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taken alone. It is proper during a courfe of the 

 bark to ufe a moderately liberal diet} but all excefs, 

 cither in meat or drinks, is carefully to be avoided. 



It is an old prejudice that fubfifts even to the 

 prefent time, and among fome of the medical pro- 

 feflion, that intermittent fevers fhould not be too 

 foon ftopt, but fuffered to go on through feveral 

 paroxyfms, before the bark fhould be given. It was 

 thought that feveral diforders, particularly indura- 

 tions of the liver, jaundice, mefenteric obftru&ions, 

 and even rheumatic complaints, were produced in 

 confequence of the bark being, as it was thought, 

 prematurely given. But it now appears, that thefe 

 complaints were the confequences of the diforder, 

 being fuffered to continue too long, not of its being 

 too foon ftopt, and that the belt method of pre- 

 venting them is to interrupt the courfe of the fits as 

 early as poflible by a fteady and refolute ufe of the 

 proper remedy. This caution ought to be care- 

 fully attended to, and enforced by thofe who give 

 advice to people in country places, as the prejudices 

 in favour of the fits being fufrcred to continue, are 

 often very ftrong. 



Bitter Medicinesy fuch as the flowers of chamo- 

 mile, roots of gentian, and centaury, are, in a good 

 meafure, fimilar in their effects to the Peruvian 



bark. 



