them have such an immediate Effect as Dr. _Lind_ mentions.
After reading the Treatises of Dr. _De Haen_ and Dr. _Hasenohrl_, on
this Fever, I resolved on giving the Bark[11] in large Quantities, and
found it to answer the Recommendations given by these Gentlemen; and
shall relate here two or three Cases, out of above a hundred and
fifty, in which I gave it.
[11] It is long since the _Peruvian_ Bark has been used by
Practitioners in Malignant Disorders, though I do not know
that any body gave it in this Fever to the Amount of an Ounce
per Day, before Dr. _Haen_ and Dr. _Hasenohrl_. Dr.
_Ramazini_ mentions its having been tried in the Petechial
Fever, in the Years 1692, 3, 4. And in a Treatise on the
Plague in the _Ucrane_, published at _Petersburgh_, in the
Year 1750, we are told, that in the _French_ Translation of
the Philosophical Transactions for the Year 1732, there is a
Note to p. 264, telling, that Mr. _Amyand_ informed the
Academy of Surgery at _Paris_, that Mr. _Rushworth_, Surgeon,
had wrote to Sir _Hans Sloane_, on the 23d of _May_ 1723,
that when he was Surgeon to a Ship, in the Year 1694, he had
cured some Men ill of the Malignant Fever, attended with
pestilential Buboes, by means of the _Peruvian_ Bark. Dr.
_Huxham_ has recommended a Tincture of the Bark; and Dr.
_Pringle_, a strong Decoction of it, with some of the
Tincture, in these Malignant Fevers.
I. _Robert Wilson_, of the Second Regiment of Foot Guards, on the 19th
of _February_ 1761, was seized with a Shivering and Coldness,
succeeded with Heat, Thirst, a short dry Cough, Difficulty of
Breathing, Head-ach, and slight Stitches in his Breast; some Blood was
taken away, which was sizy, and he was ordered two Ounces of the
_Sperma Ceti_ Mixture, with the _spiritus mindereri_, every two or
three Hours. He continued without any manifest Alteration in the
Symptoms, till the 21st, when a Number of dun Petechiae appeared all
over his Body, particularly on his Breast. The Stitches and Cough were
then much easier, and he had his Medicines as before. On the 22d, he
was seized with a Delirium, and was somewhat comatose; when he was
ordered a Drachm of the Bark every six Hours. The 23d, the comatose
Symptoms had increased, and he had slight Twitchings of the Tendons, a
dry brown-coloured Tongue, and a Faultering in his Speech. The Bark
was continued, with the Addition of two Spoo
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