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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    [ >26 ] whofe legs were much fwelled, and their bodies hard, and who appeared to be very rapidly haftening into a Dropfyj more than twenty of them were children, tv/o were infants, not a year old; and one, whofe cafe I lhall relate, was a flriking inftance of the truth of your remark in the Treatife, that the Bark given in con- liderable quantity as near as may be to the time of the approach of the fit, is particularly efficacious- My 'patient was a gentleman about twenty-five years of age, robufl, and of a full habit} he had had an irregular In- termittent about a fortnight, it began as a ^artaUf of which he had three fits, it then became a ^lotidtajiy and he had three or four more fits j I faw him about the time when it began to come every day, and I found the Fever was very con- fiderable; the ufual treatment, which I need