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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    ■[ '-57 ] « firing her to begin after a general moifiuro had come on, with an abatement of third: and Head Ach, and to be repeated every four or fix hours } file continued the medicine in this manner, for four or five days, and as the fubfequent parox- yfm had been more mild than;the onO preceding it; I could not prevail upon her to take the Bark fo frequently j file however continued its ufe for four- teen days longer, each day taking four fcruples, which entirely removed her com- plaints-—die is now in perfect health. « CASE It. A young gentleman, naturally of a ro- bufl: and healthy habit of 'body, had fuf- fered feveral paroxyfms of a double Ter- tian to attack him, without ufing any me- thod to prevent them ; it was his deter- mination to truft to nature for a cure, ra- ther than take fuch large, and frequent dofes