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root (Aristolochia Serpentaria of Linnaeus), exhibited 

 in decoction. At first, he gave the medicine in such 

 large quantities that it excited vomiting. But he de- 

 pended more upon the diaphoretic operation of the 

 medicine. 



This disease, of which a more ample account is a 

 desideratum in the medical history of the United- 

 States, is noticed by many of the medical writers of 

 Europe. It seems to be described by the learned 

 Sauvages, under the following names, viz. Peripneu- 

 monia putrida, Peripneumonia maligna, Peripneumo- 

 nia typhodes, Pleuritis biliosa, Pleuritis erysipelatosa, 

 Pleuritis putrida, Pleuritis pestilens, &c. It is the 

 Pleuritis biliosa of Bianchi. 



The Editor. 

 MS. Medical Journal, for the year 1789. 



VII. On the medical virtues of the Warm and Hot 

 Springs, in the county of Bath, in Virginia. From 

 the MS. journal of the Reverend Dr. A. Green, of 

 Philadelphia. 1800. 



THESE Springs are chiefly useful in the cure 

 of rheumatism and gout, and other local affections of 

 the nervous system. They are also highly useful in 

 a number of cutaneous eruptions, and arc frequently 

 beneficial to persons of a bilious temperament. 



The cures they have performed in the gout and 

 rheumatism are almost incredible. A gentleman, by 



