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Boneset was a favorite medicine of the North American Indians, who called it by a name that is equivalent to 'Ague-weed,' and it has always been a popular remedy in the United States, probably no plant in American domestic practice having more extensive and frequent use; it is also in use to some extent in regular practice, being official in the United States Pharmacopceia, though it is not included in the British Pharmacopoeia. Boneset had no equal as a cough, cold and fever remedy during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Civil War troops received Boneset infusions not only as remedies when they fell to fevers, but also as tonics to keep them healthy. It is stated that the popular name Boneset is derived from the great value of this remedy in the treatment of a species of influenza which had much prevailed in the United States, and which from the pain attending it was commonly called Break-Bone Fever.
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