Experiments on the red and quill Peruvian bark : with observations on its history, mode of operation, and uses; and on some other subjects connected with the phænomena and doctrines of vegetable astringents. Being a dissertation which gained the first prize given by the Harveian Society of Edinburgh for the year 1784 / By Ralph Irving.

Irving, Ralph

Date:: 1785

Credit: Experiments on the red and quill Peruvian bark : with observations on its history, mode of operation, and uses; and on some other subjects connected with the phænomena and doctrines of vegetable astringents. Being a dissertation which gained the first prize given by the Harveian Society of Edinburgh for the year 1784 / By Ralph Irving. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$cafes to be admirably well proportioned for the cure of difeafes, yet we have fre- quent inftances of its want of fuccefs, and feemingly owing to a defect of fome or redundance of others of thefe prin- ciples. Thus we have frequent occa- fion to obferve, that bark joined with aromatics * often fucceeds, when entire bark has little obvious effecl:. Bark has alio fucceeded after the ufe of wine f, when it had no good effects before. *It has alfo fucceeded when joined with fa- line ftimulants J, when feparately taken it produced no advantage. [] Nay, this * Hoffman tells us, that, in phlegmatic patients, bark is much aflirted by cafcarilla. f Dr Home relates a cafe of a man who could not be cured of gangrene by bark, till after he had drunk pretty freely of red Port. \ Dr Webfter was able to cure intermittents by bark and fal ammoniac conjoined, when bark feparately taken was unfuccefsful. H I once attended a patient under remittent fever, along with Dr Clapperton of Lochmaeban, where the bark had •10 obvious effedt till joined with Dover's powder.$

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