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
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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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    [ i>7 ] lingering confequences; in ihefe inftances the cinchona may generally be employed with great advantage. AJthma is a difeafe which appears to be juftly diftinguifhed into fpecies, requiring a different mode of treatment. When it occurs to the fanguineous or plethoric habit, blood- letting and emetics prove ferviceable; but the fpafmodic aflhma generally occurs to perfons of the mofl debilitated conftitutioriS, and is only to be cured by the ufe of bark, opiates, and other ftimulants. Fever has been confidered as a general in- flammation : pyrexia or increafed heat makes a principal part of its charadter; and in its treatment, every heating thing has been care- fully avoided. The want of a due difcrimi- nation betwixt the low, nervous, and in- flammatory fever, has given rife to the indif- criminate ufe of the antiphlogiftic regimen, which has proved the bane of medicine and recovery. Some fads, fome aftonifliing facts, within thefe few years, have led to the free ufe of ftimulants in typhus, or fevers of the low, nervous type. Dr. Huxham long ago introduced the ufe of bark in fevers attended with petechia, and other fymptoms of pu- tridity j
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