70 DISSERTATION ON THE 



HosACK.* In many cases of this epidemic, 

 which occurred in the city of New- York in 

 the winter of 1812 — 13, after the proper eva- 

 cuants had been employed, in some instances 

 by the lancet, and after the bowels were re- 

 lieved by mild purgative medicine, among the 

 remedies which were had recourse to in order 

 to procure perspiration, such as the infusion of 

 snake root, wine whey, &c. the eupatorium 

 also proved highly serviceable. That a remedy 

 like the eupatorium, possessing such active 

 properties as a sudorific, should prove useful 

 in a disease so generally characterized by 

 symptoms of great debility, can easily be ex- 

 plained, when we revert to its chemical 

 analysis, and consider its tonic, and conse- 

 quently its cordial, properties. 



* Observations on the Peripneumonia Typhodes of New- 

 York, io Amer. Med. and Phil. Reg. vol. 3. p. 448. 



