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pulse regular ; bowels still loose ; tongue fur- 

 red ; appetite not very good. INov. 3. The 

 patients have continued taking their medicine 

 until the first instant : the eldest has not had 

 any fever since the twenty-third ; the youngest 

 has not had any since the twenty-fifth of last 

 month : pulse natural ; bowels regular ; tongue 

 clean ; appetite very good ; urine somewhat 

 increased in quantity. Both discharged, cured. 



To the above cases of intermitting fever* 

 which were distinctly marked, and which were 

 effectually cured by the use of the eupatori- 

 um perfoliatum, given either in decoction or 

 in substance, the writer might have added very 

 many others. But to have done this would 

 have far exceeded the ordinary limits of an 

 inaugural dissertation. In simple intermit- 

 tents, admitting of distinct intermission, it is 

 asserted to have been exhibited with uncom- 

 mon advantage. That such is the fact with 

 regard to the medical properties of this species 

 of the eupatorium was abundantly proved 

 froni the uniform result of almost every case 



