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Materia Medica

Tonics

this is found principally in the mountainous parts of Germany, Professor
Bergius says it is Emetic, Diuretic, Diaphoretic, Errhine,
and Emmenagogue, it is used in Germany to dissolve coagulated
blood. Dr Cullen of Vienna used the flowers in Spasmodic
paralytic diseases from ℥i to ℥ij [1 to 2 ounces] a day he speaks of its efficacy
in intermittant fevers. Dr Haen says he does not know of a
medicine more entitled to the name of a specific than this, he says
it is preferable to all others in Dysentaries and malignant fevers,
he used it likewise in Phthisis, Collequative sweats &c, ℥fs [½ ounce] every
two hours. Dr Monroe gave it with good effect in several
cases of intermittant fevers it has been used in Scorbutic diseases.
Authors inform us when it cures paralysis it excites much
uneasiness; if we believe all that is said of this medicine we should
rank it with the most valuable. It has been used but little
in Britain, and never that I know of in America, however
it is a medicine deserving attention.

Eupatorium Perfoliatum. I have not spoken of this before
in any of my lectures. It grows in wet situations, in New
England it is called thorough stern, in Virginia Cross Wort and in
what the Indians call Ague Weed, the leaves are evidently bitter