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Copy of a Letter from Mr. James Farley, Practitioner 
in Phyfick in the IJland of Antigua, to his Partner , 
Mr. Arch. Glofter, in London } dated Antigua, 
July 26, 1767. 
SIR, 
Tk /T R. T — r has been extremely ill ftnee his arrival 
LiJL w itli a fever, which Iafted for many hours ; and, 
upon its going off, he could not retain the bark in any 
fhape whatever. Many things were tried to check 
the vomiting, and enable him to keep down fome 
bark, but to no purpofe. At laft I tryed the Quad! 
Root, an account of which I read in one of the ma- 
gazines for this year ; it fat extremely well on his 
ftomach j he had no vomiting after the firft dofe, and 
recovered very fpeedily. 
I have lately tried it in three or four cafes, where 
there has been a tendency to putrefa&ion and the 
bark would not If ay on the ftomach ; a dram of this 
root, has effectually anfwered every purpofe that the 
bark would. It has this advantage over the bark, that 
it does not heat the patient. 
I have given it in fevers, joined with the Radix 
Serpentariae Virginianse, with fuccefs. I had a pound 
or two from Efquebo, and have fent you a little of it. 
Dr. Warner has fent Dr. Jackfon a piece of it ; he 
faw the good effe&s of this medicine, in a patient. 
Captain B — n, who fails for London to-day. He at- 
tended him with me. I could not get the bark to fit 
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