EUPATORIUM PERFOMATUM. l.i 



Diseases of JJehility. 



The powerfully tonic effects of this plant 

 have already claimed our attention when con- 

 sidering its chemical analysis, and Ihe obser- 

 vations which were made upon its employ- 

 ment in the treatment of intermittents, and the 

 cases of this disease which were effectually 

 cured by it, present a practical illustration of 

 what wfis at first advanced. That a remedy 

 which in one form can arrest the paroxysms of 

 an intermittent, might in another form possess 

 tonic properties calculated to do much good 

 in disorders arising from general debility, 

 needs no effort of the imagination to conceive. 

 During the writer's attendance in the New- 

 York Alms-house in the year 1812, very libe- 

 ral recourse was had to this remedy in diseases 

 of this kind. The preparation for the most part 

 employed, was an alcoholic tincture of the 

 pulverised leaves and flowers. In general ana- 

 sarcous affections of the extremities, whether 

 occurring as symptomatic of other diseases. 



