A treatise on the yellow fever, as it appeared in the Island of Dominica, in the years 1793-4-5-6: to which are added, observations on the bilious remittent fever, on intermittents, dysentery, and some other West India diseases; also, the chemical analysis and medical properties of the hot mineral waters in the same island / By James Clark, M.D.

  • James Clark
Date:
1797
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Credit: A treatise on the yellow fever, as it appeared in the Island of Dominica, in the years 1793-4-5-6: to which are added, observations on the bilious remittent fever, on intermittents, dysentery, and some other West India diseases; also, the chemical analysis and medical properties of the hot mineral waters in the same island / By James Clark, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A l APPENDIX. I f'l . i / = EXPERIMENTS 0 ON THE . . 1 - ]) * $ CINCHONA BRACHTCARPA. im t f > * By Mr. B R A N D E, APOTHECARY TO THE (^U E E N. ifl.TT T ATER and fpirit diftilled from V V it, became (lightly impregnated with a peculiar aromatic flavor, not difco- verable in any other preparation. 2d. The decodtion 3ij to ^vj of water boiled to % iv is of a deep color, clear, and pofTeffes the w'hole flavor of the bark; on cooling it becomes turbid, and depofits a powdery Pediment, but lefs in quantity than the common Peruvian, the yellow, or an- gaftura bark, which, as in thefe, is again nearly foluble by the addition of the vege- table or mineral acids, &c. * 3d. The infufion sij to Jiv of boiling * I had not obferved the importance attached by Dr. Relph, to the property pofleflcd by the deco&ion of the yellow bark, of remaining found a much longer time than either that of the common or red bark, till within a few days of the above being lent to the prefs, therefore had not time to compare the cinchona brachyocarpa, with it in this refpe£t. ride his Inquiry &c.p. 135. M water,