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 1+2 ] Colleague, Dr. Dickson, and myfelf, re- commended tathe Committee of the Hof- pital, at one of their weekly meetings^' to purchafe of the Druggift, who had furniflied the hrfl: fpecimenj the whole of his flock of the medicine, however great Its quantity might be ; upon which mea- fure the Committee, without any heflta- tion, ifnmediately refolved. The London Hoipital is, perhaps, ne- ver without a very confiderable number of patients under Intermittent Fevers? to which its comparative vicinity to the t county of Eflex not a little contributes.—' 'When, before the irftrodudtion of the Red Bark, we were iri the ufe of employing the common Bark upon all occafions, we had found it, in Intermitfents; to fall exceedingly thort of that high character for efficacy, which is affigned to it by DV. Sydenham, and his cotemporaries. As