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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    r. as ] If Bark taken from the large branches fhould be found to be more efficacious than that of the fmall, is it not reafon- able to believe, that, that of the trunk ' or rather of the root, might furpafs both in virtue ? Political reafons, however^ refpefling the prefervation of the trees, which produce fo important an article of commerce, will, it is to be appre- hended, effedtually deter the inhabitants from every experiment of this na- ture. A very eminent Druggift, who pur- chafed a large ffiare of the above cargo, affures me, that many of the Apotheca- ries whom he has fupplied with the Red Bark, and who have carefully com- pared its effedts with thofe of the com- 'mon cortex, make no fcruple of decid- ing in its favour. He further adds, that the demand for it has increafed fo rapidly