PERUVIAN BARK. 
universally established ; though, perhaps, in 
England, it is not even yet often administered 
in sufficient quantities. Such practitioners as 
are unsparing in it's use, seldom find it fail to 
prove effectual in intermittents, and even in 
arresting the progress of a gangrene. The 
discovery of this last property, is said to have 
arisen from it's curing that malady in an 
agueish patient. 
For many years, that sort of Bark which is 
imported rolled up into short thick Quills, with 
a rough coat and a bright cinnamon colour in 
the inside, which broke brittle, was sound, and 
had an aromatic flavour and a bitterish astrin- 
gent taste, with a degree of aromatic warmth, 
"Was generally esteemed the best; though some 
cor.sidcred the larger pieces as of at least 
equal goodness : in i779, however, the Hussar 
frigate having taken a Spanish ship loaded 
principally with Peruvian Bark, which was 
much larger, thicker, and of k a deeper reddish 
colour, than the Bark in common use; it was 
found, on trial, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 
10 be more eincacious than the Quill Bark. 
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