This section is from the book "A Guide To Health", by Benjamin Colby. Also available from Amazon: A Guide To Health.
Take of lobelia, herb ............................ 4 oz.
pleurisy root (Asclepias tuberosa)...... 4 oz.
skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus) ........ 4 oz.
crawley root (Coralorhiza) .............. 4 oz.
A quarter of a teaspoonful once an hour, until a gentle perspiration is produced. In typhus or scarlet fever it may be increased as the case may require. Valuable for producing perspiration and equalizing the circulation; highly useful for a cough, and admirably adapted to break up a cold.
 
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