Observations on the superior efficacy of the red Peruvian bark, in the cure of fevers. Interspersed with occasional remarks on the treatment of other diseases by the same remedy / by William Saunders.

William Saunders

Date:: 1783

Credit: Observations on the superior efficacy of the red Peruvian bark, in the cure of fevers. Interspersed with occasional remarks on the treatment of other diseases by the same remedy / by William Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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L 54 ] From the experience of it in many hune dred cafes, I conclude with Dr. Linn, ¢¢ That an Opiate given foon after the ¢* commencement of the hot fit, by aba- ‘¢ ting the violence and leffening the du- ¢¢ ration of the Fever, preferves the con- s¢ ftitution fo entirely uninjured, that ¢¢ fince I ufed Opium in Agues, neither a $¢ Dropfy nor Jaundice has attacked any ¢* of my patients in thefe difeafes.” The manner in which I employ it, is either by giving a grain of the Teaic extradt upon the acceffion of the cold fit, or ¢wenty drops of the YAebaic Tin€&ture upon the acceflion of the hot fit, the action of the former being later from its flower folubi- lity, The Red Bark is fo much warmer than the other, that it would feem to anfwer all the purpofes derived from the union of Cordials, Aromatics, Serpentaria, and the like, fo much recommended in the obfti- - pate Quartan Intermittents of elderly people. Some tia

Observations on the superior efficacy of the red Peruvian bark, in the cure of fevers. Interspersed with occasional remarks on the treatment of other diseases by the same remedy / by William Saunders.

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