Experiments and observations on a new species of bark, showing its great efficacy in very small doses : also a comparative view of the powers of the red and quilled bark ; being an attempt towards a general analysis and compendious history of the valuable genus of cinehona, or the Peruvian bark.

Kentish, Richard.

Date:: 1784

Credit: Experiments and observations on a new species of bark, showing its great efficacy in very small doses : also a comparative view of the powers of the red and quilled bark ; being an attempt towards a general analysis and compendious history of the valuable genus of cinehona, or the Peruvian bark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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$id1 at sit1 •‘er ns. to. qo rail [ I09 ] Having premifed thus much on regimen, we {hall proceed to fpeak of fome difeafes in which the bark is given with fuccefs. Inflammation is commonly ^attended with fo many fymptoms which forbid the ufe of di- mulants, that we fhall appear at firft fight, to have feized the wrong end of nofology, and treat of a difeafe in which our remedy can never be ufeful. Inflammation is of various kinds; increafed heat in a part, quick flrong Ipulfe, and other fymptoms of increafed adlion in the fydem, require the ufe of antiphlo- gidics; but even this fpecies of inflammation n its termination, frequently calls for the aid f bark. Gangrene is cured, and fphacelus revented by its liberal exhibition. Ill con- itioned abfceffes and foul ulcers often require ts ufe 5 and there is one peculiar form of ocal inflammation, in which the cortex has ately been given with incredible advantage. The fcrophula or kings-evil, has been called me of the endemial maladies of Britain. Its ymptoms are various; but the fubjedts of :his dire difeafe are generally of the mod puny md debile conditutions; inflamed eyes are* :ommonly the fird, or at lead the mod obfti- tate fymptoms of the complaint; bleeding, purging, or to that ft $ it [be •to k I$