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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    t >36 ] its medical quality has been diminiOied : Intermittents having been more general in this country for two years paft, than, perhaps, was ever remembered by any Pradtitioners now living, probably the fame caufe which has made them fo fre- quent, has made them of a v/orfe kind, and confequently more difficult to re- move ; and to this caufe, rather than to any change in the quality of the Bark, is, in my opinion, to be attributed the late general want of fuccefs in the treat- ment of this difeafe. Upon the whole then. Sir, from the experience I have had in ufing the two kinds of Bark, which has not been inconfiderable, it is ' evident to me, that they poffefs the fame medicinal quality, but that the Red Bark has it in a degree greatly fuperior to the pale, which ftrongly favours your fup- polition, that they are both the produce of the fame tree, the Pale or Quill being the Bark of the fmaller branches, and the Red,