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Tonics

cause Marsh Miasmata, they often change into each other, for
various other reasons I consider them as varieties of the same
disease, the bark is verry serviceable in this disease, but its use
is liable to many restrictions in the employment of it in
intermittants, as there is seldom a well marked intermission in this disease
we may often safely employ the bark during the paroxysm in
Synocha. Inflamation being one of the characteristics
of this disease the bark cannot be exhibitted with propriety unless
it is in the latter stages of the disease.

Pneumonia.
Sydenham and Booerhave advised it verry strongly in this
disease, there is a disease in the southern states called a pleurasy
of the head, from the pain being principally distressing in that
part, it is attended with sticking in the side, it attacks the
weak and debilitated and comes on with shivering. It now
frequently attacks persons who are adicted to drinking, it is a
remitting or intermittant fever and owes its origin to the same
cause Mar. Mias. The pulse generally indicates bleeding but
this is found to agrivate the symptoms it yields verry readily
to barks and blisters applied near the pained part. In those
pleuisies [pleurisies] which occur in autumn, Bark is the proper remidy