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

  • Saunders, William, 1743-1817.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Observations on the superior efficacy of the red Peruvian bark in the cure of agues and other 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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    [ ”3 ] Tify to that which was ufed by Dr. Syden- ham, and many of his refpedable co- temporaries; of whofe veracity we can (entertain no reafonable doubt. The lat- ter appears to me to be the more pro- bable, efpecially when it is conlidered, that of late years* it has been cuftomary (for what reafon I cannot imagine) to fcledt the Bark of the fmall branches, under the denomination of Bark> in preference to that of the trunks. Should this preference hereafter be difcovered to have been groundlefs (agreeable to what I have long fufpedled) it may perhaps fcontribute to explain the principal caufe of our difappointments: In the art of tanning, experience has long determined in favour of large Oak Bark, as being greatly preferable to that of the fmaller twigs. Why the reverfe of this fhould take place in a medici- nal view, is by no means evident, efpe- I ciallv 4