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SEVERAL remedies are employed againft this 

 difeafe: the jefuit's bark was formerly a certain 

 one> but at prefent it has not always this effect, 

 though they fell it genuine, and for the very beft. 

 Many people accufed it of leaving fomething nox- 

 ious in the body. Yet it was commonly obferv- 

 ed, that when the bark was good, and it was ta- 

 ken as foon as the fever made its appearance, and 

 before the body was weakened, it was almoft fure 

 to conquer the fever, fo that the cold fits never 

 returned, and no pain or ftiffnefs remained in the 

 limbs ; but when the difeafe is rooted in, and has 

 coniiderably weakened the patients, or they are 

 naturally very weak, the fever leaves them after 

 ufing the jefuit's bark, but returns again in a fort- 

 night's time, and obliges them to take the bark 

 again ; but the confequence frequently is a pain 

 and a ftiffnefs in their limbs, and fometimes ia 

 their bowels, which almoft hinders them from 

 walking : this pain continues for feveral years to- 

 gether, and even accompanies fome to the grave. 

 This bad effect is partly attributed to the bark, 

 which can feldom be got genuine here, and part- 

 ly to the little care which the patients take ia 

 uling the bark. A man of my acquaintance was 

 particularly dexterous in expelling the ague by the 

 ufe of the jefuit's bark. His manner of proceed- 

 ing was as follows : when it was pcffible, the pa- 

 tient muft ufe the remedy as foon as the fever be- 

 gun, and before it was fettled in his body : but 

 before, he took the medicine, he was to take a 

 diaphoretic remedy, as that had been found ve- 

 ry falutary ; and as the fever is frequently of 

 fuch a nature here, as not to make the patient 



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