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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    ■ [ >37 ] Red, that of the larger branches, or the trunk of the tree. Having myfelf found fuch fingular fatisfa^Hon in the ufe of this Bark, I fincerely wifli it may be univer- fally introduced, and I am perfuaded that every Pra6litionei*, who will give it a fair frial, will iipmediately prefer it to the Pale. Nothing can be more agreeable jn the adminidration of a medicine, than to be able to fpeak of and foretell its ef- fedls with confidence, as it mud be very encouraging to the patient; this circijm- dance, and its anfwering the purpofe in g. much fmaller quantity than the Pale, are very peculiar advantages which the Red Bark pofiefies j for in the ufe of the Pale, though, as I before obferved, 1 make no doubt, but by perfeverance, and taking it in large dofes, it will for the mod; part fucceed, yet I have more than once been awkardly fituated with patients, whp have taken a large quantity of it.without its having anfwered the intention in the fird indance.