nant Petechial Fever, yet it did not answer in every Case; for in
some we found other Remedies had a better Effect: And therefore, when
we observed that, notwithstanding the Use of the Bark, the Patient
sunk, and the Symptoms grew worse, we did not persist obstinately in
its Use, but tried the Effect of other Medicines.

Towards the End of _May_ 1761, two Soldiers in the Hospital, at
_Osnabruck_, were taken ill of this Fever; who, after using the Bark
freely, and being allowed a Pint of Red Wine _per_ Day, for some Days
together, began to sink, and had a Delirium and other bad Symptoms
hastening on: upon which I laid aside the Use of the Bark, and ordered
each of them a Blister to the Back, and to take a cordial Draught,
with fifteen Grains of Musk in it, every four Hours; and to have their
Wine mulled with Cinnamon; and although at that Time they were both so
low that I scarce imagined they would live twenty-four Hours, yet next
Day I found them greatly mended; and they had a kindly warm Moisture
all over their Skin, and the Pulse had rose considerably in both. By
the Continuance of the same Medicine the feverish Symptoms gradually
abated, and they both got well.

About the same time, having given the Bark freely for some Days, and
applied a Blister, to another Patient, after the Petechiae had
appeared, I found him one Morning so low that his Pulse could scarce
be felt. He could not speak; he had a Delirium, and rather a Tremor
than a _subsultus tendinum_, and he had all the Appearance of a dying
Man. However, as he still swallowed whatever was put in his Mouth, I
changed the Bark Mixture for Draughts, which contained a Scruple of
the _confectio cardiaca_, and seven Grains of the _sal vol. corn.
cerv._[13] each, and ordered one to be given immediately, and
afterwards to be repeated every four Hours; and, in the Intervals, to
give him frequently a Tea-cup full of Red Wine, mulled with Cinnamon;
and to apply two large Blisters to his Legs. Next Day, his Pulse had
rose; and by the Continuance of the same Remedies it became gradually
fuller and stronger, and the third Day after he recovered his Voice;
and a warm kindly Moisture which ended in a profuse Sweat coming on,
the feverish Symptoms went off soon after, and he recovered his
Health.

[13] Dr. _Huxham_, in his _Treatise on the ulcerous sore
Throat_, p. 54, &c. condemns the Use of the volatile alcaline
Salts, in Fevers of the putrid, pestilential, or pe