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.

  • Saunders, William, 1743-1817.
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[1783]
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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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quantity; he fuppofed it was from a new foreft of trees which had been lately difcovered. My friend, Dr. Lifter, now at Paris, has been able to procure .me from the collection of M. Joleph de Jufiieu, the different Specimens of Bark mentioned in Dr. Simmon's Letter, and particularly one Specimen, which, by the defire of the Spanilh Minifler for the American department, was preferred to the Royal Medical Society at Paris, by Don Cafimir Ortoga, ProfefTor of Botany at Madrid. I was lately requeft- ed to procure a quantity of Red Bark of the bed quality for Le Compte de Carburi, Phyfician to the Count D'Artois, lb that the ufe of it will probably foon become general on the continent. There is fome danger, from the avarice of dealers, of its being adulterated, more efpecially, however, in the form of powder, a circumftance which may bring it into difcredit, 1 have therefore taken fome pains in collecting fpecimens of it, and arranging them in the order of their goodnefs, chiefly for the benefit of the young Gentlemen who attend my Lectures. The many applications to me on this fubject, rendered this plan necefTary, the Red Bark being hitherto little known by Apothecaries in the country. The efficacy of this remedy is fo well eftablifhed, that it is a matter of very little confequence, if Botanifts fhould ttill fup- pofe that there are not Data fufficienc to determine whether it be from the fame fpecies or not, with the Cinchona Officinalis of Linnaeus. My friend, Dr. Hope, ProfefTor of Botany, in the Univerfity of E- dinburgh, in a Letter to me, fays, If this Red Bark, iC which feems to be more efficacious than the Com- mon Bark, can be had •, that is the great point, and whether it be, or be not, the Cinchona Officinalis of Linnaeus, is but a fecondary, and much lefs im- f portant confideration •, however, I think your opi- nion the mi?ft probable ; your Treatife will, I think, have