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with equal advantage, when had recourse to 

 for that purpose. Many cases mio;ht be here 

 detailed in confirmation of this opinion. A 

 more extensive employment, therefore, of this 

 plant in febrile disorders, than Dr. Barton is 

 disposed to admit, will, I think, be justifiable. 



Yellow Fever. 



In the treatment of the yellow fever, as it 

 has prevailed in the United States, and in 

 other diseases of a contagious nature, whether 

 depending upon epidemical causes, or upon 

 the introduction of a specific matter intro- 

 duced into the system, the eupatorium perfo- 

 liatum will be found a powerful remedy. As 

 to the yellow fever, however diversified the 

 opinions which have been entertained of its 

 peculiar nature, and however various the 

 modes of treatment that have been adopt- 

 ed by different physicians, as the disease has 

 appeared in different years, in the various parts 

 of our country, there can be little doubt, that 

 the sudorific method of cure has, upon the 



