Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home, M.D., one of his Majesty's physicians, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh.

  • Home, Francis, 1719-1813.
Date:
1782
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    end of a fit, or at forty hours diftance from the fucceeding fit, than two, three, or four hours before it. ift, In Exper. I. II. III. VII. VIII. XII. XIII. XIV. it was given juft before the expected fit; but in none of thofe cafes was the fit prevented. But, in Exper. V. VI. IX. X. XIII. when given after the fit, it always fucceeded. In fix of the former experiments, half an ounce was given, which was alfo the quantity ufed in the latter. In the remaining two, not above half the quantity was given. 2dly, Though the argument in favour of giving the medicine immediately after the fit appears ftrong, frill fome doubt may remain, as it may be faid, that, had the bark been given in the former cafes after the fit, it would likewife have failed -y and, in the latter, if given before the fit, it would have fucceeded. To render, there-' fore, an experiment of this nature entirely decifive, it muft be made on the fame pa- tient. With this view, I made the IV. XI. and XIII. experiments. In the XI. the ague was obftinate, and yielded only when other medicines were joined with the bark. But, even in that, the bark, after