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in a glafs of red wine, a cup of camomile-tea, water-gruel, or any other drink that 
is more agreeable to the patient. .In an ague which returns every day, oné of. the 
above dofes may be taken every two hours during the interval of the fits. In ater. 
tian, or third-day ague, it will be fufficient to take a dofe every third hour during 
the interval ; and in a quartan, every fourth. If the patient cannot take fo large a 
dofe of the bark, he may divide each of the powders into two parts, and take one 
every hour, &c. For a young perfon, a fmaller quantity of this medicine will be. 
fufficient,.and the dofe muft be adapted to the age, conftitution, and violence of the 
fymptoms. The above quantity of bark will frequently cure an ague,; the patient, 
however, ought not to leave off taking the medicine as foon as the paroxyfms are 
ftopped, but fhould continue to ufe it till there is reafon to believe the difeafe is 
entirely overcome. Moft of the failures in the cure of this dileafe are owing to 
patients not continuing to ufe the medicine long enough. They are generally di- 
rected to take it till the fits are {topped, then to leave it off, and begin again at fome 
diftance of time ; by which means the difeafe gathers ftrength, and often returns 
' with as much violence as before. A relapfe may always be prevented, and the cure 
greatly facilitated, by ufing the following infufion for fome confiderable time as 
adrink: take an ounce of gentian root ; of calamus aromaticus, and orange-peel, 
_ each half an ounce, with three or four handfuls of camomile flowers, and an hand- 
ful of coriander-feed, all bruifed together in a mortar; put half an handful of thefe 
mgredients into a tea-pot, and pour thereon a pint of boiling water, A large 
tea-cup full of this infufion fhould be drunk three or four times a day ; by. which 
means a fmaller quantity of bark than i is generally ufed will be fufficient to cure. an 
ague. There isno doubt but many of our own plants or barks, which are very 
bitter and aftringent, would fucceed in the cure of intermittent fevers, efpecially 
when affifted by aromatics; and it is only by the ufe of fundry of thofe herbs re- 
3 commended i in the Herbal as antidotes again{t agues, that many old women. in 
try places fo effectually cure the ague, after it has baffled every exertion of 
the doétor. In obftinate agues, when the patient is old, the habit phlegmatic, the 
n rai ly, the fituation damp, or the like, it will be neceffary to add to the above 
ounces of the bark, half an ounce of Virginian {nake-root, and a quarter of an 
ounce of ginger, or fome other warm aromatic ; or, if the fymptoms be of an inflam- 
matory nature, half an ounce of falt of wormwoodor falt of tartar may be added to 
the above quantity of bark. As autumnal and winter agues generally prove much 
more obftinate than thofe which attack the patient in {pring or fummer, it will be 
neceffary to continue the ule of the foregoing medicines longer in the former than 
in the latter. If agues are not properly cured, they often degenerate into obftinate 
chronical difeafes, as the dropfy, jaundice, &c. For this reafon all poflible cA. 
