Indigenous remedies of the Southern Confederacy which may be employed in the treatment of malarial fever / by Joseph Jones.

  • Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Indigenous remedies of the Southern Confederacy which may be employed in the treatment of malarial fever / by Joseph Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    714 JosErn Jones, on the Indigenous [September, fever. lie states that this remedy was used in nearly every case of intermittent fever that occurred in the Hew-York Alms-house in 1812, to the exclusion of the Peruvian bark, with uniform success. It was given either in decoction or in powder from 20 to 80 grains every second hour during the intermission. Out of this large number which had been successfully treated with the Eupatorium, Dr. Anderson detailed six cases of intermittent, quotidian, tertian, and quartan; in these cases the cures appeared to have becu as expeditious as could have been expected from Peruvian bark. In re- mitting fever he found that as a sudorific it produced the most salutary effects. Dr. Anderson supports his own experience by the testi- mony of several distinguished practitioners. Dr. Ilosack and Dr. Baird in the treatment of Yellow fever, after proper evacuations, placed almost exclusive de- pendence on sudorifics, and amongst this class of remedies they considered the Eupatorium, administered in the form of decoction, of great value. The disease called by some petechial or spotted fever, and by others the malignant pleurisy or typhoid periplineumony has been more successfully treated by the class of remedies denominated sudorifics than by an other, and in many cases of this epidemic which occurred in the city of Hew-York in the winter of 1812-13 after the proper evacuations had been employed, the Eupatorium was resorted to, and its sudorific, its tonic and its cordial properties were clearly demonstrated and much benefit was derived from its use. The testimony of Dr. Eberlo to its use in intermittent fever is not so favorable as that of Dr. Anderson; in his notice of the medical effects of this plant in his Therapeu- tics, he saj7s : “ Dr. Anderson states that this remedy was used in nearly every case of intermittent fever that occurred in the Hew-A ork Almshouse in 1812 instead of Peruvian bark, and that it uniformly proved successful. I do uot doubt that it has sometimes proved successful iuthis