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took the bark feveral times in one day. 

 This was repeated twice or thrice on the 

 days after he had the ague, and it com- 

 monly left him without returning, and moft 

 people recover fo well, that they do not 

 look pale after their ficknefs, 



The bark of the root of the Tulip tree t 

 or Liriodendron Tulipifera, taken in the fame 

 manner as the jefuit's bark, fometimes had 

 a fimilar effecT:. 



Several people peeled the roots of the 

 Cornus floridd, or Dog wood, and gave this 

 peel to the patients ; and even fome people, 

 who could not be cured by the jefuit's bark, 

 have recovered by the help of this. I have 

 likewife (een people cured of the fever, by 

 taking brimftone reduced to powder, and 

 mixed with fugar every night before they 

 went to bed, and every morning before they 

 got up : they took it three or four times in 

 the intervals, and at each time drank fome 

 warm liquor, to wafh the powder down. 

 However others that tried the fame remedy 

 did not find much relief from it. 



Some people collected ihe yellow bark of 

 the peach tree, efpecially that which is on 

 the root and boiled it in water, till half of 

 it was evaporated by boiling. Of this de- 

 coction the patient took every morning 

 about a wine glafs full, before he had eaten 



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