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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    [ 15^ ] CASE I. A gentlewoman of a weak conflltution, and naturally of a nervous habit of body, had been feized laft autumn with a fim- ple. 'Terthin in Lincolnthire ,* upon her removing to this place it had affumed ^ the ^artan type, and was of three months {landing ; having found very lit- tle relief from Bark and other remedies, fhe had declined calling in any affift- ance ; but her hufband, alarmed at her extreme weaknefs during a paroxyfm, ferM: for me : I was informed of the above particulars, and found her with an idte- ric counte'nance, fwelled ancles, and other marks of great debility : after fome dif- ficulty, I prevailed upon her to take me- dicines i I fent her immediately feveral dofes of Red Bark, each containing only one fcruple, on account of her naufeating every thing that was prefented her, de- firing