in Medicine, a peculiar eruption, which was supposed to be worms in the muscular parts of the arms and legs, called Guinea worms. These worms were removed by the point of a needle; and to prevent their forming again, the usual custom is to wash the parts with wine and vinegar, with alum, nitre, or common salt, or with a strong lixivium of oak ashes, and afterwards anoint them with an ointment of the common kind used for scorbutic eruptions, with a small mixture of quicksilver.