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 dinefs in a (hort lime dilappcars, and they affirm it, vir- 

 tues are not at all Icffcncd by fuch an accident. The 

 price it fetches at Guayuil is i*. 3.1. per jiound, while the 

 n foil fell* ai 1*. 



Tccamez&ark is ufed for all difbrden, in which the com- 

 mon Peruvian Bark is found fcrvtccablc; but it is ima- 

 gined to potfcfs a peculiar efficacy in removing indigcf- 

 lion, weaknefs of the ftonuch. and in reftoring a debili- 

 tated ronftituiion. It is alio did to be powerful in re- 

 pelling all tendencies to mortification*, and to be highly 

 Icrviccablc in fcminal wiaknefTei and gleet*— a com- 

 plaint to which the inhabitant* of South America arc not 

 a little fubjea. 



The mode of giving TCCimcx Bark is various, and de- 

 pends in a great meafurc Dponlheififttle IbY which it bj 

 prefiribed. As it fits cafy upon the Itomach and creates 

 little or no naufca, it may be exhibit cd in any form that is 

 mofl agreeable. A Surgeon of great eminence told mc the 

 belt mode ol tiling it was in a cold infufioti. He pourc-l 

 fixtccn ounces of cold water »v«.i one mime of the Bark 

 coarfcly powdered, and let it Hand four hours. He fomc- 

 times fimmered it afterwards oyer a How fire for (en mi- 

 nute*,and,having drained the tkcoil ion. added two ounces 

 of fpirits, and gave three tabic fpoonfuls occafioiially. But 

 very often he Omitted boiling it, and, hiving added the 

 fame quantity of Ibirits, gave the cold infufion as I have 

 mentioned. 



E* Such. 



