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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
131/192 (page 121)
![[ ] I am happy that it is in my power tp bear the moft ample teftimony to the great and certain efficacy of this Bark; I have had the fulleft opportunity of trying it in. every fpecies of the Intermittent, and have given it to patients under the great- efl: variety of circumftances refpeding age, conftitutiqn, date of the difeafe, &c. and put of more than a hundred and fifty per- fons, who have taken it under my direc- tion, zV las not failed in a fmgle cafe', flop- ping the return of the paroxyfln in the very firfl inflance of its application, I was fortunate enough to receive a fmall parcel of this Bark fo early as Odo- ber, 1781, owing to the friendly commu- nication of Mr. Talbot, Surgeon, at i Wymondham, in this county, to whom Mr. Hopkins had fent a few ounces as a fpecimen for trial, half of which he immediately fent to mej Intermittents ^eing at that time very frequent in Nor- wich, *](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28407489_0131.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
