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M. Jussiki used this bark for fifteen years in obstinate 

 dysenteries with great success : and continued its exhibition, 

 although the eatanienia in women, or hemorrhage frorg .piles 

 in men, occurred during the cure. 



Modern physicians have found from experience, that this 

 medicine is only successful in the third stage of dysentery, 

 where there is no fever, where, too, the stomach is no way 

 hurt, and where the gripes and tenesmus are only continued 

 by a weakness of the bowels. In such cases, Dr D. Monro 

 gave two or three ounces of the decoction every five or six 

 hours, with four or iive drops of laudanum, and found it a 

 very useful remedy. 



The late Sir John Pringle, Dr Huck Saunders, and 

 many others, prescribed the cortex simaruba in old and ob- 

 stinate dysenteries and diarrhoeas, especially those brought 

 from warm climates. Fluxes of this sort, which were brought 

 home from the sieges of Martinico and the Havannah, were 

 completely and speedily cured by this bark. The urine, 

 which in those cases had been high coloured and scanty, was 

 now voided in great abundance, and perspiration restored. 

 Dr James Lino, at Haslar Hospital, says, that the sima- 

 ruba produced these effects sooner, and more certainly, when 

 given in such quantity as to nauseate the stomach. Dr Huck 

 Saunders remarks, that if the simaruba did not give relief 

 in three days, he expected little benefit from its farther use ; 

 but others have found it efficacious in fluxes, after a conti- 

 nued use for several weeks. Authors have cautioned us 

 against the use of this bark, where the intestines are ulcerated, 

 and disposed to cancer after fluxes. 



In diarrhoeas from absorption of pus, the simaruba has 

 given relief; the former discharge from such ulcers was re- 

 stored, and the pus meliorated. 



Lientcria itself, and even hepatic fluxes, have been cured 

 by the simaruba, after other medicines were tried without 

 success. Vide Act. Natur. Curios, torn. ii. p. 80-82. 



