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is mild, and puts on the Type of an Intermittent. 
But as the Trim a Vi£ are then very much loaded, 
even in the mildeft Sorts of the confluent Small- 
Pox, this Remedy (if ufed only in that Stage) does 
not feem to promife much; at leaft, not till the 
Saburra in the firfV Paflages be in fome degree car- 
ried off. And accordingly, the learned and judi- 
cious (b) Dr. Frewin found that it did not at all an- 
fwer, even under his Dire&ion, till the firft Paflages 
had been emptied. 
Since that time, the good Effeds of the Bark in 
Mortifications and putrid Ulcers have been difeover’d; 
and Dr. Monro , reafoning from thence, did fome 
time ago {c) recommend it in the firft Stages of the 
Small-Pox j as promoting the Maturation, and pro- 
curing a mild well condition'd Tus. On his Au- 
thority alone, had I no other Fveafons, I fhould have 
been induced to try this Medicine in fome bad kinds 
of that Diftemper, where the Suppuration does not 
proceed well ; but having alfo feen the Bark of 
great Service in other Difeafes, where the Texture 
of the Blood feem’d much broken 5 and particularly 
in Petechial and Purple Fevers, attended with Haemor- 
rhages, 
aut remedio certius ac felicius abfolvitur, quam celebri antidoto, 
cortice fc. Peruviana , qui reliquias veneni fubigendo, ut in caeteris 
quibufeunque cri/^ic 77, certandi anfam tollit, atque inde lu£tam 
febrilem derepente componit ; unde aegrotans poft biduum vel tri- 
duum ccVJfs 7^ faftus, illico fine quovis aerumnofo fymptomate 
fubfequente reconvalefcit, &c. Morton Pyretolog. De Variolhy 
Cap. 10. 
{b) In his Letter to the late learned Dr. Friend . Comment , dt 
Febribus , 5 0 . 
( c ) Med, EfTays, Edinburgh , Vol, 10, Art, 10, 
