A second dissertation on fever, containing the history and method of treatment of a regular tertian intermittent / By George Fordyce.

  • Fordyce, George, 1736-1802.
Date:
1795
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Credit: A second dissertation on fever, containing the history and method of treatment of a regular tertian intermittent / By George Fordyce. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » ( 122 ) to as fine a powder as poffible, both becanfe the fine powder is more efficacious, and becaufe it may bp exhibited without pro¬ ducing naufea* < ' In fome of the other difeafes where the cinchona may be employed with advantage, the infufions, tindures and extrads pro* duce as much effed as the powder, but in all intermitting fevers the powder ads with very fuperior efficacy. The powder lias been objeded to on ae* count of its difagreeing with the ftomach, and other forms have been recurred to as more agreeable to it, and to the tafte. The tafte of bark is lefs difagreeable than that of many other medicines, and provided it be reduced to a powder fufficiently fine, fo as not to be felt gritty between the tongue and the palate, lefs objedion is generally made to it in this ftate than in any other form. The greateft difficulty has arifen from prac¬ titioners themfelves, who have fuggefted that it was unpleafant, and that they could find fome more agreeable form; but where the neceffity is urged, even patients who are