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The third case was that of a child, aged one year, 

 labouring under a quotidian remittent, with habitual 

 diarrhoea. A cathartic of calomel and may-apple 

 was prescribed, and then the decoction, as freely as 

 the stomach would bear. 



The very first day, the fever was kept off, and 

 neither chill nor fever returned. 



In a girl, aged seven years, five scruples of the 

 powdered bark were sufficient to keep off the parox- 

 ysms of a quotidian fever, of two weeks continuance. 



Having been so successful in the first few cases, I 

 prescribed the Prinos with more confidence, and more 

 generally ; and I can say, that I always used it with 

 advantage, and commonly with the most complete 

 success. 



When it is exhibited in powder, I am disposed to 

 believe, it is nearly equal to the celebrated bark of 

 Peru. When the stomach would retain the powder, 

 I did not fail in a single instance ; and in one case 

 only was it rejected. 



Like the Peruvian bark, it succeeded best when it 

 was given immediately after the sweating stage. 



In general, I gave it alone ; but to prevent diarr- 

 hoea, an effect it occasionally produced (though less 

 commonly than the Peruvian bark), and to prevent 

 pain, I sometimes added a few drops of laudanum. 



