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times half an ounce, and at least three drams. Some 

 of them, either from having suffered in their reason, or 

 from some excess, or inattention, and sometimes unne- 

 cessarily but for greater certainty, took from sixteen to 

 twenty, or even thirty-eight ounces within a few days, 

 without any ill effect. 



Nevertheless, those who wish to use it by measure, 

 may divide each ounce into three papers, and take one 

 every three hours, taking a little broth each of the two 

 intermediate hours; by which means they will take in the 

 first forty-eight hours, eight ounces of bark in twenty -four 

 papers. Tf the stomach rejects a dose, another must be 

 taken immediately, without reckoning what is rejected 

 as a part of the eight ounces, and the patient must not 

 be indulged in his natural repugnance to the repetition 

 more than half a quarter, or, at most, a quarter of an hour, 

 to quiet his stomach ; and if, from any inattention or ac- 

 cident, a dose has been omitted, two doses must be taken 

 each succeeding hour, and the broth taken the third, 

 following up and compelling, as it were, the patient, un- 

 til the lost time is made up, and the risk got over that 

 may have arisen from carelessness or delay. 



The vomiting, which is peculiar to this disorder, sel- 

 dom begins before the third day, and this is another mo- 

 tive not to lose a moment during the two first days ; it 

 is true, that there are some who throw up the bark from 

 the nausea it naturally creates, and this will, in those 

 cases, lessen much its good effects. Yet in the village of 

 Barreos, only one person suffered from this circumstance, 



