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Harvey thus continues the discussion: 



"After all, I could wish these Fathers had kept 

 their Indian Bark to themselves, and sure I am, hun- 

 dreds would be on this side the Grave, whpse bones are 

 now turned into the first element." 



In this sentence Harvey, rather gently, introduces 

 his opinion of the effects of "this terrible scourge." 

 From his chapter bearing the heading, "Proving that 

 the Jesuits' Powder never yet cured any remitting fever," 

 let us quote: 1 



"That many Noblemen, and hundreds of others, 

 within these few years, being seized with this popular 

 feavor, and managed with the Jesuits' Powder, have 

 died, or more properly been manslaughtered by their 

 physicians, needs no confirmation." "They (the physi- 

 cians using Jesuits' Powder) have killed thousands, 

 and never yet cured any one man, excepting possibly 

 three or four among a million, whose robust natures 

 neither Disease nor Remedy could destroy." As a 

 specific case Dr. Harvey cites a man "of illustrious 

 extraction," whose treatment, and result thereof, he 

 gives, as follows: "By as much as the Cinchona abated 

 the Paroxysms of his Tertian, in an equal scantling 

 it augmented his continual Feavor into a burning, 

 and at last by its frequent exhibition Jesuited him out 

 of his being." 



Concerning the after effects of cinchona Harvey 

 writes as follows: "Agues can not otherwise be termed 

 cured by the Jesuits' Bark, but only stopped. The 

 fits upon some short interval do return. Worse diseases 

 are engendered as Dropsy, Consumption, Scurvy, or 

 twenty other Distempers that either render the party 



1 Bear in mind that this is written by the "physician in ordinary to Hifl Majesty," nearly 

 fifty years after cinchona's introduction in Europe. 



