412 LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA. 
and other aromatic barks of the shops. The dis- 
ease in which it has been most employed is in- 
termittent fever. But the triumph which results 
from the occasional cure of this disease is now di- 
vided among so large a list of tonic medicines, 
that the distinction conferred by it is not of the 
most signal kind. As a warm sudorific, this 
bark seems well adapted to the treatment of 
chronic rheumatism, and for this ‘purpose it has 
been employed with success by various medical 
practitioners in the United States. In some dis- 
eases of an inflammatory type in which it has been” 
recommended, its stimulating properties render 
it more like to do harm than good. The: only 
personal acquaintance which I have had with it, 
is as a'stomachic. Administered with this view, 
it has been acceptable and ‘apparently useful to 
patients who had derived occasional benefit from 
“Huxham’s tincture,” “Stoughton’s elixir,” and 
similar compositions of bitter and aromatic drugs. 
The wood of the Tulip tree is smooth and fine 
grained, very easily wrought and not liable to 
split. It is used for various Kinds of carving and 
ornamental work, and: for articles of house furni- 
ture. In the Western States where pine lumber 
is scarce, Michaux tells us, that the j joinery or in- 
side work of houses is most frequently of this 
