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continue them. J gave him frequently Bolus’s with Ther. Andr. anda 
Jittle Laud. but they dos’d him too much, although they cur’d him 
always when ill of a cold. At Port-Royal, on drinking hard he fell 
very ill of a great Cold and Fever, which although I endeavour'd, 
by all means I could chink of, to remedy, he being dangeroufly ill, 
yetI could not, till I found it form its felf into a Quartane, when 
giving him the Cortex, he recover'd tatirely. —_ 
For his Aftima the beft Remedy I found was a Diet Drink of 
China, Sarfa, ¢7c. made frefh every night, and continued for three or 
four months, every day, by which I chought him extremely reliev’d. 
It very often falls out in intermitting Fevers,that Curing the time of 
the Fits or Paroxyfms, there will happen very dangevous Symptoms 
as Deliria, Convulfions, Afthmas, ec. according to the Conttituti- 
on of the Perfon or year. I have obterv’d all of them if, they return 
periodically to be curd by the Bark, notwithftanding the foolifh 
opinions of fome who pretend that thac Remedy locks up or binds 
the humours in che Blood, Head or Breaft. That Opinion has been 
the caufe of the Death of many Perlons, deterring Phyficians from 
giving What yas proper. 
One Cornwall’s Daughter, about Twenty five years of age, giving Of one 
fuck, was taken very ili of an intermitting Fever. I advis'd herto 80,8 
wean her Child, or get another Nurfe, fhe would do neither, nor was ‘taken 
would fhe take any effectual Medicines her felf. ‘The Feyer by neg. With anin- 
lect lurke about her a long time before the was well. The Child yever a2} 
then grew very dangeroufly ill, but by the help of pulvis de gutteta, a effets 
given frequently, the Child recovered. . on the 
hild, 
A Lufty Woman was taken with an intermitting Fever, and all 
the Sympioms of a beginning Confumpiion, as a very violent Or an in- 
Cough and Loolenels, Atrophie,@rc. | gave her fome Creta made hover wat 
into a white Drink like Decoét. Alb. and Laudanum for the Loofe- a Cough, 
nefs, I gave her the Cortex Peru. for the Fever and Ague, which fhe soonenels, 
had every night. The Fever being by this Remedy taken off, thejng | 
other Symptoms, which feemed dangerous, prefently vanifhed. 
A Servant of Mr. Fletchers was very ill with all the Symptoms of 
a beginning Confumption. He had Exacerbations and intermiffi- OF the 
ons, for which reafon I gave him the Cortex, whereby the Fever be. !ume- 
ing taken off, the other Symptoms left him. . . 
[t is very ordinary towards the latcerend of a Con‘umption for 
the Patient in the evening to be cold, fhiver and quake, as one in 
the beginning of the Paroxy/me of an intermitting Fever, which ne- 
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