■ 
\ 
555 
r, 
difeafe as especially confining in a phlogiftic cliathefis. I hold the 
bark to be abiblutely improper, and have found it manife'ftly hurtful 
efpecially in its beginning, and in its truly inflammatory ftate " 
In the confluent fmall-pox the bark has been recommended 
J 
prom 
ote th 
i 
ence teaches us to 
of th 
eject 
puftul 
but afi 
this 
opinion our 
xpen 
is 
pleted, or where fymptoms of putrefcency 
the maturition of the puftul 
s 
of th< 
The other dif 
diffolved ftate 
blood fupervenes, the bark cannot be too liberailv employed 
hich 
e 
fore th 
dyfen 
? 
all 
d indeed every fp 
bark is recommended 
7 
are 
of 
h 
f< 
of the paffive k„,„ , 
angrene^ jfcarl 
g 
fe 
with any particu 
" M V a 6 w ui.mc pamve Kind; iikewile other in- 
fome cafes of dropfy, efpecially when unattended 
r 
ket 
affection, fcroph 
fcurvy, ftates of convalefcen 
conditioned ulcers, 
certain ftages of phthifi 
pulmonalis, &c. 
The officinal preparations of the bark are the powder, the extract 
\ 
the 
th 
decocl: 
This laft, though frequently em 
ployed, is in many refpe&s inferior even to a fimple watery infufion 
but the beft form is that of powder 
are in the moil effe&ual proportion 
hich 
the conftituent parts 
HE!£i 
£feffc$!SK53BW»Ji«i»M i, 
CINCtfONA.— CORTEX 
PERUVIANUS RUBER 
RED PERUVIAN BARK TREE 
iSfc 
Cortex Peruvianus ruber officinarum 
/ 
P"T^ 
HOUGH the 
botanically det 
• 
P 
c 
| 
haracter of this fpecies has not yet be 
Grofchk 
drawing of 
yet upon the teftimony of Combe 
was 
fent to L 
id 
from Peru, which 
was found in the L 
whom 
dra 
Herbarium purchafed by Dr. S 
we are obliged for the annexed fig 
In the 
wing two fpecimens of the branches are given, one m 
Z 
a 
, to 
inal 
and the other in its 
pfular ft 
to 
hich is alfo added, a iketch o£ 
o. 
See Blutnenhach Med. Blblloib. V, 2. p. 486 
C 
the 
