r * THS C HEALING ART, } %tt of $ealtag' If W INTRODUCTION. THE often and repeated solicitations, which I have ' had from those of my acquaintance, togetittr w'ukthe present surrounding circumstances, seem to calJ aloud for a publication, of this kind : As I have conclv.ded to discontinue the practice of ph\ sic, as far as I can con- sistently with my present calculations. Therefore, I r have disclosed, in part, what I hope hereafter to perfect, as I flatter myself, and promise the public, a compact Volume, executed in a regular foinij and upon the same subject. - ^sn»w INDEX. A( The Asthma fi. ----Bilious Colic C. ____Cancer and Scirrhus D.----Dropsy E.----Epileptic Fits F. ——- Fever Ague • G.----Gravel and Stone H.----Hoqpj»g*Cough J ----Jaundice - K.----King's Evil L.----Leprosy M.----Measles N. —- Nervous Complaints- O.----Onorosus, or Night-Mare p. ----Pleurisy - , - Q.----Quinsy R.----Rheumatic Complaints S. —— Salt Rheum T.----Tooth-Ach U.----Ulcers V.----Vertigo \V.----Worms - Of Burns and Scalds St. Anthony's Fire Heat of the Liver Falling Sickness Fits Dysentery Honey-Comb, or Ant-bed Sores Fever Sores Cholera Morbus - Catarrh in the Head Piles Canker-Rash Deafness Corns - M Female Diseases - <* ' Pack. 5 6 ib. 13 14 ib. 15 17 ib. ib. 18 19 20 21 ib. 22 ib. 25 26 ib. 27 29 30 31 ib. 32 ib. . ib. 33 K 4 ( 85 ib. 36 37 38 ib. 3a —■g»y—»———ggwoy»•*. *«*/;•■ j>ihbmw A BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. (A.) OF THE ASTHMA. J. HE Asthma is a disease of the lungs. People in the decline of life are most subject to it. The dry and the moist distinguish both humoral and nervaus causes. "* This disorder sometimes proceeds from a bad texture, or formation of the breast; there are many causes how- ever, which produce this disease. Most people who are afflicted with it can say, whh propriety, that heavy colds were the cause. Symptoms.—New and often repeated colds will bring onja fit or paroxysm of the Asthma. With some, these firs are more periodical, than with others—-but it is al- ways attended with a cough and difficulty of breathing, and a tightness about the breast—»the patient gets but little good sleep. Mode of Treatment—Let the patient apply a draft of the simple leaden plaster to the soals of the feet, and continue the use of them', till well. Also, take a po- tion of the German pilis twice a week—likewise one ounce of the stimulating bitterS'r-ateep them in two quarts of good rum, and drinlr half a glass at a time thrice a day. Whilst the patient is in the use of tfiese medicines, let him take a tera-spoonful of the phthy.sic drops, three times a day, and increase the dose to a *,a = ble-spcopf,.!l B '( 6 3 (B.) OF THE BILIOUS COLIC. This disease is called by some, iheplague in the £ow- els—and this is the seat of the complaint without dis- *> pute. Causes.—When this complaint is attended with an inflammation, his almost presumption to administer a- ny kind'of hot physic. This complaint is sometimes attended with vomiting—sometimes the patient ima- gines his bowels are drawing towards his back bone--- anu at other times, he fancies they are tied in knots— •If the bowels are so inflamed as to be perceptible upon the external parts of the patient, the case is dangerous. Mode of Treatment.—Give the patient a strong syr- up, made of the root of what is called, the Queen of the meadow. This will turn the sickness—ease the pain, and prepare the stomach for the reception of w hat is termed, frog ointment. This oil, or ointment, must be administered as often as once an hour, till it operates. In case this medicine cannot be kept down, or if it - should not operate, give a potion of the powdered phy- sic. Should this physic have the desired effect, all that is then requisite, will be to take a few potions of the balsamic pills. In cases of the Colic, unattended with inflammation, I have always found the German pills and powdered physic, to answer every purpose. "ccT" •■• OF A SCIRRHUS AND CANCER. A scirrhus, is a hard, indolent and sleepy tumor, which commonly forms in the glands. These Cancer- ous tumors, oftentimes fix, foim or seat, in the breasts am' uterus of wont u— '.lie tongue, eyes, nose, mcutb and j.enis of men Thtse are the parts most subject to ~* ~~ Cancels. Vet there is no p. rt ot the body, where this disi use has not sometimes seated. When 'these tu- mors grew painful; Jaige and unequal, urd tf a livid blackish or leaden colour, they are commonly called occult Cancers. If a tumor of this description should ulcerate, it might with propriety be called a Cancer. >• Causes.—-These tumors are occasioned oftentimes by a blow, or a surfeit of blood : In females, by re- peated colds and broken breast*. A variety of opinions have been conveyed through the medium of the press, to the public, of the origin of Cancers, and their mode of forming in the human flesh. Some suppose there is but one kind of Cancers, and that they begin with a tumor in the glands, as before described—Others have drawn out the likeness of twelve or thirteen different kinds. For my own part, I believe, a child may be born into the world, with this hereditary taint or dispo- sition in them : others bring this disease upon them- selves, by intemperance. I have had somewhat of an opportunity to inform myself, of the nature, operation and progress of Cancers, having travelled upwards of sixteen thousand miles, through the Northern States of America, within nine years past; during which time I have extracted forty-seven Cancers, from the human flesh, without using the knife. Some patients, as they informed me, lud been afflicted with them, thirty years. Some of these Cancers, in their first stages, exhibited the appearance of these small tumors above mention- ed—others appeared to originate from a natural mark, which they brought into the world with them—others appeared to take their rise from a mere scab—-some from a wart, and some from ulcers. As it is evident- ly the case,, that ulcers will degenerate into Cancers.— Some of those CF.ncers were formed in the great toe ; some on the inside of the leg above the ancle; others in the thigh ; some in the penis, and one in Jpe intesti- man or rectum, above the anis ; some under the shoul- der-blade ; some on the shoulder; many on the neck, and different parts of the face—in the nose—upper and "C under lip, and in the roof of tlie mouth. I have also taken them out of the arms and hands, ■(.* ) Symptoms.—The symptoms of a Cartcer, in it%,first tsges are so trifling, that people are apt to neglect them too long, especially those of (the worst kind. I have seen people, in places I have travelled through,)- some with their eyes eat out; others with all the flesh' consumed off their ai ms; some with all one side of their head eat off; others with their breasts eat off, so that one might see the motion of their vitals. Reader, these were once thought to be trifling cases, until it was too late for them to get relief. These Cancers most certainly might have been taken out, and the pa- tient cured, had they been attended too in season.—- Those Cancerous tumors which form or begin in a wo- man's brea&t, are most commonly perceived by an ex- amination of the fingers ; sometimes they lay so deep that the patient knows nothing about it, until it begins to p$in her ; those pains are light at first—as they be- gin to increase, there will be a hot, darting, shooting, stinging and painful sensation. As this tumor increas- es, the &hape, colour and pain will increase, until they ulcefate ; after they ulcerate, the patient will feel cold ajul shivering by turns ; by this time the Cancer puts on an alarming appearance, this frightens the patient, and no wonder, tor often at this stage of a Cancer, they make rapid progress in the destruction of the patient. I will now give a description of several other kinds of Cancers—The cases follow :— An old gentleman came to me on Monday, with a Cancer in his breast, near one of his nipple,"*, which he had carried thirty years; this appeared in the first sta- ges, to be nothing more than a pipe, till about six week-/, before I saw him ; previous to which, one of his v.cigh- boring doctors had applied a plaster of Spanish flies to the Cancer. This he did, in-order to attract a pleurisy pai.i as they termed it, from his side. This enraged the Cancer to such a degree, that it grew more in six weeks, than it had iu thirty years before. I applied one of my plaster' f.o the Cancer on Tuesday; on the ( 9 ) Friday' flowing, -the man brought the Cancer to jrne io hid pockefc, wrapped up in a paper. This, however, was not judged to be a Cancer, until it began in good earnest witii the oid gentleman; and this is the very thing which piv vents a eyre in Cancer cases. For, whilst the,, uni..f >v:u"d are flattered into a belief, that Canceroiv; cj-st'.s aw i i u-ai>'ij,'so long they will rem in without a cure. I do ifi$ vish to be understood that I think, that. ev*,-ry war; • i-)pU:, mole,'or scab, that is to b/. Ujui i 0J? iK-°3te» VVI'' terminate in Cancers—but mv m.eaniiu; ii oimpi.'y this : lU.it for the future, peo- pv mign; umel'y. know the "difference betvveen common so e,-> and C meets, that they may no longer suffer the fatal consequences of neglect. The envious and the malicious, have charged mc with too much forwardness in my practice, particular- ly in Cancerous gises.. But th.e'canch.l, the honest and enlightenedphildnthiopist, who wishes for the happi- ness of his fellow-creatures, will never esteem me the worse for perseverance and zeal in my profession. I have often been obliged to use considerable persuasion to.convince people they were not a'ffocted ".villi Cancers.. when they imagined they were so. I;might have had the honor of curing two Cancer casssto one, hid Ibeen fond of.a name. I ence found a man in my travels, wb.o had been under a doctor's care five months, who was a'protes^ed Cancer doctor. Tl.lt doctor told him, that he was covered with Caocers, when, in fact the man never was affected with one ; he had nine honey-comb, or ant-bed sores upon his f .ce, and a large one upon his thigh. These sores I took out of the man with ease. AInde of Treating a Cancer case.—'This disease is said by some, to baffle all the boasted powers of medicine. O-hcr.-i there'are who say, that there has been no cer- tain remedy as yet found out for Cancers. I believe it is a disease that has baffled the boasted skill and pow- ers vf quacks and impostors, and ever \vill bafHe their. B3- C "10 ) Reader, I here disclose tA you, an unparalleled rem- • edy for thy malady, which if rightly and timely applied, will scatter a scirrhus or scrofulas tumor :— Make a poultice of yellew dock root; the bark of bitter-sweet root and garden carrots, scrape them fine ; simmer them three hours in fresh butter, and apply this poultice. You may also anoint with this ointment for a hard tumor. This ointment cannot be made too strong. Whilst the patient is making use of this exter- nal application, they must make a syrup of the follow- ing vegetables:—Take four ounces of the bark of bit* ter-sweet root; four ounces of the outside of yellow dock root; six ounces of red clover root; six ounces of garden carrots; four ounces of red clover heads (cut when full of honey), and^he pound of sarsaparilla root. This comppundis for two quarts of syrup. Sweeten this syrup with cane molasses, and drink as the consti- tution will bear; in some cases, I have given three wine glasses in a day. The patient must be put upon the use of the sicuta pills, beginning with a small dose at first, and so increase the dose. I have given from two. to six of these pills, which are about the size of a small pea ; if the tumor should not appear to be yield- ing to this mode of treatment, when persisted in one month, then apply a plaster of the quicksilver itch-oint- ment. If this application will not scatter the swelling, or tumor, strict examination should now be made, in order to know whether this swelling is a Cancerous tumor, a burst vessel or fcrtery, called an aneurism.— One of these burst vessels may easily be known, by a pulsive motion, which may be felt by the finger. It is a dangerous thing to open one of these swellings, either with n knife, or-by the application of costic. If, after examination, the tumor or swelling should prove to be of the Cancerous kind, another attempt may be made, to scatter or rot it, by bringing it-to a head. For tht« P'.n-pose, apply a-poultice n.ade of the tops of sicuta, culled garden hemiock ; then try a plaster of tbo ex- / ") tract of the same. If the tumor should still prove ob- stinate, the next thing to be done, is to fracture, cross or scarify the skin which covers the tumor, and lay on one of the easiest of the verdigris plasters, The frog ointment must now be made use of, in or/ler t» prevent inflammation. These plasters must be applied, as of- ten as the strength and constitution of the patient will admit. If the strongest of the verdigris plasters should not prove powerful enough, try the strongest vitriol plaster, then the arsenic plaster, and last of all, apply the mercurius sublimate plaster. If this should not do, sprinkle on it a little of the sublimate powders, and then drop on enough of the spirits of turpentine to wet the powders. This application will penetrate, kill, extir- pate or extract, all kinds of tumors, and every particle of dead, proud, fungous or false fl-^sh upon man or beast. A young robust patient, will probably endure one of those mercurius sublimate plasters, but old people and children cannot; therefore they must be humored, with a light application. A patient that is full of blood, ought to be bled previous to any other application. The use of the sicuta pills and syrups, must be continued for the space of two or three months, excepting it) cases of females; when the female patient is exhausted by an immoderate evacuation of the menses, she must drink sparingly, or none at all of the syrup. Female* are usually attended with this difficulty, in a c^se of the Cancer. I never was over eight weeks, in effecting a cure up- on a patient in a Cancer case. The reader will fi id, by experience, how to proceed in a case of this kind ; as the sensations are quicker in one part of the body, than the other, the applications must not be made faster than the inflammation can be got out, so as to let the patient rest at night. A great part of the inflammation, which naturally attend the use of one of these plasters, may be prevented, by a constant use of the frog ointment,, whilst the hard plaster is yet on. In order to get out * '2 > all the swellmf? or inflammation, after the Cancer pfa4* rer is taken off, so as to make it discharge well, that the dead part iriay drop or be cut out, so as to br in readiness for another hard plaster. The precious oint- ment is one good app'icatlon for this ptrr£»se ; the sim- ple leaden piaster is another, which t make use of ;--- the comb of a hornet's nest, made into a poultice with- rihii, will take out tae i.iflttn OF THE HOOPING-COUGH. The Hooping-Cough is a well known disease amon^ children; and it often proves fatal* I shall only pre- scribe medicine for this complaint:—For a child,, six, eight or ten years pld, divide one of my common pukes int» eight parts, and give a potion every third morning, also, a small tea-spoonful of my phthisic drops, eve- ry morning. If the child is like to be suffocated hy phlegm, give it from four, to ten drops of the red ce- nter oil, dropped on loaf sugar. This mode of treat- ment, is a sudden and sovereign remedy, for the Hoop- ingjCough. OF THE ITCli. The Itch is an infectious disease, or, as termed by some, an Israelitish curse. Neatness and cleanliness,' is said by some authors, to prevent the Itch. I chuse rather to say, that carefulness would prevent it. I have given directions in the Appendix, how \x> prepare two kinds of Itch-Ointment; and you must be careful, and keep yourself clean, in curing this disp-Yder. Care must also be taken, in shifting your linen, before the ointment is applied. Sulphur and.molasses, must be made use of, to drive out the Itch. One ounce of this ointment, is sufficient for an adult The red-precipi- tate ointment, is far preferable to the quicksiver oint- ment, to cure the dry Iuh. TjT" - OF THE JAUNDICE, There are two distinct kinds of Jaundice/. One of which, is, when the Lite, or gall on the liver, is too large, by being obstructed. The other kind of J«iun* .'•fine, is an involun'.arv discharge ef the gad or 'i1.^ ' r ( is- ) Causes,"-Whatever cause or occasion a stagnation of blood, produce the common Jaundice. Some times, however, a gall-stone may occasion this kind of Jaun- dice.* The hidden Juandice, is occasioned by a weak and thin state of the blood; let it proceed from what cause it may. Symptoms.—-The symptoms of the former case, arc a dead, dull, stupid, careless, sleepy, indifferent and sunken feeling ; want of appetite and a poor digestion.':: Mode «f Treatment.—Let the patient take a potion oh- IBe imperial Jaundice physic, eech morning, for three* daysf then make use of the stimulating Jaundice bit- ters : Put one ounce of these bitters, into three pints, or two quarts of good rum ; drink half a glass, at once, three times a day. The hidden Jaundice, which is oc- casioned by a thin state of «he blood, ought to be hand- led with care. Pukes must never be given in this casew All kinds of'heating and stimulating medicine, ought carefully to be avoided. A yolk of an egg, beat into one gill of cold spring wa'.er, and taken every morn- ing, is good. The patient must drink barley coffee, and chore-late, in the room of strong teas. All kinds ,oi hot diet, or such *s is hard of digestion, should be c-: efully avoided. The patient must make constant usv of the restorative syrups, sweetened with loaf-su- gjir. If those medicines should occasion a fever in the blood, he must use cooling syrups. If a female, jn the latter case, the wine-bitters will be useful. (*■) OF THE KING'S EVIL. The King's Evil, is what some people call the Scrophula. This disease usually effects the glands of the neck and face, and will often seat.in the.breasts of women. It often puts on the appearance of a Cancer. Mode of Treatment .—I have always had success in .ue attempts I have made, in scattering the King's Xvh—and this I have done, by the same mode of treat " i 15 )> ment I made use of, in trying to scatter the cancerous tumors. I never had occasion to open one of those scrofulous sw*Hinjgs in all my practice : neither did I ever have one of "them break or ulcerate, whilst under my care. When 1 found them ulcerated, 1 treated them as I would any open ulcerated Cancer.' If this disease had cut off any small veins, so as to form a weeping pipe or lube, as is sometimes the case, I in ■ ject warm water, impregnated with the corroiive sub- limate. This injection must be made often, and suffi- ciently strong to kill every part of the'pipe, and after .it has run a few days, I inject a strong application, ■made of the bark of sweet appletree root, the bark off bitter-sweet-root, and garden sage, tinctured with a little gum myrrh. Sometimes I have- cured those1 small pipes, when formed about the neck,' with" my minera: water only, without any other application. This disease often proves fatal. I once saw a wo- man, who was sixty years old, who had one of her breasts entirely consumed with the King's Evil. ~(lT of the leprosy. The Leprosy -appears to be a skin complaint only, although by some, it is called the scorbutic or scurvy. I conclude that there is a great difference between the land-scurvy and the leprosy. Symptoms.—The Leprosy may be known from the salt-rheum, although it resembles this disorder in this country, more than any other skin complaint. It gen- erally begins with small watry pimples, and as it spreads, it flats down into a sort of scale or brand. It is attended with an intense itching, and'sometimes forms ulcer-sores. Method of Cure.—This watry fluid or humor, must be all drove out on the skin, and then killed with out- ward applications. The patient must make a syrup 65 the Canada thistle-root, and of the star-thistle root.***- - ( £0 ) Whilst uponthe use of this syrup, they *iusL.drin%. as much as a giilof the stimulating bitters every day, and as the complaint is thrown out on the skin, the pa- tient must make use of the precipes ointment and frog-ointment—the royal vegetable ointment, is another application—to which you must add one ounce of the ■* red precipitate, to one pound of the vegetable ointment. With these meclicines the patient must take some of the sicuta pills. This case must be attended to for three months,, if the constitution will admit. After . this, h • must make use of the restorative syrup, whfeh -y viiJ eventually effect a cure. ~w~ . OF THE MEASLES. The Measles is an infectious disease, which is catch- ing, and is common to children; but few escape it, till old age. This disease may be known by the following *ympt • its: A pain in the head and hack; hot and cold shivering turns; dull drowsiness ; watry swollen eyes ; .1 fretful and peevish mind, and a hacking cough ; and about the fourth or fifth day after tfcese symptoms be- gin, the patient oughi to break out with small eruptions, similar to those of a flea bite. Mode of Treatmctii.—.When the symptoms come on, give the patient one or two putions of the female, or German pills; and be careful that he is not kept too warm, This is more dangerous than hot medicine.— Make him a syrup of cocoash-root; pool-root, called Indian snake-ret; New-England ger. sen-root, and saf- fron. Let the patient drink freely of this syrup, until the eruptions are out, unless a fever threatens—if so, give hina a cooling syrup. When they appear to be upon what is called the turn, give another potion of the pills, and continue the use of the first syrup, in order to keep the symptoms out upon the skin, as long as possible; after ti>e turn., administer t«.\ diet. This ( 21 ) "has been my mode of treatment in the Measles, and I never hud the misfortune to loose a patient in this case. InT" OF NERVOUS COMPLAINTS. A Nervous Complaint, is a complicated chronical companion of mL»e. The causes of this complaint are u'iiioii as numerous as the symptoms, and the symp- toms inci.j le alt kinds of hypochondriacal and hysteri- ca! nffections. An 1 to these symptoms may be added, pftiten and conceit. In order to effect a radical cure, the cauj. or causes must be first sought after, and re- ii'.oyi-d,. if possible. When the loss of friends is the cause, the case is desperate. But the loss of property may possibly he recovered, and t*.e patient restored.— Wiien this disorder is brought upon the patient by bad habits, the first step he must take, is to refrain from them. If heats and colds ; intense studies ; excessive venery; drunkenness and the like, be the cause, it would be easy to remove some of them. Mide of Treatment—and Method <]f Cure.—When the nerves and musc.'es have lost tlieir action, there is a want of action in the whole system. The first medi- cine to be administered in this case, is a puke, to cleanse the stomach, and then physic, to cleanse the bowels ;-— then put the patient upon the use of bracing and restor- itive medicine, among which, brandy and loaf sugar, ta- ken in small doses. Light and easy vegetable diet, a6 mentioned in the Appendix, will be proper. Riding exercise, and daily diversion, is very good in Nervous complaints. I shall be more particular upon this com* plaint, in my directions to females. lo!T OF THE OMOROSUS oa NIGHT-MARE. A stagnation, or thick and size state of the blood, 13 the caijse of this complaint. And for want of a reguj C2 Jar action or motion of the auricles, called the ear9 of the* heart. All that is necessary to be donfe in this case, is to quicken and excite a general action, in the whole mass of blood. OF THE PLEURISY. The Pleurisy is a disease seated upon a double mem- brane, which covers all the inward cavity of the tho- rax. The; fever runs high upon, the intercostal mus- cles, repeated stitches in the side, and difficulty of breathing. When the patient is first seized'with this disorder, if in a full habit of bLod, letting of blood is necessary. Then give twelve drops of the oil of caliment and pen- nyroyal. If this should not ease the patient, or raise a fever, give twelve drops of the oildf red cedar. In case a settled fever should threaten the patient, make a syrup of cooling vegetables, as directed in the Appen- dix. Apply a bag of boiled oats, when boiling throw in some vinegar and Sirit, and then apply it to the side —repeat the application of the oats—soak the feet in- warm water, and then add drafts of the leaden plaster, to the soals of the feet. Let the patient drink some of the stimulating bitters, to repeat bleeding, in order to prevent a fever, is not so useful, as the use of the cooling syrup, provided a good share of thistle-root is put into it. If the patient is in a costive habit of body, when first taken with the complaint, give nine or ten of the German pills. IqT OF THE QUINSY; In a case of the Quinsy, give the patient one point of strongsyrup, made of the root of the cpieen of the mea- dow. Then-give one potion of the German pills, also; make a poultice for the out-side of the throat, with the ( 25 ) comb of a hornet's rest. Prepare this poultice \tith rum, on the coals—apply them warm, once in half an hour. Let the patient take a tea-spoonful at or.ve, of the best red cedar oil. In a few minutes after he has .taken the oil, give a table-soootiful of frog-ointment.— Another excellent poultice for this complaint, is a dog's white excrements and hon-y—pound the excrements, and mix it with the hont*y, then apply it as the other poultice, on the outside of the throat. OF RHEUMATIC COMPLAINTS. The Rheumatism is said by some, to resemble the gout, and so.iv-- say there are two kinds of Rheumatic- complaints, distinguished by the acute and chronic. I have read authors on the subject, which mentioned eighteen different causes for the Rheumatism. I have known children, who had been delicately brought up, rnd never put to hardships in their lives, entirely ruin- ed by this complaint; so that we see, that heats, cold* and hardships, on persons who are exposed to them, are not the only sufferers with the Rheumatism. This cumplamiis oftentimes brought upon people in an un- known and mysterious manner: others are taken vt y sudden, and become cripptes in twelve hours—others will seem to be as well as usual at nipht, and in t4ve morning be afflicted with what is called the acute Rheu- matism, which is sail to resemble the gout. In an at- tack of this kind, it requires a skilful hand, to rcl'r •©- them. The patient ought to be bled immediately.— This will prevent both the inflammation and swelling. But if this should be neglected until the path nt is swol- len, and begins to be inflamed, he ought then to be bled* if he has blood to spare, if not, g f it care ought to be used, lest it terminate in the dropsy. In this case, the patient must take physic, and be fomented, over a large kettle or tub, three nights, after this fbmeotation the ( 24 ) limbs must be wrapt in mullen leaves, with the sun- -side next to the skin—this must be done each night .if- ter fomenting, and the patient put into a warm bed — Bii5»ering the legs, also, may be necessary, if there should be a witry swelling left in them. To prevent this, give the patient a syrap made of diuretic vegeta- bles— vhis will prevent him from falling into the drop- sy. Tiesc vegetables must be of the same kind as in the case of the dropsy. Symptoms.—The symptoms of the Chronic Rheuma- tism, are hardiy perceivable at first—yet the patient will be complaining by turns of pains—sometimes in one part of the body, and sometimes in another—some- times in the arms, then in the legs—sometimes in the knees, then in the shoulders, neck and head—then in the 3tomach, as the patient will express himself. These pain? are felt in a variety of ways. Sometimes a dart- ing, shooting, shifting and flying pain—sometimes the patient complains as if arrows were running through the marrow of his bones—sometimes it will stiffen a limb or joint, so that tire person cannot suffer a sudden movement of the limb, without complaining ; after alt these painful sensations of the body, the complaint takes its seat in tlK joints, and upon the ligaments and mus- cles that cover the joints. In some patients, the joints will grovv largj3, soft and sore : In others, there will be a sudden contraction. In case of contraction, every ra- tional person must know that a part of the nerves, liga- meats and muscles, must stretch beyond their common length, in consequence of the others being shrunk.— In this way some have had their joints almost disloca- ted, and others quite dislocated. When a person has gone through all those operations in this complaint, it is hard curing this disorder. Was I to have the care of all persons unfortunately a^ued with this disease, and take it in proper time, I flitter myself I could effect radical cures. B"t wJien they have.fallen into unskilful hands, and the disorder C 25;*)- becomes dangerous, they must suffer the consequen- ces. Many exertions have been- made, and experi- ments tried, both in ancient and modern days, by doc- tors and others, to recover people in this disease, to the- use of their limbs, without effect. I shall now proceed to state some facts, in respect to myself, in this disease: In order to recover the use of my limb? and health, which were in a deplorable state—I quit all kinds of la- bor, anu commenced travelling on horseback. At this rime, I lived on the highest diet, the country afforded. I let blood twice a year—made blood as fast as I let it —was careful not to be out in storms and evening airs, which are prejudicial to health. In this way I raised the state of my blood—gained flesh and strength so that I have Wlvelhed a thousand miles on foot, in one sea- son. The way and manner in whi?h I effected this cure on myself, was as follows:—The first real relief which I found, w&o by fomenting the extreme parts and sweating with mullen leaves. This mode of treat- ment, excN 1 action, and took all the watry swelling out of the limbs. Then I applied the genuine British oil and the cure-all plasters, to the joints, from which I received great benefit. A-ftar this, I commenced trav- elling, as above observed. Since that time, I haVe ap- p'ied the nerve ointment, from which I have found re- markable'relief. I have kept my blood in as thin and rapid a circulation as I could, and have strength to pur- sue my calling in life. I,made uae of the German pills to cleanse my stomach—when I found my blood too low, would take a potion of the imperial jaundice phy- tic, and generally kept some of my stimulating bitters, wet in good rum, of which I made frequent use, I also made great use of the restorative syiup. In this way of proceeding, I have recovered my health, so that I ;i!H as comfortable as most men, as to bodily health. (.26.) (S.) OF THE SALT RHEUM. The Salt Rheum is a skin complaint, and may be said with propriety, to be a constitutional or hereditary taint, and which appears confined to the female sex. It attacks the female at any period of life, and there are but few who are so fortunafe as to get a radical cure. This is an inflamed* watry fluid, or fluxion of hu- mors, and although this of itself is a hot humor. I nev- er could drive it out to the skin, with any other but hot medipinc. Girls and young women, are easier cu- red, than those who are advanced in age. Mode of Treatment—Let the patient thus afflicted, take one ounce of the stimulating bitters, put into two quarts of good rum ; drink half a glass at on^p, three time a day. Whtfct using these bitters, make a sy .- up of the Canada and bull-thistle roots, and every third morning, let the patient take a potion of tbe stcuta pills —when this humor makes it appearance on the sur- ■ face, then apply the precious ointment. This oint- ment is of an attracting nature, and will assist the other medicine in effecting a cure. The frog ointment, also, must be used, to quell the rage of the disorder, if it should be thrown out rapidly. ATew potions of the sicuta pills, taken when the humor is out, afflicting the patient, and a little of the royal vegetable oint. ■ .nt out- wardly applied, will give present relief. But, there must be half an ounce of the red precipitate, added to one pound of the ointment. Three months is little time enough, to effect a cure for the Salt Rheum. TtT OF THE TOOTH-ACH. As painful, troublesome and provoking, as the Tooth- Ach is, I suffer no one to pull a tooth out of my head. For my part, I live by eating and drinking, therefore, 1 ( 27 ) am unwilling to part with my teeth ;.besides, some peo- ple bleed to death, when their teeth are pulled. Method of Cure.—Take one drachm of the corrosive sublimate, put it into half an ounce of the spirits of tur- pentine—after standing one week, cut a straw or quill, sharp, and with-the same put this application into the hollow of the tooth, covering the tooth at the same time with lint. This is better than cold iron, luT OF ULCERS. As there are a variety of Ulcers and soars, it will be difficult-to point out all the different symptoms, which attend Ulcers. This is a difficulty which seven- eighths of mankind meet with. If we could form a proper judgment of what they are, as soon as they form in the flesh, we should be in a ready way to cure them. Causes.—The first, cause of Ulcers, to be taken no- tice of in children and young people, is a bad state of the blood ; with thu they are born into the world. Ul- cers, however, may be in consequence of hurts, bruises and wounds. They are often.the effects of.a bad and sudden cold, especially in young women. Sometimes it is in consequence of bad colds and wrong treatment, in child-bed sicknos*. Old people are subject to Ul- cers, who have ruined their blood, by heats, colds and hard drinking. VENEREAL diseases, are another powerful cause of Uicers. Symptoms.—-I observed in the case of cancers, that seres would degenerate into Ulcers, and Ulcers into cancers. I here further remark, that new wounds and sores, ought not to be neglected till they become old. Some Ulcers at thsir first appearance, are nothing more than a pimple, which will in a short time begin to eat| waste, consume and absorb the fl; sh. I have had pa->- tieuts, afflicted with Ulcers, brought to me one hun- dred and thirty miles. One man who had eighteen Ul- (.28 ) x.ev si^s, between his knee and ancle. This leg was four inches larger by measure, than his other. This cure I effected, by fomenting the limb three Digits suc- cessively ; which took the sweling entirely out of the leg, and prepared it for a seccnd application—after- "n wards 1 applied my easiest cancer plasters, which kil* led the nature of the sores and set them limning.-»- *:£ Then the cure-all plaster and precious ointment, cured the wound. Another kind of Ulcer has the appearance of a bile at first. These are sometimes a year and a half in coming, before they will ulcerate themselves— aregenerally painful, and when they break, or are open- ed, they make rapid progress if not properly handled. . Ulcers of this kind, when they form in the groin, com- monly discharge copiously, and the discharge is of a cankerous nature. Some imagine these sores cannot be Sealed sound, with safety—but I never found any difficulty in curing them, and I presume there is none, if they are rightly attend to. The first and best appli- cation for these Ulcers, is my verdigris and vitriol plas- ter.-.—the second I make use of, is a poultice of the cat-taii flag root, pounded and prepared in scum-milk. This poultice will take out the inflammation. Then apply the simple leaden piaster, which will cleanse the Ulcer, and prepare it for healing, unless some of the veins should be cut off—If there is, put a few grains of the corrosive sublimate, into warm water, aud inject it into the pipe—this will cleanse it to the bottom. Then syringe with a liquid application, made of the bark of bitter-sweet root—sweet apple-tree root and garden sage. After which, apply the cure-all plaster. This will heal up the Ulcer, and prevent proud or fungous flesh rising. There is another kind of Ulcers, which I have, met with in my practice, the bottom and sides of which, ap- pear tolae hard and callous. In such cases the limb must be fomented two or three nights-*-this will excite action in the limb. Then apply the roercurus cancer V( 29 ) piaster. This will kill and Cleanse the Ulcer. Theft applylhe simple leaden plaster for a short time, after whi$h, the cure-all salve. The precious ointment is of great use, also, in healing up these old Ulcer sores. In case there should a great degree of heat, or inflamma- tion, lurking near those Ulcers, whilst the cure is at- tempted, you must oifrt the whole limb, with the fed precipitate ointnjent; likewise, carrot poultice, is ano- other excellent application in such cases. Another ap- plication I make use of, is my mineral water, mention- ed in the Appendix. It will be proper for the patient to make use of a light diet, to avoid salt, sour and greasy diet, and ardent spirits. 1 If any should object against the use of the above- menticned applications, through fear, that their present rase was of a cancerous kind, I answer all such objec- tions, by saying, there is ro cancer, cancerous tumor, scirrhus or scrofulous swelling, that ought to be open- ed with a caustic, but what this application will open j aeither is there any kind of Ulcers but what those plas- ters will kill the nature of, and put them in a fair way to be cured, nor is there any proud, false, fungous or dead flesh, upon man or beast, but what these Cancer f-lasters will destroy. Ivo" OF THE VERTIGO. This is a complaint, but not a disease ; it is only the * effect of diseases*—a giddiness, dizziness and svim- ming of the head. It is sometimes owing to i. loaded tlomach—sometimes too much weight of blood for the *trength*of the nerves—sometimes it is tor the want of blood. The former, or '.i.-st cause of thi, complaint, may be removed by dealing or cleansing the s'toro.. h —the second, by Ktting of blo.-.d—the third may b«. re- moved by making blood, and by the use of the'restora- tive medicine. D < 30 ) (W.) OF WORMS. There is but three kinds of Worms, which I shall . mention at this time. The first, is a long white tape Worm, full of joints: The second, is along round "Worm, and the third is a short round Worm. These are called in Latin} the taenia teres and the ascarides. The tape Worm, is a Worm that may be killed in the following manflter:—Give the patient a puke.— There is no danger of hurting the patient by puking. Follow the puke, with a heavy potion of the imperial physic, then give the patient the following dose :■■■ Take two ounces of the root of the wild flower deluce, dug in the month of April; add to it, when pounded fine, half a pint of the highest proof French brandy.— Let the patient drink the whole of this, in two hours. After which, make use of the imperial physic, in order to pass the Worms. This flower deluce, is termed by some, the blue flag root—-the green root in the month of April, would be preferable to the dry. For the long round Worm, I generally give a small child, the false tongue of a coll. It may be given in powders, in sugar or in herb drink. This is the best medicine which I am master of, for fits in children. When these Worms are small, in young children, the filings of. pewter, are a good medicine, given in small doses. For older children and adults, make use of the wandering milk-weed, called the Indian hemp root, an- other medicine, is the jaundice physic, to which you must add the blue flag root, pulverized. For the short round, or fine pin Worm, as some call fhem, which trouble people in the rectum, and cause a disagreeable itching about the seat, give an injection of strong tobacco, followed with a heavy potion of thejaun- dice physic, which will always kill them. (31 J FURTHER DISEASES, WHICH ARE NOT ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGBIf, OF DURNS AND SCALD3. . SCALDS and Burns* are what people in general are acquainted with. In a bad recent Burn, if the patient is full of blood, let blood the first thing; then apply tho precious ointment; after this, give a potion of physic. Let the patient carefully observe the mode of applying this ointment. Melt the ointment in a plate or platter, and draw a thin Irish linen colth through the ointment, and apply it once in half an hour, or once an "hour at the longe'st, until the fire is attracted. Then dress the Wound twice a day with the ointment, spread on dry cloth. Should the sore run too freely, apply a plaster of the royal vegetable ointment, every other day. This will stop the discharge, and heal equally as fast. This is 11 that is necessary to be done, for a recent Scald or Burn. These ointments, never were yet equalled by any>> preparation. It is equally as good, for the salt rheum, and leprosy ; and will prevent people poisoning them- selves in meadows, if put on morning and evening. It will alsq cure after external poison, if applied soon. of the st. anthony's fire. People in the prime of life, and when on the decline, are most subject to this disease. All parts of the body are subject to this complaint. The neck, face and arras, are tho parts on which it most commonly makes its appearance. Bleeding is proper in tie first symp* toms, if the case will admit. About the fifth, seventh and ninth days, it will turn in their favor, or terminate in a fever. Alode of Treatment.—Cooling physic, is proper in this complaint. If the symptoms of a fever run high, a cooling syrup must be made with cooliDg vegetables. For an outward application, take the royal vegetable- ointment, for which it was fust prepared ; oint all the parts affected with it; wrap them up in bats of scorch- ed tow, covered with rye meal, or with the cups and blows of the B >bbin plantain. If this should not cor- rect fast enough, add half an ounce of red precipitate, to one pound of the ointment. The sicuta pills are • the most sovereign remedy, to eradicate this disease. or the i;eat of the nvF.n. When the heat or inflammation is seated upon the upper or convex part cf the liver, the patient is often- times led to think, they haye got the asthma, for thcy are generally troubled with a difficulty of breathing, a thy cough, feveriand great heat in the back. The di- rect way for a patient to get relief in this complaint, is to foment the feet and legs three or four times, and biveat'wvih nrullun leaves, by wrapping them up in the !»aves ;, after sweeting, then put drafts upon the soals of the f<*et, i>*id a piaster between the shoulders, made of the leaden piaster. ' ^;or present and momentary re- lief, the patictit may take eight or ten drops of the red cedar oil at once, on a lump of sugar. A cooling fyrup also, must be made for the patient, with an addition of the diuretic vegetables in it. v or THE FALLING-SICKNESS FITS. The Falling-Sicknes 1 Us, are brought upon people .;v two opposite p:'nciples : over-heating and surfeiting the blood, whish'in a full habit of blood. The other by debility. In this case, ti?e blood must be about all drawn off, and a new mas* of blood, made in its room. Thia L\iU3t be done by the use of the restorative syrup. OF THE DYSENTERY. The Dysentery is'a disease so well known, I need say but little abovt it; ar.d a remedy e.t this day, is at- ( S3 ) i most universally known. For I have endeavored to spread the knowledge of the only sovereign remedy, which I have made use of for about eight year3 past. It is generally known to be a hurtful thing, to stop the Dysentery too soon. I commonly give a potion or two, of the German pills—then I effect a cure with a simple root, called by the Indians, weaker, by the Eng- lish it is called, slippery root, quidk-up and none-so- pretty. This is a wandering root, and bears a purple blow, with a silk pod, about the length and size of a darn-needle. This root ought to be dug early in the Spring. Take t;ie out-side part of the root, puiit into cold water and simmer it on coais, till it becomes like starcji. If it boils, it will: destroy the use of the medi- cine :—Take a table-spoonful once in an hour,' for half a day—it ought to be put into Malaga wine, in some delicate cases. HONEY-COMB., OR ANT-BED SORE9. I shall not describe the causes of these sores. The symptoms are such, that many take them to be rose cancers ; they make rapid progress when they begin. Previous to their breaking out, the patient experience! pains, similar to the Rheumatic, and when they pre- sent themselves, they resemble the fungous part of a rose cancer, and are spungy. They will bleed at the slighest touch. -These sores may be killed, by the application of the cancer plasters. Latterly, I have found an easier cure for these sores, which is the royal vegetable caustic, it may be found late in the fall season, underneath an old bed of wild turnips. They are a small turnip which extract all their powers from the old turnips. When these are drted and pulverized, they make the easiest caustic that ever was applied to the flesh. These pow- ders will kill all honey-comb sores, and all proud, false or fungous flesh in any sore whatever. I have killed all the fungous part of a rose cancer, with these powr- C- 34 ; aers. These sores must be taken all out, before a tti- al is made to heal. OF FEVER SORES. A fever sore is generally the effect of agues. When the first symptoms of these sores are perceived, they ought to be scattered. If they are not scattered till a swelling and inflammation begins, then let the patient apply a poultice, made of cat-tail flag rooti pounded fine in a mortar, and put in scum-milk. I Vepare your poul- tice with this on the fire ; wrap the limb or part affect- ed, all up with Ihese poultices, three times a day, until it is ripe and fit to openj*or break itself. This sore must have a quick and sudden discharge- Continue the poultice twenty-four hours, then add a few grains of the corrosive sublimate to a little warm water, and syr- inge out the sore twice a day. Care must be u^ed in regard to the strength of this application. Continue this application no longer than while the sore is cleans- ed; then you must inject a liquid application, made of the bark of the following roots:—Sweet apple tree— bitter-sweet—witch hpbble, called moose-bush—sumac, generally pronounced, shumake, and garden sage; boil them powerfully, and strain out the liquor, then add to half a pint of this preparation, half an ounce of gum myrrh, made fine. Let this application be syringed in twice a day, till the wound is completely healed. If there is a chance for the application of plasters, apply che simple leaden plabter, \>o long as you would wish to keep it running, or at least as long as you syringe in the first application ; after this, use the cure-all plaster and precious ointment. In.all cases of this kind, through the whole opera- ion, care must be taken to prevent a contraction of the limbs. To prevent th'.s, let the limb be ointed twice a •.lay, v, rathe frog ointment, This will prevent both she fever and the contraction of the nerve3. If this -node of treatmen* was strictly attended to, in *( 3i J handling; fever sores, there would no,t be so many old fever sores badly healed. In some of these cases, I have made use of the nerve ointment, to prevent con traction of the nerves, after the sores were healed, then apply my cure-all strengthening plaster, to complete the cure. OF THE CHOLERA MORBUS. I shall now describe ihe causes and symptoms of thi- disease. It being a dangeious one, unless rightly and * properly treated. Causes.-— When the bile so exceeds in quantity, the acrimonious matter, so as Vo irritate the bowels and stc- •mach, the following symptoms will take place :—The stomach and bowels will eject it, both upwards and downwards, of green, yel'uw and blackish master; the patient compluins of a pain at the pit of the stomach rnui a griping pain in the bowels. This complaint must be humored according to the first symptoms. If the patient is first taken with pu- king, it must be promoted. For this purpose, give the patient one of those pukes, a3 directed in the Appen- dix. After the puke has operated, give him a strong rlecoction made of the root of the queen of the meadow ; this will turn his sickness and prepare the stomach and bowels for a purge; then give him a potion of the Ger- man pills. If this should not relieve him, give a po- tion of the powdered physic. If a fever threatens, give a cooling syrup. Aftc." the cause appears to he remo- ved, check and brace up the bowels, with the same kind of root, as directed in the cure for the dysentery, OF THE CATARRH IN THE HEAD. The symptoms of this complaint, are a dryness the wax in the ears, with a degree of deafness; a hoi ''low sound of the voice; a dizziness in the head, when silting up at a late hour of the eight; a sudden drojs- ( 36 ) •ping from the head into the mouth and throat, of a cold disagree ible matter. . Mode of Treatment.—Let the patient thus afflicted, smoke in"a clay pipe, the bark of the root of white rose willow ; he must also make use of head physic. 1 ake white pine touch-wood; blood root, and the root of the wandering wilk-weed; pound them fine and sift it in a fine sieve ; keep them separate, and then make use of them as snuff. This is the best r/smedy I know of for the Catarrh. This disease, in its fir%t stages, might easily be removed, by sweating the head with hops and vinegar, and by the use of the remedy for deafness. OF THE PILES. This complaint must be cured among the rest. Thi* disease is seated in the rectum, or end gut; when this disease is1 caused by the gravel, and the gravel is cured, this complaint is cured also—but when they proceed from other causes. If a bloody discharge follows the patient, it most commonly proceeds from what is call- ed the hwnoorhoidal vessels—this is what is termed the bleeding Piles. There is no danger in stopping this operation of the Piles. An injection made of the stip- tic for the nose-bleed, will cure them. But the patient must take two or three potions of the German pills, and at the same time, whilst upon the use of these pills, use an injection of frog ointment. In a case of the painful and Win J Piles, the patient dreads going to stool—sometimes stinking ulcers will discharge, whilst at stool. In this case the patient must lay one of the leaden plasters on his back, as low as can be worn, and a cooling syrup must be used, for the space of one week. Then take one potion of the im- perial physic, and four of the balsamic pills a-day, as lirge as a pea, for one week; after which, mix as much sulphur as the size of the pill, with the Germ in pills, and take them every other morning, for two weeks. Sometimes I have cured the Piles with a syrup made oil the queen of the meadow—arch-angel weed, and a five weed, called moon weed. If these medicines fail, use an injection made of^blood root and' hard root, call- ed ox balm ; but this injection must be followed in two hours, with an injection of the green frog ointment. In a case of the opening Piles, when the gut sags or presents itself, the patient must then wear a cure-all plaster on his back, and if inflamed, the inflammation may be taken out, by the use of a poultice made of the qomb of an hornet's^nest, prepared with rum—apply- ing repeatedlj*tiu the inflammation is out, then use an " injection made, of the inside part of fir-balsam baik. and ■ the Lvluof sumac ; add o little of gum myrrh to this injection. The patent should live upon solid diet, and if in a costive-habit, use ..rhubarb for physic. Should the disease continue obstinate, let the patient take red * bush-beans—dry them.in a kettle over a moderate fire, until they are dry enough.to pound fine—take the flour. ; of these beans, and with a cloth push the rectum-back" to its place. OF THE CANKER-RASH. This disease is called by some, the ulcerated sore throat. It may with propriety be so called, if it con- sinues until it forms sores and breaks. The greatest danger in this complaint, is of its seating in the head :..vl throat. To prevent this, let the patient's head and throat, he repeatedly bathed with vinegar and salt.— Give a potion of the cooling physic, in the first stage of the complaint. After Ibis, physic will be improper,. until the complaint appears to be settling below the stomach, then physic with the imperial physic. Fol- low the first physic with a strong decoction of the queen of the meadow root—to this syrup, add the root of the mash rose-merry—the mountain flax root—birth, or benjamin root. Make these roots fine, and steep them strong in the above syrup. Administer this medicine as hot and as often as the pitient c;n tore. W ( 38 ) Vinegar and salt, also, are an excellent intern«l me-. dicine for this complaint. HOW TO CtTRE DEAFNESS. Take a large onion, bore ten holes, two thiitls thro' it, with a double-ten gimblet: Fill the holes full of rat- tle-snakes grease—roast the onion upon a fire shovel, until the grease begins to run through the onion, then squeace out the oil and juice, and preserve them to- gether. Drop one, two or three drops, at once, into- the ear. AN INFALLIBLE CURE FOR CORNS. Take'simple blood root, pound and make a poultice af it, in its own juice—apply this poultice untilthe corn will peal off. This root ought to be uSed early in the spring, or late in the falfc j ( ™ ) ADVICE TO FEMALES. OF FF.MALE DISEASES. MODESTY, decency and delicacy* now call for a polite mode of expressions. That I may not disgust the female sex, in the following dissertation, and as use- ful .knowledge, is my present object, I shall here at- tempt to.please the learned lady, with her favorite mode of expression, and endeavor to answer the minds of the more illiterate part of the sex. A few words of precaution to the experienced part of the sex: Those oftyou who have experienced.youth and old age, know hoth by experience and common observation, that your girls will, or ought to begin to menstruate, from the age of twelve, to sixteen. At this period of life, much is depending on their economy, in order to future health—and as those periodical evacuations are conducive to health—and necessary, without which, health cannot be enjoyed—therefore, the care, caution, advice and restraint, of all those women who have the managementof promising youths, are highly necessa- ry at this period of life. A few symptoms here exhibited, may be useful to the inexperienced:—When there is a struggle with nature between right and wrong, there will bp a sense of heat, weight, a dull pain in the loins ; a distention;of parts; hardness and fulness of the breasts; want of ap- petite : lassitude feelings; sometimes a paleness of countenance, and then a lively flash and sense of,fever, with painful head-achs. When the above mentioned symptoms are experi- enced, it would be wisdom in every young woman to assist nature, instead of obstructing it by imprudence. Now as there is an essential difference, between the growth of country girls, and those of the sea-ports :— Females in the country, n:ay expect those seasons of t 40. ) • 'iifc, years sooner than those of sea-ports—who rather require restorative and strengthening medicines to as- sist their growth, th3n forcible medicine. Advice to country maidens, who are hale and robust: Take one potion of the female pills at night; the next morning take ten drops of the oil of calimint and pen- _» ny royal in spirits; the oils of w'inter-green, pepper- mint and wild horse-mint, are of the same nature and action, only inferior. If the struggle with nature still continues, let the patient take a potion of the hot pow- dered physic; or make a strong syrup of the bitter- sweet root—yellow dock root—cocoash root and the root of the wandering milk-weed, called Indian hemp root—if these medicines are not at hand, the patient may make use of the stimulating bitters'wet in good -rum—these perhaps will answer every purposes-drafts of the leaden plaster must be applied to the soals of the feet. This mode of treatment will answer every pur- pose in case of a toial obstruction' of the menses, ex cepting in a State of pregnancy. It would then be dan- gerous. When the menstrual discharge is too copious, or a retention thereunto. In such a case it requires not only care, art, skill and aid of a physician—but it requires the care and prudence of the patient herself in all such cases. The patient must be put upon the use of wine bitters made of the following ingredients :. *».. Take one ounce of deer's horn, killed aad cured wher in the velvet—one ounce of red cohush root—one ounc-j of mountain-rock-weed root, cs'.'ed by some spleen wort—one ounce of black birch bark—one ounce of ro- sin—four ounces of loaf sugar—half an ounce of cinna- mon bark—one ounce of spice root and one nutmeg.— Scorch the nutmeg and deer's horn—pound all these ingredients fine—put them into two quarts of Malaga wine—let the patient thus afflicted drink as they car. bear without raisirg a fever. Some will drink thre; glasses a day—others cannot bear more than one gla*;.- A.nother delicate ensr or complaint of thi?. •>'-:• '"~v X 41 ) whioh a remedy is wanted, is the fluor albus, or uterltfe flux, which is a discharge from the womb—called the whites. This is a common disease amongst women, and is extremely hurtful, to those of delicate constitu- tions. The symptoms of this discharge will alteri increase anddimimsh, ir not cured. This disease may be corrected, by addhsg to those wine bitters, a plant called head-bituiny, and the bark of the root of the large sort of sumac. The patient may make use of water-feresses—she must make her a conserve ot corophrey roots, of the large sort of white Solomon's seal root, and the inside part of bog onion root, called bucks-horn polly-pod ; pound them in a mortar with loaf sugar and honey, and eat them raw. A patient in this situation, must ahstaih from drinking all kinds of stiong tea, and make use of chocolate and barley coffee as a substitv-.e. A tea made of black birch bark, is also good—one of the cure-all strengthening plasters, must be applied to'the weak part of the back. All hot, dri- ving and relaxing herbs and medicine, must be avoided —worm-wood, tansy and morther-wort, are injurious in such a case. Abortion, is another difficulty to which pregnant wo- men are exposed. To prevent this, let females be care- ful of forming an erroneous judgment, from one month to another ; for by these mistakes many bring this trou- ble upon themselves. When a keen sensibility of the above mendoned difficulty is experienced by the patient, if in a full habit, blood must be let from the arm, and a ^rengthening plaster applied to the back. A patient in a weak and relaxed state, of a delicate constitution, instead of bleeding, must use bracing and *treugthcning "medicine, such as the restorative syrup, and one of the plasters, applied to h* back. In case of unusual sick- ness in the first state of pregnancy, the patient will find groat relief from a syrup made of the queen of the mea>- dVv—drink enough of this, to torn the sicknU., ro/ r.c more, i's it is of a relaxing naturev ( *2 ) I will mention one more essential medicine. To all females, especially to midVives, in case of an extraor- dinary or uncommon Xcemoorhage, after delivery. To prevent such a sudden death, let midwives and all other women, keep by them a root, by the name of red co- hush. This root ought to he dug in the spring—but to prevent a fatal mistake, it will be best to digit when the berry is red and ripe-—it resembles another kind so much, that the mistake would be dangerous in this \ case. This root may be administered by steeping it in water, but it is best to be taken in Malaga wine—it ought to be prepared before hand. Let the patient ex- posed to this danger, drink a glass of this, a few min- utes before delivery. Afterwards as occasion may re- quire. If there is a want of a regular evacuation at any time after delivery, by reason of colds, or any other causes, the patient ought to be sweat over a general foment, as directed in the Appendix. If the patient'is unable to undergo'this operation, apply an onion poultice, prepa- red with Indian meal, with the same water in which they are boiled—apply this poultice at the bottom of the bowels, undl they find relief. In case of an increase of arterial action, which may be known by high pulse, the patient ought to be bled in the arm. I observe further, that all lying-in women, ought to make use of the female or German pills, as they are the most agreeable physic in such cases. Another difficulty attending females, is when they are upon the turn of life. No certain period oMifc, ever-was, or ever can be fixed upon. When this shall take place—this being a dangerous and critical period of life, with females, unless properly attended to. I shall now describe the symptoms, and prescribe a re- medy. Symptoms.—Those symptoms commonly come on gradually—a sense of heat in the whole system—burn- ing in the hands and feet, with a sudden struggle often- t ft ) times for breath, accompanied with a flash of Keat, a» rising towards the upper extremities, similar to a flash of the northern lights;; which generally terminates in a sweat, and forces itself suddenly through the skin. When these symptpins are experienced by any wo- man, let her. age be as it may, she may take it fr>r grant- ed, that bleeding'in the arm, (when the sign is in the feet), is requisite. If the patient is full of blood, repeat bleeding severaliimes at the same period. Let the pa- tient drink freely of a cooling syrup, as directed in the Appeofl]xr for several-,months, "Rnd if necessary, make ifs'r- of the restorative syrup. To the cooling syrup, must be"added, some of the diuretic vegetables, as men tioned in case of the dropsy. APPENDIX. OF OINTMENTS* ^ How to make two sorts of Infallible Itch-Ointtne?i!. JL AKE one pound of fresh butter, mix one ounce o£» red-precipitate with the butter, then set it on the coals —simmer it ten, minutes, then add one ounce and a half of the spirits of turpentine—stir it till cold. Ditto Ointment.—Take one ounce of quicksilver- one ounce and a half of the spirits of nitre of fortis; put them into a brown earthen bowl, stir it on the coals till the quicksilver disappears, or is;dissolved ; then take it off, and add one pound of hogs fat which has beep jneft- ed and got partly cold—stir it till cold. , * How to make Prcciout Ointment. Take salt butter, beeswax, hogs-fat, sweet-oil, hon- eVi mutton-tallow, rosin, of each one pound—molasses one gin—brown sugartwo ounces—balsam of fir one ounce. Put all into ah iron kettle—set it on hard wood coals, separate from blaze—stirit until it incorpoii^s —then increase your fire, and stir it until it separater. When the dross has done rising and begins to settle, then try the dross on a clean board. If b,ittle, like ro- sin, take it off, and when the dross is all settled, drain off your ointment, and it is fit for use. How to prepare the Royal Vegetable Ointment. Take any quantity of the cups and blows of a plant, called robbins planting, pound them well iu a mortar--- put them into a stew-pan and cause them to swim in fieaii butter—sinuiwr them half a day. This ointment .C 45 ) must be squeezed through a common cloth, witn me hand, and then secured froai air. How to prepare the Red Precipitate Oiitttnent. Take one ounce of the precipitate, and mix it well in half a pound T)f fresh fyogs-fat—secure this in boxes. "' How to make Green Frog-Ointment, July and August, is the best time to make this oint- ment. ^Catch green frogs, stun them, and put them into a stew-pan—add their own weight of fresh butter- stew them on coals half a day, with coals on the lid of the pan, and be careful not to burn it. Put this oint- ment into glass vessels. OF OILS. How to extract the Oil of Red-Cedar. Take a six gallon iron pot, prepare a cover or lid made of sheet-iron, made dishing, with a hole in the centre, about the siz ■ of a double-ten gimblet. The lid must enclose the top of the pot most completely.— Then saw the red-cedar timber, sucb as will split free i of a suitable length to come just even with the top of the pot, without interrupting the lid. Split the timber about half an inch square—set the splinters up end- ways in the pot, beginning in the centre. I common- ly bind the first with a twine string, then fill up the sides With shorter pieces; drive in as many as Lean without' splitting the pot. Dig a hole, the size of the pot, in the ground, in a free soil, not a dry or sto- ny soil. Turn the pot bottom upwards into the place now prepared wkh a tin pint underthe hole of the lid, to catch the oil. Fill in loose dirt around the, pot ;— kmdte a fire of lurd wood chips upon the bottom of the pot Increase your fire for about two hours. A still ( *6 > ame without wind, is the best. To extract this oil, much is depending upon a good" judgment, to get it without burning of it. A dry sticfcwf-this timber will produce more oil than a green one. If one inch of the end of the splinters, next to the lid o£ the pot is not burned, your oil is good. To ascertain the knowledge of this, care must be taken to uncover the pot, immedi- ately after it is taken out of the ground. How to extract the Oil of Calamint and Pennyroyal. These oils are obtained by hand-stills--. Cut these plants in the morning, when in full bloom, and still them together, after they have lain twenty-four hours ; force your still, if you wish to get all of the oil. Take this oil off of the water with a feather, put it into a phi- al, with a brad gimblet hole in the cork, by which means you may separate the water from the oil, when turned bottom upwards. How to extract the Oil of PeppermiiU and wild Horsemint. These are both put together, and extracted in the same way and manner, as the last beforementioned. The Oil of Winter-green, is an excellent oil, but cannot be obtained by hand-stills; therefore, I shall on* Jy make mention of the use of it. How to make the simple Leaden Piaster. Tata: half a pint of the green olive oil, called sweet mil—put it into a new earthen mug, that is well leaded, then add two ounces of the best of castile soap, cut fine and set it on cods. When the soap and oil is in- corporated, then add one ounce and an half of red lead, and as much white lead. Sift these leads fine, and then make them as much finer as you can with a case-knife upon a spaoothe board. Put them- in, and be careful e 4* ) (hat it dont run over. Stir and temper it with the dih and leads, until it comes to the consistency of a plaster, and will adheretooth to your finger and a board on which you must try it. . - How to make the Cure-alt Plaster. '£ Take linseed oil and neats-foot oil, of each one gill- put the oil into a new stone or earthen mug—boil it on ■coab> til! all the water is boiled out—then add one ounce and an half of camphor cut fine—then add one ounce -and an half of clear gum myrrh made fine—be careful that it does not boil over—then add one pound of rosin pounded fine—when melted, add two ounces of red lead—two ounces of white lead, sifted and made as fine as possible. You* must boil these ingredients, and tem- per them with the oils and leads, till it will adhere closely to your finger or a board, on which you must drop it, in order to cool and try. How to prepare four sorts of Cancer Plaster** First, the Mercurius. 2d, the Arsenic. $d, the Vitriol. 4th, the Verdigris : 1st. The completion of the mercurius plaster, \4 ef- fected by adding to one ounce.of the vmple leaden plas- ter, from one drachm to eight, which makes ounce for ounce, of the corrosive sublimate of mercury. The completion of the second, is in like manner :— Add from one drachm to eight of the white arsenic, te one ounce of the leaden plaster. " The completion of the third, is effected by adding from one drachm to eight of white vitriol, to one ounce of the leaden plaster. The completion of the fourth,.is effected by aiding from one drachm to eight of verdigris, to one ounce of the leaden plaster. I wish to be understood, by the ad- dition of drachms, if one drachm of these powders, add- ed to an ounce of the leaden plaster, should not be ( 48 ^ atrong enough, add the second and third, and so on till the eight drachms are added, as the urgency of the case may require. Each one of these ingredients must be made fine, previous to being added to the leaden plas- ter. Hoio to make a Black Vegetable Salve for Wounds. . Take spikenard root, the bark of sweet appletree root, the bark of moose bush root, called by some witch- hobble—the bark of wickuppe reot, called by some leath- er-bark or moose-wood. Take an equal quantity of these barks, boil them two days ; then strain off the liquor, and boil it down to a small quantity ; then add yellow pine turpentine, enough to make it into the con- sistency of a salve, when boild down This is a noted' salve for fresh wounds, especially where the cords or nerves are cut off. In such a case greasy ointments never ought to be applied. How to prepare a Puke. lake of the crude salammoniac, about the size of a pea, make it fine, then add as much of the emet- ic tarter ; put these into one common table spoonfull of water and the same quantity of vinegar. This puke must be taken, a tea-spoonfull once in half an hour or an hour, as occasion may require, until the stomach is thoroughly cleansed. In some cases one half or the whole of it may be taken at once. The action of this puke may be turned down, in one minute, in case it should prove injurious by puking too much, by drinking one gill or three glasses of boiled water, as soon as it can be drank after having been boiled. How to prepare the Female, or German Pill. Take one ounce of the best kind of gum aloes; one eunce of rhubarb ; one ounce and an half of the cream of tartar; one ounce of the imported pressed saffron., •r an ounce and an half of common saffron i one ouuee r*9 > . and an halfbf sena ; one ounce and an half of aniseseedf and one ounce of rosin. Take half a pint of cane mo- lasses, put into, a new earthen mug ; when boiling hot add the rosin ; when melted add the aloes , then the rhubarb, then the cream of tartar ; then take it off and stir in theanise.seed.; sena ; and saffron ; the ingredi- ents must be pounded and sifted fine.—From four to nine is a ^pption, about the size of a pea. How ::■ make the Balsamic Pill. i' 4 Take one ounce of hemlock gum ; one ounce of gum-myrrh ; one ounce of the balsam effir ; half an ounce of.gum camphor ; half an ounce of the spirits of turpentine—one ounce of rosin ; one ounce of balm of gillead buds ; and two ounces of loaf sugar.—These must all be pounded together in an iron mortar with a crumb of bread, uoUl they come to the consistency of a pill.—Take from one to four. How to make the Imperial, or Jaundice Physic—or Blask and Liquid Physic. Take one pound of white ash bark; one pound of white pine bark clear of ross; one pound of the bark of butter- nut roots ; one pound of black cherry tree bark ; one pound of green mandrake roots, or half a pound when dried, these roots must be of the bearing kind, that bear mandrakes. Boil them.all together one whole day; then str.dn out the bark and let it settle all night :----. then drain it off and boil it down to one pint; then add one pint of good rum, and half a pint of cane molassvs, aud it is fit for use. Half an ounce of this physic is enough for any constitution, and less for weaker ones. N. B. The Jaundice Pill, for conveniency of carry- ing about, may be madi, by reducing a part of too a- bove physic, almost to the consistency of a pill, and adding one ounce of the imported jallup, to'two auus*3 ( 50 ) of the physic.—A potion- of these pills, are from eigut to sixteen. Hazo to prepare the hot Powdered Physic. Take two ounces of succotrine aloes—two drachms of cinnamon bark; gum myrrh one ounce ; grains of paradise half an ounce; cloves two drachms ; mace two drach ms; castor one drachm ;. half an ounce of im- ported saffron; one ounce of fine ginger. Pulverise this compound all together, and coik it up in a phial until it is fit for use. A large tea-spoonful, is a potion. * f for an adult person. How to make the Siatta,,or Hemlock PiH. Take the first growth when it is well grovrfn, or ihe old before it blows—cut it up in the morning—poand it well—boillt one day, as the strength boils out, dip- out the liquor, and boil it dovrn whilst the other is boil- ing. On the morning following, strain the liquor and boi* it down to the consistency of a pill. This prepa- ration must be strictly attended to, till it is in a pill, or it «ill take hurt. It must be kept in a tight box.— These pills must be taken, from two to six, the size of a small pea. How to prepare the Phthisic Drops. The vegetables which compose these drops, present themselves for use, about the last of July, and first of7 ' August, and ought to be prepared at that season of the year. Take half a pound of garden File ; one pound of garden colts-foot; one pound of the tops and blows of purple vervain; half a pound of green tobacco leaves ; half a pound of hyssop; one pound of horehound ; one pour.d of arsesinaft ; half a. pound of the oak of Jerusa- lem ; half a pound of elecampane root, and half a pound of s>veet-sicily root. Th^se ingredients ought to be gounded in an iron murur, and, boiled in a pot twelve C 51 ) :.-,.. .:^-V ' hours; then throw out the herbs and put in half a pound of mountain rdck-weed root, called spleen wort root; then add four ounces of liquorice-stick; then add two ounces of the black sehacal snake root: then add two ounces of anhe-seed, and boil them down to one quart. Then strain and boil it down to one pint; then add one ounce of refined liquorice ; half a pound of loaf , sugar; half a pound of honey; now add half a pound of humble-bees honey, if it can be-procu; ^d. Much is Hk-^Uepending upon the humble-bees honey, to clarify the drops. These drops will not stay in earthen, wood or (glass vessels, while they are in their fermentation.— These drops must be confined or corked tight in a tin 'vessel, after which, add one ounce of red cedar oil. A compound for a General, Foment. Take wormwood and roman wormwood ; tansy ; cat- nip: mother-wort: may-weed: purple vervain: arse- smart: mullen leaves: burdock'leaves: ground hem- lock and common hemlock. These must be boiled three or four hours, in a suitable pot or kettle, before they will be fit for use. How to prepare a Mineral Water. Take two ounces of the spirits of turpentine—add to them one ounce and an half of the gum of camphor- then take one pound of letharidge of gold, made fine— put h into one pint of keen vjnegar-simmer it fifteen minutes, then add a pint of water—sirrfmer it as much longer—then add the camphor and spiiits--then add one ounce of the sugar of lead. It is theh fit for use. How to compound a class bf Vegetables, for Cooling Syrup. Take cold-wort--maiden-hair-dog-grass, called chic- ken-grass roots—wire-grass, called bnll-rushes—noble liver-wort—the dead, or smooth-nettle—the roots of , ■ ( S3 ) J i v.i.ite nettle—Canada-thistle and the btar-lhistle root% called the bull thistle. How topr pare the Restor&tive Syrup. Take one pound of spikenard roots—cne pound of aarsaparilla roots—one pound of v hite aolcmon seal • roots—one pound of the barren or. male wild hop roots __one pound of burdock root8--4iW fa pound of the bark ^ -of the roots of sweet elder—and four ounces of black -W birch bark. Wash these roots clean, pqtind them aiW £k boil them half a day. You must not scum it, strain -,^1 it, nor suffer it to run over : Drain it off and settle *. _ ► "This compouml b fdr two quarts-of syrup : add to this •* ■ half a piht of good rum and half a pint of cane molas- ses. If it proves too physical sweeten it with loaf sugar. instead of molasses. How to prepare the Stimulative or Jaundice Bittdra. * Take ginshang—colts-foot-snake root—wild turnip*- blood root—gold-thread root—Indian-hemp root, called wandering milk weed root—horse-raddish root-- coco- ash root—White ash bark—round wood, or witch wood bark—black cherry tree bark—the bark of prickle ash root—the bark of sassafras root—princes pina called rumety weed—saffron—the bark of dog ackeme called by the Indians ozier : of each four ounces, when dry pound tmd sift this compound through a common sieve. One ounce of these bitters will prepare three pints or two quarts of rum for. medicine. N. B. The last of April and the first of May, is the best season of the year, to collect this compound. How to make the Aervc Ointment. Take one ounce and a half of the essential oil of am- her—one ounceanda half c-f the spirits of f/" JV. £.—I observe that the ingredients for the impe- rial physic, ought to be procured at the full of the moon in April, if the bark will run, if not, next full moon af- ter, and prepared at the same time. • The mandrake roots are not to be found east of the Green Mountains, in the state of Vermont—but west jO of that, they are very plenty. They are a powerful fl physic of themselves. A tea-spoonful dried,t is a po- ™ tion for an adult. The hurse-gensen and hard root, are not to be found east of said mountain, wnich is used in case of thegnavel. The top of the hard root, resembles the artichoke the root, is as hard as? the white oak root, resembling a humble-bee's nest, of a knoty shape. The top cf the horse-gensen. which is used in the same medicine, re- sembles the queen of the meadow, but the roots are larger and blacker, and are commonly found on high lands, and the queen of the meadow, on the lowland. ^ 1 observe further, that the round or witch-wood, which the Indians caH moose-misse, resembles the pois- on dog-wood, in its growth. The taste and smell of the §*': \vitch-wood,*is like ..the -black cherry ; the form of the / berries are like the sweet elder berries, and red when ripe.' The form of the dog-wood berries, are like the berries of the common sumac. Another observation concerning the sicuta plant.— This is an old country cultivated plant, and may be rids- '/ ed in any part of this country. A poultice made of this plant, or a plaster of the extract, will rot and ripen any common sore, where matter is collecting, the easiest and quickest of any application. I observe to all who are afflicted with the dry asthma, that they cannot, with propriety, expect a radical cure, Lut great relief may be expected, from my prescrip- tions .. ( 55 ) Observations with respecit* Vegetables. Those vegetables which possess an emetic powefj are following :—The simple blood root is one, and the lobelia, is another. They arc both powerful pukes.— The latter is a dangerous one, the action of which can- not be stopped. This is a more dangerous and hurt- ful puke, than the ipecacuanha. The garden rue, is another good puke. Another valuable and safe puke also, which I can re- * commend, is what some people call the morning flow- er. This plant is natural to, or commonly grows on pine plains* and is what I term, the flowet of the plains. It seldom grows more than twelve inches high—it has a small sage-coloured leaf—a long white blow, some- what resembling t^e big end of a tin tiumpet. This may be taken in vinegar and water, or in water only.— It may also be powdered, and taken in sugar or me- Hisses. 3ftnt£.