in the Malignant Yellow -Fever, 109 



Dr. Lafuente has not confined himself, in his Memoir, 

 to proving incontestibly the truth of his assertions, by 

 twelve signatures, accompanied by legal attestations ; 

 but he has detailed his professional reasons, referring also 

 to his first publication, and anticipating answers to all 

 the objections which can be made against his method. 

 He notices, for instance, the difficulty or facility of know- 

 ing at once, according to the cases, whether it is the 

 fever, so that the most delicate persons, once convinced, 

 and those in lower stations will follow, they will swallow 

 and retain as much bark as is necessary. 



Again, he shows that the fever is not inflammatory in 

 its first stage, as some suppose, nor originally gastrical, 

 nor hepatic, as others assert ; treats of the degree of risk 

 of its being joined by other inflammatory disorders; 

 shows that if, in periods of greater heat than when he 

 made his observations, it is more active, the effect of 

 the bark is also more powerful than in more temperate 

 months, and that all that is necessary is to be more watch- 

 ful not to lose a moment of time, &c. 



He also remarks, that such abundant and precipitate 

 doses of bark sometimes produce a retention of urine, 

 but that this evil is momentary, and ought not to give any 

 alarm, as it is instantly dissipated by embrocation with 

 certain simples, and oily friction of the groins, and has no 

 connection with the suppression of urine in the second 

 stage of the disorder. But the little room allowed for 

 this analysis does not admit of a more ample detail, and, 

 indeed, on the contrary, some inconvenience to the pub - 

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