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most unequivocal testimony in its favour. In 

 the yellow fever of 1798 and 1799, after the 

 necessary evacuations of the first passages had 

 been procured, almost exclusive dependence 

 was placed upon sudorifics.* Of these sudori- 

 fics, the eupatorium, admininistered in the 

 form of decoction, was deservedly considered 

 of great value. Its primary operation was 

 in promoting the cuticular discharges. 



In Typhoid Peripneumony. 



The disease, called by some practitioners 

 the petechial or spotted fever, and, by others, 

 the malignant pleurisy or typhoid peripneu- 

 mony, and which, within these few years past, 

 has prevailed to such an extent in different 

 parts of the United States, more especially in 

 the eastern districts, and in the northern and 



* See Hosack's letter to Dr. Currie, in Dr. Currie's 

 sketch of the yellow fever, as it prevailed ia Philadelphia io 

 1 799. See also Stevens's letter on the Bone-set, in Mit- 

 CHiLL and Miller's Medical Repository, hexade 2. vol. 1. 

 p. 12. 



