Success, in the two first of the Cases
mentioned, and to two young Gentlemen, Mates of the Hospital, who had
caught the Fever from their Attendance on the Sick, I gave it to above
a hundred and fifty at _Paderborn_, and elsewhere, during my
Attendance in the Military Hospitals in _Germany_; and although it did
not answer in every Case, yet it was found to have a better Effect
than any other Remedy that was tried. We joined different Medicines
with it, according to the State of the Patient. We gave the _Confectio
cardiaca_, _Rad. serpent. Virg._ and other cordial Medicines, and
Wine, when the Pulse was low; _Oxymel scilliticum_, and other
Pectorals, when the Breathing was difficult; Opiates, where the
Patient was inclined to be too loose; the _spiritus mindereri_, and
other Diaphoretics, when we wanted to promote a free Perspiration; and
we applied Blisters as Occasion required.

[12] The _Peruvian_ Bark has not only been found useful in
this Malignant Fever, but has likewise been recommended in
the Plague. See _Morton Oper. Append. secund. Exercitat.
Hist. Febr. Ann. 1658, ad. an. 1691. complexa_. In the Small
Pox, see _Medical Essays_, vol. V. art. x. and has been found
serviceable in the putrid Disorders of the _West Indies_, as
taken Notice of by Dr. _Hillary_; and in the malignant
ulcerous sore Throat in this Country, as Dr. _Wall_ and
others have observed. And in thirty-five Cases of the
malignant ulcerous sore Throat, in which I gave it, joined
with Cordials, and the Use of Acids, I did not lose one
Patient. Nine of them were strong People, and had plethoric
Symptoms, and were blooded in the Beginning; and seven of
them were costive, and took a Dose of gentle laxative Physic
before taking the Bark. The rest had no Symptoms which seemed
to require these Evacuations. However, it ought to be
observed, that this is a Disorder of the malignant kind; and
that although some well-timed gentle Evacuations may be
serviceable in the Beginning, before giving the Bark; yet too
free, or even gentle Evacuations, injudiciously made, will
sink the Patient, and infallibly do Mischief.

The free Use of the Bark has long been found serviceable in
Mortifications and foul Sores, where the Juices tend too much
to the Putrescent; and has been strongly recommended by Mr.
_Ranby_, Serjeant Surgeon to his Majesty, in the Cure of
Guns