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fufficient. And here the Phyfician’s Skill ought to 
be chiefly employed to bring the Difeafe to a State 
wherein it will admit of a Cure by this Remedy. 
Neverthelefs Morton advifes it in the Mealies and 
Small Pox to be given in the Decline of the Dif- 
temper, that is, when the Fever, continuing after 
the perfect Eruption of the morbid Venom, be- 
gins to obferve the Type of a continual Remittent. 
The Faculty of Phyfick likewife at Naples have 
given out that it is a good Remedy againft the 
Plague, and have ordered it to be ufed in that Dif- 
eafe. This we are informed of by Sebaftian Ba- 
dius , a Phyfician of Genoa , in a Treatife which he 
publifhed in the Year 1663. intitled Anajlafts Cor - 
ticis Peruvian /, or the RefurrecUon of the Peruvian 
Bark \ wherein he anfwers Plempius , a Phyfician of 
Amfterdam , who had given him an Invitation to the 
Funeral of the Peruvian Bark , in a Treatife printed in 
the Year 1655. 
The common People have a Notion, that the 
Bark is improper for Perfons whofe Lungs are in- 
jured, or who are inclinable to a Phthifis and Con- 
fumption. Neverthelefs Experience demonftrates, 
that it may be given with Succefs in the putrid re- 
mitting or intermitting Fever which follows a Pe- 
ripneumony or Pleurify, or which attends an Em- 
pyema or an Ulceration of the Lungs, or in that 
into which an inflammatory Fever is often trans- 
formed. This Fever arifes from putrid and noxi- 
ous Particles polluting the Blood as it paflfes 
through the purulent Parts ; whence are occafioned 
every Day, or every other Day, febrile Exacerbati- 
ons or Paroxyfms. Now, the Peruvian Bark fup- 
prefles, for fome Time at leafb, thefe Paroxyfms ; 
and further, if it be joined with pedtoral, balfamick 
and deterfive Medicines, the Fever is totally ex- 
tinguilhed, the Pus excreted, and the Ulcers are 
healed, 
