Observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica : and on the best means of preserving the health of Europeans, in that climate / by John Hunter.

Hunter, John, -1809.

Date:: 1796

Credit: Observations on the diseases of the army in Jamaica : and on the best means of preserving the health of Europeans, in that climate / by John Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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$vantage the Anguftura bark *. After pre- miling the proper purgatives, it was given in the dofe of ten or fifteen grains, in two ounces of a decod:ion of Peruvian bark, and repeatc(^ every four hours, taking care not to offend the flomach. This pradfice does not fuper- fede the ufe of purgatives, which mufl fttll be given according to the degree of griping pain, and the ftate of the evacuations, which are to be deemed favourable, or the contrary, as they approach more or lefsito the natural feculent difcharge of the bowels. \ K / Note O, page i8o. Sir John Pringle gave rhubarb'and calomel as the befl purgative in the dyfentery; > but he confidered it merely as a purgative. Calomel, and mercurials in general, have of late been fuppofed to poffcfs fpecific virtues in that difeafe. How far they deferve that name it is no way neceffary to difcufs, but as the * Sec Mr. Brandc’s Account of the Anguftura Bark. Z 2 refults$