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often carries off the ‘Petechia* fo that produced by 
the Cortex herein imitates the kindly Efforts of Na- 
ture 3 in that refpeft aflifting the Phyfician in his 
principal Office, which is to be Nature Minifter. 
In mod of thofe, to whom I have given the Barky 
I have found the Maturation of the Puftuies for- 
warded by it, and the Difeafe fhortened in its Dura- 
tion 5 an Article Purely of no mean Confederation. 
I commonly ufe the Extraft (made by boiling down 
a Decoction of the Baik, without the Addition of 
any alcaline Salt) preferably to the grofs Subftance 5 
as being, I think, of equal Efficacy, and lefs apt to 
load the Patient’s Stomach. In Children and deli- 
cate Perfons, who are apt to naufeate this Remedy, 
I have with Succefs given it mix’d up with thin 
Chocolate ; which, if fufficiently fweetened, difguifes 
it better than any thing I know of. 
What the Bark might do, as preventive, or pre- 
parative for this Difeafe I know not , but in the 
latter Intention I fhould think it would prove of 
Ufe. 
I fuppofe I need not take notice, that when I re- 
commend the Barky I would not be thought to de- 
cry or difcountenance the Methods or Medicines 
ufually order’d in this Diftemper ; on the contrary, I 
think, in fo terrible a Situation, nothing ought ta 
be 
fic ctiam in mali genii variolis idem e venire experientia docet. Hoffm. de 
J'eb. *variolof. Thef. patholog. § 12. 
Alvi profluvium non nocet, quando petechiae pariter ob valde irregu- 
larem anni conftitutionem compiicantur, ut potius remedio fit, et ms- 
lignos humores optime expurget. Id. ibid. Cautel. § 1 6. 
