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the feces; two tal le spoonfuls of which 
} have given, sweetened with sugar, to a 
child three years old once a day with 
good sutcess. Emetics are here also fre- 
quently had recourse to; and, in slight 
attacks of ague, half an ounce of antumo- 
nial wine as an emetic, and working it 
_off with camomile tea, will sometimes re- 
move the complaint ;- but my own expe- 
rience does not warrant me in recom- 
mending them, where any thing like ob- 
stinacy in the disease is manifest; and, 
generally speaking, the bark acts very 
effectually without a previous exhibition 
of an emetic. 
Besides these various means of using 
the same remedy, I have found it essen- 
tially necessary to imsist upon an ague 
patient’s living better than ordinarily. 
To one accustomed to water I recom- 
mend cyder or ale; to cyder, ale or 
strong beer, in moderate quantity; and 
to one accustomed to strong beer, an 
occasional dose -of port wine: aninai 
food in preference to vegeiuble, and roast 
in preference to boiled. An avoidance 
of cold; and of wet feet. Indeed, living 
better alone will sometimes keep off the 
ague, when there is a predisposition 
for it. 
From the many cases which I have 
seen, I am of opinion, that the Ague is 
not, as is too frequently imagined, 
an invisible something that can be ex- 
pelled by a vigorous coup de main at 
once; such an idea may suit the poet, 
who may be desirous of depicting it as a 
shivering hag, but in sober reasoning, 
wherever the ague is present, there also 
previously existed debility (notwithstand- 
ing now and then. some appearances to 
the contrary), and therefore the only 
mode of cure must be to invigorate the 
constitution, and the ague ceases to exist. 
Daily experience teaches us, who are 
but just permitted a glance at the 
threshold of the temple of Medicine, that 
the bark is the first medicine in the list 
of stimuli for the cure of the ague, and 
on that sheet-anchor must both the ini- 
tiated and uninitiated depend. 
I fear that I have already swelled this 
letter to an immederate length. I have 
endeavoured to be as plain and intelligi- 
ble, as is consistent with a notice on po- 
pular medicine to be, but suspect, that 
much conversation with medical men, 
as well as an intimacy with medical 
books, have made this letter less popu- 
jar than the generality of your readers 
may desire, I have, however, no mos 
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On the intended Archway under Highgate Hill. [May 1, 
tive in these remarks, but the public 
health, and to them the public is quite 
welcome. 
Hunispill, Your’s, &c. 
March 9, 1809. JAS. JENNINGS. 
P.S. While on the subject of Bark I 
would say, that I have been informed, that 
the bark of a species of willow, growing in 
this country, called Broad-leaved Willow, 
will cure the Ague. I know nothing of it. 
Can any of the Correspondents of the Month- 
ly Magazine give any information on the 
subject?—I have seen some of the yellow 
Bark attached to the wood on which it grows. 
The wood has much of the grain, colour, and 
soitness of the wood of the willow. 
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Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
FEW days ago I met with some ob- 
servations, accompanied with.a 
plan, of an intended Archway under 
Highgaie Hiil , by Mr. Robert Vazie, 
who has not quite finished his proposed 
archway under the River Thames. 
If it was proved, that there is no way 
of avoiding that hill, but by a tunnel, it 
-probably might deserve the support of 
the public; but as it appears from a sur- 
vey made by Mr. Thompson in 1805, 
that nearly the whole of the difficulty 
can be avoided, and yet the road kept 
in open day-light, without adding any 
thing to the distance, I think it will ap- 
pear something like cutting out a job, to 
propose a tunnel, where the public may 
be better accommodated at one-fourth of 
the expence. It has been supposed, that 
the principal objection to the plan pro- 
posed by Mr. Thompson lies with two 
noblemen, upon the ground that it might 
possibly interfere with their pleasure- 
grountis ; but surely no noble man would 
make that a pretenee for preventing an 
improvement so desirable, and useful to 
the public at large. Is there no pleasure 
in accommodating the public? Are the 
public to pay the interest of 75,000). 
(which would not be sufficient to finish 
the tunnel or archway), and be made to 
pass a narrow, dark, damp passage for 
near a mile, and all this for the pleasure 
of two noblemen, and the doubtful pro- 
fit of a few speculators? For that reason 
also, are all the wells in Highgate to be 
laid dry, and the people of delicate ha- 
bits to be exposed to injury in their 
health, by passing in the hot sultry sum- 
mer’s day, for 15 minutes, through a cold 
and damp vault ?—Suppose any accident, 
simfay to what happens daily in the 
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