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which complaint it has been found by experience 

 to be particularly ufeful. 



The principal ufe of the Peruvian Bark is in the 

 intermittent fever, the returns of which it is well 

 known to be very efficacious in preventing. It is 

 bed given in fubftance, and moft conveniently in 

 form of an electuary made up with any fyrup, and 

 with the addition of fome fpice, as a little nutmeg, 

 or cinnamon, in powder, to each dofe. If the pa- 

 tient be ftrong, and the body coftive, a fmall quan- 

 tity (a drachm for inftance) of Glauber's falts, or 

 the bitter purging fait, may be added to the three 

 or four firft dofes of the bark, which generally opens 

 the body and promotes urine; but if the diforder be 

 advanced, or the patient weak or in years, fuch ad- 

 dition is lefs proper. If the bark purges, fuch ten- 

 dency muft be moderated, which a few drops (two 

 or three for inftance) of liquid laudanum in each 

 dofe generally does very effectually ; and when that 

 difpofition is conquered, the laudanum muft be 

 omitted. The bark muft be given in confiderable 

 quantity when employed to cure an intermittent. 

 It is to little purpofe to give to a grown-up perfon 

 lefs than an ounce in twenty-four hours, and often 

 double that quantity. It may be given in dofes 

 of two fcruples or a drachm each, or about the bulk 

 of a large nutmeg of the electuary every two hours 



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