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a Week longer, only four a Day ; then three, and 
at laft two. The Diet ought to be thin, and no 
folid Food lhould be ventured upon before the Fe- 
ver is quite extinguifhed, and the Patient begins to 
be hungry. 
The Peruvian Bark, though continued a long 
Time, feldom cures a Fever before fome confider- 
able Evacuation is brought about 5 which generally 
happens either by Stool or Urine : Nor is there a 
more certain Sign that the Difeafe is thoroughly 
cured than this Evacuation, whereby the febrile 
Venom is drawn off. It falls out fometimes foon- 
er, fometimes later ; but we cannot be well allured 
of the Patient’s Recovery before its Appearance. 
We mull confefs indeed, that fome Perfons have 
been rellored to perfedt Health without any 0611“ 
fiderable Evacuation that was fenfible ; but in thefe 
we may conjecture, that an Increafe of infenfible 
Perfpiration fupplied its Place. If this critical Dif- 
charge be not made, though the Fever difappears, 
yet it feems to be rather fupprelTed than radically 
deftroyed. The Patient remains weak and languid, 
and without Appetite, till the Fever returns, or a 
Dropfy, or fome other cachedtick Affedtion in its 
Read *, or perhaps an Abfcefs is formed in fome 
Part of the Body. It is, therefore, not without 
Reafon that Phyficians, according to the Difpofiti- 
on of the morbid Humour, fometimes join proper 
Catharticks, or Diureticks with the Bark ; or fome- 
times Diaphoreticks or Sudorificks, in order to 
throw off the noxious Humour, already fubdued 
by the Febrifuge, by thofe Paffages to which it 
difcovers the greateR Tendency. For this Humour 
in intermitting Fevers, efpecially tertians, is more 
eafily evacuated by Stool or Urine ; but in malig- 
nant Fevers, where it tends towards the Pores of 
the Skjn, it is oftentimes more fuccefsfully caR 
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