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inch : 
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Lewis, tKe cortex cafcarill 
Bah 
Hands, particularly fr 
imported 
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which is 
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an 
d on the outfide with a rough whitifh matter 
d brownifh on the inner fid 
clofe blackiih br 
whitifh coat, 
furf 
which 
IS 
fipid 
and 
liibiting, when broken, a fmooth 
his bark, . freed from the outer 
reeable 
inodorous, has a lig 
fmell, and a moderately bitter tafte, accompanied with a confiderable 
aromatic warmth ; it is very inflammable, and yields, whilil burning, 
, fomewhat refembling that of mufk. 
a 
Its 
emarkably frag 
fmell 
are partially extracted by water 
d 
ally by redified 
Diftilled with water it yields a greeniih elTential oil, of a very 
pung 
taft 
d of 
a 
frag 
penetratm 
fmell 
more grateful 
than that of the Cafcarilla itfelf, and obtained in the prop 
dram from fixteen ounces of the bark 
»Je 
The agreeable 
v/hich this bark produces during its burning, induced many to fmoke 
it mixed with tobacco,^ before it became known as a medicine in 
Europe, which was not till towards the latter end of the laft century; 
when it was recommended by Profeffor Stifler,^ who found it to 
be a powerful diuretic and carminative, and who ufed it with fuccefs 
in calcalous, afthmatic, phthifical, fcorbutic, and arthritic complaints. 
After this it was fold at Brunfwick as a fpecies of the Peruvian bark, 
and many phyficians in Germany experienced its good effeds in 
fevers of the intermittent, remittent, and putrid kind.'' But while 
the fads eftablifhing this febrifuge power of the Cafcarill 
fup 
ported by authors of g 
efpedability,' they are yet fo little 
garded, that this medicine is now very rarely prefcribed in fev 
either in this country 
mittents however th 
the neighbouring continent. In inter- 
be no doubt but this bark, or indeed 
■« The 
B 
Dif, 
When i^ifed in a confiderable quantity in this way, it is faid to produce intoxication, 
P Anno 1690. Fide ASl. lahorat. chym. fpeclm. cap, 9. 
^ Ludovicus Apinus firft employed it in fevers, and experienced great fuccefs by its 
ufe in an epidemic, which 
jieoufly called Norway) 
N 
i-J -^ V J 
?pide?7U hijl^ 
Junker, Fagon, Werlhof, SanthefTon, and others. 
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