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

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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$\ [ u ] derate fize ; indeed from having made fuch frequent experiments on this fubjeft, lam able with great precifion to afcertain the comparative quantiry of refin in any t\yo pieces of Bark from their external ap- pearance. ' ‘ ; It has been fuggefted by fome, that the Red Bark refembled much the mahogany Bark; but having examined that Bark* and having converfed with perfons to whom it is extremely familiar, I am per- fuaded that there is no foundation for the opinion of its being the fame. If future naturalifts, by having better oppor- tunities of invefiigating this part of our fubjedt, fhould be perfuaded that it is the Bark of a tree of a different genus, or /pe- des, from the Cinchona Officinalis, fuch a difcovery cannot invalidate the proofs of its fuperior efficacy; and I ffiould have been happy had it been found to be the produdlion$