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of camphire and salt of hartshorn, as these tend to promoteperspiration and urine. Thus fifteen grains of musk, withthree grains of camphire, and six grains of salt of hartshorn,may be made into a bolus with a little syrup and given asabove.

If the fever should happen to intermit, which it frequentlydoes towards the decline, or if the patient's strength shouldbe wasted with colliquative sweats, &c, it will be necessary togive him the Peruvian bark. Haifa dram, or a whole dram,if the patient's stomach will bear it, of the bark in fine pow-der, may be given four or five times a day, in a glass of redport or claret wine. Should the bark in substance not siteasy on the stomach, an ounce of it in powder may be infusedin a bottle of Lisbon or Ehenish wine for two or three days,afterwards it may be strained, and a glass of it taken fre-quently.*

Some give the bark in this and other fevers, where thereare no symptoms of inflammation, without any regard to theremission or intermission of the fever. How far future ob-servations may tend to establish this practice we cannot pre-tend to say ; but we have reason to believe that the bark is avery universal febrifuge, and that it may be administered withadvantage in most fevers where bleeding is not necessary, orwhere there are no symptoms of topical inflammation.

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OF THE MALIGNANT, PUTEID, OE SPOTTEDFEVEE.

This may be called the pestilential fever of Europe, as inmany of its symptoms it bears a great resemblance to thatdreadful disease the plague.

* The barb may likewise be very properly administered along withother cordials, in the following manner : Take an ounce of Peruvianbark, orange peel half an ounce, Virginian snakeroot two drams, saf.fron one dram. Let all of them be powdered, and infused in an Eng-lish pint of the best brandy for three or four days. Afterwards theliquor may be strained, and two tea-spoonfuls of it given three or fourtimes a day in a glass of small wine or negas.