n. Other Means were then
tried to stop his Ague, but with no Effect, till the 7th of
_November_, that I ordered two Drachms of the Powder of the
Bark to be given him twice a Day in an emollient Clyster,
with Half a Drachm of the _tinctura thebaica_, which stopt
his Ague in three Days; and he had had no Return of it on the
28th of _January_ 1764, and had recruited his Health and
Strength, and the Sore of his Foot was greatly lessened. Dr.
_Harvey_ (who teaches Midwifery in _London_) told me, that he
has cured Children of Agues by Bark Clysters, after the Bark
Waistcoats, and other Means used, had proved unsuccessful.

In the End of _July_, and Beginning of _August_, the aguish Cases we
had at _Munster_ continued to be of the Quotidian or Tertian Kind. The
greatest Part of them began in the Form of continued Fevers, tending
more to the bilious Kind than the preceding Months, and many of the
Sick had bilious Vomitings in the cold Fits; and the Agues we had in
Spring, and during the Campaign 1762, were of the same Nature, and
required the same Treatment.

Those Cases, which began in the Form of continued Fevers, were
treated as such till they began to have regular Intermissions; they
then yielded to the Bark.

Some were attended with the Dysentery; and the Purging and Gripes were
most severe on the Days of the aguish Paroxysms. In such Cases, we
were frequently obliged at first to neglect the Ague, and to treat the
Disorder entirely as a Flux. Where there was much Fever, the Patient
strong, and the Pains in the Bowels acute, we ordered Bleeding; and
after it a gentle Emetic, and some Doses of the saline oily Purge, or
of Rhubarb; and gentle Opiates in the Evening, and other Medicines
proper in the Dysentery, till its Violence was abated, before we gave
the Bark: though in some Cases, where the aguish Paroxysms were very
severe, and helped to increase the Purging, and the Patient was in
Danger of sinking, we gave the Bark, notwithstanding the Flux still
continued; and the Method we followed was the same as that I formerly
mentioned, where it was complicated with the Malignant Fever; which
was to give the Bark, mixed with Diascord, and Opiates, or other
Medicines proper for the Dysentery, in the Intervals between the
Purges.

By this Treatment, very often both the Flux and Ague went off.
However, it ought to be observed, that unless the aguish Paroxysms
were severe, and in Danger