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efFe(ft is partly attributed to the bark, which 

 can feldom be got genuine here, and partly 

 to the little care which the patients take in 

 ufing 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 proceeding was as follows : when 

 it was poffible, the patient muft ufe the re- 

 medy as foon as the fever begun, and be- 

 fore it was fettled in his body : but before 

 he took the medicine, he was to take a dia- 

 phoretic remedy, as that had been found 

 very falutary ; and as the fever is frequent- 

 ly of fuch a nature here, as not to make 

 the patient fweat, even when the hot fit is 

 upon him, a perfpiration was to be brought 

 about by fome other means. To that pur- 

 pofe the patient took his dofe on the day 

 when he had his cold fit, and was not al- 

 lowed 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 conti- 

 nued fo till the perfpiration ceafed, and 

 then left the bed in a hot room, and walli- 

 ed his body with milk warm water, in or- 

 der 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 

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