Observations on the superior efficacy of the red Peruvian bark, in the cure of fevers. Interspersed with occasional remarks on the treatment of other diseases by the same remedy / by William Saunders.

  • Saunders, William, 1743-1817.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Observations on the superior efficacy of the red Peruvian bark, in the cure of 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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    [P1759 ] he fecond Edition of this Treatife having been tranflated into Latin, by Dr. Brabant, an eminent and fkilful Phyfician ; it will afford an additional teftimony in favour of the fuperior powers of this Re- medy, to prefent the Reader with the opi- nion of this learned man on the fubjett; I have therefore copied his Preface, in his own words, containing two very impcr- tant cafes, in which the Red Bark proved efficacious, notwithftanding the fymptoms were Of the moft alarming and compli- cated nature. | *¢ Non alio intuitu hoc opufculum éx anglico in lati- ** num fermenem verti, quam ut Cortex Reber, qui © SypENHAMI & Mortonx tempore in uly, dein rejeét- *- us & fenfim oblivioni traditus fuiffe videtur; nunc vero «6 ab anno 177g. cafu fortuito reductus eft, denud inno- ** tefceret, & prima data opportunitate a Mercatoribus ** noftris & Pharmacopolisin has regiones curaretur adferti. ‘> Si enim verum fit, Corticem Peruvianum inter hes «« roica Remedia adeo primum effe, ut mirari oporteat, ‘© Majores noftro$ ante eundem dete&tum & allatum, pra- «« fertim in epidemicis malignarum intermittentium cons ** flitutionibus, Medicinam agere potuifle, procul dubio <* nova eaque efficacior hujus Medicamenti {pecies, quz ** etiam in longé minori quantitate certius & promptils ** medetur, tam pro Medicorum voluptate, quam Aigro- «*« rum falute incomparabilis pretii res eflimanda eft. — ** Corticem Rubrum, pre fpecie Yenut & Conveluta, “* qua hactenus fola nobis cognita fuit, di€tas vires pof- ** fidere & hec encomia mereri, unuf{quifque illico augu- «* rabitur, qui vel leviter in hac materia verfatus dotes ** ejus fenfikiles per{pexerit; nom foljm etenim com- *« pattior,