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Materia Medica

Tonics

in Typhus, the bark would be improper in the first stage, Dever
says the plague was always of an inflamitory nature, Martin
relates a verry singular disease when bleeding it is as injurious,
he used blisters, bark, mineral acids, snake root, and at the same
time supporting the system with camphor and other stimulants,
many authors relate cases of the same kind in which they
found the bark usefull.

Yellow fever. This is placed
among the continued fevers, but there are often well marked
intermissions, where it assumes an intermittent form the bark
is proper, in 1793 this fever was supposed to be of a putrid
nature, and the treatment of some physicians coresponded
with this Idea, with the success of this practice you are already
acquainted, after the debilitating plan was had recourse to with
more success though it often failed, the bark was employed
after the fullness of the pulse, pain &c, were removed, the bark
was recommended in the exanthema, these fevers in the first
stage are often inflamitory in which the bark must be
injurious, but again they are often attended with symptoms of
debility and here the bark is of service, it has been recommended
verry strenuously in the dysentary this disease originates from