(seq. 187)

178

Materia Medica

Tonics

and may be given with the greatest advantage Mr __ Informs
us he had a number of pneumonial patients all whoom died
who were bled, at last suspecting the cause to be miasmata, as they
lived near stagnant water he gave bark in preparations of bark
and other stimulants which he found of great service, in true
inflamitory pneumonia the lancet is proper, but in those cases
the pain often remains after bleeding, to remove which blisters
are verry efficacious. It sometimes partakes of an intermittant
type, recurring at regular hours every day, here the bark is verry
usefull to be given about the coming on of the paroxysm, there is
a fact respecting the cure of the plague with the bark which
deserves mentioning, it is related by Dr Brown, that from one
hundred men with plague he took 100 ounces of blood and only
eight of them died. The plague sometimes makes its appearance
in tertians, quartans, &c in which case the bark may prevent
the fatal termination, if given plentifully.

Rheumatism.
This disease is commonly attended with an inflamitory diathesis.
Dr Cullen found the bark hurtful, it sometimes periodical then
the bark may be of service, it sometimes appears without fever.
I know nothing of its effects from experience but I think it certainly