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once in two or three days, a laxative cly- 

 fler or a fcruple of rhubarb. 



It cannot bejuftly alledged, that thefe 

 cures were owing folely, or even chiefly, 

 to the confeBio japonica; fince the firfl of 

 thefe patients, before he began to take 

 the bark, ufed the confedlion freely in 

 mixtures and bolufes, without any other 

 efFec5l, than reftraining, a little, the vio- 

 lence of the gripes and purging. Befides, 

 in dyfenteries of a bad kind, I have ne- 

 ver found luch good effeifts from the 

 confe(5iion alone, as I have experienced 

 from it when given v ith the bark. It 

 is necelTary, at kail at firll, to join the 

 japonic confection wirh the b i k to make 

 it fit eafier on the ftomacb and to pre- 

 vent its running too quickly through 

 the inteflines. In the cur-e of dyfente- 

 ries, the co.ifedVion acls chieflv as a pal- 

 liative, while the baik tinker at the root 

 of the difeafe. 



I have given the decoclion of the bark 

 with the japonic coni'eclion fuccefsfully 

 to feveral, in dyfenteries of a lefs malig- 

 nant 



