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 / by William Saunders.

Date:
1782
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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 / by William Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE T JL HAD long fiifpcBed that the Peruvian Bark in coinmon ufe, was very inferior in power and efficacy ta that recommended by the early writers on thefiibjeB; hut, more ejpecially by our countrymen, Mortoi^ and, Sydenham, z'ra whoje works the medical virtues of this. Drug, in Intermittent and other Fevers are extolled as little JJiort of infallibility. In their time the Quilt Bark was not mentioned; their cotemporary writers ors the Materia Medica, evidently defcribe the Peruvian Bark of that period, as oj a larger kind, of more com^ paB pieces^ and of the colour of the rujl of Iron, which marks are very expreffive of the Red Bark, ; the in- nermofl coat of which hds ari ochry appearance, and its ref nous or middle layer refemblesvery much the La- pis Haematitis.* M. La CoaoAuibiE exprejfedhis furprife, * Cortex cranitie mediocri, foras fcaber, paululum canefcens* aliquando mufco obduftus, intus Isevis, coloris ferruginei, fapo-i ris acris at intenfe am-iri. Autumno coUigitur et cortex circum* circa dclibutur, tarn Trunci quam ramorum. Dalei Pharmuculugia. p, soit Anno 1692. Mrs