended by Mr. Chamberlaine, is the Dolichos pruriens, variously prepared ; but the most simple form, that of giving it mixed up with treacle, is, perhaps, the best of all. It should be taken night and morn- ing for three or four days, and then be purged off with senna tea, or jalap, and this course be repeated as occasion may require.—Underwoodon the Diseases of Children, vol. i. p. 149. 2d Edit. 1799. DESCRIPTION. Te root is round, and runs to a very cqnsiderable extent. The stems rise five feet or more. The leaves are pinnated, al- ternate, composed of several pair of pinnz, which are ovate, 1, ; 7 ere blunt, veined, of a pale green. Flowers papiliona ceous, standing nearly erect, on long spikes. HISTORY, Liquorice is a perennial plant, a native of the south of Europe, and flowers in August; but the roots, whichare raised for medical purposes in considerable quantities in England, are Preferred to those imported from abroad, which are veryfre. |