Note 111 — CHAP. I.
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Mr. Telford related to me, that he had cured several intermittents that had baffled the bark, by means of white vitriol, whilst he was surgeon of the Yarmouth in 1779. He gave it in doses of five grains every four hours in the intermission, and was successful in every case except two, in which the patients were far advanced in the dropsy.
He met with several cases of the same kind in the Alcide, in 1782, in which he was successful with the flowers of zinc, after having given large quantities of bark to no purpose. He preferred, however, the white vitriol, as being milder in its operation, and less apt to disagree with the patient’s stomach.
He did not employ either of them in the recent state of the disease, nor does he assert that they are universal or infallible remedies; but only alledges, that he has experienced the most evident good effects from them in an advanced stage of the disease, and a reduced state of the patient, where the common remedy had failed.