No. 36. EUPATORinia. 477 



lime, some azote and tannin, and lastly a peculiar 

 substance Eupatoriney brown, bitter, resiniform, 

 soluble in water and alcohol, forming sulfates, ni- 

 trates, &c. 



PROPERTIES— A valuable sudorific, tonic, al- 

 terative, antiseptic, cathartic, emetic, febrifuge, cor- 

 roborant, diuretic, astringent, deobstruent and stimu- 

 lant. It was one of the most powerful remedies of 

 the native tribes for fevers, &c. It has been intro- 

 duced extensively into practice all over the country 

 from New England to Alabama, and inserted in all 

 our medical works, although writers differ as to the 

 extent of its effects. It appears to be superior to »/^n- 



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ihemis nohtlis or Camomile as a sudorific tonic, and 

 preferable to Barks in the treatment of the local au- 

 tumnal fevers of the cbuntry, near Streams, Lakes 

 and Marshes. I have seen them cured efficiently 

 by it when other tonics failed. It acts somewhat like 

 Antimpny, without the danger attending the use of 

 .this mineral- The cold preparations are powerful 



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tonics and do not produce emesis as an over-dose of 

 the warm decoction. It acts powerfully on the skin 

 and removes obstinate cutaneous diseases. It has 

 cured the following disorders in many instances. In- 

 termittent and remittent fevers f petechial or spotted 

 fever, called also malignant or typhoid pleurisy ; dis- 

 eases of general debility, Ascites, Anasarca, Anorexia, 

 and debility arising from intemperance; acute atod 

 chronic rheumatism: violent catarrhs j bilious and 

 typhus fever, particularly low typhus, incident to 

 marshy places, and attended with a hot and dry skin j 



