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Diaphoretics

Tonic, and Diaphoretic. In the Yellow Fever of 1793 when bloodletting
came to be deserted even by Dr Benjamin Rush himself, he poposed
the sweating plan by means of this medicine of which he gave large
quantities. I have since used it and with the happiest effects. Dr
Hossack of New York also speaks verry highly of its use in intermittants.
I cannot speak so confidently from my own experience tho I have
succeeded in affecting cures. In many parts of the United States it supplies
the place of the bark and hence the name Ague Weed. Here it acts as
a tonic and prevents the recurrence of the fever, when you wish its