Foreign Vegetables. ioi 
Morning on an empty Stomach, or an Hour be- 
fore Meals, in warm Tea or Coffee ; and Perfons • 
afflicted with the Gout, Scurvy, and calculous Af- 
feCtions found Benefit from them. 
They who took the TinCture prepared with Salt 
of Tartar, dropt into Wine or Beer whilfl they 
were at Dinner, or immediately after, were fenfi- 
ble of a flight Kind of Drunkennefs from it, 
though without any further Inconvenience. 
J. Ludovicus Apinus , a Phyfician of Herfpruch , 
greatly extols this Bark, as pofTefling an antifebrile 
cardiack and alexipharmack Virtue, in an hiftori- 
cal Account, which he publifhed at Nurenburg in 
the Year 1697 of an epidemical Fever which 
reigned in the Years 1694 and 1695, at Herfpruch , 
a Town in the Territory of Nurenburg, and in the 
neighbouring Country, and at length was changed 
into a fpotted Fever. 
This epidemical Fever (the Caufe whereof he 
fuppofes to have been the frequent Rains, which 
falling in great Abundance in the Month of Auguft 
in the Year 1694 continued to the December fol- 
lowing) was at firft of a milder Difpofition, put- 
ting on the Type of a tertian intermitting Fever, 
or a double tertian ; and attacked only Children, 
pregnant Women, and the poorer Sort of People. 
But in the Beginning of the Year 1695, he tells us 
this epidemical Contagion increafed, and Spots 
made their Appearance in the Skin. Thefe he 
afcribes to a Change in the Temper ies of the Air, 
and to a chilling Frofl which unexpectedly came 
on ; whereby the Perfpiration was fuddenly ob- 
ftruCted, and the ferous Humours infpiffated. In 
the Summer, when the Heat of the Sun was more 
intenfe, this fpotted Fever feemed to have with- 
drawn itfelf, a Dyfentery fucceeding in its Place: 
But the Heat being fomewhat abated, it fhewed 
H 3 itfelf 
