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Diaphoretics

tonic effects the substance or decoction is to be used, if its Diaphoretic
effect give from Ʒfs [½ dram] to Ʒi [1 dram] at a dose of the saturated hot infusion. This
medicine has been used in many forms of Typhus Fever but the
Pulvis Doveri has been so successfull in my hands that I have not
try'd the former. In Dropsy also with to its Diuretic and
Diaphoretic power, it is much praised by the Physicians of Massachusetts.

Marubium Vulgare. Or Common Horehound
given in large quantities in the shape of tea is a most excellent
Diaphoretic and expectorant; belonging to the same family of plants with