214 An ACCOUNT, &c. 
Of the Rep Peruvian Bark. 
Tue red bark, when genuine, and given brifkly in pretty 
large dofes, will, in particular cafes, occafion a degree of anxiety, 
depreffion, giddinefs and faintnefs, that are alarming to the pa- 
tient and his friends, and perhaps, if not timely attended to, 
might be of ferious confequence. This only happens in cer- 
tain conftitutions, and in weakly Babite, or thofe rendered fo 
by difeafe. 
Tus effect of the red bark, fo far as I know, has not been 
taken notice of by any writer, and when it occurs in private 
tice, is either not attended to, or imputed to fome other caufe. 
The following extract of a letter from JAMEs Granam, Efq; 
a worthy and refpectable gentleman of this ifland, places this 
circumftance in a {trong light. 
Mr Grauam had been afflicted with a fever and ague for feve- 
ral months, and having confulted an eminent Phyfician here, had 
the red bark prefcribed him, which he was to take in dozes of 
thirty grains each. ‘“ On taking the firft,”’ fays he,‘ I inftantly 
perceived an unufual pungency on my tongue. After the fifth, 
I felt an anxiety about my breaft with faintifhnefs ; and had 
hardly done {wallowing the fixth, when I was feized with 
giddinefs, an univerfal tremor, and a profufe cold fweat. A 
- little wine, which was given me in this fituation, relieved me 
confiderably. In about an hour, all the alarming fymptoms_ 
difappeared, but I remained weak and languid. From that day, 
however, the fever left me, and did not return till feveral months 
after, when it was brought on by a cold, and was removed by 
the bark adminiftered in the fame manner, and attended nearly 
by the fame fymptoms as before.” 
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