138 Eupatorium perfoliatum. 
was followed with uniform success. He further informs us, that Dr. 
Hosack and Dr. Bard, in the treatment of yellow-fever, placed al- 
most exclusive dependence, after proper evacuations, on sudorifies ; 
and among this class of medicines used the bone-set, and estimated it 
highly. More evidence in favour of this article in febrile affections 
might be adduced; but 1 presume enough already has been stated 
to show its undisputed claim to be ranked as a valuable article 
of the Materia Medica. Yet, though I have much reliance on the 
powers of this plant, I cannot advocate or recommend the prac- 
tice of depending exclusively on its effects, in the treatment of 
fever or catarrhs, of whatever kind. That it would be safer to use it 
as an auxiliary, than to rely wholly on its powers, in any but slight 
cases, does not, I think, admit of a doubt, 
Imust here mention, that the bone-set has likewise been said to 
cure acute rheumatism ; and that it has been used in those cases, my 
own enquiries and observations assure me. Though I do not know any 
well-attested facts of its efficacy here, or of any cures that it has per- 
formed of this disease, I yet think it more than probable, its sweating 
powers might be advantageously enlisted, in conjunction with blood- 
letting, to cure acute rheumatism, after the highly inflammatory ac- 
tion has been nearly or wholly subdued. But, perhaps, in the chronic 
state of this disease it would be more safely administered, and not 
unlikely, more usefully. 
