16 Dr. Rousseau on the Holly and Ilicine. 
and still more frequently prevents from purchasing the me- 
dicines he prescribes. 
2d. The hospitals, both civil and military, will equally pro- 
fit by its introduction; and government will find in this febri- 
fuge a great diminution of expense with regard to medicines; 
as it may be had for the trouble of gathering, and the cost of 
making those preparations that I have described will be very 
trifling. 
It has been a great gratification to me to have been able to 
collect so many testimonies as I have cited of its efficacy, and 
which have been afforded me by the learned physicians whose 
names have been already mentioned; and it would have in- 
creased this gratification could I have added those furnished 
by Dr. Rreynaup, professor and physician at Toulon; Dr. 
CLEMENT, physician to the Hépital dela Pitie; Dr. Gatmarp, 
professor and physician at Rochefort; Doctors Serre and 
Trvut, members of the Faculty of Montpellier. But my nu- 
merous avocations have prevented me taking notice of the be- 
neficial results which they have obtained, and which have 
united with others to recommend the holly for trial; and their 
recommendation has not been made in vain. ‘To all I would 
return my thanks: they have favored my researches, and as, 
on the one hand, they have assisted with me to enrich our 
therapeutic catalogues by the addition of a medicine, the pro- 
perties of which have been discovered again; so, on the other, 
they have offered to humanity a means, at little cost, to cure 
those fevers which often yield not at all, or with much diffi- 
culty, to the use of bark persevered in for a great length of 
time; a course so lengthened as often to involve serious dis- 
organization of the liver, independently of the consideration 
of the high price of the drug, which the poor are unable to 
afford: a double misfortune this, but one that cannot be ob- 
jected to the use of the Hotty and its preparations. 
Note. Dr. Rousseau’s paper was accompanied with specimens 
of the various preparations of holly in powder, extract, &c., and 
also with a bottle of the ilicine; all which, together with the origi- 
nal manuscripts, are deposited in the collection of the Medico- 
Botanical Society, and may be seen on application to the Librarian 
or Conservator. 
