64 ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA. 
ers it as possessing a peculiar and almost specific 
quality of acting upon the organs of respiration, | 
promoting suppressed expectoration, and relieving 
the breathing of pleuritie patients in the most ad- 
vanced stage of the disease. 
Dr. Chapman, Professor of medicine in Phil- 
adelphia, informs us that his experience with this 
medicine is sufficient to enable him to speak with 
confidence of its powers. As a diaphoretic he 
thinks it is distinguished by great certainty and 
permanency of operation, and has this estimable 
property, that it produces its effects without in- 
creasing much the force of the circulation, raising 
the temperature of the surface, or creating inqui- 
etude and restlessness. On these accounts it is 
well suited to excite perspiration in the forming 
states of most of the inflammatory diseases of 
winter, and is not less useful in the same cases at 
a more advanced period, after the reduction of ac- 
tion by bleeding, &c. The common notion of its 
having a peculiar efficacy in pleurisy, he is inclin- 
ed to think is not without foundation. Certain it 
is, says he, that it very much relieves the oppres- 
sion of the chest in recent catarrh, and is unques- 
— an — in the preteented pheu- 
