Wit. -JOHN WILLIAMS:
              LAST

      LEGACY;
              <*R,
         THE USEFUL
FAMILY  HERBAL.
      FIFTH EDITION.



JBRIFFIXCS PRESS-MTTLE-FALLS, X. Y.
     PRINTED FOR THE VENDER.
1829. 
PREFACE.
  THE author of  this little book  bos a desire to leave
something for the good of  bis fellow cre;iture9,  tad  being
sensible of soon retiring from time,  and seeing no other op-
portunity to benefit the rising generation, hopes it will  be
kindly received,—being a true  and  faithful statement of
eanh Medicine and Cure.—It 1ms  been carefully minuted
according to his own knowledge, and not from hearsay.—
Hi- has endeavored  to state the true nature and virtue of
each vegetable ; and they may  be used  with the greatest
safety  and advantage,            JOHN WILLIAMS. 
HERBAL.
                 1.  For the King's Evil.
   The King's Evil may be cured by a plant called Kh;gV
?".vil Weed.   It grows  in  wild shady land, under almost
all kinds of timber, and in the form of a plantain, but the
Ln\fsare  smaller,  and are spotted, green and white—a
very beautiful plant.  When it  goes to seed, there comes
up one stalk  in the middle of the plant, six or eight inches
high, and bears the seed on the top of  the stalk in a small
round bud.
  Take this, root and branch, pound it  soft, apply it to the
tumour for a poultice or salve, and let  the patient drink a
tea made of the same for constant drink.  If the tumour is
broken, simmer the  root and leaf in sweet oil and mutton
tallow ; strain it off*, and add  to it beeswax and rosin until
hard enough  for salve.   Wash the  sore with  liquor made
of the herb boiled, and  apply the salve, and it will not fail
of a cure.
       2.  The best remedy for Rattles in Children.
  Take blood root,  powder it, give tbe patient a small tea
spoonful at a dose ;  if the first does not break the bladder
in half  an hour,  repeat again three times.  This has not
been known to fail curing.
        3.   Valuable remedy for the Bilious ChoKc.
  Take of West  India rum, one gill, of West India molas-
ses, do., of hogs' lard, one gill, and the urine of a beast, one
gill; simmer them  well together.   This  composition will
seldom fail of performing an effectual cure for life.
                    4.   For a Febn.
  Blue flag root and wild  turnip root,  a handful of each,
stewed in half a pint of hog's lard—strain it off—add to it
four spoonfuls of  tar, and  simmer them together.  Apply
this ointment to the felon till it breaks.   Add beeswax and
rosin  to the ointment for a  salve to dress it with after it  h
broken.  This is  an infallible cure without losing a joint 
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                5.  for the  Salt Rheum
  Take swamp sassafras bark, boil it in water very strong
fake some of  the water and wash the part affected ; to the
Remainder of the water add hogs' lard, and simmer it over a
moderate fire till the water is  gone.   Oint the part affected
after washing; continued four days, it  never fails of a
cure.
                  6.   Salve for a Burn.
  Take wild lavender, the green of elder bark, camomile
and parsley, and stew  them in fresh butter ; strain off, and
add to  it beeswax, rosin and white, diacalon, equal parts.—
If a burn is  of long  time standing, ami  discharges very
much,  take mutton suet before it is tried, pound it up with
chalk to the consistence of salve.   This cures the most in-
veterate old sores of the kind.
  7.   The bat Salve for women's sore breasts  ever found.
  Take one pound of tobacco, one pound  spikenard, half a
pound  cur.ifrey, and boil them in three quarts  chamber lye
till  altnoit dry ; squeeze out the juice, add  to it pitch and
beeswax, and simmer  it over a moderate heat  to the consis-
tence of salve.  Apply it to the  part affected.
  8.   An Ointment to supple stiff joints and shrunk sinews.
  Take a pound of hogs' lard, put into it a small handful of
tneh'lat (or melilot) green, stew  it well  together, strain it
off, add to it one ounce rattle snake's grease, do. of olive oil,
and ten drops of oil lavender, mixed well together.   Oin4
'hree times a day, and rub it in well with  the hand.
       9.   Valuable cure for inveterate old Sore Legs.
  Take the bark  of cavron wood or shrub maple, boil it
very strong, take part of  the liquor and boil  it down to a
salve, and wash the part affected every time it is dressed.—
Apply  new salve  twice a day.  Make a tea  of  the same,
and drink three times  a day.
          10.   To cure the bite of a Rattle Snake.
  Take green hoarhound  tops,  pound them fine,  press out
the juice, let the patient drink a table spoonful of the juice,
morning,  noon, and night, or  three times in twenty-four
hours ; apply the  pounded herbs to the  bite, and change
them twice  a duy.  The  pubent  may drink  a spoonful of
iwQttoHve oil.  This 5- :l<U;n fails curing. 
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                       11.   Cure for the Itch.
        Taki- half a pound of hogs' lard, four ounces spirits tur-
      pentine,  two ounces flour sulphur, and mix them together
      cold ; apply it to the ancles, knees, wrists and elbows, and
      rub it on the palms of the hands, if there be any raw spots;
      apply a little three nights when going to bed.
             12.    The red salve for Swellings information-
        Take linseed  oil, one pound,  sweet oil or  fresh butter',
      half a pound, red lead, one pound, boil them  together, stir
      it boiling, then slack the heat  and add to  it two pounds of
      beeswax, one pound of rosin, and stir them together till cold.
                       13.  Footers Ointment.
        Take one pound of hogs' lard,  one pound of mutton tal-
      low, half a pound oil spike, and heat them over a moderate
«      lire until united ; then add as much  beeswax and rosin as
      will make  it to a salve,—the renowned Foote's Ointment.
      This cures all common sore  where  there is  no inflamma-
      tion.
            14.   A certain cure for Corns on the feet  or toes.
        Take white pine turpentine, spread a plaster, apply it to
      the corn, and It t it stay on till  it comes off itself.   Repeat
      this three times—it never fails curing.
             15.   A cure for Warts on any part of the body.
        Make a strong solution with corrosive sublimate, and wet
      the wart with it three or  four times a day—it never fails
      curing.
                 16.   An excellent Family Bilious Pill.
        This pill, made frequent use of, prevents all kinds of fe-
      vers.  Take one pound sweet rind aloes, four ounces jalap?
      four ounces pulverised  blood  root, two  ounces cloves and
      two ounces saffron, and beat them all to a fine powder; pill
      them with molasses—mix  them  well in a mortar.  The
      common way of using them is to take  every  night one, of
      the bigness of  a pea, if you  have a  bilious  habit; but if
      you wish them to act as r. physic, take four or  live on going
      to bed.  They give no pain in the operation.
             17.   For the Tooth-ache, if the tooth be holloxo.
         Take  gum opium, gum camphor, and spirits turpentine,
      equal parts, rub them in a mortar to a paste, dip lint in the
      paste and put it in the hollow of  the tooth every time afte%- 
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•filing.   Make use  of this three  or four days, Mid it wilt
 generally cure the teoth from ever aching.
                IS.   For the Bilious  Cholic
    Take the abovementioncd bilious pill, ;<dd to it ludf the
  weight  in calomel, give four or five pills  and repeat the
..<W, and  it is a certain  cure for the  bilious eho!i< .   Or
 lake'mandrake roots dried r^nd  pulverised: a  large tea-
. spoonful is a dose-  This iau.pt be repeated several tunes

        19.  A sure cure for the Canker in the mouih.
    Take  one pound  of fresh  butter, put it into an  earthen
-  vessel well glazed,  set it on the  (ire, and let  it boil; while
  boiling, add to it four common green frogs—put them in
  alive, let them stew until the frog*) are dry, then take them
 •out,  and add  to it  a  little camomile  and parsley ; when
  cold, stir in a little  burnt  alum,  pulverised,  and if the fe-       ,
  ver is high, give a little rattlesnake's gall, dried  in chalk.
' This will  cure'the most  inveterate canker  in the mouth,
  throat, or stomach.
            20.   A medicine to cure inward Ulcers.
    Take sassafras root bark, two ounces, coltsfoot root, two
•ounces,  blood-root,  one ounce, gum myrrh, one ounce, win-
  ter  bark,  one ounce,  Socotrine  aloes, one ounce; steep
  them in two quarts of spirits, and drink a small glass every
 .morning, fasting.
      21.   For Cramp  in the stomach, or any inward part.
    Take ten drops  of the oil of lavender on.sugar or in
 - wine.   Repeat the dose once an hour if required.
            22.  A cure for the Flying Rfteumatism.
     Take prince's pine tops, horse,radish, roofs, elecampane
  Wots, prickly ash bark, bitter-sweet bark off the root, wild
  cherry bark,  and mustard seed,—a small handful of  earh ;
  —one gill of tar water into, one pint of brandy, or the same
  proportion.   Drink a small glass before eating^ three times
  .a day.
  33. Valuable remedy for Wind Cholic in women and children.
     Take equal parts of ginseng and white root, half a9 much
  •calamus  or angelica, seeds, dry them, pound  them very-
  fine, and'mix them together;, a-tea-spoonful is a dose. Ay; "a
  {grow* persom-r-for cbildreu, less, accentingtoJtlieii: age.-^ 
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Repeat the dose once in half an hour, if required.   It rare-
ly ever fails.
                 24.  For a hectic Coutjh.
   Take three yolks of hens'  eggs, three spoonfuls of honey,
and one of  tar, b< at them well together,  and add  to them
one gill of wine.   Talie  a tea-spoonful  three times a day,
before eating.   Or a syrup made-of barley, turnips and el-
eea.npane ; boil them  in fair  water,  three  quarts to one
pint of barley, one pound of  turnips, four ounces of elecam-
pane ; boil it down  to one pint, and add  to it one pound cf
h'-.ri°y or loaf  sugar, and half a pint of brandy.   A table
spoonful  is a dose,  three times a day.   Or wild  liquorice,
half  a pound,  brook liverwort, fialf a pound, elecampane,
two ounces, Solomon's seal,  four  ounces, spikenard, half a.
pound, gumfire, four ounces, boiled in four quarts of water
to one ;  add to it two pounds of  honey and one pint of old
spirits.   Haifa glass is a dose before eating.
       25.   For the Erysipelas, or St. Anthony's Fire.
   Make  egg wine rich and good for drinking ; drink a part
of it, and wash the part affected with the other part.   This.
 is a valuable remedy.
           26.  Far the Rheumatism  in the loins.
   The oil of sassafras, used  internally and externally ; ten
 drops on loaf  sugar is  a dose.   Oint the part ailected  with
 the same   Repeat  it as often  as needful.   Or  sit  over
 hemlock boughs  .and  drink  poke berries in brandy for
 ftiree weeks every  day-  Only seat three times.  Or show-
 er with  cold water, and drink  brandy all  the time.  Or
 drink brandy,  and  bathe the part affected with salt and
 rum, hot as can be borne, by a fire.  Repeat it six days.
                    27.   For the Quinsy.
    Bleed under the tongue, in the  first stage of it,  and sweat
 the throat and neck with carduus, a thorny herb, growing
 i« gardens.   Boil it in milk and water, and  sweat power-
 fully three or four times.   This has not failed  in one in-
 stance to cure.
 28.   Remarkuble plaster to  ease the pain of febns, or frog
felons, or any such Tumour, on the hands or feet, or elsewhere.
    Get a pitch pine kqot  froni an old log, the side next to
 or jin the ground ; split the knot fine, boil out half a poiui<3( 
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of pitch ; take four ounces of strong tobacco, boil it 'in \vr.
ter, strain out the tobacco, boil  the  iquor until  it U :hiek,
then add the (■ tch to the liquor, simmer it over a moderate
h -at, and stir it all  the time till  it form a salve  altogetl., r
If the swelling be on the hand or finger, lay the pi isieron
the wrist;  if on the foot or toe, lay the plaster on the  an-
cle ; or wherever it may be, lay, it above the next joint.—
This will take out all the  pain in a short time.   Dress  the
sore with any other  salve that is best    This cure is infal-
lible.
                 29.  For the  Phthisic.
   Take four ounces of hens' fat, and a seed bowl of skunk
Cabbage, that grows at the bottom of  the leaves, elo.e to
(he ground, cut it fine, stew it in the fat till it is dry, then
strain it off.  A tea-spoonful is a dose to take thnc times a
day.  .Mike a syrup  of white swamp  honey-suckle blos-
soms and queen of the  meadow  roots, sweetened with hon-
ey ; add to it a quart of syrup, and half a pint of brandy.
                  30.  To cure a Hen.
   Take clean linen rags and burn them on a pewter dish,
gather the oil on the pewter with lint, and  cover the wen
with it twice a day.   Continue it for some time, and  the
wen will dropout without any further trouble.
         31.  An excellent remedy for the Asthma.
   Take spikenard root, two ounces,  sweet  flag root, two
ounces, elecampane root,  two ounces, common chalk, two
ounces;  heat very  fine in a mortar, add to it a pound of
hme \, and beat  it well together.   A tea-spoonful is a dose
three times a day.
           32.   Excellent pill for tlie Hysterics.
   Take a quantity  of  white root, otherwise called Canada
root—boil it in fair water—when it is boiled very  soft, strain
out the roots, and  boil the liquor  to the consistence of a
thick paste, so that it may be pilled.   Let the patient take
two or three pills at a dose when the disorder is coming on-
         33.  Cure for Bleeding at the Stomach.
   Take a pound  of yellow dock root,  dry  it thoroughly,
pound it fine, boil it in a quart of sweet milk, strain it off,
and drink a gill  three times a day.   Take  also a pill of
white pine turpentine every day to heal t^e vessels that
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                  34.   For the Dropsy.
  'fake half a pound of blue flag root, half a pound of ele^
campane  root, boiled  in  two gallons of  fair water to one
q'uart, sweetened with one pint of molasses.   Let the pas-
tient take half a gill three times a day, before eating.
               35.  For the Canker Rash.
  White  birch root,  pulverised very fine, given in small
doses three or four times a day-   Make a tea of the same,
for constant drink.   For the fever, give rattlesnake's gall,
three grains at a time.
          36.   For any Hemorrhage of the blood.
  Take a handful of blood weed—it grows in old fields, and
in called by some horsetail, or white top;  is about waist or
shoulder  high, one stalk from  the bottom, and  has a very
bushy top—when it is green, pound it, presss out the juice,
and give the patient a table spoonful at  a time, once  an
hour until it stops; if it be dry, boil it strong, and give tea,
very strong, three or four spoonfuls at a time-
     37.  Care for the Gravel in the bladder or kidneys.
  Make a strong tea  of the herb called   heart's ease, and
drink of it plentifully.   Or take the root cf Jacob's ladder,,
make a very strong tea, and drink freely : It is a most cer-
tain  remedy.  Jacob's ladder  is a vine that often grows m
rich  interval soil,  near a wood  or  bush  that  stands near
grass land.  It comes up with one stalk about breast high,
then springs off into a number  of  branches  covered with
green leaves, and the  fruit is a  large bunch of  black ber-
ries ; when ripe, the bunch hangs down under  the leaves
by a small stem.   This is proved  to  be the best cure that
has been found.
            38.    Valuable remedy for the Piles.
  If the piles are outward, make an ointment of camomile,
!*age, parsley and burdock, the leaves of each—simmer them
in fresh butter, or hogs' lard  and sweet oil.  Anoint the
parts with it, and drink tar watc, half a gill three times a
day.   But if they are inward, or blind piles, drink tar wa-
ter twice a day, and essence of fir every night going to bed,
half  a  small  glass.  This effects a  cure in about two
months.
     39.   For the Tooth-Ache, if the tooth be hollow.
  Put  into the hollow a piece of blue vitriol,  ^s much, as 
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 ■ !;e h..iiv'U wi'l contain.   Repeat it for several days, and it
 will kill the marrow-
     40.   For the common Canker in children or adults.
   Take canker root, or cold water root,—so called because
 ilvd with cold water,—wash the root, pound it, steep it in
 cold water,  wash the tumour  with it, and drink of it.—
 This  root grows  in rich soil, in  meadows, bv  fences,
 stumps or log heaps.  It comes up  with  a stalk from the
ground,  a yard or  two high, and  then branches out u-n
large.   Its leaf is like clover.   The top of  the root is yel-
 low as gold,  in  a bunch, then  branches  out  into mam
 fibre*, some like plantain.
              41.  For the Hooping Cough.
   A syrup made of elecampane root and honey,—four oun-
ces of the root to half a pint of honey.   Bake it in a well
glazed earthen pot, in an oven half hot.   If the root be
green, it needs no water; if dry, add half a pint of  water
A tea-spoonful of  the syrup for a small child, (add a little,
U" older,)  three times a day.
      42.  For Rickets in children—(in the bowels.)
   Oire, ounce  of rhubarb, powdered in one ounce of enee-
Tiniris, put into one quart of wine or brandy.  If a child is
a year old, it may take  a table spoonful at a time ; if old-
er, take more, to half  a gill for an adult.   If any part of
flie body  ii afi'eeted with the disorder, bathe the part with
brandy, and  drink turkey root, steeped  in  wine,  three o?
four times a day.
        43.    Sure remedy for women's Sore Nipples.
   W hen  the infant stops sucking, apply a plaster of balsafix
 fir.  it will cure in three or four days
    44.   Cure for it-ching heels or feet,  or ribbed heels.
   Take any kind of tallow,  and  tallow  the  part affected
with it,  and  rub it in by a hot  fire, :.t night, on going to
bed.   Repeat it three or four times.
    45.   Preservative against all sorts of bilious Fevers.
   The fulness of bile is the cause of all sorts of fevers,  and
jaundice, bilious cholie, an 1 cholera morbus.  Ph \ sic often
 with blood-root  and mandrake root  mixed together, once a
quarter,  -.md  ma.!<e small b er  with  ■. hier roots,  epruce
 boughs, burdock roots,  bops,  white ash burk, aaiviparim 
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eoots, and spikenard.  Make a bitter with unicorn rotN
and bark, white wild roots, and the yellow dust of hops.'—
If a family will continue  this method, they will never be
Troubled with fevers.
               46.   For  Convulsion Fits.
  Take convulsion roots, make a tea of them and drink, or
powder them and  take the powder in small doses.   Con-
vulsion  root grows in  timber land,   and comes up in July,
with a bunch of white stalks  about  six or eight  inches
high, with a little knob  on the top.   It has no leaves.—
The top and  root  are  for use.   The  root is a bunch of
small fibres, very numerous, and full of  little knobs about
the size  of mustard seed, and  they grow just under the
leaves.
               47.   For  the Consumption.
  Take half  a bushel of barley malt, put  it into  a large
tub, take six  pails of  water,  make it boil,  pour it  on the
malt, let it stand six hours, take half a bushel of white pine
bark, one pound spikenard roots,  one pound  Syria grass,
boil them in the water that the malt is soaked in,  half a-
way, then put it  into a keg, add yeast or emptyings to it,
let  it ferment, then bottle it up, and drink one pint a day.
            48.  For the  Quinsy in the throat.
   Sweat the  throat with spotted carduus boiled in milk and
water, by holding a pot of it under the throat as hot as can
be  borne, and hold some of  it in the mouth, and when the
swelling  is gone down,  wear a piece of black silk about
the neck constantly, and  it  will prevent the quinsy from
corning again.
         49.   For Swellings that come of themselves.
'   An ointment of alder tags and sugar of lead, simmered in
hogs' lard, and melilot and saflron, simmered all  together.
Strain off, and anoint  the part  affected; it will scatter the
swelling, if taken in time.   Give the patient something to
guard the stomach before ointing.
      50.  Excellent Poultice for old inveterate Sores-
   S'-rape yellow carrots,  wilt them on a pan or fire shovel,
very soft.  It takes out the inflammation and the swelling ;
and is an excellent poultice for a schirrous breast.
    51.   Excellent Medicine for inward Hurts or Ulcers.
   Take elecampane, cemfrey,  spikenard, masterwort, an- 
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 gehca, and ginseng roots, of each a pound; bough* of fa.
 fm> pounds; camomile, one pound ;—put them into a still
 with a gallon of rum and  two gallons of water ; draw off
 six quarts, drink a 6mall glass  night and morning.
 52.  Another excellent Essence, good for all sorts of inward
 weakness, inward fevers,  coughs, or pain in the side, stomachy
 or breast.
   Take twenty pounds of fir boughs, one pound of  spike-
 ard, four pounds of red  clover; put  them into a still with
 ten gallons of cider; draw off three gallons, and drink half
 a gill night and morning.
                 53.  For the Diabetes.
   Take a wether sheep's bladder, put it into a glass  bottle
 that will  hold about a quart, fill  it up with good Mndeira
 wj';e, and let it stand forty-eight  hours,  then drink three
or four times a day,  about half a gill at a time.   A dcei0?
 bladder is preferable.
              54.   For stoppage of Water.
   Take a spoonful  of honey bees, as much buds of cur-
 rant bushes, steep them in hot water very strong, and  drink
two  spoonfuls at a time every half hour.
                  55.   For Sore  Eyes.
   White vitriol, one tea-spoonful; sugar  of lead, one do.;
gun  powder, t--.o do. to one quart  of  fair water, mixed and
shook well together, six or eight  times.   Wash the eye^
three times a day—an infallible cure.
                  56.   For the Dropsy.
   Sassafras bark of the root, one pound ;  prickly ash bark,
one pound;  spice wood  bush,  half a  pound; three ounces
of garlics, four ounces of parsley roots, four ounces of horse
radish roots, four ounces of black birch bark—boil  all  in
three galions of malt beer.  Drink a  gill three times a day
57.  To stop a Fever Sore from coming to a head, and carra
                        it away.
   Sweat  it  with  flannel cloths dipt in  hot brine.   The
cloths must be changed as often as they are cold,  for three
 hours: then, washed in brandy and  wrapt  in flannel, re*
peat it three or four times.
                 58.   To stop Puking,
   Take gum camphor, pound it, pour  on boiling water, and 
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Set the patient drink-a spoonful every t<*n minutes.  It musl
be sweetened with loaf sugar.   Or take a handful of green
wheat, or green grass,  pound it, pour  a little water on it,
press out the juice, and let the patient drink a.spoonful
once in t-n-minutes.
                 59.   For the Lock-Jaw.
   When any person is taken with  the lock-jaw,  give him
live  grains of Dover'.-; powders ; then set him in a tub of
v. -.ter hot as he can bear it; bathe his h<vd with camphora-
ted spirits ;  let him sit or stand in  the  water as long as he
can  bear it without fainting, and bleed him if possible-
Repeat  this three or four times : when out  of  the water,
put hii/i  in a warm b'd, wrapped in flannel.
               60.  For the Numb Palsy.
   When a.person is taken with the numb palsy, let  blood
fre-ly if possible ; give a table spoonful of  Hour of sulphur
on-e an hour ; bathe the part affected with spirits of  harts-
b>ni; take one pound of roll brimstone, boil it in 4  quarts
of water to one quart;  let the patient drink a table spoon-
ful once  an  hour.   If applied early, it will  finally cure.
61.   To cure Vegetable Poison, running  ivy, poison elder, or
                       any other.
   Take rosemary leaves or bio-corns ; make  a tea of them
to drink  morn and night, like bchea tea or any other.  Oi
take  wild turnips;  if green, pound  them and press out the
juice; if dry, boil  them in fair water ; wash the part af-
fected with  the clear liquor.   Take part of the liquor, add
to it  a little saffron and camphor,  and drink, to cleanse the
fluids and guard the stomach.
   62.   Far the Spincvantosey, that comes in the In-cast.
   Take spikenard root, cumfrey root, yellow oak bark, and
tobacco; boil tlieni in water, strong;  take out some of the
liquor to wash the tumour; add  to the rest  hog's lard or
mutton tallow, beeswax and rosin ; simmer it over a slow
fire,  stir  it constantly until it  is salve, apply it to the sore,
and  physic with mandrake roots  three or four  times;  bleed
once.
              63.   To cure inward Ulcers.
   Sassafras  root bark, two ounces;  coltsfoot root, two oun-
ce-, blood-root,  two ounces; gum myrrh, one  ounce—'
steeped  in two quarts of spirits.  Drink a small glass eve;
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)•>• morning.  Live on simple diet as much ;is possible —
For constant drink, make a beer of barle\ malt, one peck ;
spikenard  root, two pounds; cumfrcy root,  one  pound;
burdock root,  two pounds; black  spruce  bou^l:.,,  live
pounds; angelica root, one pound ; fennel seed, four oun-
, (.,—for te:: gallons of beer.   Drink one quart a day.  Let
} our exercise be light.

            G4.  For the Cutanh in the head.
   Take yellow dock root, split  it and dry it in an <>\  n ;
blood-reot and scoke root, four ounces of each; cinnamon,
one ounce ;  cloves, half  an ounce—pound them very fine,
and let the patient use it as  snuff' eight or ten times a day.
l-.very night smoke a pipe full of cinnamon  mixed with a
little tobacco,  and  sweat the head with hemlock,  brandy,
and camphor.   Pour a little camphorated spirits and bran-
dy into the hot liquor to sweat.

          G5.  For an Inflammation of the head-
   Take red beets, pound them very  fine, press out some
of the  juice,  let the  patient snuff' some up  into the heed,
and make a poultice of the  beets, and lay it on the mould
of the head.  For the fever, use rattle-snake's gall, cream
tartar, and head  bitm y.  Bleed as often as once a da\  —
Phvsic with dcerwccil root, or wild mandrake root, with a
little blood-root.  Keep strong drafts to the feet.

         66.   To take a Film from a persuvi's (>;c.
   Take sugar of lead, make it very fine ; take an oat straw,
and cut it short, so as to  be hollow through ; dip the end of
the straw  in the powder, and  blow a little of it  into the
film morning  and ni:jht.  After the film  is almost  con-
sumed, apply  to it a drop of hens' fat once a day until it is
well.                    ,
        67.   To cure a Breach or Burst on the body.
   Take four or five snails,  that crawl  about  on  old rotten
 wood ; you may  often find  them under loose bark thai is
 moist, or on old logs or stumps.   Collect a parcel of them
 —enough  to cover the breach;  lay them on a linen cloth,
 bind them on, and repeat it as often as the snails  are dry.
 Let the patient drink turkey root, cinnamon, cloves and
 maize, made  in  a tea,  or  steeped  in wine, three or four
 times a day.   This, well attended to, wi.l perform a enre. 
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08".  To cure a Scfiirmns Jaw, or Swelled Face, or the Scup*
                 vy in the mouth or teeth.
  Take prince's pine and  scurvy grass, boil them in water,
add to  it rum and  honey, hold  it in the mouth as hot as it
can be borne, and  boil a large quantity of the herbs, and
sweat the head over it.
    69.   Receipt to make  the best Turlington's Balsam.
   This balsam of life  is a most excellent medicine in conr
sumptive  complaints, and  also for weakly females in all sta-
ges of  lift*.  For a  fevery stomach, let the patient take 13
or 14 drops in a small glass of wine in the morning, fasting.
It strengthens the stomach, and kills the fever.  It is good
for pain in the stomach or side, nourishes weak lungs, and
helps a small  hooping cough.  This balsam is made thus:
—gum benzoin,  four ounces ;  gum storax callimtee, three
ounces; balsam Tolu, one ounce;  gum  aloes  Socotrine,
one and a half ounces ; gum albanum, one and a half oun-
ces ; gum myrrh, one aud  a  half ounces; angelica root,
two ounces; Johnswort top3, two ounces.   Pound all these
together,  put them into  three pints  of rectified spirits of
wine  in a j,lass bottle, let  them stand in the spirits four
weeks in  a  moderate  heat, and shake them once a day—
then strain it off, and  it is fit for use: if the gums are not
all dissolved, add a little more spirits to the same ;  shake it
and let it stand as before.

70.    For a Relaxation of the Gut or Fundament in children.
   Break  two or three  hens' eggs, part the white from the
 yolk,  take the yolks and  put tliem into a frying pan wash-
ed clean  from grease,  set them over a slow fire, let them
 stand  awhile, then turn them over and  squeeze them until
 the oil comes out.  Be careful  not to-burn them.   Collect
 the oil, anoint  the gut when it is down, then  boil an egg
 very hard, let it be whole, and whilst it is warm wrap it in
 a linen cloth, and bind it on the fundament after you have
 put up the gut.
         71.  For the  common Phthisic in children.
   Take four ounces of Seneca snake root, four ounces of
 spikenard, four ounces of parsley root, and two ounces of
liquorice stick—boil them all together in four quarts of wa-
ter ; strain it off, sweeten with loaf sugar or honey, and let
the patient drink a small  glass  night and morning. 
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        72.   For a Shrunk Sinew or a Stiff J,int.
   Half an ounce of yellow basilicon, half an ounce of grecti
mclilot, half an ounce of oil amber, and a piece of blue vit-
riol as big as a chestnut;—simmer them together to a salvo
or ointment, and apply it to the part affected, and the joint
above.  Repeat it often and it will perform a cure.
                73.  For the Rheumatism.
   Take a handful of prince's pine, a liandful of  horse-rad-
ish roots,  elecampane  roots, prickly ash bark,  bittersweet
root bark, wild cherry bark, mustard seed, and a pint of tar
water, put into two  quarts of brandy.   Drink a small glass
every morning, noon and night, before eatb'g-   Bathe the
part affected with salt r.nd rum by a warm fire.
74.   Remedy  for  Weakness in the Unne Vessels, for chil-
            dren who cannot hold their water.
   For those so troubled, take  two ounces of good red bark,    <
and steep in one quart of  wi:;e 24 hours; let  the patient
(if two or three years old) drink a table spoonful—if older,
a little more at a time.  Or red  beech bark, taken off a
green tree; dry it well, pulverise it fine,  and  ute it the
aame  way.
                75.   For tlie  Nose Bleed.
   Take the common nettle roots, dry them, carry them in
the pocket and chew them every day.   Continue  this three
Weeks.
76.   To cure  a Consumptive Cough, or Pain in the Breast.
   Take a spoonful of common tar, three spoonfuls of hon-
ey, three yolks of hens' eggs,  and a half pint of wine—beat
the tar,  eggs  and honey  well  together in a dish,  with a
knife  or spoon.  Bottle it up  for use.   A  toa-spoo*iful is a
dose,  morning, noon and night, before eating.  Use barley
tea for constant drink.
      77.   For weakly obstructions in the Female  Sex-
   Heart's ease herb, spikenard roots with  the pith out,  a
::mall  part of   blood-root, turkey  root, wild  liquorice,  a few
roots of white  pond lilies, and  a good parcel of female flow-
ers, eo called—[it often grows by the sides of ponds, and
has a  leaf and blossoms some like cowslips, but  it grows
^ii;!e, one root or stalk  by itself, and some smaller than
*he mw: lip;  the leaves are green, and the blc^ems yt*L- 
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 ?     m1^ 1Sr°rne °J l,h,e finest roots for  the female «se in
the world J   Use double the quantity of this,  and equal
parts of the others-make a syrup of them;  boil them in
fair water until the substance is out; then strain it off, and
sweeten it with honey, and  add as much rum to it  as will
keep it from souring.   Drink half a gill on going  to bed
every night.   This will strengthen the system, and throw
off  all obstruction   It is best for persons so complaining
to wear a thick piece of flannel on the small of the back.

         78.   For Children troubled with  Worms.
  There are many things helpful to children troubled with
worms.  Take the  bark of witch-hazle,  or spotted alder
*teep it in a pewter vessel,  let it  boil on a moderate hea'
very strong:  a child of a year old can take a table-spoon-
tul—it older, more, according to the age.   Let them take it
four or five times a day for several days.  It is  sure and
sate.   Or take sage, powder it fine, and mix  it with hon-
ey—a tea-spoonful is a dose.   Sw eetened milk, with a lit-
tle alum added to it,  is very good  to turn  the worms—
* lour sulphur, mixed with  honey, is very good for worms
Take a piece of steel, heat  it  very hot  in a smith's fire
then lay on it a roll of  brimstone, nu It the steel, let it  fall
into water, and it will be in round  lumps; pound them  ve-
ry fine, and mix the dust with molasses—let the child take
half a tea-spoonful night and morning,  fasting.  Cr wild
mandrake roots, dried  and powdered, mixed with honey-
give a child of a year old as much of the powder as will lie
on a sixpence;  take it in  the morning,  fasting, three ot
four times successively.  If a child is taken with fits, by
reason of  worms,  give as much paregoric as the child'can
bear; it will  turn  the worms,  and ease the child.   To
prevent children  from having worms, let them eat onions
raw or cooked—raw ones are best.   Salt and water is good
to turn worms ; and giving a dose  or two of flour sulphur
mixed with molasses or honey, afterwards, brings off' the
worms without any thing else.
               79.  .-1 cure for the  Polypus.
   Two ounces of dried blood-root, pounded fine; a quarter
of an ounce of calix cinnamon ;  two ounces of scoke  root__
snuff it up the nose;  it will kill the polypus.   Then pull
it out with a pair of forceps, and use the  snuff  until it is
cured.  If the nose is  so stopped that it cannot be snuffed.
                          2* 
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                           lb

 up  boil the acme, a'.d gsirgle it  in iee throat, and  re.v.-ai
 the head with the hot liquor, till it withers w» i>s to use the
 snuff.
            80.  For a Frog under the tongue.
  When the frog is first perceived, take weak lye  and hold
 it in the mouth as hot as can be borne; nnd if it  is  gunvn
 tough, touch it in three or four places with caustic until U
 is sore—then ppply the lye.
                81.   For childbed Fevers.
  In childbed fevers, take  rattle-snake's gall, five  grains
 malitel, sweat balm tea, once an hour until  the fever a-
 batcs; and every time the  fever riser, continue the same
 Keep the body loose.
                 82.   Cure for Phthisic.
  Roast three  egg shells  brown—pulverise  them  rather
 coarsely; mix  with half a pint of molasses, and  take a
 spoonful  morning, noon  and night.   The cure is certain,
 unless the disease is hereditary.
                 S3.   For the Dysentery.
  Half an ounce of pomegranate bark, pulverised  &  steep-
 ed  in a pint of wine, or goad cider,  and taken a gill at a
time, before eating.
 84.   Valuable remedy for the Dysentery and Bloody Flux.
  Take of white pine bark after the ross is off, three  pints ;
of water, three pints; let  it simmer down to o.ie quart;
 strain it off; add  half a  pint of West India rum, and halt"
 a pint of West India molasses.  The whole composition for
 a grown person—half for a child.  This remedy is simple,
 but may be  depended on as effectual: it will seldom if ev-
 er fail.
      85"   To destroy Worms in a safe and sure way.
  Take a large tea-spoonful of the rust of tin ; mix it with
 a table spoonful of molasses.   This is a valuable remedy—
 it«ay be given in sickness or  health. 
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  PROPERTIES AND  USES  OF VECFTAH.W.

I would wish to '/ire the tr.ie ealare »j all .'.oris of i't^oa Wc£
       that I have mentioned in tin: jo, cjo-iuy work.

   Catnip is a warm her'),;'bf a'diaphoretic or sweating nature.
   I'eniiyroyal  is much the saiA--,  only  more powerful.  It
rvt.t ns a very  powerful pungent oil.
   Spearmint is pungent and hot, but of an astringent nature.
   Calamint is much the same,  but not so strong.
   lloarhonnd  is very strengthening to the lungs,  and is
isomewhat of  a pectoral.   It is excellent  in  a cough,  or
stoppage in the stomach.
   Everlasting, or Indian  Posey, is a very balsamic herb—.-
healing and cooling, and exc. dent in salves or ointments.
   Johnswort is much the  same.
   Pea Balm is a cooling and sweating  herb, and is good in
fevers and inflammations.
   Camomile is a great restorative .to the lungs,  and pro-
re,<.!cs perspiration.  It i:s good in salves and ointments tu
take away swe!!ing3
   Mayweed is of a pectoral nature, and  is  good for a pain
in the side.
   Garden  Coltsfoot  is a great restorative to the lungs, and
is good in syrups for coughs.
   t'lelilot is good in salves and ointments for swellings and
inliar.imaiions.  It is mollifying and cooling.
   Sage is the greatest restorative to human nature of any
he;!)  that grows.  Parsley is very cooling and softening.
   Bloodroot is a very powerful puke or purge: steeped in
spirits, it will serve for a puke ;  and boiled in fair water,
it serves as a  purge.
   Mandrake roots are an excellent physic, dried & pounded.
   Cuw.frcy and Spikenard are so well known that they need
no describing-   Wu'd Jen'on is a strong purge, bailed.
   Elecampane is good in  coughs, yet it is an astringent.
   Cranesbillis an astringent, and excellent in cankers.
   Whiie.-oot is of a physical nature, end is good to remove
 wind  pent in  the stomach, or part of the bowels.
   Sassafras root is good  for the  biocd—likewise Sarsapa-
 rilla.  Horse Radish, Bid dock roots, Elder roots, Hop roots,'''
 and Wild  Celt foot, are good as pectorals.
    While artd  )'e!'oir Pond Liiy roots, the same.
    Winter's Bark.  This is the product of one cf the largest
 trees on Tefra del Fuego.  It is good in dropsy and scurvy. 
CONTENTS.
 1.  Tor the King's Evil.
 2.  13* st remedy for Rattles in children.
 3.  Valuable remedy for the Bilious Cholic.
 4.  For a Felon.
 5.  For the Salt Rheum.
 6.  Salve for a Burn.
 7.  The best  salve for women's Sore Breast-t ever found
 8.  An ointment to supple Stiff Joints & Shrunk Sinew*
 9.  An  infallible cure for inveterate old Sore Legs.
10.  To cure the Bite of a rattle-snake.
11-  An  infallible cure for the Itch.
12.  A red salve for Swellings in formation.
13.  Foote's ointment.
11.  A certain cure for Corns on the feet or toes
15.  A cure for U'arts on any part of the body.
16.  An  excellent Family  Bilious Pill.
17.  For the Tooth-Ache, if the tooth be hollow.
18.  For the Bilious Cholic.
19.  A sure cure for the Canker in the mOuth.
20.  A medicine to cure inward Ulcers.
21.  For the Cramp in the stomach, or any inward part
22".  Cure for the Flying Rheumatism.
23.  An  infallible remedy for Wind Cholic in women and
    children.
24.  For a Hectic Cough.
25.  For the Erysipelas, or St. Anthony's Fire.
26.  For the Rheumatism in the loins.
27.  For the Quinsy.
28.  A remarkable plaster to ease  the pain of  Felons, or
    Frog Felons,  or  any such Tumour on the hands or
    feet, or elsewhere.
29.  For the Phthisic.
30.  To  cure a Wen.
31.  An  excellent remedy for the Asthma.
32.  An  excellent pill for the Hysterics.
33.  An  infallible cure for Bleeding at the Stomach 
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  3*4. Por the Dropsy.
  S3. For the Canker Rash.
  30. For any Hemorrhage of the Blood.
  87. A cure for the C ravel in the bladder or kidneys
  3S. An infallible cure for the Piles.
  39. For the Tooth-Ache, if the tooth be hollow.
  40. For the common Canker in children or adults
  4i • For the Hopping Cough.
  42. For Rickets in  children—(in the bowels.)
  43. A sure remedy  for women's Sore Nipples.
  44. A cure for liching Heels or Feet, or Ribbed Heel*
  45. A preservative against all kinds of Bilious Fevers.
  46. For Convulsion Fits.
  47. For the Consumption.
  4S. For the Quinsy  in the throat.
  49. For Swellings that come of themselves.
  50. An excellent Poultice for old inveterate Sores.
  51. An excellent medicine for inward  Hurts or Ulcers.
  62. Another excellent  Essentia g<od for all sorts of in-
      ward weakness, inward Fevers, Coughs, or Pain in
      the side, stomach,  or breast.
  S3.  For the Diabetes.
  G4.  For Stoppage of Water.
  ijo-  a or .^.l iJ)w.
  36.  For the Dropsy.
  57.  To stop a Fever Sore from coming  to a head, and
      carry it away.
 5S. To stop Puking.
 59. For the Lock Jaw.
 60. For the Numb Palsy.
 61. To cure vegetable Poison, running Ivy, poison El-
     der, or any other.
 02. For the Spinevanlosey, that  comes  in the breast.
 63. To cure inward Ulcers.
 64. For Catarrh in the head.
 65. For an  Inflammation in the head.
 CC. To take a Film from a person's eye.
 67.  To cure a Breach or Burst on the h >!v.
 68   To cure a Sehirrous J.iw, or  a Sweiied Fnce, or the.
     Scurvy  in the n.outii or ! eth.
 C9   A recipe to make  th- best: Tin burton's Brb.p.m
70. For a relaxation of  the out or Fundament  in ehiL
    tirea 
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71. For the common Phthisic in children.
72. For a Shrunk Sinew, or a Stiff Joint.
73. For the Rheumatism.
74. A remedy for weakness  in the Urine vessels, foi
    children that cannot hold their water.
75. For the Nose Bleed.
76. To cure a consumptive Cough,or pain in the breast?
77. For weakly obstructions in the Female Sex,
78. For children troubled with Worms.
79. A cure for the Polypus.
80. For a Frog under the tongue.
81  For childbed Fevers.
82. Cure for the Phthisic.
S3. For the Dysentery.
84. For Dysentery and Bloody Flux,
W. To destroy Worms in Children
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ADVERTISEMENT.
   THE Author of this work is a native of New York and
 now resides in Washington county, in the easterly part of
 the state.   He has for the most part of  his life been epea-
 g. d  in the deepest study for  restoring  the health and\,re-
 servint- the lives of  his fellow creatures.  For the attain-
 ment oi this object, he has travelled.   To this end  he has
 laooured,  and tor years has he applied himself in the w.lds
 ol America, among the eatives of the forest, where he has
 undergone all  the  horrors and deprivations incidental  to
 savage hfe,  H, order  to  c-.llert and  bring  together that
 knowledge  winch should be insirumental  in saving the
 lives and preserving the h.alth of his tellow creatures.
   W Inlst  among  the  Indians, the  Autlmr was a  particular
 inmate and confidant of  a native Indian, who had been in-
 struct, d in all the arts of cr, ilized life,  aid had the advan-
 tages of a liberal education,   bciii-r  a regular bred physi-
 cian  in the medical  department of  the  P, nr.sylvaniu Uni-
 versity, established at Philadelphia, at once the most flour-
 ishing and respectable institution of tie  kind in the United
 States, and  hardly  exc  lied  f.y any  in P^urope.   While
 with this  Indian,  the  Author  of  this work had not only an
 opfiortunity of learning the Indian  method of treating dis-
 orders, and the medical virtues of  the vegetable  kingdom
 but  likewise of gaming much literary and scientific know-
ledge.
   It is true, that Nature has proud'-d  in her minerals, an-
 imals, and vegetables, an eflectual remedy, if administered
 in season,  for all  the disorders incident to the human os-
 tein.   Of the two latter, tin-  Author has treated mor. par-
ticularly in this wmk, omitting  mineral  substances gene-
"■ lb on  -iccoutit.il' their poisonous quality, and which he-
   uks in a great measure ought to be laid aside.
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