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Materia Medica

Tonics

this recent stage and while the contageon is still acting it is
improper but maybe of use if the disease continues by force
of habit, two cases that I have seen have taght [taught] me to be
cautious of its use. The first, a boy for the want of
sufficient depletion and by the use of the bark was carried of [off]
with Hydrocephalus Internus, the second from the same
cause was attaked with a dropsy and was with difficulty
saved.

Asthma. This sometimes depends on a
plethoric State of the lungs when the bark must be hurtfull,
but there is another kind owing to what Dr Cullen calls the
mobility of the system, and which by some is called the
tristemic asthma, where it may be usefull combined with
opium, it has been usefull in cases of Mania.

Angina Pectoris. This has seldom or never
appeared in this City it is now common in London where it
is treated with purging and bark. I know nothing from
experience, but from my Idea of this disease. If not improper the
bark would be of use, it should be given with much caution,
upon dissection on subjects that died of this disease, the
coronary arteries of the head have been found completely ossafy’d [ossified]