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ART. XXIX. — ON THE BEBEERU TREE OF BRITISH GUI- 
ANA AND SULPHATE OF BEBEERINE. By Sir Andrew 
Halliday. K. C. H; F. R. S. E. Deputy-Inspector General of Army 
Hospitals. 
I am desirous of directing the attention of the profession, 
to a discovery which I hope will not only prove of conse- 
quence as a valuable addition to our list of important reme- 
dies, but which may become of some consideration to this 
country as an article of commerce. 
Hugh Rodie, Esq, a Surgeon in the Navy, was, like many 
others in his situation placed on the half pay list at the end of 
the last war, and having relations in, or connected with, the 
colony of British Guiana, he fixed himself in the latter end of 
1814 at Demerara, as a general practitioner in medicine. Mr. 
Rodie, I have reason to know, was and is an excellent che- 
mist, and was altogether much attached to the study of natu- 
ral history, so much so, indeed, that, although he very soon 
obtained a most extensive and lucrative practice he preferred 
the solitude of the woods, where he could study nature at his 
leisure, to watching the progress of disease in the chambers 
of the sick at Demerara. He obtained a grant of land in the 
interior of the country, and some years ago commenced wood 
cutter. 
In a communication which he made to me last winter, he 
states that, soon after he settled in British Guiana, the French 
government sent a deputation of royal academicians to the 
colony of Cayenne, to discover the Jesuit's bark, or a substi- 
tute for it; and it was currently reported that they had sue- 
