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acting as a diaphoretic, whence its popular name of 

 Boneset. The name of Joepye is given to it, and to 

 E. purpureum, in New England from an Indian of 

 that name, who cured typhus with it, by a copious 

 perspiration. Eberle says that catarrhal fevers may 



by 



of it in 



are 



going to bed. Tt is particularly useful in the Indi- 

 gestion of old people: and may be used as an auxiliary 

 to other tonics and emetics in all cases. The extract 

 and syrup preserve all the properties, and 

 disagreeable to the palate. 



Substitutes — Anthemis nobilis and Cotula 

 Matricaria Camomila — Marrubium Vulgart or 

 Common Horehound — ^sdepias tuberosa — Leptan-- 

 dra — Botrophis — Yarrow, Tansey and Sassafras, &c. 

 Besides the following species of the same Genus- 



1. E. teiicrifolium or Rough Boneset (Wild hore- 

 hound, &c.) has rough sessile ovate leaves, with some 

 teeth at the base, the flowers white with five florets- 

 Common from New England to Georgia. — Milder, 

 less bitter and disagreeable than the farmery a larger 

 dose may be given, chiefly used in the South, in 

 bilious remittent fevers, when Barks are inadmissibfe, 

 dose two or four ounces of the infusion made by one 

 ounce in a quart of water. 



2. -£. purpureuTTh or Purple Boneset (Joepye, Gra- 

 vel root, &c.) Stem hollow, rough, five to six feet 

 high, leaves whorled, four to five, petiolate, lanceo- 

 late, serrate, rugose : flowers purple, many florets, — In 

 meadows and near streams from New England to 



Kentucky. It has the same properties as JS. 

 tum^ has been used in fevers and gravel, &:c 



r folia 



