It makes me sick to use it; I feel as if the doctor was going to order me some boneset tea.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
The stump was there, a bit lower and more worn at the crevices, leaking sawdust like an overloved doll-but the low shrub had become a tall sapling, the weeds-vervain, boneset, velvet-leaf-all had been topped and killed off by dense-foliaged bushes and shrubs, which a year before had not raised a leaf above the meadow level.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
The sun came out with a power that had in it something peculiar, and made all human beings feel drowsy, heavy, listless, and disposed to take boneset-tea.
"Winter Fun"
William O. Stoddard