292 ffovtffifer 1748. 



Iweat, even when the hot fit is upon him, a per- 

 fpiration was to be brought about by fome other 

 means. To that purpofe the patient took his 

 dole on the day when he had his cold fit, and 

 was not allowed to eat any thing at night. The 

 next morning he continued in a warm bed, drank 

 a quantity of tea, and was well covered, that he 

 might perfpire plentifully. He continued fo till 

 the perfpiration ceafed, and then left the bed in 

 a hot room, and wafhed his body with milk- warm 

 water, in order to cleanfe it from the impurities 

 that fettled on it from the perfpiration, and to 

 prevent their flopping up of the pores. The 

 patient was then dried again, and at laft he took 

 the bark feveral times in one day. This was re- 

 peated twice or thrice on the days after he had the 

 ague, and it commonly left him without return- 

 ing, and moft people recover fo well, that they 

 do not look pale after their ficknefs. 



THE bark of the root of the Tulip tree, or Li- 

 rlodendron Tulipifera, taken in the fame manner 

 as the jefuit's bark, fometimes had a fimilar ef- 

 fect. 



SEVERAL people peeled the roots of the Cor- 

 nusfonda, or Dog 'wood, and gave this peel to 

 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 feen people 

 cured of the fever, by taking brimflone reduced 

 to powder, and mixed with fugar, every night 

 before they went to bed, and every morning be- 

 fore they got up : they took it three or four times 

 in the intervals, and at each time drank fome 

 warm liquor, to \vaih the powder down. How- 

 ever 



