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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    * . / i [ 167 ] bijical motions may not prove produc- ’ • • « -I ’ tive of fome more dangerous derange- ment iii the fyftemi I Froni the prefent indifcriminate ufe of the Peruvian Bark, in difeafes fo diame- trically oppolite in their nature^. I cannot 'help thinking, that the inadivity of this iiniverfal Catholicon, fo generally lament- ed of late, has been rather a fortunate circumftance, and that the inertnefs of the remedy has often prevented a feries of. evils, which mull have enfued from fuch a prepoftero'us abufe of the genuine drug.' .* * 1 ■ ‘v. ■ 1 ■ ' '1 '' ”' ■ ' ■ , , ’ In Interrhittents which are purely idio- 'pathic,' and proceed from an epidemic con'ftitution of the atmofphere,' without any concomitant difeafe, or internal in- ilammation, the Bark may generally, with- out hefitation, be freely exhibited ; and' 111 lughly urgent cafes of this kind, ^which