THE 



PHILADELPHIA 



MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL JOURNAL. 



I. On the use of the Peruvian Bark, given in very large 

 doses, in the Malignant Yellow- Fever. 



THE Consulting Physician of the Royal Armies, 

 Dr. Tadeo Lafuente, frequently commissioned as in- 

 spector of public health, in the camp of Gibraltar, has 

 composed a paper, entitled, " Well-proved and Decisive 

 Observations, showing that the Yellow- Fever loses all 

 its contagious force in a Cottage," as also, that it may 

 be kept off, or cured, by bark, used in a manner entire- 

 ly new and distinct from any commonly practised. 



This dissertation, which was, by order of his Majes- 

 ty, examined by the superior governing Medical Col- 

 lege, was found to merit his royal approbation, and 

 was, consequently, by his directions, printed and pub- 

 lished ; but as the season, in which this new method 

 might be eminently useful, is at hand, and the opera- 

 tions of the press would not allow of the publication as 



