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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    f C 152 ] far fhort j and confider further, that the defcriptions given by the Materia Medica ■ _ writers, cotemporary with the eminent perfons now mentioned, of the Peruvian Bark then in ufe, does not apply to tl:|C fmall and Quilled Bark, hut does exadlly fo to the Red Bark; and laftly, that the inhabitants of New Spain, and, if I am rightly inforrned by a gentleritan lately arrived from that country, of Old Spain alfo, aiSlually hold the Red Bark in high- er eftimatioh, it 'mufl: appear highly rea- fonable to conclude, that the Red Peru- vian Bark is truly the fpecies of this medicine, the virtues of which are fo much extolled by Dr. Sydenham and Pr, Morton, and which was in com- rimn ufe with them and their cotempo- raries, To conclude, Sir, I confider the work in which you are engaged as highly com- rnendable. I confider it as one not on|y of