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THE HUMAN SKELETON. 
THE
REFORMED BOTAIIC
AND
INDIAN  PHYSICIAN:
A COMPLETE GUIDE TO HEALTH.
BY DR.  DANIEL SMITH.
          UTICA, N. Y.
CURTISS <t WHITE, PRINTERS, 171 GENESEE STREET.
             1855.           \ 
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PREFACE.
                   ALL  HAIL, HAIL.


   Pause  for a  moment  and view the Coiner Stone of the
 Primitive Medical Edifice  which is already laid, and no longer
 suffer yourselves to be cut to pieces by the lancet or the two-
 edged sword of the poisonous  mineral  drugs, which man's
 device has hatched up to pick your pockets and bear you to
 an untimely grave; for the God  of  Nature in  early  days
 supplied our ancient fathers  with all the  healing powers aris-
 ing from the Vegetable  Kingdom, to heal all the maladies
 which they were  afflicted  with, when they broke  Nature's
 unerring laws.   He is the same now  that He ever was, and
 has surrounded us with all necessary medical aid in the Veg-
 etable Kingdom, that He did our ancient fathers.  Therefore,
 I say to you, by all the sacred ties that bind us together, and
 by all the sweets of life, and by  the  awful consequences of
 delay, to fly, fly without delay,  and take hold of the simple
 means provided  for you  by the God of Nature, and hang
 upon the  horns of the altar,  and be  restored to health and
 rescued  from an untimely grave, and be saved at last.
   The author of this work was born in the year 1790, in the
 then wilderness vicinity  of  Niagara Falls ; and being early
 initiated into the mode of treating diseases as practiced by
the neighboring Aborigines,  and afterwards becoming famil-
iar with the prominent  theories  of the civilized plan, and 
6
PREFACE.
having a strong desire to do his fellow creatures good by im-
parting to them the secrets of his own successful operations in
the Vegetable  line; and  viewing the great destruction  of
human life "by the usual dangerous mineral treatment of the
Old School practice, and the vast amount of fraudulent patent
medicines palmed off"  on the  community,  put up in syrups,
salves, pills, powders, and ointments,  any one of which is
said to cure all diseases ; and after a  long  series of years  of
assiduous study and observation,  and successful  practice, has
thus induced him cheerfully to offer to the  public a Book
for Everybody—the Reformed Botanic,  and Indian Physi-
cian—a complete guide to health—it being the last legacy
that Dr. D. Smith has to give to his fellow man, hoping that
through the guidance of  the All-Wise Creator of Heaven
and Earth, that it will be useful to his fellow mortals, and be
the means of rescuing  thousands and  tens of thousands  of
them  from an untimely grave. 
GENERAL   REMARKS.
  Man is the  noblest work of God—the most  complicated,
compact and*complete of all other machineries.   He may be
compared to the firmament that  has  planets of various mo-
tions and divers magnitudes.  And after the most powerful
telescope has  spent its  powers  and  scanned all within  its
reach, yet there no doubt remains millions of twinkling stars
that cannot be reached by the mortal eye or the most power-
ful telescope, which may be of great  magnitude and import-
ance to hold the solar system together.   So  with  Man, after
the telescopic  powers  have  been exhausted in scanning  the
frame Avork, the different organs, glands, muscles, tubes, heart,
lungs, arteries, veins and blood vessels,  water and air tubes,
both exhalent  and inhalent.  But, alas, Man is but a flower,
exposed to all the bleak winds of  adversity,  therefore his
physical as well as mental parts must be looked after, and in-
asmuch as the author of this book abandons the use of all
the poisonous mineral drugs, and almost  all concentrated
mineral  treatment,  and  discards  the  idea  of bleeding,
vomiting, cupping or blistering, it will be  necessary to make
a few leading remarks by way of explanation.
  First, I shall endeavor to show  from whence almost all  dis-
eases originate—from the stomach ; for it is the fountain of life
to man, because it receives all food, both in a solid and liquid
form—and by it and the  surrounding organs it is digested
and decomposed, and prepared for the nourishment and sup- 
8                  GENERAL RKMARKB.
 port of all other parts of the human body.   Therefore, as the
 food passes the first and  second stomachs  into  the bowels,
 and whilst passing thousands  and  tens of thousands of lac-
 teals or capilliary blood-vessels, these draw from it all the vir-
 tues that is necessary to make blood and keep the physical man
 in motion. And when all the various parts of the human body
 act their parts properly, there is no disease about it,  but when
 any of Nature's unerring laws are broken, disease ensues,  and
 the penalty is sickness or death, unless it is  by some means
 checked.   Diseases  almost  invariably  commence"  at  the
 stomach, and  I therefore commence at the  stomach, Avithout
 a vomit.  Yes, and why ?   Because the second stomach  can
 not be reached by a vomit.  With what, then ?  I say, nine-
 ty-nine cases  out of a  hundred,  I give a cathartic, because
 with it, if of the proper order, the alimentary canal  and all
 its drains and parts may be opened, and  the whole  body  be
 relieved and placed in a primitive infantile state of health.

   Secondly.   Immediately after the moving  cause has spent
 its powers, the healing powers must be applied, both of which
 I prefer giving in a liquid form, in separate and various parts.
 First, I prefer  the Reformed Botanic  and Indian  Physic as
 the moving cause, then the Cordial and Health Bitters to nerve
 and  give action  and tone  to  the stomach, liver, and their
 surrounding organs, to enable  them to  properly  digest and
 decompose the food  received into the stomach, and then
 the Blood Purifier to act on the blood and aid in purifying it
 and assist in opening the various and numerous blood-vessels,
tubes, and pores  of the body, and in  such a way that  the
blood becomes purified and flows through every channel  de-
signed for it.   In this  way, although Nature's unerring laws
are broken, all diseases will give away and the physical man 
GENERAL REMARKS.
9
will become healed of whatsoever diseases he may be afflicted
with, unless the whole nervous  part of man is overcome by
disease.
  The above is the platform on Avhich  I  ground all of my
practice and success  upon;  although  I  vary  my Physic,
Cordials, Health Bitters and Blood Purifier,  and all outward
and inward applications, to meet all complaints.   For instance
in cases of fevers or inflammatory complaints—I add cooling,
soothing,  neutralizing medicines; but  on the  other hand,
in cases of  colds,  chills, agues and  billious  difficulties,
caused  by  the  non-action  of  the  liver  or  overflow  of
the gall, I give stimulating medicines  of the above properties.
Inasmuch as there is the moving cause and healing powers
in either cooling or stimulating medicel powers, and the great
point is to know the^different diseases the patient is afflicted
with in order to administer  the proper kind of medicines.
Although of costive and relaxative -habits, either may be act-
ed  upon by a cathartic, if properly prepared, and proper
medicine given to follow up the moving cause.   If relaxative,
I give stimulating, binding medicines ; if costive, cooling and
relaxative medicines.   In this  way, by keeping the bowels
easy and the blood pure and in proper order, health will con-
tinue and disease flee  away, until Nature's unerring laAvs are
broken.  It is not the quality of food that we  eat or drink,
but it is the quantity  that is the most important.  Therefore
I say we must be temperate in  all things—a small quantity
of almost anything, either mineral, animal, or vegetable, may
be received into the stomach without injury,  if there is not
power enough in it to nauseate the stomach and unhinge the
nerves, and thereby overcome  the laws  of Nature.  But I
consider it best  to  keep  a proper distance from that white
heap of meal, for under it there lies an enemy, Mid Ave had 
10                 GENERAL REMARKS.
better never associate with a friend that will forsake us in the
hour of danger.   And be sure to learn out A. B. C. first, for
there is not many mighty called, but God  has chosen  the
weak things of this world  to confound the Avisdom of the
wise.

   It appears, therefore, that the mental  man is governed
measureably by the physical mau, and it is  certain that the
physical man is governed by the signs and flow of  the blood,
and that disease in case of bad colds  on the part  then ruled
by the signs will be  affected when the cold is taken—for in-
stance, when the sign is in th&head, and a cold is taken,  it
will settle in the head.  So throughout  the whole  body,
which causes so many different diseases of different names—
hence, Avhen Ave take cold in the head there is  a pressure  of
the brain, Avhich causes inflammation  and  pain in the head,
or dropsy,  or  congestion of the brain.  Just so  Avhen the
cold is seated on the lungs or  bronchial tubes, it  will either
cause inflammation  or  congestion  of the lungs, phthisic,  or
asthma, aud many times sharp, acute pains and distress for
breath; and when on the liver, it causes weariness and pains
in the shoulders and back,  sometimes fever and ague, jaun-
dice, dumb  ague, indigestion, loss of  appetite, relaxativeness,
many times ensues,  When  in  the  bowels  and intestines,
bilious cholic and wind cholic, shooting pains, and many times
inflammation, &c.   When on the thoracic,  duct or great ar-
tery, which runs up  the spine  through the trunk, pleurisy,
cramp and  acute pains  in  the left side.  When on the kid-
neys and bladder, diabetes or gravel,  Avith  distressing pains
in the small of the back and pains in the reetum.   When  on
 the pancreas or gall, or both, dropsical, dyspeptical  and ner-
 vous complaints ensue, attended many times  Avith lethargy, 
GENERAL REMARKS.
u
drowsiness, and many times passion  and fretfulness, loss of
appetite, and pain in the pit of the stomach.  When on the
first stomach, general debility, sour  breath, derangement of
the gastric juice and stomach,  general closing of the absor-
bent water vessels, sickness at the stomach, and  many times
vomiting.  When on the muscles and tendons, inflammatory
rheumatism, with sharp, acute pains in the joints and swelled
joints.   When on the peristum and bones, chronic and flying
rheumatism and shooting pains.   When on  the glands and
the felosis of the skin, a dryness  of the surface and skin, and
sometimes salt-rheum or other forms  of scrofula.

   In short, the derangement of the stomach and organs sur-
rounding the stomach, creates more diseases than all others,
for through them the food passes,  and the blood  is formed
that gives  life, health,  growth  and motion  to the ."whole
system. 
X 
                    REMARKS ON

PHYSIOLOGY   AND  ANATOMY.


  The folloAving cut represents the stomach, which is shaped
like a bag, and usually contains about two  or three pints in
an adult or full-groAvn person.   It is capable of being  con-
tracted or extended, as the case may require.  The letter c is
the tube through which the food passes, called  the cardiac
orifice.  The letter p shows the outward passage,  which  is
called the pylorus  or door-keeper,  as it prevents  the  food
from passing out until it is  properly  digested, and  also  pre-
vents  it from returning after it has been sent out.   The
stomach is situated, on the  left side  of the body under the
ribs, and has three coats or  coverings.  The stomach has also
 
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1'HYSIOLOGY AND  ANATOMY.
 a fluid resembling that in the mouth, called the gastric juice,
 which mixes Avith the outside portion of the food, making  it
 into a soft substance called chyme.   All  the water  that we
 drink is taken up by the veins of the stomach, and is absorb-
 ed in about three minutes.   It is for this reason that when  a
 person has fasted, or has not taken  food  for some length of
 time, he  derives nourishment  quicker from drinking than
 from eating, because the Avater is soon sent all over the body.
  If the nerves that lead from the stomach to the brain were
 cut off, the sensations of hunger and thirst which we all feel
 would be destroyed.   After the chyme has been formed, it
 passes out of the stomach through the pylorus into the duo-
 denum, or second stomach as it is sometimes  called, which is
 the upper part of the intestines.  As soon  as  one portion of
 the food is sent out of the stomach,  another portion is form-
 ed into chyme,  and  so  on  till all  has been mixed with the
 gastric juice, which soon takes  place, unless we have eaten
 too much  food,  or that of an  improper kind.   The chyme,
which is prevented from returning to the stomach by a little
 valve in  the pylorus, is  now  mixed with the bile that is
 secreted  by  the  liver, which  lies  at the  right  side of the
 stomach, and a juice called the  pancreatic juice, which flow3
from the  pancreatic,  Avhich is  situated near  the stomach.
 These two fluids convert it  into a white  fluid, called chyle.
 It now travels along over the  Avhole  internal surface of the
 intestines, which are six  times  the  length of the body, but
 are folded in so compact a  manner  that they occupy but  a
 small space.  As the chyle is passing, that part of it which
 will make good blood, or is fit  for  the growth and  nourish-
 ment of the body, is taken up by thousands  of little tubes,
 called lacteals (because the fluid is white,)  also  called capil-
 lary vessels (Uerm^ the latin word   capillo.  means a hair)— 
                E'HYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY.             15

and these tubes are as  small  as a hair.   It  travels  along
through these tubes in the same manner that the particles of
oil travel along through the little tubes in the wick of a lamp
till  they unite in  larger tubes.   These terminate in glands,
from which larger tubes or pipes collect and carry the chyle
from all parts into one common vessel,  called  the receptacle
or thoracic duct, Avhich holds about  a table-spoonful.   From
this bag a large pipe proceeds, which runs  up  the back part
of the chest and along till it reaches the  neck at the top of
the left shoulder.   It is now poured into a  large vein,  called
the subclavian vein,  which  carries  the chyle, ^together with
the old blood  coming  from the  veins situated all ov er the
body, to the heart, the great fountain of life.  The blood now
formed runs along, being of a dark color,  but  which  is not
yet healthy, and flows to the lungs.  Here the air we inhale or
breathe in changes the dark color of the blood to red, as we see it
when we prick our finger.   Then it flows back to the heart,
and by a contraction  of the heart  it  is thrown into tubes,
called arteries, with sufficient force and  rapidity to carry it
to all parts of the body.

  The blood contains  the" elements  of all those substances
which  compose our body.   It is  the blood that makes our
bones,  our skin, our hair, and every limb; and it is the blood
which  makes us groAv.  So-you  see if Ave did not  eat  we
should not have any  blood,  and  so  of course we could not  •
grow.  You may think it very strange  that the  red blood
flowing like the water in a river,  can make  something as
hard as a bone or flesh ; but Avhen  you cut your  finger, or
break a bone, the reason why, after several days or Aveeks, it
heals or becomes well, is, that the blood, in passing the place
cut, leaves a  little something  there, the next  time it  leaves 
16
PHYSIOLOGY AND  ANATOMY.
   again a little substance, when by-and-by it becomes flesh and
   skin.   When a bone is  broken, just the same process goes
   on, only the substance left  is a little harder, till a  piece of
   bone is formed.  Should you  hurt your  finger-nail so  that
   it peeled off, you Avould find that gradually a new nail would
   grow  on,  but if you  should  eat  very sparingly for two or
   three months, you would not see this growth.
     Different kinds of food make different quantities of chyle
   and different kinds of blood.  Animal substances make more
   chyle than vegetable—hence, if we lived  altogether on  meat
   and animal food we should not require so much in quantity.
   When  Nature does any thing,  she  is governed by regular
   rules and fixed laws, and is systematic  in all her arrange-
   ments.  She does one thing at  a time, and is only capable of
   doing a certain amount, and no more, Avithout injuring some
   other part or function of the body.
     The  stomach is one of the most industrious and important
   organs in our Avhole  body.  If this be affected,  our whole
   bodies  are affected.   We may injure our arm and still be able
   to walk, to think, and talk.  The same may be true Avith re-
   gard to a leg or  foot,  but if the stomach be sick, we can
   neither walk, run, nor use our limbs, and sometimes can not
   even think.   It is  always  performing its duties  faithfully,
   whether we are eating, sleeping, or walking.  Man  has  only
#  one stomach, but if we overload this organ it loses its power
   of  producing the fluid which is necessary.
     I will next tell you of  the bones, the skin,  and the heart.
   Our bones are all joined together  and make what  is called
   the human skeleton.  Our skeleton not only serves as a sup-
   port, but also enables us to perforin all our motions.  In this
   view we divide bones  into  two kinds—those which protect 
              PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY.               IT

the body, and those which enable us to move.  In the top of
the skeleton we see the bones of the head, called the cranium
or skull.
THB BKTJLL.
  This is composed of eight small bones,  all very  nicely
fitted and dove-tailed together like  the sides of a box.   The
place where the bones  join are called sutures.  In the little
infant the bones are soft and  do not unite until it is several
months, and sometimes several years old.   The human skull,
being of an oval shape, it does not feel the force of blows so
much as it would if it  had any other shape.  As  the child
becomes older, the bones are  firmer and stronger,  and  give
more support.  The skull contains  the brain, which I  may
tell you about at some  future  time.  It is very important that
it should be guarded and well taken care of, as  we find  it is,
by  its hard and firm covering.
              B2 
18               PHTSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY.

  There are several bones which form the face.  The princi-
pal ones are the jaw bones, and those around the organs of
seeing, smelling and tasting.
JAW BONES.
   The teeth are composed of bone, covered with a very  hard
 substance called  enamel.  When this  decays, or is  injured,
 the tooth is  useless for strength.   The first teeth  gradually
 fall out within five or six years, and then the other set en-
 larges and appears, to last us  through life if we only  take
 care of them.
   As we leave the teeth, the next  principal  bone which we
 see is the back-bone or spine.  It is composed of  twenty-
 four pieces of bone; each of these pieces are called verte-
 bra?.  These are joined by a soft elastic—which means, when
 any thing is bent or stretched, and the force which  was  used
 was removed, returns to  its first shape—substance called  car-
 tilage, which enables us to bend our backs.  These vertebrae'
are holloAv, ..m!   contain  the spina!  nerve or marrow,  and 
                PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY.             19

 serves as a pillar or column  for  the  support of our bodies.
 They increase in size  from the neck down.  The skull is
 united to the upper vertebra? by means of a joint, called the
 hinge joint,  to  enable  us to move the head upward and
 downward—and Avhat  is called the ball-and-socket joint.
 In all the joints, the ends of the bones  which work together
 are  tipped with gristle, that they may move easily.  The
 spinal marrow passes through the spine,  and if this be once
 broken, the limbs below would become numb and motionless,
 and life would soon end.
   There is an innumerable
 number  of nerves  passing
 from this spinal  cord to  the
 stomach, to the  heart,  the
 liver, and to every part of
 the  body.  Joined to  the
 spine, 6, 6, are twelve ribs
 on   each  side,   seven  of
 which  are united  to   the
 sternum  or  breast bone in
 front, that is  composed of
 three small pieces of bone,
 which, although  distinct at
first, finally unite together,
making  one  bone—these
 are called  the   true-ribs;
then there are five which
unite with the breast-bone
by means of soft  cartilages.
RIBS AND SPINE.
 
 20             PHYSIO!.01.. V AND ANATOMY.

   The collar-bone and  shoulder-blade are  also united to  the
 breast-bone,  and serve their purpose, the one forming  the
 neck, the other the shoulder.  The ribs  are very important
 bones, for  thev enclose  all those organs Avhich give «us life
 and sustain it, as  the  lungs, heart, &c.  So important  are
 they, that Ave should be careful not to draw our clothing so
 tight around them that they will press upon these organs, for
 the ribs are softer  than the teeth, and  have  also that sub-
 stance called ligament—the same as in different parts of  the
 spine—at the end, and they yield to any pressure upon them,
 which sometimes causes death.

   We find a great  many joints  in the body,  and in those
 situations Avhere they are most needed.   The arm is joined to
 the shoulder-blade in such a Avay that it can turn around ; at
 the  elboAV  there is a hinge-joint,  to move it upward and
 downward.   Then  Ave find another  at  the wrist, also in all
 the fingers.   There are twenty-seven  bones in the hand  and
 wrist.  Man is  the only animal that has hands.   The foot is
 also remarkably constructed with its  twenty-six little  bones,
 connected Avith little joints,  so that Ave can  move easily.   It'
 we look on the sole or bottom of the  foot, Ave  shall  see that
 the middle of it appears as if arched or cut out.  This  en-
 ables us to  walk more easily and  gracefully,  to run, skip, and
jump, and to perform  every  motion we wish.  But the bones
 and joints alone Avould not enable us to move in all the vari-
 ous, directions we desire ; therefore, Nature  has provided us
 with a great many different  muscles for this purpose, as well
 as to give form and proportion to the body. 
PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY.
21
  The following cut represents a man
with  the  muscles  which cover  the
bones, without the skin.

  The muscles are what we call lean
meat.  They cover the  bones, cross-
ing the joints, running along up the
limbs, over the back, arms, and neck,
and  are  particularly large and  nu-
merous where they are most needed,
as in the  back, hips, legs, &c.,  and
though so  numerous, they never in-
terfere with each  other.  Sometimes
the action of a  muscle  is  needed
where, if it were placed, it would be
quite inconvenient.  As every joint
in the fingers, hands, and feet, are
moved by muscles, if  the  muscles
had been placed in the palm or back
of the hand,  or  in the  feet,  they
would have been very unsightly,  and
very  clumsy in appearance.  They
are,  however, situated  in the  arm,
and act by long  strings,  called ten-
dons, which pass to the joints.  These
tendons are all clasped down at the
wrist by a bracelet which Nature  has prepared, under the
skin,  to keep them in their place.  In the  same manner
the muscles which move the^  toes and feet are placed along
the leg, and are all confined by  a little band at the ankle.
Where there is a muscle needed,  there we find it, arranged
in the most beautiful manner./  Suppose instead  of the joint
MUSCULAB MAN. 
22
PHYSIOLOGY AND  ANATOMY.
at the shoulder Ave had had the hinge-joint,  like the one at
the arm, then we could only have moved our arm and shoulder
upward and downward, which  would be  more inconvenient
than it is now,  when we can turn it  in  every direction.
When  we wish  to raise  our  arm  our  minds speak to the
muscles leading  to the arm and  tell  them to contract, or
shorten, and they instantly obey  and  the  arm  is  raised.
When we  desire to put it down our minds speak to another
set of muscles, which expand, and the arm drops.
   In no part of the system is the  variety, quickness and ac-
curacy of  muscular motion so remarkable as  Avhen we move
our tongue in speaking.  Every word we speak, every syla-
ble we utter, requires a distinct action of a muscle.  We also
move a great variety of muscles in our hands when we Avrite
or otherwise use them ; also in our feet when we walk; and
when we eat, and in every thing else  that we do.  You will
understand better what is meant by the contraction and ex-
pansion of muscles if you  will take a piece  of India rubber
and stretch it—this will show the expansion ; and Avhen you
remove your hand it will  take  its  original  size and appear-
ance—this will shoAv the contraction ; but in our bodies there
are two sets of muscles, one for contraction and the other for
expansion, as you will  see in the cut of the arm, and  also the
manner in which they are joined to  the arm.  Our muscles
contract and shorten to move our bones.
 
PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY.
23
  The skeleton has two hundred and fifty-two bones, and five
hundred and ninety-seven muscles—all are formed from the
blood, and that is made from the food we eat.  Nearly every
thing is strengthened and improved by use, and weakened by
disease.  Hence you must take  much exercise in  the free,
pure  air of heaven;'do not be  fearful about running and
jumping, so as to use all our muscles.  There is a substance
which surrounds the muscles,  of a yellow color,  called fat.
It is this which  nourishes us for a long  time when we are
sick, and do not take much food.
   The skin consists of three coats or membranes, the first  is
called the  cuticle or epidermis, and has little pores, but  no
veins pr blood-vessels.   This skin continued, makes our finger-
nails which protects the  ends  of the fingers, as  the cuticle
does the  skin.   Immediately  underneath  the  cuticle is an-
other layer called the rete mucosum.   There is  more feeling
in this layer than in the first.  Spread over this skin is what
is called the coloring matter.   It  is a great mistake to sup-
pose that because some have a black, and others white, and
others red complexions, that the whole blood and skin  are of
different colors.  The  only  difference between the blackest
person who'ever lived, and the  whitest,  is in this  liquid  on
the surface of the second skin,  which is either black, or white,
 or red.   The third layer is called the vera cutis,  or the true
 skin.   Over this are little nerves, which  run backwards and
 forwards in all directions, proceeding to  the brain, and pro-
 duce all the pajn or sensation we feel when hurt or injured.
 When the surgeon takes off a limb, it is not in cutting the
 bone—if the bone be in a healthy state—that we experience
 pain  but only when the third skin is cut;  and it is for  this
 reason that it is called the true  skin.   When we  prick our- 
24             PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY.
 selves with a pin or needle, we draw blood, how slight soever
 the wound, because the two outer skins are so thin  and deli-
 cate that the third  feels  the  touch instantaneously, and the
 nerves of feeling being so numerous,  pass off to the spinal
 marrow in the spine,  and thence to the^brain or  mind, so
 that  we feel every touch.  There  will frequently be white
 spots on the bodies of negroes, occasioned by  a wound in the
 third skin, and the  removal  of some of the coloring matter
 on the second, which does not grow again.  There are little
 cells or pores on  the outer surface,  which permits the sweats
 or perspiration to pass through ; and in this way many dis-
 eases which lurk  about our bodies,  are ^continually passing
 off.  This enables us to endure  the very great heat of sum-
mer ; for this constant perspiration produces a moisture which
cools the air.
  The heart is a double organ, and  lies in the middle of the
chest, with the point inclining to the left side.
 
PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY.
   The letter a is the left ventricle ; b, is the  right  ventricle ;
c, c,/, is the great artery that proceeds  from  the left ventri-
cle ;  </, h, i, are arteries that proceed from the  great artery;
k, is the artery that goes from the right ventricle to the lungs ;
I, I, are branches of the artery going to the two sides of the
lungs, which carry the  blood there; m, m, the  veins which
bring the blood back  from the  lungs  to the left side of the
heart; n, is the right auricle ; v and p,  are the ascending and
descending veins, which meet and form the right auricle ; p,
represents the A'eins from the liver, spleen,  and bowels ;  s, is
the left artery, one Avhich nourishes the heart.

   The heart has four divisions—two to  receive the blood  after
it is made from  the food, called auricles, and two others,  call-
ed ventricles, to send it to the several stations where it is  most
needed.   After the blood comes to the  heart  from  the \eins,
it is necessary to send it to the lungs before it is fit for use.
For this purpose there  are  muscles in  the heart which  con-
tract and force it out to the lungs.   Motion is of tAvo kinds:
voluntary and involuntary.,  That is voluntary which is  per-
formed  by means of the bones, muscles, and tendons, and is
influenced by the will or mind.  Involuntary motion is  that
produced by organs not connected with the bones, but which
possess  muscular fibres ; as, for instance, the stomach,  which
is a hollow muscle and  digests its food without the knowl-
edge of the mind.  The heart is  also a  hollow muscle, which
contracts and expands to receive  and send out the blood when
necessary.   It is protected by a bag, called the pericardium,
which  is made of strong and rough  materials.  This case
holds a very little water—just enough to permit the heart to
move easily and  freely—and is placed between  the lungs.
The lungs fill all that cavity in the chest not occupied by the 
 20             iilVblOLOOV AND ANATOMY.

 heart, and arc composed of blood and air-vessel*.  They are
 so light they Avould float in the water.  They are sometimes
 called bellows, because they contain  so much air.   They ap-
 pear like  the branches of a tree,  and extend each-side of the
 heart.  When avc take in a breath we inhale the air to change
 the  color  of, and to purify  the blood.

   Air is all around us, and though we can not see or handle
 it, yet it has been divided into several gasses,  called  oxygen,
 carbon, and nitrogen.   When  the  air  is thus divided,  one
 part of it will sustain life, and  the  others are very injurious.
 The oxygen of the air unites with the dark blood in the lungs,
 and turns it to a red color, Avhich then rushes back into the
 heart.  The muscles of the heart contract,  and send it out
 through the vessels, called arteries, to make skin, bone, flesh,
 and every part  of the  body.   It  finally terminates in  the
 small capillaries and veins, Avhen it is changed into  a  dark,
 red color.  It is then unfit again for nourishment, as  some of
 the  good  qualities have been  taken out in  its circulation.
 This dark blood then unites Avith the new blood formed from
 the chyle, is sent into the heart, Thence to the lungs, and is
 purified by the air, then sent back  with its  color changed,
 and  proceeds as  I have previously stated.   It may be asked
 why the blood does not rush back again to the heart  after it
 has entered the artery ?  It is because there  are little valves
 or trap-doors that shut over the arteries when the blood  has
 entered them.  These move as easily as a door closes on its
 hinges, and prevents the  return of the blood.  The  arteries
 are larger than the veins, and  lie deeper in the system, or
 more removed from the surface.  They  serve to  carry the
blood out  of the heart, and to distribute  the proper nourish-
ment where it is required.   The veins  are  more numerous 
PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY.             2?
and smaller in size than the arteries, and have valves in them
somewhat like those in the arteries, and  brings  the blood to
the heart.  If Ave accidentally cut a vein there  is not much
dauger, but if an artery be severed and the ends are not im-
mediately tied, death Avill be the result.  By feeling the pulse
we find how rapidly the blood passes or  circulates, and as the
artery at the wrist is nearer the surface than any other, it can
be relied on Avith more certainty.

   By palpitation of  the  heart, Ave mean that there is some
obstruction in the way,  Avhich makes  the circulation irregu-
lar.  This palpitation is  considered very dangerous, as our
lives depend on  the  regular circulation  of the  blood.   We
ought not to breathe the same air the  second  time, for if Ave
do, it will not then contain sufficient oxygen  to  produce that
change necessary for good blood.  In order to have as pure
air as possible, Ave should  ventilate our rooms,  especially those
in which we sleep.  When the blood is taken  from the body,
and exposed to the air, it  becomes thick,  or coagulates; little
yellowish particles of fluid arise, Avhich are called the  serum ;
a thick substance is left, Avhich,  when Avashed,  loses  its red
appearance, and becomes  white;  this is  called the fibrine of
the blood.

   Consumption means that the lungs, liver, muscles, or other
organs  of  the   body,  is consumed, or  incapable  of,  in-
haling a sufficient quantity of air  to  support  life.   This dis-
ease is produced by exposure to the cold, wearing thin  shoes
in cold and damp Aveather, and  by  drawing  the clothes so
tightly around the ribs that they  crowd  in  and destroy the
lungs.   This might be prevented in a variety of cases  by
proper care and  attention. , 
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PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY.
  Secretion means a separation  of fluids.  When  it is used
in physiology, it has reference to a certain  process  by which
various substances are separated from the blood, without be-
ing changed in  their separation.   Without  secretion,  there
would be no possible way for the different  parts of the body
to be nourished.  There are three kinds  of organs for  the
purpose of secretion :   First,  the  exhalent  vessels;  second,
the follicles ; third, the glands.   The head, chest and stomach
are all lined with a thin  covering, Avhich throws out a little
fluid, sufficiently to keep them moist  and  enable  them to
move easily.

  The fat, of which I have  heretofore  spoken, is caused by
exhalation, or is one form of secretion.  It  is first an oily,
greasy fluid, then becomes hard, and serves as a protection to
the skin.  Then the ligaments  around the  joints  are lined
with the  same kind  of membrane  as  the stomach; this
secretes the synovia, Avhich enables the joints to move easily.
The marrow that is in  the long bones is another secreted  ex-
halation.  The use  of the marrow is not known.  The exter-
nal exhalations are  those which take place out  of  the  body.
These are the sweats or perspiration that is continually pass-
ing off, and a little  mist of fluid which passes from the lungs.

  The second division  of secretory organs is called  follicles.
These are  little bags  found  in the  skin near the surface.
They secrete an oily substance.  When this does not pass
through the pores of the skin, it appears like a little ridge or
worm ;  but if the pores be  kept open by frequent bathing,
this fluid Avill pass oft* as  soon as it is secreted.  There  are
follicles  in each ear to secrete the ear-wax, which will produce
deafness if it be not removed.  There  is a little follicle  at the 
PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY*.
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root of each hair, and the  difference  between  the moistness
in the hair of different" persons  depends  on the  amount of
liquid that the follicle secretes.

   The third  division  of secretory ^organs  is  called glands.
These are situated in different parts of the body, and  are of
various  sizes—some  being quite small, [others ^quite large,
weighing several pounds—and contain arteries and veins to
carry the blood to them and return it again.   The substance
which the glands secrete differ very much in appearance from
the blood, although  they are formed from it.j^The saliva  is
formed by three pairs of glands, situated in the mouth.
THE GLANDS.
  The gastric juice is a fluid that is secreted in the stomach,
and very much resembles the saliva; yet it is more powerful
in its  operations,  and of more importance to us in its use.
During the process of digestion this fluid  is poured on the
food, and dissolves it into a soft mass, which is called chyme.
It is nearly tasteless, and without odor, yet it has the quality
of preventing putrefaction, and will even  remove it after  it
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  has commenced.  Though  the gastric juice possesses those
  remarkable solvent properties Avhich enable it to dissolve even
  the hardest substances,  yet it  has no power  to act on  any
  thing  that has life.  Consequently  worms  will live in the
  stomach for some time,  but  as  soon  as they  are  dead, the
  gastric juice acts on them  and dissolves them.  The gastric
  juice has sufficient power to eat holes through  the coating of
  the stomach ; but this is the case  only when the person has
  been some time without food.
     The bile is secreted by the liver, Avhich  lies  in the right
  side, just between the ribs, and is the  largest gland in the
  body.   It  has a brown, yellowish color, is very bitter  and
  thick,  and assists in the formation of chyle.   The bile should
  not  be in the stomach ; and this would never be the case if
   the  stomach were always in a healthy state.  When oily  sub-
  stances are taken into the stomach, the gastric juice can not
   act on them ; so the bile flows  from  the liver,  enters the
   second stomach, and  helps to remove them.

     The pancreatic fluid flows from  tjie pancreas, an organ situ-
   ated behind the stomach.  This organ secretes a very  little
   fluid,  of a yellow color, salt taste, without odor, similar  to
   the saliva.  Its secretion is  not increased  during  digestion,
   yet it assists in forming the chyle. The tears are secreted by
   the lachrymal gland, behind and  at  the corner of  the  eyes.
   They  have a salt taste, and are inodorous.

     Man has from three  to fhree and a half pounds  of brain,
   (but woman has but three and a  quarter,) which can be laid
   in eight separate folds  ; also twenty-four to thirty-two pounds
   of blood,  which passes through the heart once in every  three
   minutes. 
PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY.
31
  Man is the noblest work of God !   But  in  what does his
superiority consist ?  In his physical  perfection—in his pos-
sessing a greater number  and variety  of bodily  organs and
functions, and those  more perfect than the rest  of creation,
when guided by intellect. 
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# 
                    NAMES OF

ROOTS,  PLANTS, HERBS,  AND FLOWERS,
          And  their Medicinal Uses.


ASH BERRIES PRICKLEY, [Xanthoxylum  Fraxineum,*]
    —Has the qualities of the bark  in a mueh greater de-
    gree, and are highly esteemed for  Scrofula and Rheu-
    matism.
ALKANET ROOT,  [Anchusa Tinctoria,]—Principally used
    for coloring tinctures, ointments, (fee.
APPLETREE BARK, [Pyrus Malus]]—Used in  strength-
    ening Syrups for Debility, &c.
AVEN'S  ROOT,  [Geum Rivale,]—Valuable in  Debility,
    Dyspepsia, Bleeding at the Lungs, Cholic, and Relax.
ABSCESS ROOT, [Polemonium  Reptans,]—Invaluable in
    Fevers, Pleurisy, Consumption, and Liver Affections.
ASTHMA WEED,  [Lobelia Inflata,]—In Asthma, Cholics,
    Spasms, and as  an Emetic, it is very valuable.
ANGELICA ROOT,  [Angelica  Atropurpurea,]—Excellent
    in Wind Cholic, Flatulent Complaints, and Debility.
ACONITE LEAVES, [Aconitum Napellus,]—Used in Rheu-
    matism, Neuraliga, Cancer and Cancerous Affections.
ASTER RED-STALK, [Aster Puniceus,]—A popular .reme-
    dy in Rheumatism, Head-ache, and Nervous Debility.
ARCHANGEL, [Lycopus Europeus,]—A  popular remedy in
    Fevers, Diarrhoea, Bowel Complaints, and Indigestion.
* Botanical names are included in brackets. 
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ROOTS,  HERUS, AND FLOAAER6.
ADDERS  VIOLET,  [Goodvera  PubescensJ—Externally
     and internally—good for Scrofulous Complaints and dis-
     eases of the Skin.
ALEHOOF,  [Glechoma Hederacea,]—The  infusion is  used
     in Coughs and for Internal Ulcers.
ASH BARK, WHITE,  [Fraxinus Acuminata,]—Good in
     Hemorrhage, Agues, and for the Rattle Snake's Bite.
ARBUTUS,  TRAILLING, [Epigea  Repens,]—Infuse  an
     ounce in one quart of boiling Avater,  drink freely, has
     often cured Avbere the Catheter had to be used.
ASPEN QUAKING,  [Populus Tremuloides,]—Excellent in
     Diarrhoea, Debility, and Digestive Complaints.
AGRIMONY, [Agrimonia  Eupatoria,]—Employed  in Fe-
     vers, Jaundice, Coughs, and Bowel Complaints.
ARCHANGEL,  GREEN,  [Lycopus  Europeus,]—A good
     remedy  in  Fevers, Diarrhoea,  Bowel Complaints,   and
     Indigestion.
ASPARAGUS ROOT,  [Asparagus Officinalis,]—Useful in
     Diseases of the Breast, Heart, Kidneys, and Bladder.
APPLE PERU, [Datura Stramonium,]—Used in Epilepsy,
     Mania, Tic Doleroux, and Rheumatism.
AGUE WEED, [Eupatorium Perfoliatum,]—Of great value
     in Fevers—properties well known.
ARROW WEED, [Erigeron Canadense,]—The powder is a
     strong styptic; the tea (cold) for Internal Bleeding.
ALDER,  STRIPED,  [Hamamelis  Virginica,]—Bark   and
     leaves good in Bowel Complaints, Internal Hemorrhage,
     and painful Tumors.
ANISE SEED, [Pimpinella Anisum,]—Good  in  Flatulent
     Cholies, and to correct and flavor medicines. 
ROOTS, HERBS, AND  FLOWERS.
35
ASH, NAKED, [Aralia Nudicanlis,]—An excellent remedy
    in all Scrofulous, Venereal and Eruptive diseases.
AGUE  GRASS,  Or  ROOT, [Aletris   Farinosa,]—Cures
    Flatulent and Hysteric Cholic, Fevers, and Chronic Rheu-
    matism.
ANGUSTURA  BARK,  [Galipea Officinalis,]—Efficacious
    in Bilious Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and Dyspepsia.
ARCHANGEL, PURPLE, [Lycopus. Virginicus,]—In more
    general use than the green—properties equivalent.
AMARANTH, SPLEEN, [Amaranthus Hyppochondriachus,]
    —Celebrated  in  Profuse  Menstruation,  Bowel Com-
    plaints, and Piles.
ASH  BARK, PRICKLEY,  [Xanthoxylum Fraxineum,]—
    Useful in Fever and Ague, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, &c
ALDER BARK, BLACK,  [Prinos Verticillatus,]—Useful
    in Fevers, Agues, Debility, Jaundice,  Dropsy, <fec.
ARNICA ROOT,  [Arnica Montana,]—May be used in sim-
    ilar complaints as the flowers.
ANCHUSA  ROOT,  [Anchusa Tinctoria,]—Principally used
    for Coloring Tinctures, Oils, Ointments, <fec.
ALOE, FALSE, [Aletris  Farinosa,]—Cures Flatulent and
    Hysteric Cholic, Fevers,  and Chronic Rheumatism.
ARSE SMART, [Polygonum Punctatum,]—The tea stops
    Vomiting, and in fomentations reduces swellings.
ANGELICA TREE,  [Pyrus  Americana,]—Used  in Bilious
    Complaints and for Clensing the Blood.
ALDERBERRIES, BLACK,  [Prinos  Verticillatus,]—Make
    a good medicine for Worms in Children.
ARNICA FLOWERS, [Arnica Montana,]—Recommended
    fn Low Fevers, Intermittents, Gout, Dropsy, and Rheu-
    matism ; tincture good for Fresh Wounds. 
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liOOT*. 1IEKBS, AND  FLOWERS.
 ASH BAliK,  MOUNTAIN, [Pyrus Americana,]—Useful
     in Bilious Complaints and for Clensing the Blood.
 ARROW ROOT, BERMUDA,  [Maranta Arundinacea,]—
     Nutriment for the sick and  convalescent.
 ALDER, RED or TAG, [Alnus  Serrulata,]—The bark, tags,
     and leaves, are used for diseases of the Skin, Swellings,
     and Strains.
 ANGELICA SEEDS,  [Angelica  Atropurpurea,]—Used  in
     Flatulent Cholic, an excellent carminative.
 ALUM  ROOT, [Hencheria Acerifolia,]—An external rem-
     dy in Hemorrhage, Sores, Wounds, &c.
 ASH, BITTER, [Euonymous  Atropurpurens,]—Extensively
     employed in  Compounds for Affections of the Lungs.
 ANGELICA,  GARDEN, [Lycopus Europeus,]—A popular
     remedy in Fevers, Bowel Complaints, and Indigestion.
 ANGELICA LEAVES, [Angelica  Atropurpurea,]—The  in-
     fusion makes a pleasant Tonic Medicine.
 ACONITE  ROOT,  [Aconitum Napellus,]—Used in  Rheu-
     matism, Neuralgia, Cancer and Cancerous Affections.
 BUCKWHEAT,  WILD,  [Apocynum Androsaemifolium,]
     —Used in Fevers, Liver Complaints,  Rheumatism, and
     Dropsy.
BOWMAN'S  ROOT, [Leptrandia Virginica,]—Useful  in
     Pleurisy, Bilious and Typus  Fevers.
BLACK ROOT,  [Leptandria  Virginica,]—Invaluable aa a
    Cathartic, in violent Bilious and Typus Fevers
BAYBERRY LEAVES, [Myrica Cerifera,]-The infusion in
    Flooding from the Womb, Hysterical  Complaints, <fec.
BEES-NEST SEEDS, [Daucus Carota,] -Given in  Stran-
    gury, Calculus,  Lumbrici, <fec. 
ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS.
3?
BUCHU  LEAVES, [Diosma Crenata,]—Much extolled for
    Ohronic Diseases of the Bladder.
BUTTON SNAKE ROOT, [Liatris Spicata,]—The tea is a
    valuable medicine in Colic, Dropsy, Back-ache, <fcc.  %
BROWSE, [Gaultheria Procumbens,]—A favorite in Dropsy,
    Diarrhoea, and Obstructions.
BLOOD STAUNCH, [Erigeron  Canadense,]—The powder
    is a strong Styptic, the tea cold for Internal Bleeding.
BACK-ACHE BRAKE,  [Aspidium  Filixfenina,]—Good in
    Lumbago, and makes an excellent Syrup for Coughs.
BONESET,  [Eupatorium PerfoUatum,]—Of great value in
    Fevers ; properties well known.
BONESET,  PURPLE HERB, [Eupatorium Purpureum.]
BONESET,  PURPLE ROOT, [Eupatorium Purpureum,]—
    Good in Gravel Stone, and all Affections of the Kidneys.
BIRD PEPPERS, [Capsicum Baccatum,]—Very serviceable
    in Fevers, Cholera, Palsy, Dyspepsia, &c.
BLACKBERRY ROOT, [Rubus Occidentalis,]—Much em-
    ployed in Diarrhoea, Cholera Infantum, and Dysentery.
BELLADONA  LEAVES, [Altropa Belladonna,]—Recom-
    mended in Disorders of Nervous  System, &c,
BALLOON PLANT, [Leontodon Taraxacum,]—The decoc-
    tion good in Jaundice, Dyspepsia, &c.
BUTTERNUT BARK, [Juglans Cineria,]—In Cordial or
    Extract a good Aperient and  a gentle Cathartic for
    Worms.
BROOM, YELLOW, [Babtisia Tinctoria,]—Excellent for
    Foul, Malignant and Syphilitic Ulcers and Sores.
BITTER GRASS, [Aletris Farinosa,]—Cures Flatulent and
    Hysteric  Colic, Fevers, and Chronic Rheumatism.
               D 
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ROOTS, HERBS, AND  FLOWERS.
BOR 1GE,  [Borago  Officinalis,]—Used in  Catarrhal Affec-
     tions, Rheumatism, and Diseases of the Skin.
BLUEBERRY,  [Oaulophyllum  Thalictroides,]—Promotes
     Parturition, Menstruation, and Dropsical Discharges.
BALM,  INDIAN,  [Trilium  Purpureum,]—Beneficial for
     Bloody Urine, Spitting of Blood, Coughs, and Hectic
     Fever.   Used as snuff stops Bleeding at the Nose.
BETONY, WOOD,  [Pedicularis  Canadensis,]—The herb
     good for Head-ache, Hysteric and Nervous Affections. ,
BOG-MYRTLE, [Myrica-gale,]—A  good  remedy  for the
     Piles, Stomachic Complaints, <fec.
BITTER BLOOM, [Sabbatia Angularis,]—A remedy in Dys-
     pepsia, Fever and Ague, and Defective Digestion.
BITTER CLOVER, [Sabbatia  Angularis,]—A  remedy in
     Dyspepsia, Fever and Ague, and Defective Digestion.
BOUNCING-BET, [Saponaria Officinalis,]—Given in strong
     Decoction in Jaundice and Liver Complaints.
BLUNT-LEAF DOCK, [Rumex Obtusifolius,]—Medical vir-
     tues similar to the Yellow Dock.
BETONY, PAUL'S, [Lycopus Virginicus,]—In more gener-
     al use than Beth Root.  Properties Equivalent.
BUTTERFLY WEED, [Asclepias Tuberosa,]—Beneficial in
     Pleurisy, Colics, and all Flatulent Diseases.
BROOKLIME, [Veronica Beccabunga,]—A Purifier  of the
     Blood,  and good in Scurvy, &c.
BALM, LEMON, [Melissa Officinalis,]—The infusion is use-
     ful in Head-aches, Asthma, and Fever.
BITTER HERB, [Chelone  Glabra,]—Given in Fevers  and
     Jaundice, and is a good Vermifuge.
BOXWOOD FLOWERS, [Cornus Florida,]—A good rem-
     edy for Fluor Albus, Dyspepsia, and Liver Complaints. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND  FLOWERS.           39
BLUE FLAG, [Iris Versicolor,]—Employed in  Colic,.Pains,
    Flatulency, and Debility of the Stomach.
BETH ROOT, [Trilium Purpureum,]—Beneficial for Bloody
    Urine, Spitting of Blood, Coughs, <fec.
BLUE-BELLS, [Polemonium Reptans,]—Invaluable in Fe-
    vers, Pleurisy, Consumption, and Liver Affections.
BALM, MOUNTAIN,  [Monarda Didyma.]
BALM, RED, [Monarda Didyma,]—Equal to Chamomile in
    Intermittents and protracted illness.
BITTER. ROOT.  [Apocynum Androsoemifolium,]—Used in
    Fevers, Liver Complaints, Rheumatism, and Dropsy.
BURDOCK SEEDS,  [Arctium Lappa,]—A good  Diuretic
    for Inflammation of Kidneys, <fec.
BOXWOOD BARK, [Conus Florida,]—In Fevers, both In-
    termittents and others, nearly equal to Quinine.
BOXBERRY HERB, [Gaultheria Procumbens,]—A favorite
     in Dropsy, Diarrhoea, and Obstructions.
BLOOD ROOT,  [Sanguinaria Canadensis,]—Useful in Pul-
     monary Affections, and Diseases of  Chest and Liver.
BEE'S NEST LEAVES, [Daucus Carota,]—Useful in Gravel
     Diseases of Bladder, and Suppressed Menses.
BALM, SWEET, [Dracocephalum  Canariensis,]—This herb
     is employed in Decays, Head-aches, &c.
BIND  WEED,  [Convolvulus  Panduratus,]—Useful  in
     Coughs, Asthma, Debility, and Dropsy.
BUCKBEAN, [Menyanthes Trifoliata,]—The infusion useful
     in Scurvy, Herpetic Diseases,  and Rheumatism.
 BULL'S FOOT,  [Tussilago Farfara,]—Esteemed in Coughs,
     Asthma, and Consumption.
 BRINTON'S  ROOT, [Leptandria  Virginica,]—Useful in
      Pleurisy, Bilious and Typhus Fevers. 
 40           ROOT*, HEKBS, AND FLOWERS.

 BLOOMSHELL FLOWER, [Chelone  Glabra,]—Given in
     Fevers and Jaundice, and is a good Vermifuge.
 BIRD'S  NEST,  [Daucus Carrota,]—Given in Strangury,
     Gravel, and Amenorrhcea.
 BENI-BENI,  [Sesamum Indicum.]
 BENNE  LEAVES, [Sesamum  Indicum,]—Makes a Mucil-
     age for Cholera  Infantum,  Catarrh, and Urinary Dis-
     eases.
 BALM OF GILEAD BUDS, [Populus Balsamifera,]— The
     Tincture for Debilitated Habits, and Fresh Wounds.
 BALM OF GILEAD HERB, [Dracocephalum Canariensis,]
     —The infusion is good in Head-ache and Debility.
 BIRCH BARK, BLACK, [Betula Lenta.]
 BIRCH  BARK, SWEET, [Betula Lenta,]—In decoction re-
     stores strength and tone to the Bowels after Dysentery.
 BUCKHORN BRAKE, [Osmunda Regalis,]—Beneficial  in
     Coughs,  Diarrhoea,  and  Soreness of  Stomach and
     Bowels.
 BLESSED THISTLE,  [Centaurea Benedicta,]—Prescribed
     in Fever as a Corrector of the Bile.
 BELL WORT,  [Uvularia PerfoHata,]—Useful  in Wounds
     and Sores, and for Inflamed Larynx and Gums.
 BALMONY,  [Chelone  Glabra,]—Given  in  Fevers  and
     Jaundice, and is a good Vermifuge.
 BITTER-SWEET, Bark of the Root,  [Celastrus Scandens,]
     —Beneficial in Liver  Complaints and Dropsical Affec-
     tions.
BLAZING STAR ROOT, [Aletris Farinosa,]—Cures Flatu-
     lent  and  Hysteric Cholic,  Fevers, and Chronic Rheu-
     matism. 
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 BLACK-SNAKE ROOT, [Macrotys Racemosa,]—Celebrated
     in Rheumatism,. Dropsy, and Hysteria.
 BURDOCK ROOT, [Arctium Lappa,]—In strong decoction
     for Diseases of the Kidneys and Obstructions.
 BURDOCK LEAVES, [Arctium Lappa,]—An excellent ex-
     ternal application for Sprains, Bruises, and Gout.
 BALSAM  PLANT,  [Comptonia Asplenifolia,]—Valuable
     in Diarrhoea, Cholera Infantum, and  Summer  Com-
     plaint.
 BITTER-SWEET  BERRIES,  [Celastrus Scandens,]—Bene-
     ficial in Liver Complaints, Scirrhus,  and Dropsical Af-
     fections.
 BLACK CHERRY BARK, [Prunus  Virginiana,]—Taken
     inTevers, Agues, Dyspepsia, Jaundice, and Worms.
 BLACKBERRY, Bark of the Root, [Rubus Occidentals,]—
     A more efficient agent in the above diseases.
 BALSAM,  SWEET, [Gnaphaleum Polycephalum.]
 BALSAM,  WHITE,  [Gnaphaleum  Polycephalum,]—Ex-
     tensively  used in Coughs, Colds, Pains in the Chest, <fcc.
 BITTER SWEET, Herb, [Solanum Dulcamara,]—Good for
     Cutaneous Diseases, Chronic Rheumatism, and Catarrh.
 BECCABUNGA,  [Veronica Beccabunga,]—An  excellent
     Purifier of the Blood ; good in Scurvy.
BANEBERRY,  RED,  [Actiea  Rubra,]—Cleansing  and
     strengthening; good in Female Obstructions.
 BLACKBERRIED ELDER, "[Sambucus  Canadensis,]—The
     infusion is popular for Erysipelas, Fevers, Rheumatism,
     Gout, &c.
BUCK THORN BERRIES, [Rhamnus  Catharticus,]—Re-
     commended in Dropsy, Rheumatism, and Gout.
           D2 
42
R00T8,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS.
 BITTER WORM,  [Menyanthes  Trifoliata,]—The  infusion
     useful in Scurvy, Herpetic Diseases, and Rheumatism.
 BEECH LEAVES,  [Fagus  Ferriginea,]—In successful  use
     for Cutaneous Diseases, Ulcers,  and Dyspepsia.
 BANEBERRY, WHITE,  [Actasa Alba,]—Good  in Colic,
     and has opening and stimulating qualities.
 BUGLOS, DYER'S, [Anchusa Tinctoria,]—Principally used
   in Coloring Tinctures, Oils, Ointments, and Plasters.
 BUGLOS, COMMON, [Borago  Officinalis,]—A remedy in
     Catarrhal, Rheumatic and Cutaneous Diseases.
 BEAKED  VIOLET,  [Viola  Rostrata,]—Chiefly  used  for
     Sore Throat and Canker, as  a gargle.
 BARBERRY BARK, [Berberis  Vulgaris,]—Usually com-
     bined Avith other tonics in Putrid Fevers and Dysentery.
 BUGBANE, [Macrotys Racemosa,]—Celebrated  in  Rheu-
    matism, Dropsy, and Hysteria.
 BEECH DROPS, [Epiphegus  Virginiana,]—A remedy for
     Sore Mouth, Dysentery, and  Cancerous Affections.
 BASIL, SWEET, [Ocymum Basilicum,]—A remedy for Ex-
     cessive Vomiting.
 BED-STRAW, [Galium Aparine,]—Good in Gravel, Dropsy,
    Fevers, Obstructions, and Eruptive Complaints.
 BITTERWORT,  [Apocynum Canabinum,]— Found  Bene-
    ficial in Rheumatism, Dropsy, and Asthmatic Cough
 BEECH BARK, [Fagus Ferriginea,]-The decoction is use-
    ful in Diabetes, and Incontinence of Urine.
BUGLE, SWEET, [Lycopus Virginicus,]—A cure for Diar-
    rhoea, Dysentery, and the first stages of Fevers.
 BASIL, WILD, Cunila Mariana,]—A pleasant medicine for
    Head-ache, Colds, Fevers. Hysterics, <fec. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND  FLOWERS.            43
BEARBERRY,  [Arbutus Uva-ursi,]—Efficacious in Ulcera-
    tions of the Kidneys and Bladder.
BAYBERRY BARK,  [Myrica  Cerifera,]—The infusion is
    good in Dysentery, and all Excessive Evacuations.
BUGLE, BITTER, [Lycopus Europeus,]—In not so general
    use as the Sweet Bugle ; properties  equivalent.
BASSWOOD  BARK,  [Tilia  Glabra,]—Makes  valuable
    Poultices for Painful Swellings.
BEAR'S WHORTLEBERRY, [Arbutus Uva-ursi,]—Effica-
    cious in Ulcerations of the Kidneys and Bladder.
BALSAM BOUGHS, [Gnaphaleum Polycephalum,]—Good
    in Syrup for Purifying the Blood.
BALSAM FLOWERS, [Gnaphaleum Polycephalum,]—Ex-
    cellent in Female and Infantile cases.
BALSAM  FIR,  GUM,  [Gnaphaleum  Polycephalum,]—
    Good in Coughs Colds, and excellent in healing all kinds
    of Sores, and used in Healing Salves.
COUGH  ROOT,  [Trillium  Purpureum,]—Beneficial  for
    Bloody Urine, Spitting of Blood, Coughs, &c.
CROWFOOT, [Geranium Maculatum,]—A remedy for Di-
    arrhoea, Hemorrhage, and Fluor Albus.
CLOWN  WOUNDWORT, [Collinsiona Canadensis,]—Re-
    commended in decoction for the Gravel.
CITRON BARK, [Citrus Medica,]—Employed in  Conserves
    and various Compounds.
CAYENNE, BIRD, [Capsicum Baceatum,]—Prescribed in
    Fevers, Cholera, Palsy, Dyspepsia, &c.
CAYENNE, AFRICAN, [Capsicum Annuum,]—Prescribed
    in Fevers, Cholera, Palsy, Dyspepsia, Colds, <fec.
CAYENNE, AM., [Capsicum Annuum,]—Prescribed in
    Fevers, Cholera, Palsy, Dyspepsia, Colds, <fec. 
44           ROOTS,  HERB*, AND FLOWER*.
CHAFF-WEED,  [Gnaphaleum  Uliginosura,]—The  tea is
     good for Colds, Coughs, and Obstructions.
CHAMOMILE  FLOWERS,  [Anthemis Nobilus,]—Given
     in Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite,  Sudden Colds, Colics,
     &c.
CATNEP, [Nepeta Cataria,]—For Colds, Suppressions, slight
     Febrile Attacks, <kc.
CUSSANDER ROOT, [Convolvulus  Panduratus,]—Given
     in Dropsy, and for Consumptive Coughs and Asthma.
CRAWLEY,  [Corallorhisa  Adontorhiza,]—Invaluable  in
     Fevers, Pleurisy, and Flatulent diseases.
COTTON, WILD, [Asclepias Syriaca,]—An effectual cure
     of Dropsy, and good in Scrofula and Rheumatism.
CRANESBILL, [Geranium Maculatum,]—A well-established
     remedy for Diarrhoea, Hemorrhage, and Fluor Albus.
CINQUE-FOIL, [Potentilla Canadensis,]—Beneficial inTe-
     vers with Night Sweats, and in allaying  Fluxes.
CHRISTMAS ROSE,  [Heleborus  Niger,]—Employed  in
     Mania Melancholy, and as a cathartic in Dropsy.
CALAMUS,  [Acorus Calamus,]—Excellent in  Flatulence,
     Colic, and Wind in the Stomach.
CATFOOT, [Glechoma Hederacea,]—The  infusion is used
     in Coughs and for Internal Ulcers.
CENTAURY, [Sabbatia Angularis,]—A popular remedy in
     Fever and Ague, and Defective Digestion.
CRANBERRY,  UPLAND,  [Arbutus  Uva-ursi,]—Effica-
     cious in Ulcerations of the Kidneys and  Bladder.
CURLED-DOCK,  [Rumex Crispus,]—Highly estimated  in
     diseases of the Skin and Scrofulous disorders.
CRAMP  BARK,  [Virburnum Oxycocus,]—Highly extolled
     in Cramps and Spasmodic Affections. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS.           45
COTTON, DWARF, [Gnaphaleum  Uliginosum,]—The tea
    is good for Colds, Coughs, and Obstructions.
COWHAGE, [Mucuna Pruriens,]—A powerful Vermifuge;
    effectual in Expelling Worms.
CLOVES, [Eugenia  Caryophillata,]—In compounds used to
    correct the action  of Purgatives, &c.
CHONGRAS, [Phytolacca Decandria,]—Valuable in Rheu-
    matic Complaints and Indolent Tumors.
CORN-SNAKE ROOT, [Licatris Spicata,]—The tea  is a
    valuable medicine in Colic, Dropsy, Back-ache,  &c.
CUREALL, [Melissa Officinalis,]—The infusion is useful in
    Head-aches, Asthma,  and Fevers.
CUCKOLD, [Agrimonia Eupatoria,]—Employed in Fevers,
    Jaundice, Coughs, and Bowel Complaints.
COHOSH, WHITE, [Actaa Alba,]—Good  in  Colic, and
    has opening and stimulating qualities.
COHOSH, RED,  [Actsea  Rubra.]—Good in Cleansing and
    Strengthening ; good in Female Obstructions.
COHOSH, BLUE,  [Caulophyllum Thalictroides,]—Often
    prescribed in  Croups,  Colics, Cholera Morbus,  and Ep-
    ilepsy.
COHOSH, BLACK,  [Macrotys  Racemosa,]—Celebrated in
    Rheumatism,  Dropsy,  and Hysteria.
CINCHONA, AM.,  [Cornusflorida,]—Tn Fevers, both In-
    termittents and others, nearly equal to quinine.
CHECKERBERRY, [Mitchella Repens,]—Highly  recom-
    mended in Dropsy, Diarrhoea, and Parturition.
CANADA ROOT,  [Asclepias  Tuberosa,]—Beneficial  in
    Pleurisy, Colics, and all Flatulent diseases.
CELANDINE, WILD, [Impatiens pallida,]—Efficacious  in
    Jaundice and  Bilious  affections. 
46           ROOTS, HBRBS, AND FLOWERS.
  CANADA  THISTLE, ROOT,  [Cnicus arvensis.]—Appli-
      cable to all the purposes of general diuretics.
  CUCKOO-BREAD, [Oxalis acetocella,]—A very strong de-
    coction or extract, cures Cancers, as a plaster.
  CINCHONA  BARK,  [Cinchona officinalis,]—Uses   well
      known in Want of Appetite, Decay, Hysterics, &c.
  CHOCOLATE ROOT,  [Geum  rivale,]—Valuable in Debil-
      ity, Dyspepsia, Bleeding at the Lungs, Colic, &c.
  CORIANDER SEED, [Coriandrum sativum,]—Employed in
      Hysterics, Tertian  Agues, and Carminative Compounds.
  CURCUMA ROOT, [Curcuma longa,]—Used  in Coloring
      Tinctures, and is good in Jaundice and Dropsy.
 COW-PARSNIP SEED, [Heracleum  lanatum,]—Given as
      a carminative in Flatulent Complaints.
 CORAL ROOT,  [Corallorhiza odontorhiza,]—Invaluable in
      Fevers, Pleurisy, and Flatulent diseases.
 CULVER'S  ROOT,   [Leptandria  virginica,)—Useful  in
      Pleurisy, Bilious and Typhus Fevers.
 CHAMOMILE, WILD or HIGH, [Anthemis cotula],—Em-
      ployed in Fevers and Colds, to produce perspiration.
 CATCH-WEED,  [Galium aparine,]—Good in Gravel, Drop-
      sy, Fevers, Obstructions and Eruptions.
 COCK-UP-HAT, [Stillingia sylvatica,]—Valuable in Yaws,
      Ulcers, Venereal complaints, and Leprosy.
 CLIFF-WEED, [Heucheria acerifolia,]—An external remedy
      in Hemorrhage, Sores, Wounds, and Ulcers.
• CHEESE PLANT,  [Malva rotundifolia,]-Often used in de-
      coction for Dysentery and Urinary complaints.
 COLCHICUM,  [Colchicum  autumnale,]—Serviceable in
      Gout, Dropsy, Piles,  and Humoral Asthma. 
             ROOTS,  HERBS, AND  BLOWERS.           47

COCASH ROOT, [Aster puniceus,]—A popular remedy in
     Rheumatism, Head-ache, and Nervous Debility.
COFFEE, WILD,  [Triosteum perfoliatum,]—Useful in
     Fevers, Agues, Pleuritis, &c.
CHERRIES,  WILD,  [Cerasus virginiana,]—Improve the
     tone of the Stomach and promote Digestion.
COLEWORT ROOT,  [Geum rivale,]—Valuable in Debility,
     Dyspepsia, Bleeding at the  Lungs, Colic, <fcc.
CONSUMPTION BRAKE,  [Botrychium fumarioides,]—
     Useful in Consumption, Diarrhoea, Cholera Infantum, &c.
CANCER-ROOT  PLANT, [Epiphegus  virginiana,]—Valu-
     able in Cancers and  Cancerous affections, Dysentery, &c.
CASCARILLA BARK,  [Croton cascarilla,]—Well known
     in Fevers, Tertians, Diarrhoea, &c.
CATCH-FLY, [Apocynum  cannabinum;]—Beneficial in
     curing Rheumatism, Dropsy, and Asthmatic Cough.
CICUTA LEAVES, [Conium  maculatum,]—Prescribed as
     a Narcotic, and in Scrofulous and Chronic complaints.
CONSUMPTION WEED, [Lactuca elongata,]—Efficacious
     in Dropsies of long standing,  and Consumption.
CHERRY BARK, WILD, [Cerasus virginiana,]—Taken in
     Fevers, Agues, Dyspepsia, Jaundice,  and Worms.
CONE FLOWER, [Rudbeckia  lacinata,]—Give the decoc-
     tion freely in wasting diseases of the Kidneys.
CAMMOMILE, LOW, [Anthemis nobilis,]—A  good Stom-
     achic Bitter, nearly equivalent to the Flower.
CELANDINE, GARDEN,  [Chelidonum  majus,]—Recom-
     mended in Liver complaints,  Tetter,  Jaundice,  and
     Dropsy. 
48           ROOTS, HERBS,  AND FLOWERS.
CANADIAN  FLEABANE,  [Erigeron  canadense,]—The
    powder is a strong Styptic; the tea (cold) for  Internal
    Bleeding.
CASSIA BUDS, [Laurus cinamomum,]—An excellent Cor-
    dial and Restorative remedy.
CUBEBS,  [Piper cubeba,]—Prescribed  in  Gonorrhoea,  and
    similar complaints.
CANDLE-BERRY, [Myrica cerifera,]—Principally given in
    compounds, but the  infusion is good in Dysentery, and
    all excessive evacuations.-
CUCUMBER-TREE BARK, [Magnolia  acuminata,]—Re-
    commended in Chronic Rheumatism,  and Fevers gen-
    erally.
COOLWORT, RED, [Trifolium pratense,]—The syrup or
    extract is good for Cancerous affections and Ulcers.
COWPARSNIP LEAVES, [Heracleum lanatum.]
COWPARSNIP ROOT,  [Heracleum  lanatum,]—Good in
    Epilepsy, Nervous, Gastric, and Flatulent diseases.
CUDWEED,  [Gnaphaleum  polycephalum,]—Excellent in
    Quinsy, Weak Lungs, Consumption, and Fluor Albus.
CLOVE GARLIC,  [Allium sativum,]—Beneficial in Feeble
    Digestion, Chronic, Catarrh, Asthma, Coughs, <fec.
CASSIA BARK, [Laurus cinnamomum,]—Good for Bowel
    complaints, Flatulency, Nausea, and Vomiting.
CANELLA BARK,  [Canella alba,]—Generally combined
    with other remedies  in Debilitated Digestion.
CEDAR APPLES, [Juniperis virginiana,]—In doses of 5 to
    to 20 grs. highly recommended for Worms in children.
CEDARBERRIES, [Juniperis virginiana,]—Used in infusion
    and tineture for Dropsy. Suppression, <fec. 
ROOTS,  HERBS,  AND FLOWERS.            49
CLARY, [Salria sclara,]—The herb used in Whites, Hys-
     terics, Colic, <fec.
COAKUM, [Phytolacca decandria,]—Good in Rheumatism,
     cleansing the Blood, and discussing Tumors.
CLEAVERS, [Galium aparine,]—Good in Gravel,  Dropsy,
     Fevers, Obstructions, and Eruptions.
CICELY,  SWEET,  [Uraspermum  claytani,]—Useful  in
     Coughs, and a good carminative in Flatulent complaints.
CHILLIES,  [Capsicum  annuum,]—Prescribed in Fevers,
     Cholera, Dyspepsia,  Colds, &c.
COMFREY, [Symphitum officinalis,]—Valuable in Dysen-
     tery, diseases of the Bladder, Kidneys, and Bowels.
COLOCYNTH,  [Cucumis  colocynthus,]—Of use in Consti-
     pation,  Epilepsy, &c.
CANKER WEED,  [Prenanthes alba,]—Used in Diarrhoea,
     Dysentery, and Derangement of the Bowels.
CARROT  SEEDS, WILD,  [Daucus  carota,]—Given in
     Strangury, Calculus, Lumbrici,  <fec.
 CARDINAL FLOWER,  RED, [Lobelia cardinalis,]—Used
     in Cancer,  and a good  Anthelmintic in  Worm com-
     plaints.
CHICKEN'S TOES, [Corallorhiza odoutorhiza,]—Invaluable
     in Fevers,  Pleurisy, and  Flatulent diseases.
 COLOMBO ROOT, [Frasera  caroliniensis,]—The powdered
     root is given in Colic, Nausea Diarrhoea, and Dyspepsia.
 CHICKWEED,  [Cerastium  vulgatum,]—Makes  a  useful
     Cooling Ointment.
 COLT'S TAIL, [Erigeron canadense,]—The  powder  is a
     strong Styptic ;  the tea (cold)  for Internal Bleeding.
                E 
50           LOOTS,  UKKBS, AND FL0AVKH8.

CARROT LEAVES,  WILD, [Daucus carota,]—Decidedly
     useful in Gravel, diseases of the Bladder, aud Suppressed
     Menses.
CANOE-WOOD  BARK, [Liriodendron tulipifera,]—Good
     in Intermittents, Hysterics, and Dyspeptical cases.
CAROLINA  PINK, [Spigelia  marilandica,]—An officinal
     remedy for Worms, and allords relief  in acute diseases.
COLT'S FOOT, [Tussillago farfara,]—Esteemed  in Coughs,
     Asthma, and Consumption.
COLIC ROOT, [Asclepias tuberosa,]—Beneficial in Pleuri-
     sy, Colics, and all Flatulent diseases.
CARDUS,  SPOTTED,  [Centaurea benedicta,]—Prescribed
     in Fever and Ague, and for a corrector of the Bile.
CARAWAY SEED, [Caruni carui,]—A good ingredient in
     carminative compounds.
CARDINAL FLOWER,  BLUE,  [Lobelia  syphilitica,]—
     Highly extolled as a remedy in Syphilitis diseases.
CARDAMOM SEED, [Alpinia cardamomum,]—Employed
     as a corrective of purgative and tonic medicines.
CURRANT BARK, BLACK,—Good in all diseases  of the
     Throat.
DOVE'S FOOT, (Gerauium maculatum,)—Established rem-
     edy for Diarrhoea, Hemorrhage, and Fluor Albus.
DILL-WEED, or DILLY,  [Anthemis cotula,]—Employed
     in Fevers and Colds to produce perspiration.
DOGWOOD BARK, [Cornus florida,]—In Fevers, both In-
     termittents and others, nearly equal to Quinine.
DACKLiETTER, [Veratrum  viride,]—Useful in Catarrhs,
     Mania and Herpetic affections. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS.            51
DOG'S BANE,  RIVER, [Apocynum cannabinum,]—Bene-
     ficial  in curing Rheumatism, Dropsy, and Asthmatic
     Cough.
DOG'S  BANE, [Solanum dulcamara,]—Good for  Cutane-
     ous diseases, Chronic Rheumatism, and Catarrh.
DWALE,  [Atropa belladonna,]—Used in  disorders of the
     Nervous System, Epilepsy, Mania, &c.
DILL SEED, [Anethum graveolens,]—Used in all Flatulent
     diseases, Colics, &c.
DAISY  FLOWERS,  [Crysanthemum  leucanthemum,]—
     Good in Asthma,  Consumption, and  Dropsical com-
     plaints.
DUCK'S FOOT,  [Podophyllum  peltatum,]—A  substitute
     for Mercury in Venereal, Scrofulous, and  all other dis-
     eases.
DEVIL'S  BIT, [Aletris farinosa,]—It cures Flatulent and
     Hysteric Colic, Fevers, and Chronic Rheumatism.
DANEWORT, ]Aralia hispid a,]—Useful in Colics, Flatulent
     diseases, and  Dropsy.
DANDELION, HERB, [Leontodon taraxacum,]—The de-
     coction good in Jaundice, Dyspepsia, &c.
DOCK, BROADLEAF, [Rumex obtusifolius,]—Medical vir-
     tues similar to the yellow dock.
DROPSY  PLANT, [Melissa  officinalis,]—The  infusion  is
     useful in Head-aches, Asthma, and Fevers.
DOGWOOD, SWAMP,  [Cornus sericea,]—Excellent for
     Vomiting in Pregnancy, and Diseased Uterus.
DEERWEED,  [Macrotys racemosa,]—Celebrated in Rheu-
     matism, Dropsy, and Hysteria.
DRAGON'S  CLAW,  [Corallorhiza odontorhiza,]—Invalu-
     able in Fevers, Pleurisy, and Flatulent diseases. 
52           ROOiS, HERBS,  AND FLOWERS.
  DRAGON  ROOT,  [Arum  tryphyllum,] — Valuable  in
      Coughs, Colds, Cramps, and Consumptive affections.
  DANDELION ROOT, [Leontodon taraxacum,]—A favorite
      remedy in diseases of the Liver,  Gravel, and Constipa-
      tion.
  DITTANY, [Cunila  mariana,]—A pleasant  medicine for
      Head-aches, Colds, Fevers, Hysterics, <fec.
  DOCK, YELLOW, [Rumex crispus,]—Highly estimated in
      diseases of the Skin, and Scrofulous disorders.
  DOGWOOD, ROUND LEAVED, [Cornus circinati,]—Very
      useful in Debility .attended with Diarrhoea.
 DOGWOOD FLOWERS, [Cornus florida,]—A good remedy
     for Fluor Albus, Dyspepsia, Liver complaints, &c.
 DOCK, WATER,  [Rumex  aquaticus,]—Good  in  Scurvy,
     Cutaneous Eruptions, and Cancerous Tumors.
 DOGWOOD, FALSE, [Acer striatum,]-The decoction taken
     freely makes an excellent  Vermifuge.
 EARTH-GALL,  [Veratrum  viride,]—Useful  in  Catarrhs,
     Mania, and Herpetic affections.
 EMETIC  SEED, [Lobelia  inflata,]-In  Asthma,   Colics, .
     Spasms, and as  an Emetic, it is very valuable.
 ELECAMPANE,  [Inula helenium,]-Relieves Colics, Colds,
     Coughs, Dropsies,  and Cutaneous diseases.
 EYE-BALM, or ROOT, [Hydrastus canadensis,]-An excel-
     lent tonic and corrective of Bile and Bilious habits
 ELDER BARK,  [Sambucus canadensis,]-Used in obstinate
     Glandular obstructions and Dropsy
ELDER FLOWERS, [Sambucus canadensis,]-The infusion
     is popular  for  Erysipelas, Fevers, Rheumatism, and
     Gout. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS.           53
ELDER,  DWARF, [Aralia  hispida,]—Useful  in  Colics,
     Flatulent diseases, and Dropsy.
ELDER,  PRICKLEY, [Pyrus  americana,]—Cleanses the
     Blood, and good in Bilious diseases.
ELDER,  SWEET,  [Sambucus canadensis,]—The infusion is
     popular for Erysipelas, Fevers, Rheumatism, Gout, &c.
EVE'S CUP, [Sarracenia purpurea,]—Good in Nervous com-
     plaints to strengthen the system.
EARTHWORT, TRAILING,  [Epigea  repens,]—Infusion
     drank freely in Stoppage of Urine and Gravel.
EMETIC HERB, [Lobelia inflata,]—Qualities the same as
     the seed, but not so powerful.
EVAN ROOT, [Geum rivale,]—Valuable in Debility, Dyspep-
     sia, Bleeding at the Lungs, Colic, and Relax.
ELM BARK, SLIPPERY; [Ulmus fulva,]—Universally used
     in Urinary and BoAvel complaints,  Scurvy, and Invete-
     rate Eruptions ; also as a diet in Fevers, and external in
     poultices.
EBONY SPLEEN WORT, [Asplenium trichomianodes,]—Af-
     fords relief in Gravel  and pain in the  Urinary organs.
EUPHORBIA,  [Euphorbia  ipecacuanha,]—Prescribed  in
     Dropsy, Bilious Colic, &c.
FLUX-ROOT, [Gentina catesbei,]—Excellent in Pneumonia,
     Dyspepsia,  and General Debility.
FUMITORY, [Fumaria officinalis,]—A  tea drank  freely is
     good for Cutaneous eruptions.
FLAG-LILY, [Iris  versicolor,]—Employed in  Colic  pains,
     Flatulency, and debility of the Stomach.
FEVERFEW,  [Chrysanthemum parthenium,]—Serviceable
     in  Hysterical  complaints—to  expel the  wind and
     strengthen the  stomach.
           E2 
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ROOTS, HERBS, AND  FLOWERS.
FAIRY'S  GLOVE, [Digitalis  purpurea,]—For  Dropsy in
    the Chest this bark is very useful in infusion.
FERN,  SWEET,  [Comptonia  asplenifolia,]—Valuable in
    Diarrhoea, Cholera Infantum, and Summer complaints.
FERN, FEMALE, [Aspidium filix femina,]—Good in Lum-
    bago, and makes excellent syrup for Coughs.
FERN, ROCK,  [Adiantum  pedatum,]—Much  esteemed in
    Coughs, Asthma, and disorders of the Chest.
FERN, MEADOW,  [Myrica gale,]—An excellent remedy
    for the Piles, and in Debility.
FERN, MEADOW, BURS,  [Myrica gale,]—Good in Asth-
    ma, Bronchitis, and similar complaints.
FERN, MALE,  [Aspidium  filix-mas,]—Considered a good
    remedy for  the Tape Worm.
FERN, MEADOW, BARK, [Myrica gale,]—Given in  De-
    bility, and while  recovering from Fevers.
FLOWER-DE-LURE,   [Tussilago  farfara,]—Esteemed  in
    Coughs, Asthma, and Consumption.
FROSTWORT,  [Cistus  canadensis,]—Of  great  value in
    Scrofulous aflections as a poultice and tea.
FIVE-FINGER,  [Potentilla  canadensis,]—Beneficial in Fe-
    vers with night sweats, and in allaying fluxes.
FEVER-CURE,  [Lobelia inflata,]—An  excellent  emetic in
    Fevers, and good in Asthma.
FLAG-ROOT, [Acorus  calamus,]—Excellent in Flatulence,
    Colic, and Wind in the  Stomach.
FALSE ALDER, [Prinos verticillatus,]—Useful in Fevers,
    Agues, Debility, Jaundice, Dropsy, <fec.
FLY-TRAP, [Solanum  dulcamara,]—Good  for  Cutaneous
    diseases. Chronic  Rheumatism, and Catarrh. 
             ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS?           55

FEVER ROOT, [Triosteum perfoliatum,]—Useful in Fevers,'
    Agues, Pleuritis, <fec.
FEATHERFEW, [Crysanthemum parthenium,]—Serviceable
    in Hysteric complaints, and to "strengthen the Stomach.
FIT-ROOT, [Monarda  uniflora,]—Given  in Epilepsy, and
    Convulsions of Children.
FOAL'S FOOT, [Tussilago farfara,]—Esteemed in Coughs,
    Asthma, and Consumption.
FEVER-BUSH BARK, [Laurus benzoin,]—Extensively used
    in Intermittent Fevers.
FEVER-BUSH LEAVES,  [Laurus  benzoin,]—Reckoned
    good in Inflammatory and other Fevers,
FEVER-BUSH TWIGS,  [Laurus benzoin,]—An infusion or
    decoction useful in Low Fevers and  as a Vermifuge.
FROSTWEED, [Aster puniceus,]—A popular remedy&in
    Rheumatism, Head-ache, and Nervous Debility.
FENNEL SEED, [Anethum fceniculum,]—A good aromatic,
    useful in bitters, and a variety of compounds.
FLAX SEED,  [Lini usitatissimum,]—Employed in Catarrh,
    Dysentery, Strangury, and Cataplasms.
FEVER TWIG, [Solanum dulcamara,]—Good for Cutane-
    ous diseases, Chronic Rheumatism, and Catarrh.
FOX-GLOVE,  [Digitalis purpurea,]—For Dropsy  in the
    Chest this herb is very useful in infusion.
FISHMOUTH, [Chelone glabra,]—Given in Fevers  and
    Jaundice,  and is a good Vermifuge.
FERNBUSH,  [Comptonia .asplenifolia,]—Valuable in Diar-
    rhoea, Cholera Infantum, and Summer complaint.
FLEABANE,  [Erigeron  canadense,]—The  powder  is  a
    strong styptic; the tea cold for Internal Bleeding. 
  56            ROOTS, HERBS, AND  FLOWERS.

  FIELD-WEED, [Anthemis cotula,]—Employed  in  Fevers
      and Colds to produce  perspiration.
  FOX-BERRY,  [Arbutus uva-ursi,]—Efficacious  in Ulcera-
      tions of the Kidneys and Bladder.
  FENUGREEK  SEED, [Trigonella famum  graecum,]—Em-'
      ployed in Cataplasms,  Ointments, <fec.
  FLOWER-DE-LUCE,  [Iris  sambucini,]—One of  the best
      remedies known in Venereal affections, Dropsy, &c,
  FIRE-WEED, [Senelio hieracifolius,]—Employed in Hemor-
      rhage, Wounds, and diseases of  the Skin.
  FLEABANE, PHIL'A, [Erigeron philadelphicum,]—Puri-
      fies the Blood, promotes Expectoration,  and is a good
      Diuretic.
 GREEN HELLEBORE, [Veratrum  viride,]—Useful in Ca-
     tarrhs, Mania and Herpetic affections.
 GOOSE FOOT,  [Chenopdium anthelminticum,]—Extensive-
     ly  used in expelling Worms in Children.
 GINSENG, [Panax quinquefolia,]—Strengthens the Nerves
     improves the Appetite, and is good in Loav Fevers.
 GINSENG, BLUE,  [Canlophyllum  thalictroides,]—Often
     prescribed  in  Croup, Colic, Cholera Morbus, and Epi-
     lepsy.
 GAYFEATHER,  [Liatris  spicata,]—The  tea is  a valuable "
     medicine in Colic, Dropsy, Back-ache, &c.
 GARRENTOGEN, [Panax quinquefolia,]—Strengthens  the
    Nerves, improves  the  Appetite,  and is good in Low
    Fevers.
GOLDENSEAL,   [Hydrastus  canadensis,]—An  excellent
    Tonic, Corrector of Bile  and Bilious habits.
GUM PLANT,  [Symphitum  officinalis,]—Valuable in Dye-
   .entery,  and diseases of the Bladder and Kidneys. 
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GINGER, AFRICAN,  [Amomum zingiber.]
GINGER, JAMAICA,  [Amomum zingiber.]
GINGER, RACE, [Amomum zingiber,]—Given in Dyspep-
    sia, Flatulent diseases, Tonic compounds, <fcc.
GINGER, WILD, [Asarum canadense,]—Used Avith success
    in Intermittent Fevers, and for Cephalic Snuffs.
GARLICKS, [Allium  sativum,]—Beneficial in Feeble Di-
    gestion, Chronic Catarrh, Asthma,  Coughs, &c.
GUAICUM CHIPS,  [Guaicum officinale,]—Strengthens the
    Stomach, and purges an impure state of the blood.
GENTIAN, [Gentiana  lutea,]—Dyspepsia,  Gout, Hysterics
    and Diarrhoea are benefitted by its use.
GIPSY-WEED, [Lycopus virginicus,]—In more general use
    than Blue Ginseng; properties equivalent.
GROUND  HOLLY, [Chimaphilla  umbellata,]—A tea is
    used to Purify the  Blood,
GILL-GO-OVER-THE-GROUND, [Glechoma hederacea,]—
    The infusion is useful in Coughs and for Internal Ulcers.
GOOSE GRASS, [Galium aparine,]—Good in Gravel, Drop-
    sy, Fevers, Obstructions, and Eruptive complaints.
GARGET, [Plytolacea  decandria,]—Good  in Rheumatism,
    for Cleansing the Blood, and Discussing Tumors.
GREAT MULLEIN, [Verbas cumthapsus,]—Recommended
    for Children's Fits, Croup, and Asthma.
GENTIAN,  BLUE, [Gentian catesbei,]—The  infusion  is
    used for Coughs, and for Internal Ulcers.
GOLD-THREAD, [Coptis trifolia,]—The powder or tincture
    restores the appetite and strength after Fevers.
GRAVEL ROOT, [Eupatorium  purpureum,]—Excellent in
    Strangury, and  all Dropsical affections. 
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ROOTS, HERBS, AND  FLOWERS.
  GRAINS  OF  PARADISE, [Amomum grana paradisi,]—
      Nearly equal to Cayenne as a pure stimulant.
  GREEN-LEAF, [Chimaphilla umbellata,]—A tea is used to
      Purify the Blood.
  GOLDEN ROOT, [Prenanthes alba,]—Useful in Diarrhoea,
      Dysentery, and Derangement of Bowels.
  GOLDEN ROD,  SWEET,  [Solidago odora,]—This herb is
      good in Debility, Colds, and Gravelly complaints.
  GRAVEL PLANT, [Epigea  repens,]—The  infusion excel-
      lent in Gravel and Kidney diseases.
  GRAPEFERN, [Botrychium fumarioides,]—Useful in Con-
      sumption, Diarrhoea, and Cholera Infantum.
 HEMLOCK,  POISON, [Conium maculatum,]—Prescribed
      as a narcotic, and in Scrofulous and Chronic complaints.
 HOPS, [Humulus lupulus,]—Used in Jaundice, Indigestion,
     and as a substitute for Opium.
 HYSSOP, [Hyssopus officinalis,]—Used in Humoral Asth-
     ma, Coughs, and disorders of the Chest.
 HARDHACK  LEAVES,   [Spiraea  tomentosa,]—Checks
     Diarrhoea, and  is an excellent outward application for
     Wounds, Sores, &c.
 HORSERADISH LEAVES, [Cochlearia armoracia,]—Em-
     ployed as draughts to produce counter-irritation
 HORSERADISH  ROOT,   [Cochlearia  armoracia,] - In
     Chronic Rheumatism, Asthma, and  Debility,  these are
     beneficial.
HENBANE, BLACK, [Hyoscyamus niger,]-AdminiStered
     as a Narcotic when Opium is objectionable.
HEART'S-EASE, [Polygonum  persicaria,]—An   excellent
     remedy for Asthma, and good in Colds, Fevers, <fec. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS.
~59
H.iYMAIDS, [Glechoma hederacea,]—The infusion is used
    in Coughs, and for Internal Ulcers.
HOARHOUND,  [Marrubium vulgare,]—Beneficial in Asth-
    ma, Coughs, Jaundice,  and Obstructions.
HOARHOUND,  WATER,   [Lycopus  europeus,]—A cure
    for Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and first stages of Fevers.
HEAL-ALL, [Prunella  vulgaris,]—Used  in  Hemorrhage,
    Diarrhoea, and for gargles in Sore Throat.
HELLEBORE, BLACK, [Helleborus niger,]—Employed  in
    Mania Melancholy, and as a cathartic in Dropsy.
HELLEBORE, WHITE, [Veratrum viride,]—Useful in Ca-
    tarrhs, Mania and Herpetic affections.
HORSEMINT, [Monarda punctata,]—Good  in diseases  of
    the Urinary Passages, Fevers, and Pleurisy.
HIGH CRANBERRY BARK, [Viburnum  oxycoccus,]—
    Very effectual  in relaxing Cramps aud Spasms of all
    kinds.
HEMLOCK BARK,  [Pinus canadensis,]—As an astringent
    and tonic generally used in compounds.
HEMLOCK LEAVES, [Pinus  canadensis,]—Good  in  In-
    flammatory Rheumatism, to Purify the Blood, and  to
    cause perspiration.
HEALING HERB, [Symphitum  officinalis,]—For  Dysen-
    tery, diseases of the Bladder, Kidneys, and Bowels.
HOODWORT,  [Scetellaria laterifolia,]—Efficacious in St.
    Vitus' Dance, Convulsions, and Lock-jaw.
HOLLYHOCK FLOWERS, [Althaea rosea,]—Useful in va-
    rious forms as a demulcent.
HERCULES' CLUB, [Pyrus americana,]—Useful in Bilious
    complaints, and for Cleansing the Blood. 
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ROOTS,  HBRB8,  AND FLOWERS.
 HORSE-GINSENG ROOT, [Triosteum perfoliatum,]—Use-
     ful in Fevers, Agues, Pleuritis, <fec.
 HEALTH BITTERS,  [Melissa  officinalis,]—The infusion is
     useful in Head-aches, Asthma, and Fevers.
 HIGH ANGELICA, [Angelica  atropurpurea,]—Excellent in
     Wind Colic, Flatulent complaints, and Debility.
 HOLY  THISTLE, [Centaurea benedicta,]—Prescribed in
     Fever and Ague, and corrector of Bile.
 HORSE-FLY  WEED, [Babtisia tinctoria,]—Excellent for
     Foul, Malignant and Syphillitic Ulcers and Sores.
 HONEY-BLOOM ROOT, [Apocynum androsaemifolium,]—
     Used in Fevers,  Liver Complaints,  Rheumatism, and
     Dropsy.
 HORSE-BALM ROOT,  [Collinsonia canadensis,]—Recom-
     mended in decoction for Gravel.
 INKROOT, [Statice limonium,]— Beneficial in Gleet, Whites,
     Diarrhoea, Canker, and Sore Throat.
 INDIAN  PAINT, [Hydrastus  canadensis,]—An  excellent
     tonic and corrector of Bile and Bilious habits.
 IVY, GROUND, [Glechoma  herderacea,]—The infusion is
     used in Coughs and for Internal Ulcers.
ICELAND MOSS, [Cetraria islandica,]— Undoubtedly a val-
     uable medicine in  Pulmonary complaints.
IPECAC,  WILD,  [Triosteum perfoliatum,]—Useful in Fe-
     vers, Agues, Pleuritis, <fcc.
IPECAC, WHITE, [Asclepias syriaca,]—Cures Dropsy, and
     good in  Scrofulous and Rheumatic disorders.
IPECAC, MILK, [Apocynum androsaemifolium,]—Used in
     Fevers, Liver complaints, Rheumatism, and Dropsy
INDIAN HEMP, WHITE, [Asclepias incarnata,]-U8eful
     in Suppression  of Urine, Costiveness. and Worms. 
ROOTS,  HEKBS,  AND FLO AVERS.
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 INDIAN  HEMP,  BLACK,  [Apocynum  canabinum,]—
     Found beneficial in curing Rheumatism, Dropsy, and
     Asthmatic Cough.
 INDIAN PHYSIC, [Apocynum androsiemifolium,]—Used
     in Fevers, Liver complaints, Rheumatism, and Dropsy.
 ITCHWEED, [Veratrum viride,]—Useful in Catarrhs, Ma-
     nia and Herpetic affections.
 INDIGO, WILD,  [Babtisia tinctoria,]—Excellent for  Foul,
     Malignant and Syphilitic Ulcers and Sores.
 ICE-PLANT, [Senecio hieracifolius,]—Employed in Hemorr-
     hage, Wounds, and diseases  of the Skin.
 INDIAN  PIPE, [Monarda  uniflora,]—Given in Epilepsy
     and Convulsions of  Children.
 IRISH MOSS, [Chondrus crispus,]—Given in Colds, Coughs,
     and Pulmonary affections.
 INDIAN. ELM,  [Ulmus fulva,]—Used in  Urinary  and
     Bowel complaints, Scurvy and Inveterate Eruptions ; also
     as a diet in Fevers, and externally in Poultices.
 IPECACUANHA,  [Ceph-elis ipecacuanha.]
 IPECACUANHA,  AM., [Euphorbia ipecacuanha,]—Pre-
     scribed  in  Dropsy,  Bilious Colic, and a variety of dis-
     eases.
 INDIAN TOBACCO, [Lobelia inflata,]—In Asthma, Colics,
     Spasms, and as an Emetic,  it is very valuable.
 INDIAN ARROW-WOOD,  [Euonymous atropurpurea,]—
     Extensively employed in compounds for affections  of tha
     Lungs.
INDIGO BROOM,  [Babtisia tinctoria,]—Excellent for Foul,
     Malignant and Syphilitic Ulcers and Sores.
INDIAN  TURNIP,  [Arum  triphyllum,]—Valuable  in
     Coughs, Colds, Cramps, and Consumptive affections.
           F 
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ROOTS,  HEKBS, AND FLOWERS.
 IRON-WOOD BOUGHS,—The tea is good in all Scrofulous
     complaints.
 ■JOE-SPY,  [Eupatorium  perfoliatum,]—Of great value in
     Fevers ; properties well known.
 JALAP, [Ipomsea  Jalapa,]—Combined with Cream-tartar,
     an  excellent Cathartic and Hydragogue.
 JALAP, AM., [Convolvulus panduratus,]—For Dropsical
     affections and for Consumptive Coughs and Asthma.
 JALAP, NORTHERN,  [Phytolacea decandria,]—Good in
     Rheumatism, for Cleansing the Blood, and  Discussing
     Tumors.
 JUNIPER-BERRIES,  [Juniperus  communis,]—In infusion
     an  excellent diuretic drink for the Dropsy.
 JACK-IN-THE-HEDGE, [Glechoma  hederacea,]—The in-
     fusion is used in Coughs  and for Internal Ulcers.
 JOHN'S-WORT,  [Hypericum  perforatum,]—Beneficial in
     Diarrhoea, Obstructions of Urine,  and Hysterical com-
     plaints.
JAMESTOWN, or JIMSON  WEED, [Datura stramonium,]
     —Recommended in Asthma and Spasmodic diseases.
JACOB'S LADDER, [Similax peduncularis,]—The infusion
     is good as a Diuretic and for Stone in the Bladder.
 JOB'S TEAR'S, [Coix. lachryma,]—Seeds steeped in water
     is a good Diuretic, and for a Solvent for Stone.
JEWEL WEED, [Impatiens  pallida,]—Efficacious iu Jaun-
     dice, and Bilious affections.
KNOB ROOT, [Collinsohia canadensis,]—Recommended in
     decoction for the Gravel.
 KIDNEY  LIVER-LEAF,  [Hepatica  triloba,]—Celebrated
     in Bleeding at  the Lungs.  Consumption,  Coughs, and
     Liver complaints. 
             ROOTS, HERBS,  AND FLOWERS.           68

KNOT WEED,  BITING,  [Polygonum  punctatum,]—The
    tea stops Vomiting, and in Fomentations reduces Swell-
    ings.
KNOT GRASS,  [Polygonum avienlare,]—Severe  cases  of
    Lock-jaw and Spasms are cured by this article.
KINNIKINNICK, [Arbutus uva-ursi,]—Efficacious in Ulce-
    rations of the Kidneys and Bladder.
KING'S CLOVER,  [Melilotus alba,]—Applied  locally  to
    Swellings and Inflamations.
KUCUMA,  OHIO,  [Hydrastus canadensis,]—An excellent
    tonic and corrective of  Bile and Bilious habits,
LOUSEWORT, [Pedicularis  canadensis,]—The herb good
    for Head-aches,  Hysterics, and Nervous affections.
LETTUCE, GARDEN, [Lactuca  sativa,]—Good in Chronic
    Rheumatism, Colic, Diarrhoea, and Coughs.
LETTUCE,  WHITE, [Prenanthes . alba,]—Useful in Diar-
    rhoea, Dysentery, and Derangement o$ the Bowels.
LETTUCE,  WILD,  [Lactuca elongata,']—Efficacious  in
    Dropsies of long standing, and Herpetic, affections.
LABRADOR TEA,  [Ledum latifolium,]—The tea useful in
    Coughs and  Eruptive affections.
LUNGWORT,  [Variolaria faginea,]—May  be  used  with
    benefit in Consumption, Coughs,  and Defluxion of the
    Lungs.
LIVERWORT, INDIAN, [Epigea repens,]—Infusion drank
    freely in Gravel, Strangury, <fec.
LIFE-EVER-LASTING,   [Gnaphaleum   polycephalum,]—
    Excellent in Quinsy, Weak  Lungs,  Consumption, and
    Fluor Albus.
LEOPARD'S BANE ROOT, [Arnica montana,]—May  be
    used in similar complaints as the flowers. 
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ROOTS, HKUItS, AND FLOWER8.
  LAI >IES' SLIPPER, [Cypripredium flavum,]—Beneficial  in
      all Nervous diseases and Hysteric affections.
  LOGWOOD,  [Hoematoxylon  cainpeachiam,]—A dye stufl',
      the extract good in Dysentery.
  LUPULINE, [Humulus  lupulus,]—Recommended in Dys-
      pepsia, Wakefulness, Nervous Tremors,  &c.
  LOVAGE SEED,  [Ligusticum levisticum,]—An  excellent
      ingredient in Carminative and Stomach complaints.
  LOVAGE ROOT, [Ligusticum levisticum,]—Useful in Hys-
     terics, Nervous diseases, and in Flatulency.
 LOVAGE LEAVES, [Ligusticum levisticum,]—The infusion
     is employed as a Carminative and Emmenagogue.  '
 LADIES'  SORREL, [Oxalis  corniculata,]—A  tea is very
     good in Fevers and Inflammatory affections.
 LIVERWORT, [Hepatica  triloba,]—Celebrated  in Bleeding
     at the Lungs, Consumption, Coughs, and  Liver com-
     plaints.
 LILY, GROUND,  [Trillium purpureum,]—Beneficial  for
     Bloody Urine, Spitting of Blood,  Coughs,  Hectic Fe-
     ver ; used as snuff stops Bleeding at the Nose.
 LILY, WHITE POND, [Nymph* adorata,]—Employed in
     Scrofulous Tumors, Gleet, Whites, &c.
 LILY, YELLOW POND, [Nuphar advena,]-Good in Pec-
     tonal complaints, and in treatment of Scrofulous Sores.
 LIQUORICE  ROOT, Glycyrrhiza glabra,]-An  excellent
     medicine  in Coughs, Asthma, Hoarsness,  &c.
LAMB-KILL LEAVES, [Kalmia latifolia,]_Usef«l in Scald
     Head, Syphilis, and certain stages of Fever
LEOPARD'S  BANE FLOWERS, [Arnica montana,]-Re-
     commended in Low Fevers, Intermittens, Gout, Drop-
     sy, and Rheumatism ; Tincture good for Fresh Wounds. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS.
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LIFE OF MAN, [Aralia racemosa,]—Good in Coughs, Colds,
     and Gout in the Stomach.
LOBELIA HERB, [Lobelia  inflata,]—Qualities same as the
     seed, but not so powerful.
LOBELIA  SEED, [Lobelia  inflata,]—In  Asthma,  Colics,
     Spasms, aud as an Emetic, it is very valuable.
LIFE ROOT,   [Senecio  aureus,]—A certain  remedy  for
     Gravel, Pains in the  Chest, and Melancholy.
LIVER-LILY, [Iris versicolor,]—Employed in Colic Pains,
     Flatulency,  and  Debility of the Stomach.
LEATHERWOOD BARK,  [Dirca palustris,]— Prescribed
     in Cutaneous Eruptions.
LAVENDER FLOWERS,  [Lavendula spica,]—Adminis-
     tered in Flatulence, Fainting and Nervous affections.
LINDEN FLOWERS, [Tilia glabra,]—A tea is useful in
     Head-ache,  Epilepsy, and Spasmodic Cough.
LARKSPUR SEED, [Delphinium  consolidum,]—The  tinc-
     ture is  given in Spasmodic Asthma and Dropsy.
LIVE-FOR-EVER,   [Gnaphaleum  polycephalum,]—Exten-
     sively employed in Coughs, Colds,  Pains  in the Chest,
     &c.
LAVOSE LEAVES,  [Ligurticum  levisticum,]—The infusion
     is employed as a carminative and em men agogue.
LAVOSE ROOT, [Liguoticum levisticum,]—Useful in  Hys-
     terics, Nervous diseases,  and in  Flatulency.
LAVOSE SEED, [Ligusticum levisticum,]—An excellent in-
     gredient in carminative and stomachic compounds.
LAUREL  LEAVES, [Kalmia latafolia,]—Useful in Scald
     Head,  Syphilis, and certain stages of Fevers.
LAVENDER, SEA, [Statice limonium,]—Beneficial in Gleet,
     Whites, Diarrhoea, Canker, and Sore Throat.
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66           ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS.
LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING,  [Amaranthus   Hypochondri-
     achus,]—Celebrated in profuse Menstration, Bowel com-
     plaints, and Piles.
LARGE  PLANTAIN,  [Plantago major,]—Efficacious in
    Poisons of all kinds,  Erysipelas, and Salt Rheum.
LTME TREE  FLOWERS, [Tilia  glabra,]—A  tea is useful
    in Head-ache, Epilepsy, and Spasmodic Coughs.
LEMON. GARDEN or WILD, [Podophyllum peltatum,]—
    A substitute  for  mercury  in  Venereal, Scrofulous, and
    all other diseases.
L< t^UST PLANT, [Cassia marilandica,]—Qualities similar
    to the senna, but not so active.
LARKSPUR  HERB, [Delphinium consolidum,]—The de-
    coction is found useful in  Dropsical affections.
MILKWEED  ROOT, [Asclepias syriaca,]— An  effectual
    cure of Dropsy, and good in Scrofulous and Rheumatic
    disorders.
MALE FERN,  [Aspidium filix-mas,]—Considered a  good
    remedy for the Tape Worm.
MYRTLE BARK, [Myrica cerifera,]—Principally given in
    compounds, but the infusion is good in  Dysentery, and
    all excessive evacuations.
MOUNTAIN  MINT, [Origanum vulgare,]—Valuable for
    bringing down Obstructed Menses, &c.
MORNING GLORY,  WILD,  [Convolvulus panduratus,]—
    Prescribed  in  Consumption, Cholera  Infantum, and
    Dysentery.
MAPLE, STRIPED,  [Acer striatum.]
MAPLE, RED  or SOFT, [Acer rubrum,]—The decoction
    taken freely makes an excellent Vermifuge. 
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MOTHER OF THYME, [Thymus serphyllus,]—Employed
    in Baths, Fomentations, and as a Condiment.
MOUTH ROOT, [Coptis trifolia,]—The  powder or tincture
    restores the appetite and strength after Fevers.

MILFOIL,  [Achillea  millefolium,]—The decoction  purifies
    the blood and removes obstructions.
MYRTLE FLAG, [Acorus  calamus,]—Excellent in  Flatu-
    lence, Colic, and Wind in  the Stomach.
MAY WEED, [Anthemis cotula,]—Employed in Fevers and
    Colds to produce perspiration.
MACE, [Myristica moschata,]—Employed to correct the taste
    and operation of other remedies.
MAN ROOT, [Convolvulus panduratus.]
MAN-IN-THE-GROUND,  [Convolvulus panduratus.]
MAN-OF-THE-EARTH, [Convolvulus panduratus,]—Given
    in Dropsical affections,  for Consumption,  Coughs, and
     Asthma.
MORTIFICATION  ROOT, [Althaea officinalis,]—Good in
     diseases of the  Kidneys attended  with irritation and
     pain.
MEZEREON, [Daphne mezereum,]—Its principal use is in
    Syphilis and Cutaneous diseases.  '
MOUSE-EAR, [Gnaphaleum uglinosum,]—A tea is good for
     Colds, Coughs,  and Obstructions.
MEADOW CABBAGE ROOT, [Ictodes foetida,]—Appli-
    cable to Bleeding at the Lungs, Coughs, Asthma, <fec.
MAPLE ROOT, [Heucheria acerifolia,]—An external reme-
    dy in Hemorrhage, Sores, Wounds, and Ulcers. 
-ib
ROOTS, HERBS, AND  FLOWERS.
  MUD-LIFE-EVERLASTING,  [Gnaphaleum  uglinosum,]—
      The infusion  is good for Colds,  Coughs,  and Obstruc-
      tions.
  MILK WEED, WANDERING, [Apocynum  andros-emifo-
      lium,]—Used in Fevers, Liver complaints', Rheumatism,
      and Dropsy.
  MITREWORT, [Mitella  cordifolia,]—In Gravel, Gonorrhte,
      and Suppressed Urine, a valuable remedy.
  MOON WORT, [Botrychium fumarioides,]—Useful in Con-
      sumption, Diarrhoea, and Cholera Infantum.
  MELILOT,  [Melilotus alba,]—Applied locally  in Swellings
      and Inflammation.
  MAIDEN HAIR, [Adianthum  pedatum,]—Much  esteemed
      in Coughs, Asthma, and  disorders of the Chest
  MAGICIAN'S ROD BARK, [Hamajnellis virginicatt-Used
      in Bowel complaints, Hemorrhage, and painful Tumors
 MAGICIAN'S ROD LEAVES, [Hamamellis virginica,]-
      Csed in Bowel  complaints, Hemorrhage,  and painful
     Tumors.
 MYRTLE HERB, [Myrica galeJ-A good  remedy for the '
     Piles, Stomachic complaints, <fec.
 MYRTLE  LEAVES, [Myrica  cerifera,]-In  infusion for
     Flooding from the Womb, Hysterical complaints, &c
 MECHOACAN, [Convolvulus panduratus,]-For Consump-
     tive Coughs, Asthma, and Dropsy
 MOTHERWORT,  [Leonorus cardiaca,]-Used in  Low Fe
     vers, Chronic Weakness, and Nervous affections
 MUGWORT, [Artemesia vulgaris,]-The infusion promotes
     Perspiration, Urine, and the Menses.
MYRTLE BLUE BURS, [Myric gaieJ-Makes a fine Oint-
     ment for Itch, Poison, and troublesome Humors. 
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MOON-SEED, [Menisperinum canadense,]—Good in Dys-
     pepsia, Costiveness, Liver  complaint,  and Eruptions ; a
     substitute for Sarsaparilla, and a much superior Altera-
     tive.
MAY FLOWER, [Epigea repens,]—Infusion drank freely in
     Gravel and Strangury.
MEALY STARWORT, [Aletris  farinosa,]—It cures Colics,
     Fevers, and Chronic Rheumatism.
MINT  BALM,  [Melissa officinalis,]—The infusion is useful
     in Head-aches, Asthma, and Fevers.
MOUNTAIN ARNICA FLOWERS,  [Arnica montana,]—
     Recommended  in  Low  Fevers, Intermittent,  Gout,
     Dropsy, and Rheumatism ; the  tincture good for Fresh
     Wounds.
MULLEIN HERB, [Verbascum thapsus,]—Recommended
     for Children's Fits, Croup, and Asthma.
MEADOW, SWEET, [Spiraea salcifolia,]—An excellent tonic
     after Fevers, improving the Appetite,  &c.
MALLOW,  LOW, [Malva rotundifolia,]—Often used in de-
     coction for  Dysentery and Urinary complaints.
MALLOW  (MARSH) LEAVES, .[Althaea  officinalis,]—
     Serviceable in Asthma, Dysentery, and affections of the
     Kidneys.
MALLOW (MARSH)  ROOT, [Althaea officinalis,]—Good
     in diseases of the Kidneys, attended with irritation and
     pain.
MANDRAKE ROOT, [Podophyllum  peltatum,]—A substi-
     tute for mercury in Venereal, Scrofulous,  and all other
     diseases.
MULLEIN  SEED, [Verbascum thapsus,]—Recommended
     for Children's Fits, Croup, and Asthma. 
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ROOTS, HERBS, AND  FLOWERS.
 MOUNTAIN LAUREL LEAVES, [Kalmia latifolia,]—Use-
     ful in Scald Head, Syphilis, and certain stages of Fever.
 MONKSHOOD, [Aconitum napellus,]—Used in Rheumatism
     and Cancerous diseases.
 MOCASSIN FLOWER, [Cypripedium flavum,]—Beneficial
     in all Nervous diseases and Hysteric affections.
 MEADOW  FERN,  BURS, [Myrica gale,]—Makes  a  fine
     ointment for Itch, Poison, and  all troublesome Humors.
 MEADOW FERN, LEAVES, [Myrica gale,]—A good rem-
     edy for tho Piles and Stomachic complaints.
 MUSTARD  SEED, BLACK,  [Sinapsis nigrum,]—Advan-
     tageously used in Dropsies, Chronic Rheumatism,  and
     Palsy.
 MUSTARD  SEED,  WHITE,   [Sinapsis  alba,]—A  good
     remedy  in Dyspepsia and Obstinate Costiveness.
 MISTLETOE, [Viscum  verticillatum,]—Efficacious in Epi-
     lepsy, Vertigo, Pleurisy, and Dysentery.
 MARE'S-TAIL,  [Erigeron  canadense,]—The  powder is  a
     strong Styptic; the tea cold for Internal Bleeding.
 MAY-APPLE, [Podophyllum peltatum,]—Very valuable in
     all Venereal, Scrofulous, and Liver diseases.
 MEADOW PRIDE, [Hydrastus canadensis,]-A n excellent
     tonic and corrector of Bile and Bilious habits
MEADOW SAFFRON, [Colchicum autumnale,]-Given in
     Dropsy,  Humors, Asthma, Gout,  and Nervous diseases.
 MOUNTAIN FLAX,  [Polygala senega,]_Administered for
    the  Hives Croup,  Fevers, and Dropsy.
MONK'S-HEAD HERB, [Leontodon taraxacum,]-The de-
     coction good in Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Ac. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND  FLOWERS.
71
MONK'S-HEAD ROOT, [Leontodon taraxacum,]—A favo-
    rite remedy in diseases of the Liver, Gravel, and Consti-
    pation.
MASTERWORT LEAVES, [Heracleum lanatum,]—Good
    in Epilepsy, Gastric and Flatulent diseases.
MASTERWORT ROOT,  [Heracleum lanatum,]—In Flatu-
    lent disorders of the Bowels, in Asthma, and Colds, very
    useful.
MASTERWORT SEED, [Heracleum lanatum,]—A  good
    carminatiye in Flatulent complaints.
MOHAWK  WEED,  [Uvularia  perfoliata,] — Useful   in
    Wounds and Sores, and for Inflamed Larynx and Gums.
MOUNTAIN  ARNICA ROOT, [Arnica  montana,]—May
    be used in similar complaints as the Flowers.
MARIGOLD FLOWERS, [Calendula  officinalis,]—A  do-
    mestic medicine for Children, and  is used to keep out
    Eruptions.
MOLDAVIAN  BALM,   [Dracocephalum  canariensis,]—
    This herb is ased in Decays, Head-aches, &c.
MOUNTAIN  BOX,  [Arbutus  uva-ursi,]—Efficacious   in
    Ulcerations of the Kidneys and Bladder.
MONARDA, [Monarda punctata.]
MARJORUM, SWEET, [Origanum marjorana,]—The infu-
    sion is used to hasten a tardy eruption in Measles.
MARJORAM,  WILD,  [Origanum  vulgare,]—The decoc-
    tion  causes  Perspiration,  and  relieves Obstructions  in
    Menses.
MARSH ROSEMARY, [Statice limonium,]—Beneficial  in
    Gleet, Whites, Diarrhoea, Canker, and Sore Throat.
MARSH TREFOIL, [Menyanthes trifoliata,]—The infusion
    is useful in Scurvy, Herpetic diseases,  and Rheumatism. 
  72             ROOTS,  HER US,  AND FLOWERS.

  MOUNTAIN  BERRY, [Gaultheria procumbens,]—A favo-
      rite remedy in Dropsy, Diarrhoea, and Obstructions.
  MOUNTAIN  ASH F.ARK, [Pyrus americana,]—Cleanses
      the Blood, and good in  Bilious diseases.
  MOOSE WOOD,  [Ac.er striatum,]—The  decoction drank
      freely is an excellent Vermifuge.
  MOUNTAIN  DITTANY, [Cunilla mariana,]—An  agree-
      able remedy for Head-aches, Colds,  and Hysteric affec-
      tions.
  NOAH'S ARK, [Cypripedium  pubescens,]—Applicable to
      all cases of Nervous and Hysteric affections.
  NITSHADE, AM.,  [Phytolacca decandria,]—Good in Rheu-
      matism,  for  Cleansing  the Blood, and  Discussing
      Tumors.
 NIGHT  SHADE, BITTER-SWEET, [Salanum dulcamara,]
      —Good for Cutaneous  diseases, Chronic Rheumatism,
     and Catarrh.
 NIGHT  SHADE,  BLACK,  [Salanum dulcamara,]—Good
     for Cutaneous  diseases, Chronic Rheumatism, and Ca-
     tarrh.
 NIGHT  SHADE,  BLACK CHERRY, [Atropa belladona,]
     —Recommended in disorders of the  Nervous System,
     Mania, <fcc.
 NIGHT  SHADE,  DEADLY,  [Atropa  belladona,]-Used
    in Nervous  and Maniacal  complaints, and Cancerous
    affections.
NUTQUA-MEQUOT, [Senecio avreus,]-A certain remedy
    for Gravel, Pains in the Chest, and Melancholy.
NEST ROOT, [Monarda uniflora,]—Given in  Epilepsy and
    Convulsions of  Children. 
              ROOTS, HERBS,  AND FLOWERS.           73

 NANNY-BUSH, BARK, [Viburnum  lentago,]—A  com-
     plete substitute for Peruvian Bark,  and said to be supe-
     rior.
 NETTLE FLOWERS, [Urtica dioica,]—Efficacious in Febrile
     and Ague complaints.
 NIGHTSHADE, FOETID, [Hyosciamus niger,]—Adminis-
     tered as a narcotic when opium is objectionable.
 NIGHTSHADE, GARDEN,   [Solanum dulcamara,]—Em-
     ployed in Scrofulous, Scirrhous and Liver complaints.
 NIGHTSHADE,  WOODY,   [Celastrus scandens,]—For
     Chronic Rheumatism, and for Catarrh and Eruptions.
 NOBLE LIVERWORT,  [Hepatica trilobaj—Celebrated  in
     Bleeding at the Lungs, Consumption, Coughs, and Liver
     complaints.
 NERVE  ROOT, WATER, [Asclepias  incarnata,]—Useful
     in Suppression of the Urine, Costiveness, and Worms.
 NARROW-LEAF DOCK, [Rumex crispus,]—Highly  esti-
     mated in diseases of the Skin and Scrofulous disorders.
 NINSIN, [Panax  quinquefolia,]—Strengthens  the  nerves
     and improves the appetite.
 NONE-SO-PRETTY,  [Gnaphaleum polycephalum,]—Excel-
     lent in Quinsy, Weak Lungs,  and Fluor  Albus.
 NERVE  ROOT, [Cypripedium pubescens,]—Applicable  to
     all cases of Nervous and Hysteric affections.
 NERVINE  ROOT, [Cypripedium  pubescens,]—Applicable
     to all cases of Nervous and Hysteric affections.
NUTMEGS,  [Myristica moschata,]—The powder is  good in
     violent Head-aches, Diarrhoea, and Dysentery.
 NETTLE ROOT, [Urtica dioica,]—Useful in incipient stages
     of Consumption, and Bloody Urine.
           G 
 71           ROolS, HKU1L-., AND  r LOWERS.

 NECKLACE  BEADS, [Coix lachrynia,]—The seed steeped
     in water is a good Diuretic and a Solvent for Stone.
 NECKLACE WEED ROOT, [Aetata alba,]—Good in Colic,
     and has openiug and stimulating qualities.
 NUTGALLS, [Quereus tinctoria,]—A good ingredient in as-
     tringent ointments and gargles.
 ORIGANUM, [Monarda punctata,]—Good in diseases of the
     Urinary passages, Fevers and Pleurisy.
 OLD AVOMAN, [Artemesia  vulgaris,]—The  infusion  pro-
     motes perspiration Urine and the Menses.
 OX-EYE DAISY FLOWERS, [Chrysanthemum leucanthe-
     uium,]—Good in Asthma, Consumption, and Dropsical
     complaints.
OAK BARK, BLACK, [Quercus tinctoria,]—Given in  pas-
     sive Hemorrhage and  obstinate Chronic Diarrhoea.
OAK BARK, RED, [Quercus rubra,]—Equivalent to black
     oak, and used for similar purposes.
OAK BARK, WHITE, [Quercus alba,]—Chiefly used as an
     outward astringent and antiseptic for putrid Sore Throat
     aud offensive Ulcers.
OSWEGO TEA,  [Monarda didyma,]—Equal to  chamomile
     in Intermittents and protracted illness.
 ONE-BERRY, [Mitchella repens,]—Highly recommended in
     Dropsy, Diarrhoea, and Parturition.
 OAK OF JERUSALEM, [Chenipodium botrys,]—Much used
     for Worms,  and is a good emmenagogue.
 ORANGE  ROOT,  [Hydrastus  canadensis,]—An  excellent
     tonic and corrective of Bile  and Bilious habits.
 OIL-NUT BARK, [Juglans  cineria,]—In cordial or extract
     a  good  aperient and a gentle cathartic for Worms. 
ROOTS,  HERBS,  AND FLOWERS.            75
ORRIS ROQT, [Iris florentina,]—At present mostly employ-
     ed in odoriferous compounds.
OLD MAN, [Artemesia  abrotanum,]—In  powder to open
     obstructions of the Viscera.
ORANGE PEEL, [Cierus aurantium,]—Makes a useful tonic
     bitter to promote appetite.
OSIER BARK,  RED, [Cornus  sericea,]—A  remedy  for
     Vomiting from Pregnancy and diseased Uterus.
OSIER BARK, GREEN, [Cornus circinata,]—Very useful in
     Debility attended with Diarrhoea.
OILY-GRAIN LEAVES, [Sesamum  indicum,]—Makes a
     mucilage for Cholera Infantum, Catarrh, and Urinary      <%
     diseases.
PRIDEWEED, [Erigeron  canadense,]—The powder is a
     strons styptic; the tea cold for Internal Bleeding.
POKE,. INDIAN, [Veratrum yiride,]—Useful in Catarrhs,
     Mania and Herpetic  affections.
POKE LEAVES,  [Phytolacca decandria,]—Purifies   the
     blood, and acts as an alterative.
POKE ROOT, [Phytolacca decandria,]—Valuable in Rheu-
     matic complaints, and for Indolent Tumors.
PETTY COTTON, [Gnaphaleum  uglinosum,]—The tea is
     good for'Colds, Coughs, and Obstructions.
PECAN   ROOT,  [Podophyllum  peltatum,]—A  substitute
     for mercury in Venereal, Scrofulous, and other diseases.
PAPPOOSE  ROOT, [Caulophylum  thalictroides,]—Pro-
     motes Parturition,  Menstruation, and Dropsical  dis-
     charges.
PAUSON, [Sanguinaria  canadensis,]—Useful in Pulmonary
     affections, Asthma, and diseases of the Chest and Liver. 
 To           ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS.

 PYRAMID  FLOWER,  [Frasera earoliniensis,]«-The pow-
     dered root is  given in Colic, Nausea, Diarrhoea, and
     Dysentery.
 PUMPKIN SEEDS, [Curcurbita pepo,]—Used in Catarrhal
     affections, and disorders of the Urinary passages.
 PUCCOON ROOT,  RED,  [Sanguinaria canadensis,]—Use-
     ful in Pulmonary affections, Asthma, and diseases of the
     Chest and Liver.
 PUOCOON,  YELLOW, [Hydrastus  canadensis,]—An ex-
     cellent tonic and corrective of Bile and Bilious habits.
POLYBODY,  [Polypodium vulgare,]—Useful in Consump-
     tion, and for expelling Worms.
PARILLA, YELLOAV, [Menispermutn canadense,]—Good
     in Dyspepsia, Costiveness, Liver complaints, and diseases
     of the Skin.
PATIENCE-DOCK, [Rumex patientia,]—Highly estimated
     in diseases of the Skin  and  Scrofulous disorders.
 PATIENCE, GARDEN, [Rumex patientia,]—Highly esti-
     mated in diseases of the Skin and Scrofulous disorders.
PIGEON-BERRY  ROOT,  [Phytolacca decandria,]—Good
     in Rheumatism, for Cleansing the  Blood, and Discuss-
     ing Tumors.
PELLITORY BARK, [Xanthoxyllum  fraxineum,]—Used in
     Fever and Ague, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, <fec.
PUFF-BALL HERB,  [Leontodon  taraxacum,]—The decoc-
     tion good in Jaundice, Dyspepsia, &c.
POMEGRANATE, [Punicagranatum,]—Given in Diarrhoea,
     and in Intermittent and Hectic Fevers.
PIGEON-TREE BARK, [Pyrus  americana,]—Useful in
     Bilious diseases and for Cleansing the Blood. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND  FLOWERS.            77
PLEURISY  ROOT,  [Asclepias tuberosa,]—Beneficial in
    Pleurisy, Colics, and all Flatulent disorders.
PLANTAIN  LEAVES,  [Plautago  major,]—Remarkably
    efficacious in Poisons of all kinds and Salt Rheum.
PARISWORT ROOT, [Trillium purpureum,]—Beneficial for
    Bloody Urine, Spitting of Blood,  Coughs, and Hectic
    Fevers ;  used as snuff stops Bleeding at the Nose.
PEACH BARK, [Amygdalus persica,]—Said to be good in
    Debility and Fever and Ague.
PEACH LEAVES, [Amygdalus persica,]—The decoction is
    valued as an anthemintic.
PRINCE'S PINE,  [Chimaphilla  umbellata,]—A tea used to
    Purify the Blood.
PUSSEY WILLOW, [Salix Candida,]—Highly recommended
    in Dysentery, Diarrhoea,'&c.
POT-MARIGOLD  FLOWERS,  [Calendula officinalis,]—A
    medicine for  Children, and  is used to keep  out Erup-
    tions.
P1SS-AVEED  FLOWERS,  [Chrysanthemum  leucanthe-
    mum,]—Good in Asthma, Consumption, and  Dropsical
    complaints.
PENNYROYAL,  [Hedeoma  pulegoides,]—A strong tea
    good for Suppressions of Urine, Obstructed Menses, and
    the Gravel.
PRINCE'S FEATHER, [Amaranthus hypochondriachus,]—
    Celebrated in Profuse Menstruation, Bowel complaints,
    and Piles.
POCAN BERRIES, [Phytolacca  decandria,]—Of great ser-
    vice in Rheumatism and the treatment of Ulcers.
POKE BERRIES,  [Phytolacca  decandria,]—Of  great ser-.
    vice in Rheumatism and the treatment of Ulcers.
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78             ROOT*, HERBS, AND  FLOWERS.

PARSELY  LEAVES,  [Apium  petroselinum,] — Highly
    esteemed in Nephritic and Dropsical affections.
PARSELY ROOT, [Apium petroselinum,]—Highly esteem-
    ed in Nephritic and Dropsical affections.
PARSELY SEED, [Apium petroselinum,]—An  infusion in
    gin is good in Suppression of Urine and Gravel.
PARSLEY, POISON or SPOTTED, [Conium maculatum,]
    —Prescribed  a3 a  narcotic, and  in  Scrofulous  and
    Chronic complaints.
PIGEON WEED,  [Aralia nudicaulis,]—An excellent reme-
    dy in Scrofulous, ATenereal and  Eruptive diseases.
PURPLE  AVEN'S  ROOT, [Geum rivale,]—Valuable in
    Debility, Dyspepsia, Bleeding at the Lungs, Colic, and
    Relax.
POPPY, HORNED, [Chelidonum majus,]—Recommended
    in Liver complaints, Tetter, Jaundice, and Dropsy.
PERUVIAN  BARK, [Cinchona officinalis,]—Well known
    in Fever and Ague, Want of Appetite, Decay, &c.
PAUL'S BETONY, [Lycopus  virginicus,]—Used in Con-
    sumption, Bleeding at the Lungs, quieting and allaying
    Coughs.
PEACH PITS, [Amgydalis persica,]—In syrup or tincture,
    good for strengthening the stomach  and digestion.
PUPPET ROOT, [Veratrum viride,]—Useful in Catarrhs,
    Mania and-Herpetic affections.
PLANTAIN,  ROUND-LEAArED, [Plantago major,]—Re-
    markably efficacious in Poisons of all kinds, and Salt
    Rheum.
PLANTAIN, BITTER, [Gentiana quinqueflora,]—External-
    ly and internally, good  for Scrofulous disease*. 
ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS.           79
PLANTAIN, SPOTTED,  [Goodyera  pubescens,]—Exter-
    nally and internally, good for Scrofulous diseases.
PILE WORT, [Amaranthus hypochondriachus,]—Celebrated
    in Profuse Menstruation, Bowel complaints, and Piles.
POKEBERRIES, [Phytolacca decandria;]—Of great service
    in Rheumatism and the treatment of Ulcers.
PEPPERWORT, [Cunilla mariana,]—A pleasant medicine
    for Head-aches, Colds, Fevers, Hysterics, &c.
PISTACHIO  NUT  LEAVES,  [Hamamellis  virginica,]—
    Useful in Bowel complaints, Hemorrhage, and Dropsical
    Tumors.
PISTACHIO  NUT  BARK, [Hamamellis virginica,]—Use-
    ful  in Bowel complaints, Hemorrhage, and Dropsical
    Tumors.
PUKEWEED HERB, [Lobelia inflata,]—Qualities the same
     as the seed, but not so powerful.
PUKEWEED SEED, [Lobelia  inflata,]—In Asthma, Colic,
     Spasms, and as  an Emetic, it is very valuable.
PRIMROSE TREE, [CEnothera biennis,]—Beneficially em-
     ployed in Infantile Eruptions and Tetter.
POOL ROOT,  [Eupatorium  ageratoides,]—A stimulating
     tonic, valuable in Tonic and Stomachic complaints.
PEONY FLOWERS, [Pceonia officinalis,]—Used in Nervous
     and Hysterical  complaints.
PEONY ROOT, {Pceonia  officinalis,]—Given in  Epilepsy
     and various Nervous affections.
POPPY  CAPSULES,  [Papaver somniferum,]—A  syrup
     made of these is a fine anodyne  for children.
POPPY FLOWERS, [Papaver somniferum,]—Make a very
     good soothing poultice for painful Swellings. 
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ROOTP,  HEKrss, AND  FLOWERS.
 POPPY LEAVES,  [Papaver  somniferum,]—Make a very
     good soothing poultice for painful Swellings.
 PUFF-BALL ROOT, [Leontodon taraxacum,]—A favorite
     remedy in diseases of the Liver, Gravel,  and Constipa-
     tion.
 PINE BARK, WHITE, [Pinus strobus,]—Useful in Rheu-
     matism, Consumption, and diseases of the Kidneys.
 PEPPER  TURNIP,  [Arum  tryphyllum,]—Valuable  in
     Coughs, Colds, Cramps, and Consumptive affections.
 PIPSlSEAA'AY, [Chimaphilla umbellata,]—A tea is used to
     Purify the Blood.
 PETUNK,   [Epigea  repens,]—Excellent  in  Gravel  and
     Strangury.
 POPLAR BARK, [Populus tremuloides,]—Excellent in Di
     arrhcea,  Debility, and Digestive complaints.
 PEPPERMINT,  [Mentha piperita,]—Administered  in Ner-
     vous affections of the Stomach, Flatulence, and to allay
     Vomiting.
 PINK ROOT, [Spigelia marilandica,]'—An  efficient remedy
     for  AA7orms in Children.
 PEPPERIDGE BUSH  BARK, [Berberis  vulgaris,]—Usu-
     ally combined with other  tonics  in Putrid Fevers and
     Dysentery.
PIPE-PLANT  ROOT,  [Monotropa uniflora,]—Given  in
     Epilepsy and Convulsions  of Children.
PEPPER PODS, CAYENNE, [Capsicum annuum,]—Med-
     ical qualities  similar to the bird.
PEPPER  PODS,  BIRD,  [Capsicum baccatum,]—This
     species is the best of all the capsicums,  and  most  pow-
     erful. 
              ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS.            81

PEPPER  PODS, AM.,  [Capsicum  annuum,]—Useful in
     Coldness of the System, Fever and Ague, Colics, &c.
QUASSIA, [Quassia excelsor,]—Adapted to Dyspeptic cases
     and to debilitated Digestive Organs.
QUEEN'S ROOT, [Stillingia sylvatica,]—A'aluable in Yaws,
     Ulcers, Venereal complaints, and Leprosy.
QUEEN'S DELIGHT,  [Stillingia sylvatica,]—Valuable in
     Yaws, Ulcers, Venereal complaints, and Leprosy.
QUEEN  OF  THE  MEADOW,  HERB,   [Eupatorium
     purpureum,]—Excellent in Strangury, and all Dropsical
     affections.
QUEEN OF THE MEADOW, ROOT, [Eupatorium purpu-
     reum,]—Excellent in Strangury, and all Dropsical  af-
     fections.
RED ROOT,  [Sanguinaria canadensis,]—Useful in Asthma,
     Liver  and Chest diseases.
RUE, [Ruta graveolens,]—Employed in Epilepsy, Hysterics,
     Hiccup, and as a Stomachic.
ROCK  ROSE,  [Cistus  canadensis,]—Of great  value  in
     Scrofulous affections as a poultice and a tea.
RACCOON-BERRY, [Podophyllum  peltatum,]—The root
     is a substitute for mercury in  Venereal and  Scrofulous
     diseases.
RAGWEED, [Ambrosia artemisirolia,]—Good for Worms
     in Children—recently much used.
ROSYBUSH, [Spiraea tomentosa,]—Checks Diarrhoea, and
     an  excellent outward  application for Wounds.
RHUBARB, WILD, [Convolvulus  panduratus,]—Given in
     Dropsical affections, and for Consumptive Coughs, <fcc.
RHUBARB, AM., [Rheum  rhaponticum,]—Given in Drop-
     sical affections, and for Consumptive Coughs,  &c. 
82           ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWER*.
 RATTLE ROOT,  [Macrotys  racemosa,]—The root is cele-
      brated  in Rheumatism, Dropsy, and Hysteria.
 ROMAN CHAMOMILE, [Anthemis nobilis,]—The  herb is
      a good stomachic bitter for Digestion and Fevers.
 RUM-CHERRY  BARK,  [Prunus virginiana,]—Taken in
      Fevers, Agues, Dyspepsia, Jaundice, and AVorms.
 RHEUMATIC WEED, [Chimaphilla umbellata,]—An infu-
      sion is used to Purify the Blood.
 RED-BERRY, [Arbutus uva-ursi,]—Efficacious in  Ulcera-
     tions of the Kidneys and Bladder.
 RICKET  SHRUB,  [Comptonia asplenifolia,]—Valuable in
     Diarrhoea, Summer Complaint, &c.
 ROSEMARY FLOWERS, [Rosemarinus officinalis,]—The
     flowers  and leaves are  good in Nervous and Hysterical
     affections.
 ROSEMARY LEAVES,   [Rosemarinus  officinalis,]—The
     leaves and flowers are good in  Nervous and Hysterical
     affections.
 ROCK BRAKE, [Pteris atropurpurea,]—Good in  Pulmo-
     nary diseases.
 RAGWORT, [Senecio  aureus,]—A  certain  remedy for
     Gravel,  Pains in the Chest, and Melancholy.
 RED ROD BARK, [Cornus seriacea,]-Excellent for Vom-
     iting in Pregnancy and diseased Uterus.
RICHWEED, [Macrotys racemosa,]—The root is used for
     Rheumatism, Dropsy, <fcc.
RASPBERRY,  GROUND,  [Hydrastus canadensis,]-An
     excellent tonic and corrective of Bile and Bilious habits.
HOSE WILLOW, [Cornus sericea,]—An excellent remedy
     t »r Vomiting from Pregnancy and diseased Uterus. 
ROOTS, HERBS, AND  FLOWERS.
83
ROCK FERN, [Adianthum pedatum,]—Much  esteemed in
     Coughs, Asthma, and disorders of the Chest.
RED ELM, [Ulmu's fulva,]—The bark is used  in Poultices,
     and for Urinary diseases.
RATTLE-SNAKE'S  MASTER, [Pyrus  americana,]—The
     bark Cleanses the Blood, and is good in Bilious diseases.
ROSE PINK,  [Sabbatia angularis,]—A  popular remedy in
     Dyspepsia, Fever and Ague, and Defective Digestion.
RATTLE WEED," [Macrotys racemosa,]—The root is excel-
     lent in Rheumatism, Dropsy, &c.
RAPE, VIRG. BROOM, [Epiphegus virginiana,]—A reme-
     dy for Sore Mouth, Dysentery, and Cancerous affections.
RATTLE-SNAKE ROOT, [Goodyera  pubescens,]—Exter-
     nally and internally good for Scrofulous diseases.
ROSE, RED, [Rosa gallica,]—Exhibited in passive Hemorr-
     hage and Mucous discharges.
ROCK PARSLEY  LEAVES,  [Apium petroselinurn,]—
     Highly esteemed in Nephritic and Dropsical affections.
ROCK PARSLEY ROOT, [Apium petroselinum,]—Highly
    esteeined in Nephritic and Dropsical affections.
ROCK PARSLEY SEED, [Apium petroselinum,]—An in-
     fusion in  gin  is good  in  Suppression  in Urine  and
     Gravel.
ROSE, DAMASK, [Rosa damascena,]—The rose water is
     distilled from this species.
ROMAN AVORMWOOD,  [Ambrosia artemisifolia,]—Some-
     times employed as an Anthelmintic for Worms.
RASPBERRY, BLACK, Bark  of the Root, [Rubus occi-
     dentalism—A more efficient agent than the black rasp-
     berry root. 
84           ROOTS, HfcKBS,  AND FLOWEKS.
 RASPBERRY LEAVES, [Rubus strigosus,]—A remedy for
     Bowel complaints and Canker.
 RASPBERRY  ROOT,  BLACK,  [Rubus  occidentalis,]—
     Much employed in Diarrhoea,  Cholera  Infantum, Dys-
     entery, <fec.
 SOUR DOCK, [Rumux crispus,]—Highly estimated in dis-
     eases of the Skin and Scrofulous disorders.
 SASSAFRAS  BARK, [Laurus  sassafras,]—A7ery good in
     Rheumatic complaints and Eruptive diseases.
 SASSAFRAS  FLO AVERS, [Laurus sassafras,]—Very good
     in Rheumatic complaints and Eruptive diseases.
 SPIGNET, [Aralia racemosa,]—Good in Coughs, Colds, and
     Gout in the Stomach.
 SPIKENARD, [Aralia racemosa,]—Good in Coughs, Colds,
     and Gout in the Stomach.
 SPIKENARD, SMALL, [Aralia nudicaulis,]—An excellent
     remedy in all Scrofulous, Venereal and Eruptive diseases.
 SPIKENARD, ROUGH, [Aralia hispida,]—Used in Colics,
     Flatulent diseases, and Dropsy.
 SWEET GALE BURRS, [Myrica gale,]—Make a  fine  oint-
     ment for Itch, Poison, and troublesome Humors.
 SWEET GALE HERB, [Myrica gale,]—A good remedy for
     the Piles, Stomachic complaints, &c.
SUCCORY, [Cichorium intybus,]—Taken in decoction, and
     good in Jaundice and Visceral obstructions.
SQUILL, [Scilla maritima,]—Very much employed in Drop-
     sical diseases and Kidney complaints.
SOUR-BERRY BARK, [Berberis vulgaris,]—Usually com-
     bined with other tonics in Putrid Fevers and Dysentery.
SAFFLOWER, [Carthamus tinctorius,]—Very  valuable in
     all Eruptive diseases, Small Pox, Measles, <fec. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS.           85
SAFFRON,  AM.,  [Carthamus tinctorius,]—Very valuable
    in all Eruptive diseases, Small Pox, Measles, &c.
SCAMMONY, WILD, [Convolvulus panduratus,]—Given
    in Dropsical affections, and for Consumptive Coughs and
    Asthma.
SILVER-LEAF, [Gnaphaleum polycephalum,]—Extensively
    employed in Coughs, Colds, pains in the Chest, <fec.
SORREL TREE, [Andromeda arborea,]—A decoction used
    in Dropsical affections and Loss of Appetite.
SORREL, WOOD, [Oxalis  acetosella,]—A  very strong  de-
    coction or extract cures Cancers—applied externally as a
    plaster.
SORREL, SHEEP,  [Rumex  acetosellus,]—Serviceable  in
    Scurvy,  Scrofula, and various affections  of the Skin.
SNAKE-ROOT, WHITE,  [Eupatorium ageratoides,]—A
    stimulating tonic, valuable in Ague and Stomachic com-
    plaints.
SNAKE-ROOT, BLACK, [Macrotys racemosa,]—Very effi-
    cacious in Rheumatism, Dropsy, and Hysteria.
SNAKE-ROOT, HEART, [Asarum canadensis,]—Excellent
    in Measles and Cutaneous diseases.
SNAKE-ROOT, VIRGINIA,. [Aristolochia  serpentaria.]—
    Promotes Perspiration and strengthens the Stom^ph.  -*
SNAKE-ROOT, BUTTON, [Liatris  spicata,]—The fea val-
    uable in Colic, Dropsy, Back-ache, &c.
STRAMONIUM   SEED,  [Datura  stramonium,]—Highly
    commended in Asthma and  Spasmodic diseases.
SUTERBERRY, [Asclepias  tuberosa,]—Beneficial in Pleu-
    risy, Colics, and all Flatulent disorders.
SWEET FENNEL SEED, [Anethum fceniculum,]—A good
    aromatic, useful in bitters and a varietv of compounds.
             H 
gG           ROOTS,  HEKBS,  AMI FLOWERS.
SQUAW  ROOT,   [Macrotys  racemosa;]—Celebrated  in
     Rheumatism, Dropsy, and Hysteria.
SPIKENARD TREE BARK, [Pyrus americana,] —Cleanses
     the Blood, and good in. Bilious diseases.
SOLOMON'S  SEAL, SMALL,  [Convallaria  racemosa,]—
     Boiled in  milk, excellent for  Irritable Piles and Bowel
     diseases.
SOLOMON'S SEAL,  [Convallaria multiflora,]—Good  in all
     eases of Fluor Albus and Female Weakness.
SKUNK CABBAGE  ROOT, [Ictodes foetida,]—Good for
     Bleeding at the Lungs, Coughs, Asthma, and. Obstruct-
     ed Menses.
SEGGRUM, [Hypericum  perforatum,]—Beneficial  in Diar-
     rhoea, Obstructions of Urine, and Hysterics.
SHAMROCK, INDIAN,  [Trilium purpureum,]—Beneficial
     for  Bloody Urine, Spitting of Blood,  Coughs, and Hec-
     tic Fevers ; used as snuff stops Bleeding at the Nose.
SAINCLE, AM.,  [Heucheria  acerifolia,]—An  external rem-
     edy in Hemorrhage, Sores, Wounds and Ulcers.
SAINCLE  ROOT, BLACK', [Sanicula  marylandica,]—Of
     great  value  in  Fluor  Albus, Syphilis, Dysentery, and
     Fevers.
SAINCLE ROOT, WHITE, [Eupatorium ageratoides,]—A
     stimulating tonic, valuable in-Ague and Stomachic com-
     plaints.
SCABIOUS,   [Erigeron   philadelphicum,] — Purities  the
     Blood, promotes Expectoration, and is a good Diuretic.
SCABIOUS, SWEET, [Erigeron  heterophyllum,]—Purifies
     the Blood, and equivalent to the above.
SOAPWORT,  [Soponaria  officinalis,]—Given  freely  in
     strong decoction in Jaundice and Liver complaint. 
ROOTS,  HERBS,  AND FLOWERS.            87
SPARROW-GRASS ROOT,  [Asparagus officinalis,]—Use-
     ful in diseases  of  the Breast,  Heart,  Kidneys and
     Bladder.
SORE-THROAT  ROOT,   [Caulophyllum  thalictroides,]—
     Promotes Parturition,  Menstruation, and Dropsical dis-
     charges.
SPICE-BUSH  BARK,  [Laurus  benzoin,]—Useful in  all
     kinds of  Fevers and Inflammations to allay heat.
SOAV-BANK SEED, [Chenopdium anthelminticum,]—Ex-
     tensively used in Expelling Worms in Children.
SNAKE-ROOT, CANADA, [Asarum canadense,]—Advan-
     tageously used in Measles and Cutaneous affections.
SHOT-BUSH BARK,   [Pyrus  americana,]—Cleanses the
     Blood, and good in Bilious diseases.
SIMPLER'S JOY, [Verbena hastata,]—A decoction is good
     in Intermittents  and Gravel.
SELF-HEAL, [Prunella vulgaris,]—Used  in  Hemorrhage,
     Diarrhoea, and for gargles in Sore Throat.
SCOKU ROOT, [Phytolacca decandria,]—Good in Rheuma-
     tism, for  Cleansing the Blood, and Discharging Tumors.
SAGE, INDIAN, [Eupatorium perfoliatum,]—Of great value
     in Fevers ;  properties well known.
SASSAFRAS PITH, [Laurus  sassafras,]—Infused' in rose
     water excellent for Inflamed Eyes.
SCABISH, MEADOAV,  [Aster puniceus,]—A popular rem*-
     edy in Rheumatism, Head-aches, and Nervous debility.
SCABISH, [Oenothera  biennis,]—Beneficially employed in
     Infantile Eruptions and Tetter.
SAMPSON   SNAKE-ROOT,  [Gentiaua  catesbei,]—Excel-
     lent in Pneumonia, Dyspepsia, and General  Debility. 
8^           R001S, HKRBS, AND  FLOWERS.

STINKING  AVEED, [Chenopdium  anthelminticum,]—-Ex-
     tensively used in Expelling AA'onns in Children.
>AFFRON, SPANISH,  [Crocus  sativus,]—Far superior  to
     the AmerieanTSaffron in the same diseases.
SARSAPARILLA,  AM.,  [Aralia nudicaulis,]—An excel-
     lent remedy  in  all  Scrofulous,  Venereal  and Eruptive
     diseases.
SARSAPARILLA, SPAN, [Smilax sarsaparilla,]—An ex-
     cellent remedy in all Scrofulous,  A'enereal and Eruptive
     diseases.
SARSAPARILLA,  BRISTLY STEM,  [Aralia hispida,]—
     Useful in Colics,  Flatulent diseases, and Dropsy.
SILK-AVEED ROOT, [Asclepias syriaca,]—Almost infallible
     in Dropsy and Urinary complaints.
SENNA,  AM.,  [Cassia  marilandica,]—Qualities similar  to
     the Alex., but not so active.
SENNA,  ALEX., [Cassia auctifolia, <kc]—A  valuable ca-
     thartic, operating mildly, yet effectually.
SHIELD FERN,  [Aspidium filixmas]—Considered  a good
     remedy for Tape Worm,
SNAKli-LILY,  [Iris versicolor,]—Employed in  Colic Pains,
     Flatulence, and Debility of the Stomach.
SWEI5T FLAG, or PiUSH,  [Acorus calamus,]—F^xcellent in
     Flatulence, Colic, and AVind in the Stomach.
SPICE-BUSH  BERRIES,  [Laurus  benzoin,]—A salutary
     medicine in Dysentery and all Bowel complaints.
SOUTHERN AATOOD, [Artemesia abtrotanuin,]—In powder
     to open Obstructions of the Viscera.
sTRAAYBERRY  VINES,  [Fragaria virginiana,]—The de-
     coofK>n in Diarrhoea, Jaundice, and Fever?. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS.
89
STRAWBERRY  LEAVES, [Fragaria  virginiana,]—Em-
     ployed in Sore Throat, Swelled Gums,  and Bowel com-
     plaints.
SQUAW-WEED,  [Senecio obovatus,] — Useful  in Salt
     Rheum, Tetter, and diseases of the Skin.
SQUAW-VINE,  [Mitchella  repens,]—Highly recommended
     in Dropsy, Diarrhoea, and Parturition.
SPLEENWORT, [Asplenium ancustifolium,]—Affords relief
     in Gravel and pain in the Urinary organs.
SPURGE,  IPECAC,  [Euphorbia ipecacuanha,]—Prescribed
     in Dropsy, Bilious Colic, and a variety of diseases.
STINKWEED SEED, [Datura stramonium,]—Recommend-
     ed in Asthma and Spasmodic diseases.
SWAMP ALDER,  [Alnus serrulata,]—The  bark, tags, and
     leaves  are  used for diseases  of the Skin, Swellings, and
     Strains.
STAGGERWORT, [Hypericum perforatum,]—Beneficial in
     Diarrhoea, Obstructions  of Urine, and Hysterics.
STAMMERWORT, [Hypericum perforatum,]—Beneficial in
     Diarrhoea, Obstructions of Urine, and Hysterics.
SNAGREL  ROOT, [Aristolochia  serpentaria,]—Promotes
     perspiration and strengthens the Stomach.
SCURVY GRASS, [Cochlearia officinalis,]-—Celebrated in
     Scurvy and Chronic Obstructions of the Viscera.
SHOP FUMITORY,  [Fumaria officinalis,]—A  tea  drank
     freely is good for  Cutaneous diseases.
SIDE-SADDLE PLANT,  [Sarracenia purpurea,]—Good  in
     Nervous complaints to strengthen the system.
SILVER-WEED, ROOT, [Asclepias syriaca,]—Excellent for
     Dropsy and all Urinary diseases.
            H2 
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ROOTS,  ilKRUS,  AND FLOWER6.
 --NAKE-HEAD, [Chelone  glabra,]—Given in Fevers and
     Jaundice—also for Worms in Children.
 STEEPLE BUSH,  [Spirae tomentosa,]—Checks Diarrhoea,
     and a good application for Wounds,  Sores, <fec.
 SWAMP SASSAFRAS, [Cornus circinati,]—Very useful in
     Debility attended with Diarrhoea.
 STORK'S BILL, (Geranium maculatum,]—Established rem-
     edy for Diarrhoea, Hemorrhage, and Fluor Albus.
 SPRUCE BARK, HEMLOCK, [Pinus canadensis,]—As an
     astringent and tonic, generally used in compounds.
 SWEET ELM BARK, [Ulmus fulva,]—Used in Urinary and
     Bowel  complaints, Scurvy, and  Inveterate Eruptions;
     also as a diet in Fevers, and externally in poultices.
 STONE ROOT, [Collinsonia canadense,]—Recommended in
     decoction for the Gravel.
 SWEET BUSH, [Comptonia asplenifolia,]—Valuable in Di-
     arrhoea, Cholera Infantum, and Summer complaint.
 SUMACH LEAVES, [Rhus glabra,]—Generally combined
     with other  agents in astringent compounds.
 STINK-WEED   LEAVES,  [Datura  stramonium,]—Pre-
     scribed in  Epilepsy.  Mania, Tic  Doloroux, and Rheu-
     matism.
 STINK-WEED  ROOT, [Datura stramonium,]—Prescribed
     in Epilepsy, Mania, Tic Doloroux,  and Rheumatism.
 SAUNDERS, RED, [Pterocarpus  santalinus,]—Employed
     to impart color  to various  tinctures, &c.
 SUMMER-SAVORY, [Saturega hortensis,]—The infusion is
     ^ood i'n Colds and slight F-brile attacks.
STRAMONIUM ROOT,   [Datura  stramonium,]—Virtues
     same as the leaves. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS.           91
STRAMONIUM  LEAVES,  [Datura  stramonium,]—Pre-
    scribed in Epilepsy, Mania, Tic Doloroux,  and Rheu-
    matism.
SWALLOW-WORT,  ORANGE,  [Asclepias tuberosa,]—
    The root is beneficial in Pleurisy, Colics, and all Flatu-
    lent disorders.
STAFF VINE,  or TREE,  [Celastrus scandens,]—Beneficial
    in Liver complaints  and  Dropsical affections ;  the bark
    of the root is  good in Inflammatory Rheumatism to
    Purify the Blood.
SPURRED  RYE,  [Acinula,]—Employed  by some physi-
    cians in difficult Parturition.
SNAPPING HAZELNUT BARK, [Hamamellis virginica,]
    —Useful in Bowel complaints, Hemorrhage, and pain-
    ful Tumors.
SNAPPING  HAZELNUT LEAVES, [Hamamellis virgin-
    ica>]—Useful in  Bowel complaints, Hemorrhage, and
    painful Tumors.
SCULLCAP, [Scutellaria  laterifolia,]—Remarkably effica-
    cious  in St. Vitus' Dance, Convulsions, and Lockjaw.
SHEEP-BERRY BARK, [Viburnum  lentago,]—A com-
    plete substitute for Peruvian bark, and said  to  be supe-
    rior.
SAArIN, [Juniperus communis,]—Frequently used to restore
    Obstructed Menses and Secretions.
SHOP  GENTIAN,  [Gentiana lutea,]—Dyspepsia,  Gout,
    and Hysterics,  are benefitted  by its use.
SEA-THRIFT,  [Statice limonium,]—Beneficial  in Gleet,
    Whites, Diarrhoea,  Canker, and Sore Throat.
SAVEET  CLOVER,  [Melilotus alba,]—Applied locally to
    Swellings and  Inflammations. 
 [■»£            ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWER8.

 SUNFLOWER,  AVILD, [Helianthus divericatus,]—Invalu-
     able in Bilious Colic? and similar complaints.
 SQUARE STALK, [Monarda didyma,]—Equal  to  chamo-
     mile in Intermittents and protracted illness.
 SPINDLE BUSH, or TREE, [Eyonymous  atropurpurea,]—
     The bark is good in affections of the Lungs.
 SNEEZEAVORT, MOUNTAIN, [Arnica montana,]—Recom-
     mended in  Low Fevers,  Intermittents, Gout, Dropsy,
     and Rheumatism.   The  tincture is  good  for Fresh
     Wounds.
 SPEARMINT, [Mentha viridis,]—Allays Nausea, and an ex-
     cellent remedy in Gravel and  Suppressions.
 SNAKE-ROOT, CORN, [Liatris spicata,]—The infusion ex-
     cellent in Colic, Back-ache, Dropsy, &c.
 SLIPPER ROOT, [Cypripedium  flavum,]—Beneficial in all
     Nervous diseases and Hysteric affections.
 SHAMROCK,  WATER, [Menyanthes trifoliata,]—The in-
     fusion useful in Scurvy, Herpetic  diseases, Rheumatism,
     <fec.
 SAXIFRAGE, [Pimpinella saxifraga,]—Used in  Chronic
     Catarrhs, Asthma, Dropsy, <fec.
 SCROFULA PLANT,  [Scrophularia  marilandica,]—Deem-
     ed good for all kinds of Sores and  Ulcers in man or
     cattle.
SCROFULA  WEED,  [Goodyera pubescens,]—Externally
     and internally, good for Scrofulous diseases.
 SPEEDWELL, VIRGINIA, [Veronica officinalis,]—Highly
     recommended in Dropsy, in Asthma, and for Coughs.
SUMACH BARK, [Rhus glabra,]—The decoction used in
     Prolapsus Ani and Falling of the Womb. 
             ROOTS,  HERBS,  AND FLOWERS.            93

SUMACH BERRIES,  [Rhus glabra,]—In infusion, a good
    gargle for Sore Throat and in Putrid Fevers.
SWEAT ROOT, [Poleinonium reptans,]—Invaluable in Fe-
    vers, Pleurisy, Consumption, and Liver complaints.
SPOTTED THISTLE,  [Centaurea benedicta,]—A good cor-
    rective of the Bile and used in Fevers.
STILLINGIA, [Stillingia sylvatica,]—Valuable  in  Yaws,
    Ulcers, Arenereal complaints,  and Leprosy.
SPLEENWORT  BUSH,  [Comptonia  asplenifolia,]—Valu-
    able in Diarrhoea, Cholera Infantum, and Dysentery.
SNAKE'S MILKAVEED, [Apocynum  androsaemifolium,]—
    The root is used in Fevers, Liver complaints, Rheuma-
    tism, and Dropsy.
SNAKE-ROOT,  RATTLE, [Goodyera  pubescens,]—Exter-
    nally and internally, good for Sci-pfulous diseases.
STONE MINT, [Cunila mariana,]—A pleasant medicine for
    Head-aches, Colds, Fevers, Hysterics, &c.
SPLIT ROCK ROOT,  [Heucheria acerifolia,]—An external
    remedy  in Hemorrhage, Sores, Wounds, and Ulcers.
STARWORT, DROOPING,  [Helonias dioica,]—Beneficial
    in affections of the Digestive organs.
SNAKE  ROOT, SENECA,  [Polygala senega,]—Adminis-
    tered for the Hives, Croup, Fevers, and Dropsy.
SNAKEWEED ROOT, [Aristolochia serpentaria,]—The in-
    fusion is good for the Stomach  and promotes Perspira-
    tion.
SPOONWOOD  LEAVES,   [Kalmia  latifolia,]—Useful in
    Scald Head, Syphilis, and certain stages of Fevers.
SAVEATING PLANT, [Eupatorium perfoliatum,]—Proper-
    ties well known,  useful in Fevers, &c. 
94           ROOTS, HERDH. AND  FLOWERS.

SPOTTED PLANTAIN, [Goodyera pubescens,|—External-
    ly and internally, good for Scrofulous diseases.
SPRUCE  LEAVES, HEMLOCK, [Pinus canadensis,]—
    Good  in Inflammatory Rheumatism, to  Purify the
    Blood, and to cause Perspiration.
STICKWORT, [Agrimonia  eupatoria,]—Employed  in Fe-
    vers, Jaundice, Coughs,  and Bowel complaints.
SPO'lTEI)  C.ARDUS, [Centaurea benedicta,]—Prescribed
    in Fever and as a corrector of Bile.
STARWORT, MEALY,  [Aletris  farinosa,]—Cures  Flatu-
    lent Colic, Fevers, and Chronic Rheumatism.   The root
    is the part used.
SPOTTED GERANIUM,  [Geranium maculatum,]—A well-
    established  remedy  for  Diarrhoea,  Hemorrhage,  and
    Fluor Albus.
SUNFLOWER,  GARDEN,  [Helianthus annus]—Good in
    Dysentery and Diarrhoea.
TREFOIL, [Hepatica triloba,]—For Bleeding at the Lungs,
    Consumption, Coughs, and Liver complaints.
THYME, [Thymus serphyllus,]—Employed in Baths, Fo-
    mentations, and as a Condiment.
THYME,  ENGLISH,  [Thymus  vulgaris,]—Employed in
    Baths, Fomentations, and as a  Condiment.
TUMERIC ROOT,  [Curcuma longa,]—Chiefly emplovd to
    impart color to ointments and tinctures.
TAMARACK  BARK,  [Pinus  microcarpa,]—Excellent in
    Obstructions of the Liver.
TILIA FLOAVERS, [Tilia glabra,]—A tea is useful in Head-
    aches, Epilepsy, and Spasmodic Coughs.
TURTLE-BLOOM, [Chelone glabra,]—Given in Fevers and
    Jaundice, and is a good  Vermifuge. 
1400TS,  HERBS,  AND FLOWERS.  •          95
TOUCHWOOD, [Boletus igniarius,]—Employed in the man-
     ufacture of Agaric for Hemorrhage and Issues.
TEA-BERRY  PLANT, [Gaultheria  procumbens,]—A  do-
     mestic remedy in Dropsy, Diarrhoea, and Disury.
THROAT  ROOT, [Geum rivale,]—Valuable  in  Debility,
     Bleeding at the Lungs, Colic, and Relax.
TANZY, DOUBLE, [Tanacetum crispum,]—Makes a use-
     ful tea in Fevers, Agues, Hysterics, Dropsy, <fec.
TINKERWEED,  [Triosteum  perfoliatum,]—Useful  in Fe-
     vers, Agues, Pleuritis, <fec.
TRUE LOVE ROOT, [Trilium  purpureum,]—Beneficial for
     Bloody Urine,  Spitting  of Blood,  Coughs, and Hectic
     Fever.  Used as snuff stops Bleeding at the Nose.
TURNIP,  AVILD,  [Arum    trypyullum,]—Valuable   in
     Coughs, Colds, Cramps, and Consumptive affections.
TOUCH-ME-NOT,  [Impatiens pallida,]—Efficacious  in
     Jaundice and Bilious affections.
TUNHOOF, [Glechoma herderacea,]—The  infusion  is used
     in Coughs and Internal Ulcers.
THIMBLE-BERRY ROOT,  [Rubus occidentalis,]—Much
     employed in Diarrhoea,  Cholera Infantum, Dysentery,
     &c.
THIMBLE, Bark of the Root,  [Rubus occidentalis,]—A
     more efficient agent in the above diseases.
THIMBLE WEED, [Rudbeckia lacinata,]—Give the decoc-
     tion freely in wasting diseases of the Kidneys.
TUMERIC,  AM., ■ [Hydrastus  canadensis,]—An  excellent
     tonic and corrective of Bile and  Bilious habits.
THRIFT, AM.,  [Statice limonium,]—Beneficial in  Gleet,
     Whites, Diarrhoea, Canker, and Sore Throat, 
l»(i
KOOT-S  I1EHBS,  AND  I'MUVtK.i.
 THRIFT,  SEASIDE,  [Statice  liinoiiiimi,|—Ueiidicial ii:
     Gleet, AAThites, Diarrhoea, Canker, and Sore Throat.
 TORMENTILLA   ROOT,  [Geranium  maculatum,]—An
     established remedy  for  Diarrhoea.  !Ifm<>rrhage,  and
     Fluor Albus.
 TRUMPET AVEED,  [Lactuca elongata,]—Very  efficacious
     in Dropsies and Herpetic affections.
 TRAVELLER'S  JOY,  [Clematis  virginiana,]—Useful in
     severe Head-aches, and is good for Cancerous Ulcers.
 TOAD-LILY  ROOT,  [Nymphte  adorata,]—Employed  in
     Scrofulous and other Tumors, Gleet, Whites, &c.
 THISTLE,  BLESSED,   [Cardus   beuedictus,]—The   tea
     strengthens  the  system,   and excites perspiration in
     Fevers.
 THOUSAND  LEAF,  [Achillea millefolium,]—it  Purities
     the Blood, opens the Pores, and removes Obstructions.
 TOBACCO, POISON, [Hyosciamus niger,]—Administered
     as a narcotic when opium is objectionable.
 TULIP TREE, BARK, [Liriodendron  tulipifera,]—Good in
     Intermittents, Hysterics, and Dyspeptic cases.
 THOROUGHSTEM, [Eupatorium perfoliatum,]—Propertie,
     well known, and highly valued in  Fevers, &c.
 THOROUGHWORT,  [Eupatorium  perfoliatum,]—Proper-
     ties well known, and Highly  valued in Fevers, <fec.
TOOTH-ACHE  TREE,  [Xanthoxylum   fraxineum,]—The
     bark is used in Fever and Ague, Rheumatism,  Dyspep-
     sia, &c.
THORN-APPLE  LEAVES,  [Datura  stramonium,]-Pre-
     scribed in  Epilepsy,  Mania,  Tic Doloroux, and Rheu-
     matism. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS.           9*7
 THORN - APPLE  ROOT,  [Datura  stramonium,] — Pre-
     scribed in  Epilepsy,  Mania, Tic Doloroux,  and Rheu-
     matism.
 THORN-APPLE SEED,  [Datura  stramonium,]—Recom-
     mended in Asthma and Spasmodic diseases.
 UPLAND SUMACH BARK, [Rhus glabra,]—The decoc-
     tion used in Prolapsus Ani and Falling of the AATorab.
 UPLAND SUMACH BERRIES, [Rhus glabra,]—In infu-
     sion, a gargle for Sore Throat and in Putrid  Fevers.
 UPLAND SUMACH LEAVES, [Rhus glabra,]—General-
     ly combined with other agents in astringent compounds.
 UMBIL ROOT, [Cypripedium pubescens,]—Beneficial in all
     Nervous diseases and Hysteric affections.
 UVA-URSI,  [Arbutus uva-ursi,]—Efficacious in Ulcerations
     of Kidneys and Bladder.
 UNICORN ROOT, [Helonias dioica,]—Beneficial in Stomach
     complaints, Loss of Appetite, <fec.
 UNCUM, [Senecio aureus,]—Useful in Coughs,  Colds, and
     affections of the Stomach.
 VERVAIN, [Verbena hastata,]—A strong decoction is good
     in Intermittents, Scrofulous and Gravel complaints.
 VALERIAN, FALSE, [Senecio aureus,]—A certain remedy
     for Gravel, Pains in the Chest, and Melancholy.
 VIRGIN'S BOWER, [Clematis virginiana,]—Used in  severe
     Head-aches, and is good for Cancerous Ulcers.
 VINE MAPLE, [Alenispermum canadense,]—Good in Dys-
     pepsia,  Costiveness,  Liver complaints, and  Cutaneous
     diseases.
VEGETABLE GOLD,  [Coptis trifolia,]—The powder  or
     tincture restores the appetite and strength after Fevers. 
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ROOTS,  HERBS,  AND FLOWERS.
VIRGINIA  SNAKE-ROOT,  [Aristolochia  serpentaria,]—
    Promotes  Perspiration  and strengthens the Stomach ;
    a valuable plant and most extensively used.
VALERIAN, AM.,  [Cypripedium pubescens,]—Applicable
    to all cases of Nervous, Hysteric,  and Spasmodic affec-
    tions.
VALERIAN, ENGLISH, [Valeriana officinalis,]—The pow-
    dered root is excellent in Epidemic and Paralytic diseases.
VERONICA, TALL, [Leptandria virginica,]—The  root is
    useful in Pleurisy, Bilious and Typhus Fevers.
VIOLET,  BLUE, [ATiola  cuculata,]—Very  serviceable in
    Coughs, Sore Throat, Constipation, <fec.
VIOLET,  CANKER, [A'iola  rostrata,]—Chiefly  used for
    Sore Throat  and  Canker.
VELVET  FLOWER, [Amaranthus hypochondriachus,]—
    Celebrated in Profuse  Menstruation,  Bowel complaints,
    and Piles.
AVATER CABBAGE, [Nymphsea adorata,]—Root used in
    Scrofulous and other Tumors, Gleet, Whites, <fec.
AATND ROOT, [Asclepias tuberosa,]—Beneficial in Pleurisy,
    Colics, and all Flatulent disorders.
WHITE-LEAF,  [Spiraea  tomentosa,]—Checks  Diarrhoea,
    and an excellent  outward application  for Wounds.
WA-A-HOO BARK, [Euonymus atropurpureus,]—Exten-
    sively  employed in  compounds  for  affections  of the
    Lungs.
WATER  LILY, SWEET,  [Nymphae adorata,]—Employed
    in Scrofulous and other Tumors, Gleet, Whites, <fec.
WORMAVOOD,  [Artemisia absynthium,]—Promotes  the
    Appetite and Digestion, and is good  in  Dyspepsia and
    Intermittents. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS.
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WILD  POTATO  ROOT,  [Convolvulus   panduratus,]—
     Given  in  Dropsical  affections  and  for  Consumptive
     Coughs.
WATER HOREHOUND, [Lycopus europeus,]—A cure for
     Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and the first stages of Fevers,
WAKE ROBIN, [Arum tryphyllum,]—Valuable in Coughs,
     Colds, Cramps, and Consumptive affections.
WAKE ROBIN, FALSE,  [Trilium purpureum,]—Beneficial
     for Bloody  Urine, Spitting of Blood,  Coughs, Hectic
     Fever, <fec.;  used as snuff stops Bleeding at the Nose.
AVAXBERRY BARK, [Myrica cerifera,]—The infusion good
     in Dysentery, and all excessive evacuations.
WAX AIYRTLE BARK, [Myrica cerifera,]—The infusion
     good in Dysentery, and  all excessive evacuations.
WINTERGREEN,  [Gaultheria  procumbens,]—A favorite
     remedy in Dropsy, Diarrhoea, and Obstructions.
WINTERGREEN,  BITTER, [Chimaphilla umbellata,]—A
     tea is used to Purify the Blood.
WIEKUP,  [Epilobium spicatum,]—A syrup or infusion re-
     commended in Dysentery.
WICKERBY,  [Epilobium spicatum,]—A syrup or infusion
     recommended in Dysentery.
WHISTLE AVOOD,  [Acer  striatum,]—The bark in decoc-
     tion taken freely  makes  an excellent Vermifuge.
\ArALNUT BARK, [Carya alba,]—A good aperient  and a
     gentle cathartic for AVorms.
WALNUT BARK,  WHITE, [Juglans  cineira,]—A  good
     aperient and a gentle cathartic for Worms.
WORM  SEED, [Chenopodium  anthelminticum,]—Exten-
     sively used in.Expelling Worms in Children. 
1('m           t'.OOTfe. ULl.^s, AND FLOWERS.

WILLOW, WHITE,  [Salix alba,]—Given a* a good substi-
    tute for Peruvian  bark in Intermittents.
WILLOW, PUSSEY, [Salix Candida,]—K-cominended  in
    Dysentery, Diarrhoea, and Fluxes.
WHITE HOREHOUND, [Marrubium vulgare,]—Beneficial
    in Asthma, Coughs, Jaundice and Obstructions.
WATER  AVEN'S ROOT,  [Geum rivale,]—Valuable  in
    Dyspepsia, Bleeding at the.Lungs, Colic, and Relax.
WATER SHAMROCK, [Menyanthes trifoliata,]—The infu-
    sion  useful  in Scurvy,  Herpetic diseases,  and Rheu-
    matic.
WATER CUP,  [Sarracenia  purpurea,]—Good  in Nervous
    complaints to  strengthen the system.
WHITE BEADS,  [Actasa alba,]—The root is good in Colic,
    and is opening and stimulating.
AVILD  TOBACCO   HERB, [Lobelia  inflata,]—Qualities
    same as seed,  but not  so powerful.
WrILD TOBACCO SEED, [Lobelia inflata,]—In Asthma,
    Colics, Spasms, and as an Emetic, it is very valuable.
WOLF'S-BANE LEAVES, [Aconitum napellus,]—Employ-
    ed in  Rheumatism, Neuralgia, and Cancerous affections.
WOLF'S-BANE ROOT, [Aconitum napellus,]—Employed
    in Rheumatism, Neuralgia, and Cancerous affections.
AVATERDOCK, [Rumex aquaticus,]—Employed in Scurvy,
    Scrofula, and diseases  of the Blood.
WHITE  GINSENG, [Triosteum  perfoliatum,]—Useful  in
    Fevers, Agues, Pleuritis, <fec.
WITCH-HAZLE  BARK,  [Hamamellis virginica,]—Useful
    in Bowel complaints, Hemorrhage, and painful Tumors. 
ROOTS,  HERBS, AND FLOWERS.
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WITCH-HAZLE LEAVES, [Hamamellis virginica,]—Use-
    ful  in  Bowel  complaints,  Hemorrhage,  and  painful
    Tumors.
WILD  TURNIP,   [Arum  tryphyllum,] — Valuable  in
    Coughs, Colds, Cramps, and Consumptive affections.
WATER LILY, YELLOW, [Nuphar  advena,]—Good  in
    Pectoral  complaints and  in  treatment of  Scrofulous
    Sores.  '
WILLOW HERB,  [Epilobium  opicatum,]—A syrup or in-
    fusion recommended in Dysentery.
WINTER'S BARK, [Winteria aromatica,]—Good  in Ca-
    tarrh, Hemorrhage, and is used as a carminative.
WATER PEPPER,  [Polygonum  punctatum,]—The  tea
    stops Vomiting, and in fomentations reduces Swellings.
WATERMELON SEED, [Cucurbita  citrullus,]—Infused  in
    Hollands, excellent for  Dropsy and  Suppression  of
    Urine.
YARROW, [Achillea millefolium,]—In decoction it Purifies
    the Blood, opens the Pores, and removes Obstructions.
YELLOAV ROOT,  [Coptis  trifolia,]—The tincture restores
    the appetite and strength after Fevers.
YELLOW  BROOM,  [Babtisia tinctoria,]—Excellent  for
    Foul, Malignant and Syphilitic Ulcers and Sores.
YAAV  ROOT,  [Stillingia  sylvatica,]—Efficient  in Yaws,
    Ulcers, Venereal complaints, and Leprosy.
YELLOAV  PARILLA, [Menispermum canadense,]—Good
    in Dyspepsia, Costiveness, Liver complaints, and Erup-
    tions ; a substitute for Sarsaparilla, and a much superior:
    alterative.
YELLOW ROOT,  CANADIAN,  [Hydrastis oanadeYisis,]—
    The powder is a tonic and corrective for Bilious habits
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102           K00TS, HERBS, AND FLOWEHs

YELLOW ROOT, [Cypripedium  pubescens,]—Beneficial in
    all Nervous diseases and  Hysteric affections.
YELLOAA' PAINT, [Hydrastus  canadensis,]—Au excelleut
    tonic and corrective of Bile and Bilious habits.
YELLOAV-BERRY  ROOT,  [Podophyllum  peltatum,]—A
    substitute for mercury in  \Tenereal and all other diseases.
YELLOW GENTIAN, [Gentiana lutea,]—Dyspepsia, Gout,
    Hysterics and Diarrhoea,  are benefitted by its use.
YELLOAV DOCK,  [Rumex Crispus,]—Esteemed in diseases
    of the Blood and Skin.
ZEDOARY,  [Curcuma zedoaria,]—UseJ in  Flatulent Colics
    and debilitated Digestive organs. 
FRAILTY  OF   MAN.
  When Man was formed from dust by his  great Creator,
clothed with body and filled  with  soul immortal, there was
no need of a physic or vomit, or the art of healing : he knew
no sin, he had  no pain,  no  sickness.   His habitation  was
with the  angelic host, in  the presence  of the great I Am.
Although formed from the dust of  the earth, yet liable to no
decay.   Heaven with all its hosts, earth with its myriads of
created  animals—fishes, fowls, quadrupeds,  and  insects—
were all friendly to Man, so long as Man was  at peace with
his great Creator—so that the morning  stars  sung together
and all the  angelic host shouted  for joy.   But, alas ! Man
disobeyed the command and broke  the law of  the Sovereign
of Heaven and Earth, and sin  entered ; and  death,  by sin,
brought with it pain, sickness, and mortality : but the promise
was made, a Savior was promised.  There  was found balm
in Gilead, but Alan apostatized, and Man has sought out many
inventions,  and  Man is at war with his neighbor and with
his God.  Therefore, it is necessary to use 'the healing powers
which the God of Nature  has provided for us.
             HOAV  TO  ENJOY HEALTH.
  For the good of the world, and especially those that wish
to enjoy health, I shall make a few remarks on the manner
in which we  ought to live.   In order  to  enjoy  health,  you
must breathe pure air.  Ventilate your houses well by drop- 
104
HOW TO ENJOY HEALTH.
  ping your windows instead  of raising them, and keep water
  on your stoves in cold weather.  Bathe all over in cold water
  often, and take off your overcoats  when  you  sit any length
  of time in a warm room.  Never warm your feet with your
  boots or shoes on, and avoid the use of tobacco, strong beer
. and spirituous liquors as a beverage—also tea and coffee—
  and be temperate in all things, and  eat  such  measures and
  quality of food as will  lay light on the stomach.  Nothing
  adds more to health than plain food and exercise.  For the
  studious person, eight ounces  of animal and twelve of vege-
  table food in  twenty-four hours is generally  enough.  The
  fewer clothes a person can use or wear, by  day or night, the
  healthier they will be.
    Costiveness can not  exist  long without  impairing the
  health.  Obstructed  perspiration  is one great source of dis-
  ease, and it ought to be removed by gentle sweats or a gentle
  physic.
    The fashion has great influence  on health.   It is  in vain
  to apply medicine to those in a passion.   Grief and  hopeless
  love brings on disease.  The love  of God is the best medi-
  cine, and " whatsoever ye would  that men  should  do unto
  you, the same do unto them."
    I have and shall  omit Antimony, Iodine,  • and  Opium.
  The  Steel and  Quinine,  Calomel  and Arsenic, are all too
  strong for mortal man to handle.
 DIET AND TREATMENT OF INFANT  CHILDREN.
  A new-born child should be kept warm,  and should not
be exposed to sudden changes of air.  Handle it as little as
possible, and give it it's food at regular  hours, three or four
times a day,  a little at a time, for the  stomach is very small 
         DIET AND TREATMENT OF INFANT CHILDREN.     105

 and is not larger than' a large walnut—a table-spoonful  at a
 time is enough.   Keep the child  clean and wash  it once a
 day in warm water.  Dress  them loose,  and never give a
 young child medicine under three months of age ; not more
 than a drop of oil of  anise, or ten or  twelve drops of  anise
 seed tea in breast milk.   The nurse should drink freely  of a
 tea made  of burdock roots, balsam boughs and  sarsaparilla
 roots, equal parts.  Let the child  have pure air, but keep the
 room warm, and if the mother is  sickly bring the child up
 by hand, two parts of cow's milk and one part water, sweet-
 ened with loaf sugar,  milk warm  when given, is best for in-
 fant children.  One drachm of anise  seed steeped in one gill
 of water-,, and put with milk, will  keep  the bowels  easy.
 When teething,  give  them  anise seed tea frequently, or a
 drop or two of oil of anise, on sugar; and if  the bowels are
 too relaxative, give a tea-spoonful of jelly made of bitter
 walnut meats and loaf sugar, which is  safe to give infant
 children at all  ages,  in  small doses, for relaxativeness.  If
 costive, give a little barley water.  To prevent coughs  and
colds, let them wear flannel underclothes.
COMMON PRACTICE OF THE MODERN DOCTORS.
   AVhen a person is sick and  sends for a doctor, the doctor
comes and feels the pulse, inquires the  complaints, and then
tells him he is threatened with a fever,  and  he  will try to
throw it off; then gives a puke, takes his hat and goes home.
Next morning returns, tells him the fever is settled, and it
will run ten or fifteen days.  Then deals  out medicine,  first
calomel and Rhubarb, to be given  first.   Then mixes pow-
dered camphor, saltpetre, and magnesia, gives  what will lay 
106    COMMON PRACTICE OF THE MODERN DOCTORS.

on  the point of a penknife,  every  hour for live  hours, then
they give rhubarb and calomel, and if the  patient  is  lull  of
pain, or has pains  at any time, they generally give opium  in
fine powders, or paregoric drops (which is opium) and rum.'
This they continue  till  the  patient gets  well  or dies.   The
doctor is extolled, live or die; if the patient happens to Jive, the
say is,  "• AVhat a good doctor I had."  If  he dies,  then  the
cry is,  " Oh, if  I had  sent for the doctor  a little  sooner,  he,
she, or my child might have lived."  But the Lord gives and
the Lord tikes away, and blessed be the Lord.   Heighth of
folly !  The Lord has nothing to do with the frauds and mal-
practice of doctors, but to suffer them to live, but will bring
them to judgment, require the blood shed  by malpractice at
their hands, and appoint them a portion with  the hypocrites
and unbelievers, where there  will be  " wailing  and gnashing
of teeth," and  " where  the worm  dieth not,  and the fire  is
hot quenched,  with all the  false  prophets," teachers  and
doctors.
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                RECIPES,
FOR  CURING  VARIOUS  DISEASES.
             TO EASE OR  CURE THE STONE.
   Take  the  decoction of agrimony,  morning and evening ;
 or strong chamomile tea, freely; or  boil one-half pound of
 parsnips in a quart  of water—drink  a gill  of this morning
 and evening, drink it freely  for  six weeks—use no other
 drink; or drink daily two quarts of lime water that is made
 of oyster shells, for a month; or, morning and evening, a
 tea-spoonful of roasted onion juice in a tea-spoonful of white
 wine—an ounce will often dissolve the stone; or lay on  the
 groins and back a cloth of five or six thicknesses, wet with
 the Pain Extractor and onion  juice, equal parts ; or take a
 tea-spoonful of powdered violet seed, morning and  evening—
 it both wastes and brings  it  away; or burn the shells of kid-
 ney or common white beans, pour boiling water on them and
 steep them, then strain and  sweeten with honey, and drink it
 daily.

                   FOR A COUGH.
  Take four ounees of liquorice root, four ounces hoarhound,
 four ounces anise seed, four  ounces honey.   Simmer in  one
 quart water, strain and cut  one-fourth ounce camphor gum
in one-half pint alcohol,  and add it to  the  syrup.  Take a
tea-spoonful whenever the cough is troublesome.
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RECIPES.
                   FOR  THE GRAVEL
   Make a strong tea of balled spruce,  strain it, and add  to
 every two quarts  one lb.  honey—boil them  together and
 skim it well.  Take a wine-glassful three times a day.

                     FOR CHOLERA
   To  one pint of alcohol  add fourteen drachms camphor
 gum, four drachms oil of  anise, two  drachms  spirits turpen-
 tine, all  cut  and shaken together.   Give  one tea-spoonful
 every fifteen  minutes  till  relieved.  Then give one  table-
 spoonful of the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic  every
 hour, with a half gill of sweet  milk,  till it operates.   Then
 take one tea-spoonful of the Health Bitters three times  a day
 before eating.

              FOR  STONE IN THE KIDNEYS
   Use the cold bath or drink half a pint water every morn-
 ing for six months ; or drink a decoction of Speedwell, largely.

              STOPPAGE IN THE KIDNEYS.
   Take a decoction of  ground ivy, morning and evening; or
 of the Pellitory of the wall; or take  one  table-spoonful of
 radish juice, morning and evening; or take half  a pint of
 tar water, one-half in the  morning, the other in the evening,
 for fourteen days.

                   IN A  RAGING FIT.
   Beat onions fine and apply them as  a poultice, part to the
 back and part to each groin.   It gives speedy  relief in the
 most racking pain.  Or apply hot parsley ;  or  give a clyster
of the oil of turpentine. 
RECIPES.
109
                  CURE FOR CANCERS.
  Take the salts made of red ash bark by leaching the ashes
and boiling it down ; pulverize the salts and spread it on the
cancer; make a salve of red clover blossoms by boiling them
down, and spread a plaster on a linen  cloth, and apply it to
the cancer; drink  a tea  made  of clover  blossoms, freely;
simmer fresh butter to an oil and  rub  the edges of the sore
with it once a day ; squeeze out the juice of garget berries,
dry it to a salve in the sun, and apply  it to the  cancer on a
linen cloth.  Continue these applications till cured.
             FOR STONE IN THE BLADDER.
  Make a strong tea of golden rod,  without boiling ;  strain
it off, and simmer twenty or thirty honey bees in the tea ;
take one-half gill  every two hours.  Or make a tea of juni-
per berries and noble pine, (called by some pipsiseway,) sim-
mer them together without boiling, put into a quart one pint
gin, and drink it freely.
                   FOR RHEUMATISM.
  Take one gill  of hog's lard,  beef gall one-half gill, one-
half gill spirits turpentine—simmer them well together, and
add one gill best French brandy ;  bathe the  afflicted  part at
night as you go to bed.   It is good for bruises  and sprains,
and generally cures in a few days.
         TO MAKE A POULTICE FOR BRUISES.
  Take spikenard root, pulverized or powdered, and wet with
good vinegar well  tinctured with wormwood and salt, and
Eaid on, will effect a cure on any bruise if put on soon.
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                    FOR THE I'Koirr.
   Put their feet and legs in warm wator well tinctured  with
 salt and mustard, give them a  table-spoonful of the Reform-
 ed  Botanic  and   ludian   Physic  every  two  hours  till
 it operates, and  lay  cloths  wet  with  salt and  vinegar on
 their head and neck, keep  them wrapped up warm over the
 tub of water, give them throe  or four  drops of sweet cream
 sweetened  with loaf sugar every three or four seconds.  If
 they  do  not  vomit  in  two  hours,  give them  another
 dose  of the  Indian  Physic.   Keep  the water  warm  that
 their feet  is in.  After they are relieved, give them a tea-
 spoonful of Slumbering Drops three times a day, before eat-
 ing, and diet  them light a few days.  Seldom fails.

                 FOR THE STRANGURY.

  Use the  cold bath ;  or drink largely of turnip juice, sweet-
ened with honey ; or make free  use of warm lemonade ; or
a decoction of mallow ;  or  a decoction of red nettle seed ; or
take a tea-spoonful of  burnt (^jj;  shells,  powdered,  morning
and evening, for six days.
                 SUNBURN  SMARTING.
   W ash  the face  with strong  sage  tea  and  bitter-walnut
m.flts steeped in it.   It will heal all skin disease-.

                 Tu PREVENT STONE.

   Beware of costiveness and u.-e no violent diuretics.   Drink
molasses  and  water, and meed and  cold water;  in the fi^
drink water that stood twelve hours with raw brute*! onions in;
driid* it every morning till cured. 
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      BEST REMEDY FOR RATTLES IN CHILDREN
  Take blood root, dry and powder it, and  give a small tea-
upoonful, and if the first dose does not break  the bladder in
half an hour, repeat three times.  Give two or three drops of
sweet cream, sweetened with  loaf sugar, every ten seconds,
and keep the patient's feet in warm mustard and water, and
wrap up warm.
                     THE GRAVEL.
  Eat  freely of  Spinach  cultivated  in  gardens; or drink
largely  of warm water  sweetened  with honey; or drink
of "peach leaves'tea,  sweetened with  India molasses; or of
the pellitory of the wall tea, sweetened ;  or infuse one ounce
of parsley seed possessing a warm  aromatic flavor in a pint
of white wine;  for twelve days, drink a wrine-glassful three
mornings, fasting, and to prevent its return,  breakfast three
mornings on agrimony tea. *

                THE  GREEN SICKNESS.

  Take an ounce of saltpetre,  three ounces  of epsom  salts,
one ounce of elder flowers, and steep the flowers in one-half
pint of  vinegar, strain  and dissolve the nitre  and salts in  it,
and sweeten it with molasses, and  take one table-spoonful
three nights and skip three nights  for nine days; or a wine-
glass of  lignum vita& tea, morning and evening.
                   FOR BILiOUS COLIC.
  Take West India rum, molasses, hog's lard,  and the urine
of horned cattle, one gill of each, simmer them well together,
and give a  wine-glassful every hour. 
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                   FOR KING'S KV1L
  Take king's evil plant, root and branch, pound it, and ap-
ply it to  the tumor as a poultice or salve.   If the  tumor is
broken open, simmer the root and leaf in sweet oil and mut-
ton tallow, add to it beeswax and rosin until hard enough for
a salve ; wash the sore with the liquor made of the herb, and
apply the salve thoroughly, and it will not fail to cure.

                     FOR FELLONS.
  Take blue flag and wild  turnip roots, two ounces each, stew
them in one-half pint of hog's lard,  add two  ounces of tar,
and simmer them together, and apply this ointment to 4he
fellon till it brtaks—then after it breaks add  beeswax and
rosin to the ointment for a  salve to dress it after it is broken;
or poultice it with roasted  onions, shifting the poultice every
hour till broken.
       FOR SCURVY IN THE GUMS AND TEETH.
  Gargle  and wash  the mouth,  gums and teeth with salt
water ; or take four ounces of cream of tartar, four ounces of
prepared chalk, one drachm of soda, one ounce of loaf sugar,
and pulverize all together and rub the gums and teeth.

          FOR GOUT IN THE FOOT OR HEAD.
  Apply a raw, lean beef steak, and change it once in twelve
hours till cured.
                  TO STOP BLEEDING.
  The juice of green savin ; nettles, or pulverized alum and
sage :  all are good to step blood.  Burnt  alum  will eat  out
proud flesh. 
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                 PIN OR TAPE WORM
  Pulverize  one-fourth  ounce nux  vomica, one-half ounce
pulverized tin, and put it in one-half pint India molasses, and
take one small tea-spoonful three times a day for two or three
days; then give one-half gill good  brandy, well sweetened
with loaf sugar.   Take  no oily substance inwardly while
taking the above.  Immediately after give a wine-glassful of
the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic, and follow  up tak-
ing  it every four hours  till it  operates.   You may give
smaller doses if the stomach is weak,  every hour.  Children
must take less.  After  the physic  operates, give one tea-
spoonful  of the Cordial before  eating,  and follow  up the
Health Bitters for several days in the same way.
                         OROUP.
   Put the feet in hot water well tinctured with mustard and
 hemlock boughs ; then  give  two table-spoonfuls of the Re-
 formed Botanic and, Indian  Physic, and  wet cloths  in salt
 and vinegar and lay on the stomach ; sweeten sweet cream
 and onion juice and give five or six drops every three minutes.
 If not relieved in one hour, give another dose of Physic.

                   FOR CONSUMPTION.
   Make a  strong  tea  of moose miss, or moose-wood, and
 black cherry bark, and drink of it freely.   You may sweeten
 it with loaf sugar, and add it to a  little cider, say one-half.
 It seldom fails.

              TO STOP PROFUSE SWEATING.
   Take one tea-spoonful of Health Bitters ; afterwards drink
 largely of cold water.
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                GOUT IN THE STOMACH.
   Dissolve two drachms of venice treacle iu a glass of wine,
and drink it and go to bed.  It will  help in two hours  and*
cure in sixteen ;  or take two spoonfuls  of wormwood juice;
or boil  a handful of tansy in one gill of mountain wine,
drink it in bed—never fails.   To prevent its return, dissolve
one-half ounce of gum guaicum in two ounces of epsom salts
or hartshorn, take a tea-spoonful every morning in  a glass of
spring water.  This helps  any  sharp pain in tho stomach and
keep oft' disease.

              TO MAKE  WORM POWDERS.
   Butternut buds gathered in the spring, sage and pink root,
say one ounce each, pulverized—add to it two ounces epsom
Baits  and one-half ounce  alum,  all  well  ground  together.
When taken, mix one tea-spoonful with India molasses for a
dose.   Repeat the  dose every two  hours  till   it  operates.
After that, give a decoction of wild cherry bark and cider ;
ewewen with loaf sugar.
            FOR STOPPAGE IN THE WATER.
   Take one pint black ash boughs which  comes out in Sep-
tember, one pound balsam boughs, boil them in one gallon
water to one quart—add to it  one pint alcohol, one ounce
juniper berries,  one ounce dwarf elder-berries, four ounces
milkweed root;  after  jammed, take one-half gill three times
a day, one-half hour  before eating.
                        ANOTHER.
   Take ten drops balsam copavia, ten  drops  spirits turpen-
tine.   If it don't cure, add  to the dose  ten drops white pine
turpentine. 
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FOR CANKER SORES, THROAT DISTEMPER, PILES, AND
                 SUMMER COMPLAINT.
■   Make  a strong  tea of wild  celandine and red or purple
succory, sweetened with honey  or  loaf sugar, and drink it
freely three or four  times a day.   Make a  tea of sumach
berries, and sweeten with honey, and wash the outside of  the
throat and the mouth, and throat inwardly, or make a tea of
toad plantain, drink it freely,  and bathe the  throat outside
with it.   The juice of plantain will cure the bite of a spider
if  used inwardly.   Or steep bitter walnut  meats  in water,
and sweeten with loaf sugar—take a  tea-spoonful three times
a day.   You may chew and swallow  the meats.  This will
cure canker inwardly or outwardly, and" will cure summer
complaint.   It is  the best stringent I ever  tried for . in-
ward  or  outward  piles.  If given  inwardly,  give it after a
gentle physic.   Used inwardly for piles, make a jelly of it
and sweeten with loaf sugar, and put it up the rectum with
a swab.
                 VEGETABLE ELIXIR.
  Put in one quart fourth-proof brandy one-fourth pound
gum myrrh pulverized, one-fourth ounce cayenne, and shake
them well together one week ;  one table-spoonful will gener-
ally cure pain in the stomach or bowels.   Apply it outward-
ly on the head, snuff it up and hold ?in the mouth, will cure
head-ache or tooth-ache.  It will cure cramps, sprains, swelled
joints, tetter, and warts.
                      FOR CORNS.
  Bruise house leak and bind it on after  it is shaved thin.
Seldom  fails curing. 
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                SALVE TO HEAL BURNS
   Apple Peru  leaves  stowed  in fresh  butter  or cream to a
Balve, and layed on, will take out the fire and heal the wound
if attended  to.  The  inside  of  cat-tail flag root,  mixed
with lard, cold, is good.  Or onion  poultice  suits well.  Or
spread West India  molasses  on  cotton and lay it on.  Mo-
lasses answers as well  as  camphor on bruises.  Or simmer
live frogs in fresh butter, equal parts, to a salve, and apply it
to a burn, will take out the fire and heal the wound.  Or lay
on a thick bat of cotton and bind it on the burn,  lot it re-
main till it heals and  comes  off itself;  it  takes out the fire
soon.   Lime water  and flax seed oil mixed together and put
on the cotton makes it better.  Or slake lime in boiling wa-
ter, and cover it tight  till it settles—equal parts of it and lin-
seed oil, or sweet oil, well shaken together  and laid on cot-
ton, will take out the  soreness and inflammation and heal the
wound without a scar.
                      NUMB PALSY.
   Take one pound birth root, one-fourth pound  prickley ash
bark, two ounces cloves, and steep them in one gallon water,
well; strain and add one quart good brandy, one pound  loaf
sugar,  one-eighth  ounce oil of anise  cut in brandy before
mixed.   Take one table-spoonful three  times  a day, one-half
hour before eating, and bathe freely with the Pain Extractor.
                    NERVOUS  COLIC.
   Use cold bathings daily for  one month ;  take one  tea-
spoonful of the slumbering  drops three times a day before
eating, and a pill  of camphor  gum as big as a pea, in  hot
water, as you go to bed. 
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                    HYSTERIC COLIC.
  Hysteric Colic is attended with a violent pain at the pit of
the stomach, with  sinking of spirits  and  vomiting, nervous,
obstinate costiveness, belly-ache,  and little urine.   Eat new-
churned   buttermilk   and  white  bread ;   or   boil  three
ounces of sorrel in one pint of whey, and  drink a wine-glass-
ful twice a day, fasting; or take a spoonful of fox glove tea
morning and evening ; or take one  pint  of skim-milk, one-
half pint small beer, and add twenty ivy  leaves  and two or
three sprigs of hyssop, boil well  together, and take one-half
at night  and  the  rest in  the  morning.  Continue  taking
this  for  two  months  has  cured  in a desperate  case.  Or
every morning cut up turf of fresh earth,  and lay down  and
breathe in  the hole  fifteen  minutes; I  have known cures
effected in this way.  Or take a cow's heel from the butcher's,
ready dressed, two quarts of new  milk, and  two  ounces of
hartshorn or  deer's-horn  shavings,  two ounces of isinglass,
one-fourth pound sugar candy, one ounce of root ginger, put
all in a pot together and set it in a half-heated oven, let it stand
till  cold,  and let the patient  live  on  this.   Or  throw
Frankincense  on  hot  coals or iron,  and receive the smoke
daily through a proper tube to the lungs.
                 FOR HYSTERIC COLIC.
  Bathe in cold water for one month; or in the fit, drink one-
half pint of cold water with one spoonful of flour and one of
vinegar;  or  drink  warm  lemonade;  or a  wine-glassful
of vinegar;  or take thirty or forty drops of balsam Peru in
sugar, twice a day; or give an  injection  of three ounces of
burdock seed, boiled in water ;  or twenty drops of laudanum
in any proper injection. 
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        LTNAMENT FOR BRUISES AND SPRAINS

  Take one ounce camphene, one  ounce oil  hemlock, one
ounce oil origanum, oue ounce camphor gum, oue-half ounce
•weet oil, one-half ounce oil of spike, one  ounce spirits of
nitre, one ounce  hartshorn,  one quart of alcohol or fourth-
proof brandy, all put and shook together; bottle tight, and
bathe the wound with it.   It can be  used on man or beast.
                TO MAKE OIL OF SPIKE
  Take one  pint  spirits turpentine, one-half pint tar,  three
ounces oil of vitriol—put the vitriol in a little at a time, and
shake it as you add the vitriol.
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                  FOR THE  PHTHISIC.
  Give mullen leaves well steeped in cider  after it has work-
ed.   Will cure the Asthma.
                     FOR  A OOUGH
  Dissolve one egg in one gill of vinegar, and sweeten with
honey ;  take one spoonful three times a day.

                  FOR THE JAUNDICE.
  Soak  unslacked lime in spring  water, and drink a wine-
glassful  of it morning and evening.

                      A SURFEIT.
  Take  powdered wormwood, green, morning and evening.

            SWELLED GLANDS IN THE NECK.
  Take  sea or salt water every other morning. 
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             FOR DECLINING OF HEALTH.
  Take six drops of Riga balsam, and as you continue enlarge
the dose till you can take a tea-spoonful; then make a strong
bitter of white cohosh roots, Indian root,  and sweet alder-
berries, equal parts, and  put them in  rum, equal parts, and
sweeten with molasses,  and take it morning and evening.
Take the balsam before you take the bitters.
                  RHEUMATIC SALVE.

  Take oue-half pound mutton tallow, one-half pound rosin,
one-half pound beeswax, melt and stir them well together,
and add one-fourth ounce oil origanum, one-eighth ounce oil
hemlock, one-eighth ounce oil spike,  one-half cunce oil am-
ber ; stir them all together and oint the afflicted part with it
twice a day.

                  FOR CONSUMFITON.
  Cold bathings have cured many  deep consumptions, aad
drink nothing but water  and eat nothing but water gruel,
with a little salt and vinegar.
                 A CONTINUED FEVER.

  Take a drachm of saltpetre  in water every four hours for
twelve hours, then take a dose of the Reformed Botanic and
Indian Physic.  This will break all fevers.

                        QUINSY.

  Take one ounce sweet oil, one-half ounce of spirits harts-
horn,  one-half gill alcohol, one-eighth ounce camphor gum,
bathe with it, and wet a cloth and lay it on the throat. 
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         FITS OR CONVULSIONS IN CHILDREN
  Put them in a warm batb of salt and water for  fifteen or
twenty  minutes, then put mustard plasters on the feet, and
wet a cloth of four  or five thicknesses  with  the Pain  Ex-
tractor and lay it on the crown of the head, and if the fit  is
caused by eating, give small doses of the Reformed Botanic
and Indian Physic, from  a tea-spoonful to a table-spoonful,
every two hours  till it operates, then  give  ten,  fifteen or
twenty  drops  of the Slumbering Drops.
                  A BURNING FEVER.
  Pound a handful of honey suckle leaves and put it in wa-
ter, and use it cold as a  clyster : cures in  one hour ; or wet
the wrists and hands with India  molasses and cover them
with brown paper, and drink lemon juice  mixed  with water
and sugar; use all kinds of cold, sour drink and  food tinc-
tured with nitre.

 COLIC FROM THE  FUMES OF WHITE AND RED LEAD.
  In the fit, drink fresh butter  melted, and vomit with warm
water ; or give injection of oil  or fat, warm.  To prevent or
cure, breakfast daily  on fat broth, and use oil of sweet al-
monds  frequently and freely.
                   A  HECTIC FEVER.
  Drink water gruel or boiled milk and  water—drink freely
of it.
             CONVULSIONS IN CHILDREN
  Scrape Peony roots, fresh dua-. and apply it to the sole* of
the feet;  it helps immediately. 
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                  FOR CONVULSIONS.
  Use the cold bath; or  take  a spoonful of valerian root
powder in a cup of water every evening, one-quarter ounce
to a powder; or one-half drachm of mistletoe,  powdered,
every six hours, drinking after it a draught of a strong infu-
sion  thereof.
                 CURE FOR THE ITCH.
  Take one-half pound black pepper, one-half pound ginger,
one-fourth pound elecampane root,  and well pulverize and
mix  them with  oil of turpentine so as to make it moist.
Rub  a little in  the palms of your  hands  and smell of it.
Follow it up one week.

                     SLOW FEVER.
  Use cold bathings two or three weeks daily.

                     FOR WORMS.
  Take black or spotted alder bark that bears the red plumb,
pulverize it, and give one tea-spoonful to  the child  in mo-
lasses.  This has cured when the skill of physicians failed.
           FOR WORMS AND WORM FEVER.
  Make a tea of snake-weed, and give it freely.  It  will de-
stroy the worms and cure the fever.  This herb appears in
the latter part  of May,  and has a small white blow.  Dis-
appears early in the season.

             FOR STOPPAGE IN THE HEAD.
  Snuff up the juice of primrose and keep the head warm. 
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RECIPES.
                 FOR  FEVER  AND AGUE.
   Go into a cold bath just before the cold fit.  Or take one-
 fourth pound ragwort and pound it fine, and put it in a pa-
 per four or five inches square, prick it full of holes, and lay it
 on the pit of the stomach with the holes  ne\t to  the skin ;
 renew   it  two  hours  before  the   fit.   Or   apply  four
 ounces yarrow in like manner.   Or a  large onion slit.  Or
 boil yarrow in new milk until it is tender enough to spread
 as a plaster,  apply this to the  breasts  one hour  before the
 cold fit, and  let it be on until the hot fit  is over.   If another
 fit comes on, use a fresh  plaster.  This often  cures an ague
 that returns every third day.   Or drink a quart of cold wa-
 ter just before the cold fit, and then  go  to bed and sweat.
 Or make six middling-sized pills of cobweb, and take one  a
 little  before the cold fit,  second one a little before the second
 fit, and the third one before the third fit, if needed.  I never
 knew it to fail.  An ague is an intermitting fever, each fit of
 which is  preceded  by a cold  shivering and goes oft* in  a
 sweat.  Or take two tea-spoonfuls of sulphur and saltpetre,
 equal parts, and mix well together—take it an  hour before
 the fit comes on.   It calmly cures  the second time taking.
 Or take a tea-spoonful of the spirits of  hartshorn  in one gUl
 water.  Or eat a lemon, rind and all.   Or drink a pint  of
strong chamomile tea, sweetened with molasses—take it warm,
in bed, and sweat two hours.
                  TO PREVENT CRAMP.
  Tie your garter smooth and tight under your knee as you
go  to  bed.   Or  be  electrified on  the  part  afflicted—
this generally prevents it a month or so, and sometimes for
years. 
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                  FOR THE JAUNDICE.
  Take barberry,  bark of the root,  and meadow parsley,
called golden thread, equal parts—make a strong tea of them,
boiled three to one.  After boiling, add as much good rum.
Take one-half wine-glassful three times a day,  before  eating
one-half hour.
             FOR JAUNDICE IN CHILDREN.
  Take one-half ounce of fine rheubarb and two ounces of
currants,  mix them thoroughly  together,  and give  a tea-
spoonful every morning.
                   TO CURE CRAMP.
  Stretch out the limb immediately and bathe it  with cham-
ber-ley ; or stretch out the opposite arm and clench the fist;
or chafe the part with hungry water, brandy, or vinegar—or
with rectified spirits of wine and salt; or apply boiled nettles
hot, or with the Pain Extractor ;  or take one-half pint of tar
water, morning and evening.
                     FOR DEAFNESS.
  Be  electrified   through  the  ear ;   or  use  the  cold
bath ; or put a little salt in the ear, or saltpetre ; or drop in
a tea-spoonful of salt  water, or of juice of ground ivy; or
drop three or four  drops of onion juice  and lay down and
stop with wool.
                DEAFNESS FROM WAX.
  Syringe  the   ear  with  warm sage  tea;  or  with  wild
mint bruised with the juice—change it often. 
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RECIPES.
                   FOR THE DROPSY.                  •
  Dissolve one-half pound of salts and one and a half ounces of
saltpetre in  one  quart  of strong  tea  made of dwarf elder
berries, sweet elder berries, milkweed roots and burdock roots,
two ounces each,  sweeten it well with molasses,  and add to it
one quart of good cider; take two table-spoonfuls  morning
and evening.   Or take a spoonful of whale mustard seed night
and morning, and drink one-half pint of strong green brown-
top tea.   Brown-top is an English  shrub that  bears yellow
flowers.   This works both by stool and  urine.   Or boil one
pound of sweet elder roots in two quarts of water,  strain it,
and drink one gill morning and evening for thirty days.
                  FOR THE JAUNDICE.
   Wear the leaves  of celendine upon  and under the  feet
daily;  or take a small piece  of  castile soap every morning
for eight  or  ten  days;  or as  much  as  will  lay on a
shilling of burnt egg-shells, three mornings running,  fasting,
and  walk till you  sweat; or one-half pint of strong nettle
tea.  Or boil one pound of burdock roots and one-half pound
of wild black cherry tree bark in two quarts of water,  add
to it when cold one  quart of good old cider, and sweeten it
well with molasses.   Drink one  gill three times  a day.   If
you wish to  keep it,  add one pint  of alcohol  and drink as
above.  Infallible.  You may add one ounce of allum.
               HEAD-ACHE FROM HEAT.
  Apply to the forehead cloths dipped  in  cold  water for
one  hour; or powder white poppy  seed  mixed with the
yolk of eggs, and apply it to the temples and forehead. 
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             AN EXCELLENT EYE-WATER.
   Heat one-half ounce of Lapis calaminaris  red hot, and
quench it in half a pint of white  French wine  and one-half
pint of white rose-water ;  then pound it fine and infuse it in
the wine and rose-water.   Shake the bottle when used, and
put in one drop in each eye and  wash the lids  with it.  It
cures soreness, weakness, blindness,  and most diseases of the
eye.

                    EYES INFLAMED.
   Put  on as a poultice roasted or boiled apples,  warm ; or
wormwood tops with the yolk of an egg—seldom fails ; or
beat the  white of an egg in two  spoonfuls of white rose wa-
ter to a white fr^h, and apply this on a white cloth.  Change
it every hour for two days.

                 LACHRYMAL FISTULA.
   Apply a poultice  of Rue leaves ;  or wash, with a strong-
tea of quince leaves,  morning  and  evening; or take one
drachm of powdered betony leaves three  times a day.   This
disorder in the inner  coiner of the  eye  causes  the tears to
flow too freely.
                  PEARL IN THE  EYE.
   Apply one drop of celendine juice in the eye twice a day ;
or of three-leaved grass.  It generally cures in eight or ten
days.

               FOR BRUISE IN THE EYE.

  Apply as a plaster conserve of roses ; or the paste of black
soap and wheat bread ; keep  it out of the eye.
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RECIPES.
          ANOTHER  EXCELLENT EYE-WATER.
  Infuse in one-half pint of lime water  one drachm of sal-
amoniac, powdered, for  twenty-four  hours, then  strain and
bottle it tight—put one drop in twice a day,  and wash  the
temples with vinegar.   This has also  cured  most diseases of
the eye.
                        ANOTHER.
  Dissolve three spoonfuls  of pulverized rock  salt and  oue
ounce of loaf sugar in three pints of hot spring water,  and
when cold bottle it without straining; after standing twenty-
four hours rack it off  carefully, and put one drop in the eye
morning and evening.   It answers the purpose of almost all
preceding  medicines.   It  takes away redness or  soreness,
cures pearls, rheums,  and often blindness.  Take six ounces
of rectified spirits of wine and dissolve in it one  drachm of
camphor  gum—then add  one and a half ounces of dried
sweet elder flowers  and one  drachm saltpetre, let it stand
twenty-four hours, and bathe  your forehead and temples with
it eight or ten times a day, morning, noon and  night, and
bathe the eyes with  new milk a dozen  times.   If the eyes
are ulcerated, add  to a spoonful of the  wash, alum, pulver-
ized, as big as a  wheat grain,  and twice as much loaf sugar.
Put a drop in the  eye at night as you go to bed, and continue
it.   If your eyes are watery,  wet the lids two or three times
a piece.   Shut the eyes while washing the lids ;  and if you
have the  tooth-ache  or swelled  face, rub it well with the
wash.   If used immediately,  it will take  away the pain and
cure any bruise; and if followed up  well any length of time,
will cure inflammation in the eyes.

               HARD WAX  IN THE EARS.
  Drop in the ears  urine  or warm  water. 
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             WHITE SPECKS IN  THE EYE.
  On going to bed put ear-wax on the speck ; or a drop of
fennel juice; or  of ivy juice—afterwards  blow in  a little
loaf sugar.

                 FOR EYES BLEARED.

  Drop into them the juice of crab apple.
                ONE-SIDED HEAD-ACHE.
  Use cold bathings and soak the feet well in hot water;  or
apply to the head a sticking plaster with a hole in the mid-
dle, and place over that the  leaves of crow-foot—it is a gen-
tle blistering plaster.
                »       _____
     HYPOCHONDRIA AND HYSTERIC DISORDERS.
  Use cold bathings; or take one-fourth of a wine-glassful
of Health Bitters or Slumbering Drops, morning and evening.

                TO MAKE  OBEDILDOCK.
  Take three ounces white soap,  one ounce  camphor gum,
one-half ounce oil of origanum, and put all in one pint alco-
hol, well cut,  and shaken together.
          TO STOP BLEEDING AT THE LUNGS.
  Use cold bathing  and small drafts of cold water.   Also
common salt taken inwardly.

                 NOISE IN THE EARS.
  Drop in the ear onion  juicp : or fill them  with powdered
hyssop. 
128                     RECIPES.
                   FOR CONSUMPTION.

   Take four ounces of moss that grows on the north side of
 white oak, (by some  called lungwort,) two ounces elecam-
 pane root, one ounce liquorice ball—boil them  in  two quarts
 water to one quart.  Strain and sweeten it with brown sugar,
 say eight ounces, and add two ounces sweet oil stirred with
 the sugar and well mixed.  Take a wine-glassful three times
 a day, fasting.   Or boil one-half pound horehound (green)
 in two quarts  water to one quart.   Strain it, and add one-
 half pound honey or molasses ;  simmer it thirty minutes over
 a slow fire.  Then put in after cooled, one pint good old rum.
 Take a wine-glassful three times a day, fasting.   Or take one-
 half ounce  white turpentine,  one-half ounce beeswax, and
 burn them together by dropping them ou a fire of coals in a
 small, close  room.  Have the patient in while burning.  Re-
 peat at discretion.   Or make free use of tea made of an herb
 called queen of the meadow, well  sweetened  with honey  or
 loaf sugar.

                     FOR A COUGH.
   Boil one pound horehound,  one pound elecampane root,
 one pound brook liverwort, one  pound maple  moss or lung-
 wort, in one gallon water.   Cool and strain.   Then add one
 pound  loaf  sugar, one pound  raisins,  and one  pound figs.
 Steep all well  together, and when cool add one quart brandy.
 Give a tea spoonful three or four times a day, fasting.

                     COUGH SYRUP.
  Take three ounces sulphur,  three ounces  tar, one-half
pound honey, and three eggs.   Put all in one pint wine, and
beat together.  Take one tea-spoonful for a dose. 
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 SALVE FOR FELONS, CANCERS, FEVER SORES,  OR ANY
                      OLD SORES.
   Take one pound white pine  turpentine,  one pound castile
 soap, one pound mutton tallow, one  pound beeswax, and
 melt all together. This is good to heal all kinds  of wounds
 and cancers, warts and corns.

   TO CURE SPRAINS AND WEAKNESS  IN THE BACK.
   Take one  quart fourth-proof brandy and one gill spirits
 turpentine, cut together with one  ounce origanum, cut with
 alcohol and one ounce alum dissolved in water;  put all to-
 gether and shake  well.  Bathe with this and it will cure
 ankle sprains or weakness in the back.

                 FOR THE HICCOUGH.

   Swallow a mouthful of water and hold the mouth and ears
 shut; or take anything that will make  you sneeze; or take
 one-half ounce of candied ginger ; or two or three preserved
 damson plumbs ; or three drop3 of the oil of cinnamon on  a
 lump of sugar.

                   A  RASH  FEVER.
   Drink every hour  a spoonful of the  juice of ground ivy
 for twenty-four hours.   Use  the decoction if you have not
 the juice.

                EAR-ACHE FROM  HEAT.
  Apply a cloth of four thicknesses wet  with cold  water,
 change them when warm  every  ten minutes, and drop in
three drops of lemon  juice. 
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KECll'KK.
                      FOR A FEVER.
   Take one-half pint of lemonade every hour, if required ;
 eat bread and cider, or vinegar,  well  sweetened  with India
 molasses.  Or take one-half pint  of tar water,  warm, every
 hour.   Or toast a slice of bread brown,  and put it when hot
 into a pint of cold water.  Put it on the fire and  bring it  to
 a spring heat.   In dry fever give it cold.  In a moist heat,
 warm—the more the better.  Drink apple,  currant or lemon
 water, and eat sour baked apples.   Cold water  or any cold
 sour drinks are good.  Steep one ounce of rice in one pint  of
 sour apple juice on a slow fire till soft, let it get cold, and'at
 freely of it—or  for a change use  tart  apples  or wood sorrel
 tea.   Or boil sour apples in milk, or sorrel in milk, and make
 free  use of it.   Buttermilk soup, sweetened  with molasses,
 or a  strong tea of violet leaves,  sweetened with loaf sugar,
 and  drink freely of it.   Drink a tea of sweet  rushes  when
 going  to  bed; cover  up warm.   Or drink strawberry-vine
 tea freely; burn vinegar in the room.  To prevent  any infec-
 tious  fever, do not go near the face of the  sick person, nor
swallow  your spittle, for  infection  always  seizes the stomach
first.   Give a gentle portion of the  Reformed Botanic and
Indian Physic—afterwards give one tea-spoonful of the Slum-
bering Drops three times a day, fasting.
                FOR THE HEART-BURN.
  Drink a  pint of cold water;  or delink  slowly of strong
chamomile flower tea;  or chew five or six pepper corns and
swallow the juice ; or take six almonds and twelve raw leaks,
and eat them together ;  or take one ounce of salts, one-eighth
ounce of saltpetre, dissolved in one  gill of sour apple juice,
as you go to bed, for three nights  running. 
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         HOT  OR SHARP HUMORS IN THE EYE.
  Beat the white of an egg in one gill of rain  water, beat it
well together, and put in one ounce of white sugar—drop it
in the eyes three times a day.   Or drop in the juice of white
daises morning and  evening.  Or boil one-half pound of
running blackberry leaves in one quart of spring  water  to a
pint, dissolve in it one-half  ounce of alum,  and  put in a drop
in each eye three  limes  a  day.  It will cure any sore.   Or
lay  a thin slice of  raw beef  on  the knap of the neck.

                       ,FILM.
  Dissolve one drachm of alum, one-half  drachm saltpetre,
one-half  drachm of salt, and one-half  ounce of loaf sugar, in
one gill of stron^cider vinegar.  Put in one drop morning
and evening.   Or mix juice of ground ivy with  honey  and
salt.  Drop it in same as the other.

          CLOUDS FLYING BEFORE THE EYES.
  Take a drachm  of powdered  wood betony every morning.

                      BLINDNESS.
  Use cold bathings for thirty days, in the morning, and after
you bathe wipe off dry and go  to bed, and lay  till warm.

               EYES DIM OR DECAYED.
  Use eye-bright tea daily, or powdered eye-bright; both in
meat and drink.

           BURNING  EYES AND  HOT RHEUM.

  Apply a thick apple paring, lying down in bed. 
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RECIPES.
                   FOR KING'S EVIL.
   Take what cream  of tartar will lie on  a sixpence, morn-
 ing and  evening;  or  drink  for six  weeks  one-half pint  of
 strong tea of devil's-bit;  or drink ground ivy tea freely for
 three months; or of nettle  tea three  months;  or of colt's
 foot—meantime apply  the herb pounded  with flax-seed and
 hog's lard, equal parts, to the sores twice a day.  Or drink a
 pint of warm water, fasting,  walking after it.   Or drink lime
 water for common  drink.  Take  black  currants  one pound,
 honey one pound, southern wood one pound—steep them all
 together  in one quart of vinegar one hour, then strain it and
 add  two  ounces of balsam, simmer it down to an ointment,
 and  annoint the afflicted parts with it three times  a day.  Or
 take two spoonfuls of water  parsnips in^wo spoonfuls of
 sweet milk every morning, fasting, for six  months.

             FOR OLD ULCERATED SORES.
   Roast  two or three white leaks in  a  wet cloth in ashes,
 then add one drachm of lard and  steep them well together,
 and apply them to the  sore once an hour for three hours.

              FOR NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE.
   Dry and  powder  one  ounce of marjoram and one-half
ounce of  asarabacca, mix together, and take it as snuff, keep-
ing the head  and throat  warm.   This  is useful  in cancers.
Or take  one-half drachm  powdered marum, morning  and
evening, in liquor.

                      DULL SIGHT.
  Drop in  the juice  of rotten  apples three or  four times
a day. 
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               EAR-ACHE FROM WORMS.

  Drop in warm new milk and  it will bring them out ;  or
the juice of  wormwood, which  kills  them;  or oil of bitter
almonds.
                  FOR THE EAR-ACHE.

   Rub the ear hard for fifteen minutes ; or be electrified ;  or
apply a hot roll; or  put in the ear a roasted fig, hot;  or
blow  tobacco smoke in the  ear; or  take  black ash, when
green, and heat one end in the fire and get the sap, and drop
in two or three drops.
                 EAR-ACHE FROM COLD.

  Boil rue, rosemary or  garlics, and let the steam into  the
ear through a tunnel.

          FOR FALLING OF THE FUNDAMENT.

  Apply a cloth covered thick with  fine brick dust;  or boil
one ounce of red rose leaves  in  one gill of red wine, dip a
cloth in it and apply it as hot as can be borne, till all is used,
and drink cherry bark tea  freely.
            FALLING DOWN OF THE WOMB.

  May be cured in the manner last mentioned ;  by drinkTUg
freely of a tea made of equal parts of burdock roots, sarsa-
parilla roots, and balsam buds, well  boiled—then strain and
sweeten well with loaf sugar,  and to  every quart  add one-
half ounce of pulverized saltpetre.
             M 
134                     RECIPES.
                FOR  FALLING SICKNESS.

  Be electrified ; or u>e the cold bath for one*  month daily ;
or take a tea-spoonful  of pulverized peony roots morning and
evening; or take a spoonful of Rue juice morning and eve-
ning, for one month ;  or one-half pint of strong lignum vitae
tea morning and evening—infallible; or one-half pint of tar
water morning and evening, for three months ;  or use an en-
tire milk diet for three months—seldom fails ;  or take one-
half drachm of powdered mistletoe every six hours.   It is  a
plant that grows on trees.  Drink after it a  strong tea of
mistletoe—infallible.   In the fit,  blow fine  ginger  through
the  nose; or powdered leaves of asarabacca—it is an im-
ported herb.

                CONSUMPTIVE  COUGH.
  Take raisins that are dried in the sun, take  out the seeds,
and put as much tender tops of Rue  with  them, and pound
them together—take a spoonful in the morning, fasting.  Or
boil  a pound of stoned raisins in a  quart of old unripe
lemons, grapes, or crab-apples, to a pint; then add  one-half
pound of brown sugar, and simmer it  to a  syrup.  Take  a
spoonful every three hours.

                CONSUMPTIVE  COUGH.

  Eat preserved walnut meats freely ; or boil  two ounces  of
bay  leaves in one quart of milk, add one quart of white wine,
and take one-half gill three times a day, fasting.
                CURRANT LEAVES.

Is good in Dropsy, Urine, Gravel or Stone. 
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               TO STOP SPITTING BLOOD.
   Take prunes and stem, and eat them freely  two or three
nights as you go to bed.  Or a wine-glassful of onion  juice.
Or four spoonfuls of nettle juice every morning and as much
every night as you go to bed, for six or eight days.  Or take
frequently a spoonful of nettle and plantain leaf juice, mixed
and sweetened with loaf sugar.   Or  three spoonfuls of sage
juice in honey.   This stops spitting or  vomiting blood.  Or
one-half a tea-spoonful of rock  oil on a  lump of loaf sugar,
at night as you go to bed.  It commonly cures immediately*

                    TO CURE CORNS.
   Shave the corn down well, and boil  the juice of radishes
thick enough to spread a plaster and lay it on;  shift it as
often as it dries for two days—then  spread  a plaster  of the
Cohesive Salve on  suet skin and  lay it on—keep on till  it
comes off, and shift if necessary.  Or take horse  leeks, and
bruise them, and lay them on.  Renew it every three hours
for twenty four hours.  Or apply fresh ivy leaves daily, will
fetch them out in fifteen days.

                    FOR  WEAK EYES.
   Wash the  eyes morning and evening with camphorated
spirits of wine—keep the eyes shut.   Or wash the head daily
with cold water.
                   VOMITING BLOOD.
  Take three spoonfuls of sage juice  in  honey ; or  two
spoonfuls of nettle juice dissolves coagulated blood  in the
stomach.  Or one spoonful  of quince  juice; or one gill of
nettle and plantain juice three times  a day. 
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RECIPES.
                   CONVULSION FITS.

  Take ten drops of digitalis at night and ten in the morn-
ing.   Pour one quart of cold water in a small stream on the
forehead, and  then  take  one-half ounce of oil  of lavender,
two ounces of  ether, one ounce of alcohol, and one ounce of
camphor—mix together, and bathe the back part of the head
and neck with it; and when the fit is  on, throw cold water
in the face as quick as possible.   Give ten drops of camphor
and six drops of oil of lavender every night.
                   BLUE FLAG ROOT.

  Is good in aggravated Rheumatic complaints.   Take a tea-
spoonful after eating three times a  day of the decoction  of
the root, by putting one ounce of the dried root in one-half
pint of gin. If slight pain in the head or stomach,  reduce
the dose.   It is good to remove humors from  the system.
Take for a  physic one-half tea-spoonful  in molasses.
                     FOR COUGHS.

  Take one ounce of linseed oil, one ounce stick liquorice,
four.ounces of raisins—boil them in two quarts soft water to
one quart;  then add one-fourth  pound brown sugar and one
ounce lemon juice.  Drink one-half pint when going to bed
and a little when your cough is  troublesome, day and night.
                    HARD BREASTS.
  Apply turnips roasted till soft,  wash and mix with a little
oil of roses.   Change this poultice twice a day,  and keep it
warm with flannel. 
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          DRAGON'S CLAW, OR FEVER ROOT.
  Is useful in Fevers, i  It  creates  moisture without excite-
ment.  To one tea-spoonful  of the root  add  one-half pint
boiling water.  Drink freely when blood warm.
         DWARF ELDER HERBS AND BERRIES.
  Is good in Dropsical and Rheumatic complaints.   Also for
Swellings in Limbs.   The berries must be steeped in spirits,
and taken before eating.

                 YELLOW  OINTMENT.
  Take one-half pound of hog's lard,  four ounces of rosin,
two ounces of beeswax—add spirits  of turpentine so as to
form a liquid.  Makes a good wash for a burn or freeze.
                 TO MAKE LAUDANUM.
  Take one pint of fourth-proof spirits, one ounce of opium,
shake together ten days and  strain it,  then it is fit for use.
Ten drops for a dose.'

           CANINE  OR CRAVING  APPETITE.
  Smell of port wine and drink a spoonful  or two.  Or mix
port wine with strong black cherry bark tea, well sweetened
with loaf sugar, equal parts, and take it  three  times  a day,
fasting—say a wine-glassful.
              TO PREVENT CHILBLAINES.
   Wear flannel socks and wash the feet with salt and water;
or wash the hands with mustard seed, salt and water, hot.
              M2 
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RECIPES.
                       FOR APOPLEXY.
      Apoplexy is a total loss of all sense and voluntary motion,
   commonly attended with a strong pulse, hard breathing and
   snorting.   It is caused by lack  of blood  to the  brain.  Use
   the cold bath and drink water only.  In the fit, blow powder
   of white helebore (called poke root) up the nose.   If the fit
\   is soon after eating, give a vomit.   Rub  the feet,  arms and
   head with hot water and salt.  A rowel in the neck and low
   diet is a good preventative.
                   FOR THE  ASTHMA.
   Take a pint of cold water  every night on  going to bed ;
or a pint of cold water every morning,  and wash the head
immediately after.  Use cold bathings  once a fortnight.   Or
steep liquorice root in water and  use it  for common drink.
Or drink one-half pint of tar  water morning and evening.
Or drink  sea  water every morning.  Or live ten or fifteen
days on boiled carrots only—seldom fails.  Or take an ounce
of nettle juice mixed with clarified honey,  every night and
morning.   For present relief vomit with warm water.

          FOR DRY OR CONVULSIVE  ASTHMA.
   Take a  tea-spoonful  of radish juice three  times a  day,
fasting; or as much garlics, raw, preserved, or in  syrup ;  or
a tea made of hyssop, or ground  ivy,  or daisy  flowers and
liquorice.

        FOR CHOLERA  M< >RBUS  AND VOMITING.
   Drink two quarts of cold water  if you can bare it, if not,
drink as much warm water; or boil a chicken  in two gallons
of water, and drink of it till the vomiting stops. 
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            DRY OR CONVULSIVE ASTHMA.
  Drink a pint of new milk morning and evening.  This has
cured the hardest cases of Asthma.  Use the cold bath twice
a week.   Or  beat  saffron  fine  and take  ten grains every
night.  Or dry and powder a toad and make small pills of it,
and  take  one every  hour till convulsions cease.   In  any
Asthma, apple-water is the best drink.

        TO PREVENT BLEEDING AT THE NOSE.
  Drink whey freely every morning,  and eat raisins freely;
or wet a cloth with  cold water and lay it  on the back  and
each side of the  neck ;  or wash the  nose, temples and  neck
with vinegar ; or chew nettle root, spitting out the juice ; or
hold a red hot iron  under the nose;  or steep a linen rag in
vinegar, burn it, and blow it up the nose with a quill.   In  a
violent case, go into a pond or river.

             TO STOP A WOUND BLEEDING.
   Bind a  bandage on the arms  above the elbows ; or apply
the tops of nettles,  bruised ;  or leaves of heal-all, bruised—
infallible; or spread the ashes of linen on a linen cloth, and
apply it thick; or strew on the ashes of a linen rag dipped in
sharp vinegar and burnt; or sprinkle on the powder of ripe
puff ball,  and bind  on the ball—infallible.   It will stop arte-
ries bleeding.

             TO PREVENT CHAPPED HANDS.
   Wash them with salt and  water  (hot)  and ground mus-
tard ; or in brand and  salt  water, hot as you can bare it—
wash the hands with soft soap mixed with red sand ; or ap-
ply and annoint  with oil of myrrh. 
140                     RECIPES.
                  ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE.
  Take a glass of tar water, warm, in bed every hour, after-
wards wash the parts with the same;  or  drink as much sea
or salt water as you can  bare ; or take a gentle physic of salts
and saltpetre—say two ounces of salts and one-half drachm
of saltpetre, dissolved in cider, and make  a free use of strong
tea of equal parts of burdock roots and  yellow  dock roots ;
or take a strong tea of elder leaves as a sweat; or of wild or
mother  of  thyme, applying to the  part  a  cloth dipped in
lime Avater  mixed in camphorated spirits of Avine ; or  take
two or three gentle  physics, say once in four days ;  or use
the internal medicines, at the same time applying a plaster of*
Venice Mithridate ;  or wash in hot brand water; or boil two
ounces of sage, two ounces of elder leaves or bark, and one
ounce of alum, in two quarts of fcrge water to a pint—an-
noint Avith it every  night; or steep  bitter-walnut meats in
warm water, and annoint Avith it.
                      FOR COLDS.
   Drink of cold water lying in bed ;  or a  spoonful of mo-
lasses in one-half pint of water; or one  ounce of oat-meal
one ounce of  honey, and one-half ounce of butter—pour on
one pint of boiling Avater, and drink as you go to bed.

                TO MAKE LIME WATER.
   Pour six quarts of water on one pound of unslacked lime,
closely covered, and let it stand  twenty-four hours; then bot-
tle and keep it corked tight.

               TO PREVENT  ABORTION.
   Use daily a strong tea made of lignum vitae. 
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141
                   FOR COSTIVENESS.
   Rise early every morning and boil one-half pound of mal-
 low leaves in two quarts of water, take one  gill of it three
 times a day, one half hour before  eating;  or drink burdock
'root tea SAveetened Avith molasses, freely ; or breakfast every
 three days on Avater gruel, Avith currants, well sweetened with
 India molasses;  or mix one ounce of pulverized cream tartar
 in two ounces honey, and take three times  a day, fasting.

                CANCER  IN THE BREAST.
   Take  one-half drachm  of Venice  soap  twice a day ; or
 drink  two  quarts of ass'  milk  a day, and neither eat nor
 drink anything else for two months ; or make an ointment of
 the leaves of plumbago, leatherwort  and toothwort, in olive
 oil, and annoint the ulcers twice a day.

                 TO CURE CHILBLAINS.
    Rub with salt and onions when powdered  together ; or  a
 poultice of  hot roasted  onions kept on two or  three  days—
 change often ; or roasted turnip  pearings, hot—change them
 twice a day ; or Avash them Avith brake root tea with tincture
 of myrrh in a little Avater.

                       FOR BOILS.
   Apply  a little Venice turpentine ; or a plaster of honey and
 wheat flour ; or a plaster of figs; or a little saffron in a white
 bread poultice.  Take a gentle physic occasionally.

                FOR A COLD IN THE HEAD.
   Pare the rind of an orange very thin and roll it up inside
 out, and put a roll in each nostril. 
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RECIPES.
                   FOR THE DROPSY.

   Use the cold bath  daily  and physic often ; or drink no-
thing but lemonade ;  or take what will  lie on a sixpence of
poAvdered sorrel  leaves  every three days—it  physics and
vomits.  Or mix one-half ounce of amber Avith  a quart of
wine vinegar, and heat a brick sizing hot, but  not  so as to
burn, and put the brick in a tub—then pour  the vinegar on
the brick, and hold or set the patient or swelled part  over the
smoke, and cover the tub to keep in the smoke, and it will
start the water and  cure the patient.  Or cover the whole
bowels Avith new  sponge  dipped in strong  lime  water and
squeezed out.   This bound on often effects cures Avithout any
sensible evacuation of water.  Or apply green dock leaves to
the joints and soles of the feet—change them twice a day.
Or abstain from all drink  for thirty days,  and to ease your
thirst take a thin slice of bread dipped  in brandy, or wash
your mouth with the  juice of lemon.   Or  drink  one gill of
tar water twice a day, fasting.   Or make a strong tea of
juniper berries roasted, and take a gill of it three times a day,
fasting.  Or  eat a crust  of bread  every  morning,  fasting.
Or drink sea Avater morning and  evening.  Or mix a pound
of brown sugar Avith  a pint of the juice of pellitory of  the
Avail, then pound in a marble mortar, and boil it and skim it
Avell; when cold, bottle and cork it tight.   If very bad, take
three spoonfuls at night and two in the morning.  It seldom
fails.   Or take a spoonful of artichoke  leaves morning and
evening.,  Or take three spoonfuls  of the  juice of leeks  and
elder leaves morning  and evening.

                  TO PREVENT COR'NS.
   Wash the feet often in cold Avater. 
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143
                CANCER IN THE MOUTH.
  Boil two  ounces of the  leaves of succory,  plantain and
rue, with tAVO ounces of honey,  one-fourth of an hour—gar-
gle with this wash every ten minutes—infallible; or with one
ounce of honey, one-half ounce alum, one-half  pint of vine-
gar—boil all together, and wash once  an  hour with it.  Or
dissolve one ounce of blue vitriol in one pint of water and-
gargle with it.  Afterwards hold sweet cream  in the mouth.
This speedily cures Shingles.  Or take one ounce of sulphur,
one-half ounce pulverized alum, mix both  well with honey,
and apply it every hour.
          FOR CANCER IN ANY OTHER PART.
  Apply red onions bruised, and lay on as a poultice two or
three times  a day; or make a plaster  of alum, honey and
vinegar, equal parts, with wheat flour—change it for three or
four days every twelve hours.  It often  cures in that time  : if
not, continue the plaster.   Or pound the  leaves, flowers and
stalks of wild parsnip, and apply them as  a plaster.   Change
it every twelve hours.  It generally cures in a few days.
               FOR SETTLED DEAFNESS.
  Take a red onion and take  out  the core,  then fill it with
the oil of roasted almonds, let it stand one night, then bruise
and strain—drop three or four drops into  the ear morning
and evening,  and stop it up with black wool.

                    FOR BALDNESS.
   Rub the bald spot  with onions every morning and eve-
ning till it is  red, and rub it after Avith honey. 
144                     RECIPES.
                  FOR THE DIABETES

  Drink wine boiled with ginger, one-half gill three times a
day, fasting.  You  may  add to  a dose five drops of oil of
anise.  Drink milk and wrater.  All kinds of moats are good.
Or drink one gill three times a day  of  milk curdled with
alum—three drachms of  alum to two  quarts of milk—cures
in eight or ten  days.  Or  boil one  pound  of black cherry
tree bark in two quarts of  water  one-half hour, then strain
and add one quart of good old cider or port  wine, then  add
one ounce  of pulverized  alum, one ounce of saltpetre,  one
ounce of salt, one-half ounce of camphor gum (cut), and one-
fourth ounce of oil of anise, both  well cut in alcohol ; sweet-
en well with loaf sugar, and take a small  table-spoonful three
times a day, fasting.  Diabetes is  a frequent and large  dis-
charge of pale urine, attended with constant  thirst and wast-
ing of the whole body.

                  A BURN OR SCALD.

  Immediately  plunge the part injured into  cold water  and
keep it in an  hour, and if not well, perhaps  for four or five
hours, and maybe longer.   Or if it cannot be dipped,  wet a
cloth in cold water—four or five thicknesses ; change it when
it gets warm.  Or  apply a poultice of bruised onions ; or a
tincture of myrrh;  or oil and parsley  pounded together; or
apply pumpkin seed oil and sprinkle it Avith  ginger.
                    TO CURE CORNS.
  Apply fresh yeast of small beer spread  on a cloth every
morning; or boil the juice  of  radishes  thick  enough to
spread a plaster—shave the corn well down and lay it on. 
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145
                  WHOOPING COUGH.
   Use the cold bath  daily; or rub thoroughly  with hog's
lard when going to bed, and heat it in well by the fire—keep
the child warm ; or rub the back at going to bed with old
rum; or give a  spoonful of the juice of  pennyroyal mixed
with brown sugar  candy twice a  day; or one-half pint of
new milk, warm from the cow,  with one-half ounce  of nut-
meg pulverized  with one  ounce  of rose  leaves  and three
ounces of sugar—beat together, and  dissolve  in the milk—
every morning taken freely.  In desperate cases  change of
air alone has cured.

            TO CAUSE AN EASY DELIVERY.
   Peel, slice and fry one pound of Avhite onions  in three gills
of best olive oil till it is tender, then boil this  in one quart of
water, strain it, and drink a wine-glassful every morning, one-
half hour before breakfast, for fifteen or  twenty days  before
the time of child-birth.   Also drink a tea made of burdock
roots, freely.

           TO DISSOLVE COAGULATED BLOOD.
   Bind on the part for some hours a paste  made of black
soap  and  crumbs of white bread ; or  grate burdock roots
spread on a cloth—renew this two or three times a day.

                   HABITUAL COLIC.
   I never found a better  way  than is  taken  in the Bilious
Colic, omitting the warm berth, although not injurious.  The
stomach and bowels must be cleansed, and the blood purified,
before health can be  restored.   Cold Lathing is good in  all
Bilious complaints.                  *
             N 
146
RECITES.
                  FOR BILIOUS COLIC
   Give a spoonful of sweet oil eve"ry hour; or give a portion
of the Reformed Botanic and  Indian Physic, with a double
portion of anise seed or the oil of anise.   Give  a small dose
of the above Indian. Physic every two hours to an adult, and
two table-spoonfuls or less to children.  If no  relief in eight
or ten hours, put the patient into a Avarm berth and give one
tea-spoonful of  Slumbering Drops to invigorate and guard
the stomach.  It is sure in all cases Avhere the Indian Physic
is  given  as a  physic.  Give a tea-spoonful of Slumbering
Drops three times  a day,  one-half hour  before  eating—the
two first days after, give the Health Bitters the same as the
Cordial.  Diet  light a few days and keep the bowels in order.
                     FOR LUNACY.
  Give the decoction of agrimony four times a day ; or rub
the head several times a day with vinegar ;  or boil the  juice
of ground ivy (called gill-go-over-the-ground) Avith SAveet oil
and Avhite wine, into an  ointment—shave the head and an-
noint it  with  the  same.  Chafe  it  in  warm every  other
day for three weeks.  Bruise the leaves and bind them on
the head, and give three spoonfuls  of  the juice  every morn-
ing.  This generally cures Melancholy.  Or be electrified.
                  COLIC IN CHILDREN.

  Give one to eight drops of the oil of anise on sugar, or  in
breast milk.  The dose must be given according  to the age.
Or you may give powdered  anise seed  in their  food.  This
seldom fails, especially in wind colic, and is safe in all cases
of a bilious nature. 
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147
                FOR COLIC IN THE FIT.

   Drink a pint of  cold water ; or a quart of warm water ;  or
as largely as possible of warm  tea;  or a  pint of water in
which a hot flint is quenched ; or drink freely  of  chamomile
tea ;  or a decoction of mallows ; or take thirty-two drops of
spirits turpentine in one gill of water ;  or one-half drachm of
yellow orange peel powdered in one gill of Avater  ; or pound
and make a cake of one pound  of raisins  dried  in the sun,
three pounds of juniper berries, and eat more or less of it ac-
cording to the pain.  Or take from thirty  to sixty drops  of
oil anise seed on a lump of sugar.  Thirty  drops  is  a dose.
Renew it if  needed.  Or apply outwardly  a bag of hot oats;
or hot water in a bladder ;  or put them in  a tub of salt and
water as hot as they can  bare,  when  they take  the oil  of
anise—at and before you give the anise give a portion of the
Indian Physic. It will cure  the  hardest  cases  of Colic if
there is a possibility of a cure.  The  Physic must be  given
one hour before the warm  bath.
                FOR ASTHMATIC COUGH.

  Boil two ounces of liquorice in three pints of water to a
quart, and when blood Avarm  add one-half  ounce of salt of
tartar.   Take two spoonfuls every two hours.
              FOR A CONVULSIVE COUGH.

  Wash the head in cold water every morning; or use the
cold bath—seldom fails ;  or take  one-half pint of decoction
of onions every morning and evening"; or a spoonful of onion
juice. 
148                    RECirES.

                     FOR A  COUGH.

   When first afflicted, chew a  small piece  of Peruvian bark
and sAvalloAv the spittle,  as long as it is bitter.  If you cough
again, chew another piece.   Cures if the bark is used Avithin
twenty-four hours after it commences.  Or  cheAv  a piece  of
sweet flag as large as a small  pea, and swallow  the spittle,
will also cure.   Or drink a pint of cold water and go to bed ;
or mix one ounce of linseed oil with one ounce of Avhite sugar
candy, powdered, and take  ax tea-spoonful Avhen  you cough;
or make a  hole through a lemon and fill it Avith honey, then
roast  it  and catch the juice, and take a wine-glassful of this
three  times a day, fasting.
               FOR CONVULSIVE COUGH.

  Take three pounds  of turnips  and one pound of sugar,
and put them in an earthen pot  closely  covered for twenty-
four  hours—then  strain the juice and take two spoonfuls
morning and evening; or mix the juice  of boiled turnips
with fine powdered sugar candy till it is a kind of syrup, and
take eight drops every  half hour till  it is gone; or take a
table-spoonful of hoarhound syrup morning and evening ; or
put twenty-fourth of an ounce of spermaciti with a yolk of a
new-layed egg, and sup it in the morning, fasting.
                FOR PLEURITIC COUGH.

  Powder one ounce of spermaciti fine and Avork it with the
yolk of a fresh egg—mix  them  in  Avhite wine, and take a
wine-glassful every three hours. 
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149
              FOR CANCER IN THE BREAST.
   A Cancer is a hard, round, uneven,  painful. swelling, of a
 blackish or leadish color, the veins around which seem ready
 to burst.   It comes commonly at first with a swelling about
 as big as a pea, which does not  at  first  give  much pain  or
 change the color of the skin.  Use the cold bath.  This has
 cured many.  Generally where cold bathings are necessary to
 cure any disease, water drinking is to prevent a relapse.  If
 it has not broke, apply a piece of sheet lead rolled  thin and
 pricked full of pin*  holes,  for  days or weeks,  to the whole
 breast.   GiAre a portion  of the Indian Physic twice a week.
 Rub the  breast morning and evening Avith  spirits  of harts-
 horn.  Or  take a mellow apple and take  off the top  and take
 out the core, fill the hole Avith hog's lard, then cover it with
 the top and roast the apple thoroughly  ; then  take  off the
 pearing and beat both well—spread it thick on linen and lay
 it warm  on the sore, and put a bladder _over.  Change it in
 twelve or twenty-four hours.  Or take horse Avarts that grows
 on the inside of the leg, and lay them by  the fire  till they
 wilt to a powder.  Sift and  infuse two drachms in two quarts
 of ale.  Take one-half pint every  six hours.   Warm new
 milk  has cured many.  Or apply  dung and celendine beat
 well together and  spread  on a  cloth.  It will  both cleanse
and heal the sore.   Or a  poultice of wild parsnips, flowers,
leaves and  stalks, beat well together, and  change it  morning
and  evening.  Or  live  three months  on apples and apple
water.
             FOR PAIN IN THE TESTICLES.
  Apply (bruised) pellitory of the wall as a poultice, chan g
ing it morning  and evening.
               N2 
150
RECIPES.
                 FOR THE TOOTH-ACHE.
                                                      s
  Put a clove of garlic into the ear;  or rub the cheek fifteen
minutes; or pound  parsley and  salt together, and  put it
in the ear; or put fresh dug plantain root in the ear ; or lay
roasted turnip parings, as hot as it can be, behind the ear; or
put a leaf of betony, bruised, up the nose ;  or lay bruised or
boiled nettles to the cheek ; or a bag filled with  hot  chamo-
mile flowers ; or lay a clove of garlic on the tooth ;  or lay  a
Blice of boiled apple between the tooth;  or chew the  root of
yellow flag—it has large yellow  flowers in  July ; or gargle
with the decoction of mulberry leaves; or put a drop or two
of oil of cloves on cotton in the tooth;  or dissolve a  drachm
of crude sal ammoniac in two drachms  of lemon juice, wet
cotton with it, and apply it to the tooth ; or hold the feet in
warm brand  water and rub them well  just  before bed-time,
and  wet a  cloth with the Pain Extractor and  lay it on the
cheek as you go to bed ; or take  one ounce of elder berries
in brandy  and ^gargle  with it; or  rub  the teeth well  with
tooth poAvder every morning, and wash the mouth and teeth
with cold Avater.
                FOR TICKLING COUGH.
  Drink Avater whitened with oat-meal four times a day ;  or
keep a piece of barley,  sugar or sugar candy constantly  in
your mouth.
                      FOR A CUT.

  Keep it  closed  with your thumb  a quarter of an hour,
then double a cloth five or six times, dip it in cold Avater, and
bind it on. 
                        RECIPES.                    151

               FOR GOUT IN ANY LIMB.
  Rub the part Avith  Avarm India  molasses  and bind on  a
flannel Avet with  the  same.  Repeat it every twelve hours.
Or dry sage in the sun for one day,  and apply this—it will
ease the pain in one night.  Or undress and wrap yourself
up well, then put your feet and legs in salt and water as hot
as you can bare it—as it cools put in more hot water ; drink
one ounce of root ginger in good old cider—sit three or four
hours—go into a warm bed, and be careful not to take cold.
                FOR A WIND RUPTURE
  Warm cow dung and spread on thick leather, strew some
cumin seed on it, and apply  it hot.  When cold put on  a
new one.  It generally  cures a child keeping his  bed in two
days.

                A RUPTURE OR BURST.
  Take agrimony, spleenwort, Solomon's seal and strawberry
roots, a large handful of each—steep and  boil  two hours  in
two quarts of white wine in a vessel  closely  covered—strain
and take a wine-glassful every hour.  It generally cures in  a
fortnight.   A good truss, meantime, is good.
                  FOR INWARD PILES.
  Drink largely of molasses and water ;  or drink a spoonful
of the juice of yarrow or leeks, three or four mornings.
FOR A STITCH IN THE SIDE.
Apply hot toast spread with molasses. 
152
RECIPES.
    PAIN IN THE STOMACH FROM BAD DIGESTION.
  Take«(fasting, or in the fit) one half-pint of chamomile tea
—do this five or six mornings; or drink the juice of half a
lemon immediately after dinner every day ; or take one tea-
spoonful of good cider vinegar in sage tea twice a day ; or in
the fit, take one gill of good cider vinegar.  You had better
take at night as you go to bed, one-half gill of the Reformed
Botanic and Indian  Physic, and in  the morning, if it does
not operate thoroughly, take as  much more, and so on  till
you get an operation.  Then take one tea-spoonful of Health
Bitters three times a day, fasting.   This  will  cure all Dys-
peptical complaints.
          FREQUENT OR VIOLENT STITCHES.

  Drink a decoction of nettles and apply the  herb hot;  or
boil a handful of pennyroyal  in a pint  of milk—drink the
milk freely, and apply a poultice of the herb ;  or take a tea-
spoonful of Irish root finely poAvdered.
  ACCIDENTAL SICKNESS, OR PAIN IN THE STOMACH.

   Vomit  with  a quart of warm water ;  or  take  a gentle
physic,  if a man, take  the  Reformed Botanic and  Indian
Physic.

                       THRUSH.
  Take  celendine, honey and  powdered  saffron, equal parts
—simmer and skim ; apply it with a feather, and  give ten
grains of rheubarb  and chew bitter  walnut meats.  The
Thrush is little white ulcers in the mouth. 
RECIPES.
153
                FOR MENSES—TOO MUCH.

   Drink nothing but cold water  with a  spoonful of Avheat
flour stirred in it—at that time drink a glass of the coldest
water you can get, and apply  a  thick cloth  dipped in cold
water ; or put the feet into  cold  water;  or  apply a sponge
dipped in red wine and vinegar; or take one tea-spoonful of
the balm of gilead tea, put in it as much pulverized alum as
will lie on the point of a penknife, or  as  big as a pea, once.
an  hour,  till  the flowing subsides;  or boil red  hollyhock
leaves in milk, and sweeten it with sugar.  You may  add a
little- balm  of gilead.   Take a  table-spoonful  every half
hour—seldom fails.  Or take a gentle rheubarb physic, then
boil the peel of several oranges in  three pints of spring  wa-
ter to a quart, SAveeten it with white sugar,  and take a gill
four times a day.  Or use daily the decoction, syrup or pow-
der, of horse-tail, nettle  or plantain.  Or reduce to  a  fine
powder one-half ounce of alum  with  a quarter of an ounce
of dragon's blood.   In a violent case, take  one-fourth of a
drachm every half hour.  It scarcely  ever fails to stop  the
flux before an ounce  is taken.  This also cures the Whites.
 PAIN IN THE STOMACH, WITH COLDNESS AND WIND.

  Soak black pepper in 3alt till the hull comes off, then dry
it and grind it.  Take five or  six  corns  of it six or  seven
mornings.

          HOT COLIC PAINS IN THE STOMACH.

  Take a pint of the  decoction of ground iv*y  with  a tea-
spoonful of the powder of it, five or six mornings. 
154
RECIPES.
               FOR  NERVOUS DISORDERS.
   Nervous disorders are  of two kinds :  first, those which
proceed from the nerves being compressed by the swelling of
the muscular flesh—or, second, when the  nerves  themselves
are disordered.   In the first case, temperance and abstemious-
ness will generally cure.   In the latter, when the nerves per-
form their office too languidly, a good air  is requisite.   The
patient should rise early, and as soon  as  the dew is off the
ground, take  a walk.  Let his breakfast be mother of thyme
tea gathered in June, using half as much  as  we do of com-
mon tea.  It should be  drank Avith  the finest sugar and
cream.   Coffee must be avoided when the nerves are to<5 sen-
sible.  The patient should breathe a proper  air, and let him
eat veal, chickens, or mutton. Vegetables should be eat
sparingly.   The  most innocent is  the French turnip  while
young.   Wine should  be carefully avoided, so should all
sauces.   Sometimes  he may  breakfast on  a quarter  of an
ounce of the powder of valerian root infused in hot water,  to
which may be added cream  and sugar.  Tea-is not proper
when the person finds  an uncommon oppression—let him
take a large  spoonful of the tincture of valerian root.   This
tincture  should be made thus: Cut  to pieces six ounces of
wild valerian root gathered in June and fresh dried, bruise  it
a little, and put it into a  quart of strong white Avine—cork
the bottle and let it stand twenty days—shake it every day ;
then strain  it  through  three or four thicknesses of  cloth.
Take, also, as much as will lie on a shilling of the powder  of
mistletoe twice a day, when the stomach is most  empty, fast-
ing two hours after it—then one ounce a day, and afterwards
every other or every third day, till cured.   Let this plant be
gathered in May, and the  leaves and bark  be dried in the
shade. 
RECIPES.
155
               TO  PREVENT THE STONE.

  Eat a crust  of dry bread every morning ;  or drink a pint
of warm daisy juice before  dinner.  After discharging one
stone, it will prevent another from geathering.
                  FOR  CHAPPED LIPS.
  Apply a little  Sal Prunella  composition  of sulphur and
saltpetre.

           FOR COLDNESS OF THE STOMACH.

  Take a spoonful of the syrup of the juice of cardus bene-
dictus, fasting, for three  or four mornings.
                 TO CURE THE PILES.

  Apply warm molasses;  or  tobacco  leaf steeped  in  water
twenty-four  hours; or a  poultice  of boiled brook lime—it
seldom fails ; or a bruised  onion skinned or  roasted in ashes
—it perfectly cures the Dry Piles;  or leeks fried in butter ;
or varnish—it cures both Blind and Bleeding Piles.
             TO PREVENT THE PILES.

^Vash the parts often with cold water.
          FOR PALPITATION OF THE HEART.
  Drink a pint of cold water ; or a table-spoonful of Health
Bitters ; or apply outwardly a cloth dipped in vinegar ; or be
electrified ;  or take a decoction of motherwort every night. 
156
RECIPES.
                      THE PALSY.
  Use the cold bath  if you  are  under fifty,  rubbing and
sweating after it; or cut white onions and bake them gently
in an earthen pot till they are soft—then spread a thick plas-
ter of this and apply it to the  benumbed part, all  over the
side if need be;  or take tar water morning and evening; or
boil white and red sage, two ounces each, in a quart of white
wine, then strain and bottle it—take a wirre-glassful morning
and evening.   This helps in all nervous disorders.   Or apply
to the parts boiled sage leaves, hot, and drink a decoction of
sage morning  and evening; or  apply the leaves of boiled
water-dock in the form of a poultice, and bathe  the affected
part in hot salt and water.
               ' PALSY OF THE HANDS.

  Wash them in hot sage tea,  as hot as can be borne ; or
boil elder leaves and mustard seed in Avater—wash them often
in this as hot as you can bare.
              FOR PALSY IN THE MOUTH.

  After purging Avell, chew mustard  seed often ;  or hold  in
your  mouth  one-half ounce  of the  spirits  of lavender ;  or
gargle with the juice of wood sage.
        AN OLD, STUBBORN PAIN  IN THE BACK.

  Steep the root of water fern in water till the water becomes
thick and clammy—rub the parts affected morning and eve-
ning. 
                         RECIPES.                     157

                FOR THE BLOODY FLUX.

   Apply a linen cloth dipped in brandy, and drink freely of
 blackberry root tea, SAveetened with  loaf sugar ; or drink as
 much cold Avater as you can, taking nothing else till the  flux
 stops ; or take out the core of a large apple and fill up the
 hole with a piece of honey-comb—after the honey is strained
 out, then roast the apple  in  embers  and eat it—it will  stop
 the flux immediately ; or thirty grains of the powdered  root
 of flower de luce twice a week, or as much rheubarb ;  or a
 decoction of primrose leaves, or  of mellilot seed ;  or grated
 rheubarb, as much as Avill lie on a shilling, and one-half as
much grated nutmeg, in a glass of white  wine,  lying down,
every other night; or one tea-spoonful of bitter-Avalnut meat
jelly made of  loaf sugar.
               FOR MENSES, OBSTRUCTED.

   Be electrified ; or take a pint of strong  pennyroyal tea  at
 night on going to bed ; or  a spoonful  of  brook lime syrup,
 morning and evening, fasting ; or a tea-spoonful of powdered
 Columbian seed, morning  and evening; or  boil  five or six
 heads of hemp  in  one pint of water to one-half pint, then
 strain and  sweeten it Avith loaf sugar.  Take one-third of  it
 three nights running as you go to bed—it  seldom fails.  Or
 pour  twelve ounces of  rectified spirits of wine on four ounces
 of the roots of black hellebore, aud let it stand in a  warm
place twenty-four hours—then pour it off and  take thirty or
forty  drops in any liquid one-half hour before supper.   It is
good, likewise in the green sickness and in all hypochondri-
cal cases, and in obstinate madness.
             0 
158
RECIPES.
              TO PREVENT THE PEAOUE.
  Eat merigold flowers daily as a sal lad, Avith oil and  vine-
gar ; or a little  of the tops of  rue with  bread and butter,
every morning; or infuse  rue,  sage, mint,  rosemary,  and
wormwood, each two ounces, in two quarts -of the best vine-
gar, over warm embers, for. eight days.   Then strain aud dis-
solve in three ounces of rectified spirits of wine.  With this
wash the loins, face and mouth, aud snuff a little up the nose
when you go from home—smell  of a sponge  dipped in this
when you approach infected persons or places.
                  FUR THE MEASLES.
  Drink Avater gruel, or milk and water—the more the bet-
ter ;  or  eat  toasted bread  and  water  sweetened Avith loaf
sugar ; or take frequently two spoonfuls of barley Avater, two
spoonfuls of new almond oil, and two spoonfuls of the syrup
of maiden hair.   After the measles for some weeks use light
diet and drink barley Avater.  Be careful about taking cold.
         TORPOR OR NUMBNESS OF THE LIMBS.
   Use the cold bath every morning and go  to bed after it.
Take a little Health Bitters, and rub with the Pain Extractor.
          PRICK OR CUT THAT FESTEUS.

Apply a plaster made of sweet elder  bark and turpentine.
                        WORMS.
  Mix worm seed Avith molasses, and give, say one tea-spoon-
ful mornings, fasting. 
RECIPES.
159
            FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.
   Apply the decoction of treefoil mixed  with hog'sdard, as a
plaster.   Renew the plaster every three  hours for nine days.
Or plunge into cold water daily for twenty days, and keep as
long in it as possible.   This  has cured  after  the first fit of
hydrophobia.  Take two spoonfuls of the  ashes  of crawfish
for forty  days.  Or mix four drachms of powdered liverwort
with two drachms of black pepper, divide this in four parts,
and take one in warm milk  for four  mornings, fasting—sel-
dom fails.  Or take two or three tea-spoonfuls of the juice of
ribwort morning and evening, as soon as possible after the
bite—repeat this for one month.
                   A STRONG PURGE.
  Drink one-half pint of strong decoction of dock root; or
two ounces of the powdered roots  of monk's rheubarb—a
species of  dock—Avith a scruple of ginger.
              TO CURE INWARD ULCERS.
  Take two  ounces  of sassafras,  (bark of the  root,)  two
ounces colt's#foot, one ounce blood root, one  ounce of gum
myrrh, one ounce of winter bark, one ounce of suckatrain—
steep them in two quarts of spirits, and take a wine-glassful
every morning, fasting.
   CRAMP IN THE STOMACH, OR ANY  INWARD PART.

  Take ten drops of oil of lavender and one grain pulverized
camphor gum, on sugar or in wine.   Repeat  the dose once
an hour, if required. 
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RKCII'KS.
                  FOR HECTIC COUGH.

   Take  the  yolk of three hen's eggs, three spoonfuls of
honey, and one of tar—beat them avcII together, and add one
gill of AYine.   Take a tea-spoonful three  times a day before
eating.   Or ihake a syrup of one pound barley, one  pound
turnips, one .pound of elecampane roots—boil them in  three
quarts of Avater to a quart, strain and add one pound of loaf
sugar or honey,  and one-half pint brandy.   Take a table-
spoonful three times a  day.  Or  take one-half pound  wild
liquorice, one pound brook liverAvort,  tAvo ounces elecamrmne,
four ounces Solomon's  seal, one-half  pound spikenard,  four
ounces gum firr, and boil in four quarts to  one—then strain
and add two  pounds  honey, and one pint of good spirits.
Take one table-spoonful three times a day, before eating.


                     BILIOUS  PILLS.

   Take one pound sweet rind aloes, four ounces Jallap, four
ounces of pulverized blood root, tAvo ounces cloves, two ounces
saffron—beat them all to a fine  powder, and pill them with
molasses.  One the size of  a pea will guard against a bilious
habit, taken every night, but if you Avish them to  act as a
physic, take four or five on  going to bed.   They give no pain
in the operation.


                  FOR BILIOUS COLIC.

   Take the above bilious pills, and add  to every dose or five
pills, a tea-spoonful of pulverized mandrake root.  This must
be repeated every hour till helped.  You may put the patient
in a tub of warm salt and water,  if very bad. 
RECIPES.                    161
            FOR THE FLYING RHEUMATISM.
  Take prince's  pine  tops, horseradish roots,  elecampane
roots, prickley ash bark, bitter  sweet (bark of the root), wild
cherry bark, and mustard seed, equal parts of all, and one
gill of tar water and put into  a pint of brandy—take one-
half wine-glassful three  times a  day, one-half hour  before
eating.
     FOR TOOTH-ACHE, IF THE TOOTH IS HOLLOW.
  Take gum opium, camphor and  spirits turpentine, equal
parts, and rub them together  till  a paste—then dip lint  in
the paste, and put it in the tooth after eating.  Make use  of
this three or four days, and it will stop the tooth from  ever
aching.

             FOR CANKER IN THE MOUTH.
  Take one pound fresh butter and  put it in  a well glazed
earthen vessel, set it over a slow fire, and when  it boils add
to it four common green frogs, alive—let them stew till the
frogs are dry—take them out and add a little chamomile and
parsley.  When cold, stir in a little pulverized  alum, and if
the fever is high, give a little rattlesnake gall  dried in chalk*
This will cure the most inveterate  canker in the mouth  or
throat.
    FOR ERYSIPELAS,  OR ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE.
Drink and wash with egg wine freely.

                FOR SORE NIPPLES.
Apply a plaster  of balsam  firr.
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RECIPES.
                   PLASTER FOR FELLONS.
     Take four ounces of strong tobacco, boil it in one quart of
   water one-half hour, then strain the liquor  and  put in one
   pound of pitch boiled from old knots.  Simmer them all to-
   gether over a sIoav fire till it forms a salve.  If the swelling
   is on the hand or foot, lay it on the Avrist or ankle, or above
   the next joint Avherever the SAvelling is.   This  will  take out
   all the pain very soon.  Dress the sore Avith any other salve.

                    FOR THE PHTHISIC.
     Take four ounces of hen's tat and one ball of skunk's cab-
   bage, powdered fine, and ste>v them  together  till it is dry—
   then  strain and take a  tea-spoonful three times  a  day.  Or
•  make a  syrup  of white swamp  honey-suckle blossoms and
   queen of the meadow* roots—add to one  quart of the syrup
   one-half pound of honey and one-half pint of brandy.  Take
   a tea-spoonful three times a day.
                CURE FOR THE ASTBMA.

   Take two ounces each of spikenard root,  sweet flag root,
elecampane root, and common chalk—pulverize them all  to-
gether, and add to it one pound of honey or loaf sugar, beat
it well together, and take one tea-spoonful three times a day.
Or take linseed oil and sugar freely.

                    FOR THE  DROPSY.
  Take  one-half pound of blue flag and one-half  pound ele-
campane root, and boil them in  one gallon of Avater to a quart,
and strain  and SAveeten with  one pint of molasses.  Take
one-half gill three times a day,  fasting. 
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               l
A CURE AND PRESERVATIVE AGAINST BILIOUS FEVERS.
  The fullness of bile is the cause of all sorts of fevers, jaun-
dice, bilious colic, and cholera morbus.   Physic once in three
or four months with blood root and mandrake ; take one ta-
ble-spoonful of the roots pulverized together, night and morn-
ing  till it operates.  Make small  beer  with  spruce boughs,
elder, burdock,  sarsaparilla and  spikenard roots,  Avith hops
and white ash bark, and drink it freely.  Make a bitter with
unicorn roots, bark of white wood roots, and  the yellow dust
of hops—take a tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting.  Or
take a tea-spoonful of Health Bitters three times a day.

                   FOR  CANKER-RASH.
  Give  one table-spoonful of the Reformed Botantic and  In-
dian Physic every three hours  till it  moves the bowels three
or four  times smartly, then give the patient one-half tea-
Bpoonful of the Slumbering Drops one-half hour before eat-
ing.   If it  commences by vomiting, give strawberry vine  tea
till the vomiting subsides, then  give the  Physic  as  above.
After the physic operates, bathe-with salt and water, or vine-
gar.   Dress the patient cool and  keep him  from the open
air for a Aveek.
                  FOR CONSUMPTION.

  Put one-half bushel of barley malt  in  fifteen  gallons of
boiling hot Avater, and let it stand six hours ; then put in one-
half bushel of white pine bark, one pound of spikenard roots,
and one pound of syria grass—boil them down to eight gal-
lons, and put it in a keg—then put in a little  yeast  or emp-
tyings and let it Avork.   Then bottle it up and drink  one-half
pint three times a day, fasting. 
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RECIPE)*
                    hysteric pills.
  Boil  white  root  (called  Canada root)  in  soft water two
hours, then strain the syrup and boil it down thick so that it
can be made into pills with wheat  flour, as large as a pea.
Let the patient take tAvo or three when the  disorder is com-
ing on, every night Avhen going to bed.
          FOR BLEEDING AT THE STOMACH.
   Take one pound of yellow dock root and  two ounces of
bitter Avalnut meats, boil them in  one  quart  of SAveet milk,
strain it, and drink one gill three times  a day, fasting.  Take
also a small  pill of white pine turpentine once a day to heal
the vessels that leak.
                FOR CONVULSION FITS.
  Make a tea of convulsion roots and herbs, (called by some
beech drops,) and drink of it one wine-glassful three  times  a
day, fasting ; or make a poAvder of them  and take the pow-
ders in small doses, say a tea-spoonful.
     FOR GRAVEL IN THE BLADDER  OR KIDNEYS.
  Make a strong tea of heart's ease and drink  freely of it;
or make a tea of the roots ofe Jacob's ladder and drink plen-
tifully of it.
             FOR ITCHING HEELS OR FEET.

  Take hot water and  put in salt and saleratus, and wash
and scrape your feet well once a week.   After cleaning them
annoint them with a  little cream. 
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165
                    FOR THE PILES.
  If outward, make  an  ointment of chamomile, sage, pars-
ley, and burdock—the leaves of each—and simmer them in
fresh butter and sweet oil.   Annoint with it,  and take one
gill of tar water three times a day.   If inward, take tar wa-
ter twice a day, and essence of firr, one  spoonful, as you go
to bed.
                FOR COMMON CANKER.
  Pound and steep canker root in water, and wash Avith  it
and drink it freely.  Canker weed grows from three to four
feet high—its leaves are like clover, and it grows in meadows
and around stumps and logheaps.

                 WHOOPING COUGH.
  Take four ounces of elecampane root  and one-half pound
of honey, steeped in earthern over a  slow  fire, or a half-hot
oven.   Give a tea-spoonful three times a day.  If  the root  is
dried, add one gill Avater.   A larger child may take more.

                 FOR THE EAR-ACHE,   .
  Drop in five drops of tobacco leaf tea, and stop it up with
cotton or wool,

          FOR  PAIN IN  THE EYES OR HEAD.
  Drop in the ear two or  three drops of turtle oil.   It gives
immediate relief.

                 FOR SORE NIPPLES.
  Put on the oil of butternuts a few times. 
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RECITES.
                  CURE FOR CANCERS*
  Boil down the lye'from the ashes of red oak bark as thick
as molasses and cover the cancer Avith it, and about one hour
after cover it with a  tar  plaster—keep it on three or four
days.   If any of the cancer remains, put on another plaster
of the potash, and after that the tar plaster again.   Continue
this from time to time till all the fibres and  roots of the Can-
cer disappear, then heal it with the soap salve.  It effects a
speedy cure.
                     FOR  CATARRH.
  Take yellow dock, blood root and chalk, four ounces each,
one ounce of cinnamon,  one-half  ounce of cloves,  and put
them all together, and take them as snuff eight or ten times
a day.   Smoke cinnamon and tobacco, sweat the  head with
hemlock, brandy and camphor.   Take a  portion of the Re-
formed Botanic and Indian  Physic  every six or eight days.
      TO CURE A SWELLING CAUSED BY A COLD.
  Boil sweet clover twenty minutes in water, thicken it with
Indian brand, and put it on as a poultice, hot as you can bare
it.  Change it when cold.  It generally cures the second or
third  poultice.   Simmer SAveet clover in hog's lard to a salve
—this is remarkable to heal  old  sores.

                      FOR A COLD.
  Take three gills of hemlock bough tea at night, and one in
the morning.  This closes up the internal pores and prevents
taking cold.  Or make a tea of cock-ash root, frost weed and
squaw root.  Drink freely of  it till Avell. 
RECIPES.                     PSJ
                  FOR THE LOCKJAW.
  Give first five grains of dover powder, then put the patient
in a tub of salt water as hot as he can bare it, bathe his head
with camphor in spirits or  the Pain Extractor, let him set or
stand as long as he can without fainting. Give him a Avine-glass-
ful of Health Bitters.  When out of the water, wrap him in
warm flannel, and repeat  this every  hour till  the  Lockjaw
gives aAvay.   If it holds after the first and  second bathings,
rub Iiis neck, head and arms with Avarm chamber-lye.

            CURE FOR VEGETABLE POISON.
  Make a tea of rosemary leaves or  blossoms, and  drink it
morning and evening as you would other  tea ; or take wild
turnip, if green press out the juice,  if  dry  boil  them,  and
wash the afflicted part with it.   Put in  part of the liquor
saffron and camphor, and take three  table-spoonfuls a day,
morning,  noon,  and night,  Take a physic  once  in six or
eight days.

        TO TAKE OUT FIRE AND HEAL BURNS.
   Simmer cowslip  roots in sweet cream to an oil—annoint
with this oil a few times.

       TO CURE SWELLED AND SORE  BREASTS.
   Make a poultice of the green part of  bass-wood bark—put
it on Avarm.

            FOR DYSENTERY IN CHILDREN.
   Simmer yarrow in milk and give a table-spoonful every hour
till helped. 
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RECIPES.
           FOR THE INFLUENZA OR COUCH.

  Boil two ounces of balm of gilead  buds in one  quart  of
water till the gum is all out, take out  the buds, and  add two
ounces of honey and one ounce of loaf sugar, one-half gill of
sharp vinegar—take  one  table-spoonful  at 9 o'clock in the
morning and at 5 o'clock in the afternoon.  If the  cough is
dry, add and boil Avith the balm of gilead buds one  ounce  of
butternut buds, and  boil them well together.
             FOR PAIN  IN THE STOMACH.
  Take bass-wood, yellow birch, beech, yellow ash, and black
alder barks, equal parts, boil them in water tAvo hours, strain
the liquor and boil it to a gum.   Put one  ounce of the gum
in one pint of brandy, and take a wine-glassful three times a
day, fasting—that is before eating.
                    TO CURE CORNS.

   Take the ashes of yelloAv  willow  and moisten them with
 water, and lay it on a few times; or bind on rattlesnake skin
 a few times.

                 FOR HYPOCHONDRIA.

   Take one tea-spoonful of month radish juice as you go U>
 bed.

    TO PREVENT BOILS BY CLEANSING  THE BLOOD.
  Drink a strong tea made of burdock roots for two or three
days. 
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  TO PREVENT A RELAPSE IN CASES OF DYSENTERY.
  Take from five to fifteen drops of the  oil of anise  on loaf
sugar ; or make a tea of Canada thistle root, one-half ounce,
and bitter-walnut meats,  sweetened  with loaf sugar, taken
freely, effects a cure without danger ; or boil firr balsam bark
to a strong tea and sweeten it  with  loaf sugar,  and put in
one-fourth part of port Avine ;  or take white pine bark, beech
leaves and Canada thistle roots, equal parts, steep them  and
sweeten it with loaf sugar, and  put in one-half port wine.
Give all the above preparations freely, one table-spoonful at a
time.   Or make  a  tea of chestnut tree, (bark of the root,)
and take a table-spoonful every hour till helped.
                 FOR INWARD ULCERS.
   Take the bark of sassafras root two ounces, colt's foot root
two ounces, blood root two ounces,  gum myrrh one ounce,
and steep them in two quarts  of spirits—take  one-half gill
every morning and live on simple diet  as much as possible.
For  drink, make a beer of one peck of barley malt, two
pounds spikenard root, tAvo pounds comfrey root, one pound
burdock root, two pounds black spruce  boughs, five pounds
angelica root, one pound  fennel seed, one-fourth pound win-
tergreen—all for ten gallons  of beer.  Drink one quart a
day.   Exercise light, and  ride out every day in  fair weather.
           .  FOR TWISTING OF THE GUTS,

   Put the patient in a tub of hot salt  and water, and give
one-half gill  of the  Reformed  Botanic and Indian Physic,
with twenty drops of the oij of anise, every two hours.
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RECIPES.
               FOR INABILITY TO SLEEP.
   Apply a cloth of  four or five  thicknesses to the forehead
wet in cold Avater.   This is good in cases  when  a woman is
lying-in.   Or use the cold bath—it cures in desperate cases.
Or apply to the head the leaves of water  lillies ; or a poul-
tice of henbane and  poppy seed beaten together ; or use small
doses of camphor gum in warm water.  Put together equal
parts of Health Bitters and port wine, and take a large tea-
spoonful as you retire.

          A WHITE SWELLING ON THE JOINT.
   Hold the part half an hour every morning under cold, fall-
ing water; or pour  on it daily a stream of warm water two
hours; or put on a poultice  of roasted  onions—renew it as
often as it begins to get hot and dry ; or hold it when it first
starts one half hour in hot, weak lye;  or apply a poultice of
southern wood and wormwood,  fried  in hog's lard or fresh
butter, or mutton tallow.

            TO PREVENT THE TOOTH-ACHE.
   Wash the mouth  every  morning with cold water ; or rub
the teeth often with tobacco  ashes.

               FOR A SWELLED THROAT.
   Gargle  with the decoction of nettles,  or of prim-rose.

                   TO' CLEAN TEETH.
   Rub the teeth with ashes of burnt bread.

           RICKETS—TO CURE OR  PREVENT.
   Wash the child every morning in cold water. 
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     THE VERTIGO, OR SWELLING IN THE HEART.
   Take  a gentle physic of two  ounces  of salts, one-half
ounce of soda,  sweet elderberry juice  one ounce, and two
ounces of sugar, dissolved in one gill of vinegar; or use the
cold bath, mornings, for a month, and go to bed immediately,
till warm ; or drop the juice of pimpernell into the  ear morn-
ing and  evening ;  or in  May  mornings,  about sunrise, snuff
up daily the dew  that is on the mellow  leaves; or drink
morning and evening one-half pint of the decoction of prim-
rose roots; or drink sage tea, and, wash  the  head with the
same ; or take every morning one-half a drachm" of mustard
seed.
                 FOR WINDY DROPSY.
   Use the cold bath ;  give the Reformed Botanic and Indian
Physic with a large portion of the decoction  of dwarf elder-
berries, every three or four evenings ;  or mix leeks and elder,
and take two spoonfuls morning and evening.

                A VEIN OR SINEW  CUT.

   Apply the inside bark of fiazle, fresh scraped,  and bathe
with the  Pain  Extractor.

     FOR THE BITE OF A VIPER  OR RATTLESNAKE.
   Rub the wound immediately with linseed  oil  or common
oil, and bind it on when mixed with bruised onions.

                  TO INCREASE MILK.
  Drink  a  pint of  cold water on going  to bed ;  or drink
largely of pottage made of lentles. 
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RECIPES.
                  FOR THE PLEURISY,

   Apply to the side onions roasted  in the embers and mix
with cream, in the form of a poultice ; or take  out the core
of an apple and fill it with  white frankinsense,  stop it close
with the piece cut out, and roast it in the ashes—then  mash
and eat it;  or take a  glassful of tar Avater  warm every half
hour ;  or a decoction  of nettles, and apply the herb hot as a
poultice ;  or a poultice of the flour  of brimstone and the
white  of an egg; or the  white of  three  eggs spread on
scorched toAAr, covered with black pepper.  The pleurisy is a
fever attended Avith a violent pain in the side and a remark-
able hard pulse.
                   AN EASY PURGE.

  Drink a pint of warmish water, fasting, walking after it;
or infuse two drachms of damask rose  leaves,  dried, in  one-
half pint of water, for twelve hours—take it, fasting ; or take
three drachms of senna, one  drachm  of saltpetre, and one
ounce of epsom salts, in one gill of  Avater, cut  ten drops  of
oil of anise in alcohol, and add it to the above, and take it on
going to bed.              ,

     TO MAKE MILK AGREE WITH  THE STOMACH.

  If it lies heavy, put a little salt in it.   If it curdles, put in
sugar.   For bilious persons, mix it Avith water.
PALSY FROM WORKING WITH WHITE  LEAD AND VER-
                         DIGRIS.

  Use warm I>aths and a milk diet. 
RECIPES.
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  TO CURE THE JAUNDICE,  DROPSY IN THE STOMACH,
      Sick  Stomach,  Head-ache,  Costive  Habits,
        Bloody  and White  Urine,  Hysterics in
           Woman,  Hypochondria  in Men,
              Wind and Pressure at the
                  Stomach, Heartburn.
   Also to Brake Persons of Drinking  Habits,  &e.

   Take barberry  (bark  of the root) four ounces,  hemlock
 bark four ounces, white oak bark eight  ounces, black cherry
 tree bark eight ounces, quassia Avood  two ounces,  sassafras
 (bark of the root) four ounces.  In case of rheumatic  com-
 plaints, add to the above compound  two ounces of prickley
 ash bark.  Dry  and pulverize all the barks Avell together, and
 put it in three quarts of such  spirits as suits the patient best.
 It must not be heated by the fire,   Bottle it up and shake it
 together three or four days.  Take  from one  to two  table-
 spoonfuls in water, equal parts, one-half hour before break-
 fast and dinner.   To cure the  rum-drinker,  add to the above
 compound  four  ounces  of blood root.  He may take three
 spoonfuls.

                TO CURE THE PLAGUE.
  CoUFwater alone, drank largely, has cured it; or an ounce
 or two of the juice of marigold; or  take a drachm of pow-
 dered angelica every six hours—it causes a strong sweat; or a
 draught of brine as soon as seized, sweat in bed, and take no
 other drink for some hours.  Use lemon juice in everything.

         FOR THE ASTHMA,  CRAMP AND COLIC.
  Give five drops of rattlesnake grease  to  a grown person
 and two or three drops to a child.  For either of the  com-
plaints this is relaxing and gives great deliverance.
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RECIPES.
                   FOP. THE QUINSY.
   Apply a large white bread-toast dipped  in brandy, to the
croAvn of the head, till it dries ; or drink a quart of  cold Ava-
ter, lying  down  in  bed; or swalloAv  slowly of white rose-
water mixed with syrup of mulberry ; or the juice or jelly of
black currants—or a decoction of the leaves  or bark.


           TO RESOLVE COAGULATED  MILK.
   Cover the Avoman Avith a blanket and  hold a pan of hot
water just under the breast, then stroke it three or four times.
Do this twice a day till cured.
                     FOR  A COUGH.

  Make a syrup of balsam and  tamarac bark, equal parts,
and loaf sugar—bottle it and take a Avine-glassful three times
a day, fasting.

      TO REDUCE SWELLINGS ON MAN  OR BEAST.

  Simmer lovage leaves in fresh butter or cream till it comes
to an oil, and annoint the sAvelled part once an hour till the
swelling disappears.

          FOR INWARD WOUNDS OR INJURIES.

  Take firr boughs two pounds, elecampane,  comfrey, spike-
nard, masterwort, angelica,  ginseng and chamomile, of each
one pound—put them into  a still  Avith  one  gallon  of rum
and two gallons of Avater;  draw off six quarts  and take a
wine-glassful night and morning. 
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175
TO  TAKE OFF FRECKLES,  SUNBURNS,  AND TO  CURE
                  CORNS AND WARTS.

  Take the juice of sun-dew and mix it with  milk,  and ap-
plyed to the skin, removes freckles and sunburns.   The clear
juice put on a cloth and laid on  a few times, cures corns and
warts.   This plant grows  in meadows or Avet, springy places.
It never grows more than one  inch high, has  a small leaf
standing edgeways, the shape of parsnip seed—on the end of
the leaf is many redish fibres, and  on the fibres is a little
slick bunch.
            OINTMENT FOR SWELLINGS.
  Make an ointment of alder tags, sugar of lead, hog's lard,
mellilot and saffron, and simmer them  all together.   Then
strain it and annoint the part afflicted.   If taken in time will
scatter the swelling.   Give a little physic  while annointing,
either the mandric and blood root or the Reformed Botanic
and Indian Physic.

       A  POULTICE FOR OLD INFLAMED SORES.

  Scrape and wilt yellow carrots very soft and put it on.  It
takes  out  the  inflammation  and SAvelling, and is good for
swelled breasts.
 TO TAKE THE COLD OR SWELLING  OUT OF WOUNDS.
  Take ragweed and onions, equal parts,  cut them up  and
boil them together twenty minutes, and then thicken Avith
Indian meal.  Apply this as a poultice as  Avarm  as you  can
bear it.  This has taken the swelling and cold out in twelve
hours.                      . 
17C
RECIPES.
                   FOR THE DROPSY.
  Take sassafras (bark of the root) one pound, prickly  ash
bark one pound, spice wood bush one-half pound, garlics one-
fourth  pound, parsley roots  one-fourth pound,  horseradish
roots one-fourth pound, black birch bark  one-fourth pound,
dwarf elder herbs and roots one pound, milkweed roots one-
half pound, and balsam boughs one pound—boil them all to-
gether in three gallons of brand water, then  strain and  add
six pounds  of sugar and two quarts of good gin, with one-
half pound of juniper berries steeped  in  the gin—bottle it
up,  and take one gill of the syrup three times a day, fasting.
   ESSENCE FOR ALL KINDS OF INWARD WEAKNESS.
   Take twenty pounds of firr boughs, one pound of spike-
nard, four pounds of red clover,  and four pounds of black
cherry bark—put them in a still  Avith ten gallons of cider,
draw off three gallons, and take a Avine-glassful  of it morn-
ing and evening.

              FOR STOPPAGE OF WATER.
   Take one spoonful of honey-bees and one-spoonful of  cur-
rant buds, steep  them  in  hot water strong,  and take two
spoonfuls every half hour.

                    FOR DIABETES.
   Take a weather sheep's bladder  and fill it Avith good  Ma-
deira wine and one-half  ounce of  oil of anise, cut in alcohol
—take a wine-glassful three or four times a day ;  or take ten
or fifteen drops of oil of anise on sugar as you go to bed.  A
deer's bladder is the best. 
RECfPES.
177
                   ST. VITUS' DANCE.

   Purge with the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic and
one-fourth ounce of blood root to one-half gill of the  prepa-
ration.  Then steep one-fourth ounce camphor and one ounce
of blood root  in  one-half pint of spirits,  and  add one-half
ounce of saltpetre dissolved in one-half gill of vinegar.  Take
a tea-spoonful three times a day,  and drink freely  of a  tea
made of sage, rue and pennyroyal, equal parts, and sweeten
with loaf sugar.   Or pour cold Avater on the patient's head
three or four times a day for five or ten minutes.  Mix oil  of
lavender, one-fourth ounce, with one ounce of ether, and rub
the back of the neck and Avrist  with it night  and morning
for six or eight days.
TO STOP A FEVER SORE FROM HEADING, AND SCATTER-
                        ING IT.
   Sweat it  with flannel  cloths dipped in hot brine.   The
cloths must be changed when cold for  three hours.   Then
wash it with brandy and wrap it in a flannel.   Repeat this
three or four  times.
                  TO STOP VOMITING.
  Take pulverized camphor gum and pour on boiling water,
sweeten it Avith  loaf sugar,  and give a  spoonful every ten
minutes; or pound  green wheat or grass, squeeze  out the
juice, and give a spoonful once in ten minutes.
                      FOR WENS.
  Simmer alum and salt (equal parts) together, and wash the
wen with it three or four times a day. 
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RECIPES.
                  CURE FOR CANCERS.
  Take one pound of Avhite oak and one  pound of red oak
bark, and boil in four quarts of Avater two  hours, then strain
and simmer it down as thick as tar, and apply it as a plaster.
Shift it once a Aveek.  Or burn  red oak bark to ashes and
sprinkle it on the sore till it is  eaten  <Jut.  Then  put on a
plaster of tar.  Or balsam firr, mutton  talloAV  and beeswax,
equal parts.  Dress it once a day,  and  wash it  with castile
soap suds.  Repeat this plaster till well.
                  FOR THE DIABETES.
   Take alum, loaf sugar and rosin, each one-half ounce, and
take a poAvder that will lie on the point of a knife three times
a day; or take one ounce of ginger in one  pint of wine—
take a Avine-glassful  three  times a day; or  dissolve  in one
quart of  brandy one ounce of spruce gum and one-half ounce
of ginger.   Take one table-spoonful three times a day.

          THE FRENCH SWEET-CLO VER SALVE.
   Take beeswax, sweet clover, the^yolk of an egg, and mut-
ton tallow, equal parts, simmer them together, and annoint or
apply it to the swelling or wound, as suits best.

                  FOR MORTIFICATION.
   Take one  pound of white oak bark and boil it in one quart
of water one hour to a pint, then  strain and  add powdered
charcoal and Indian meal, equal parts, and lay it on the  af-
flicted part as a poultice, cold.   Repeat it  every two  hours,
Make a strong tea of Indigo weed  and mix  it with  one-half
brandy, and bathe the afflicted part with it. 
                        RECIPES.                    179

                        WORMS.
  Take one-half ounce  prickly ash bark, one ounce of pars-
ley, two ounces of scales of iron from  the  anvil of a smith,
one-half ounce alum, and two ounces of sage—steep in one
pint of water strong.  Strain and add one-half pint of mo-
lasses and one-half pint of rum.   Give a tea-spoonful three
times a day, fasting.

                   FOR RING-WORMS.
  Boil two ounces of tobacco in one pint of vervine, and add
one gill of vinegar and one gill of lye.  Rub it on every two
hours.
          TO TAKE AGUE OUT OF THE FACE.

  Take green moss and stew it in vinegar, and lay it on as a
poultice as hot as can be borne.  It generally  effects a  cure
the first or second application.
                     FLUOR ALBUS.

  Put one ounce of borax in one pint of wine, and take two
table-spoonfuls three times a day, and drink  hemlock bark
tea.

                    FOR A FELLON.
      •
  Take one-fourth pound of blue flag root,  four ounces of
poke root, and boil  them  in one quart of milk.  Soak  the
hand in it, as hot as can be borne, for thirty minutes.  Bind
the roots on two hours, and repeat the same till it breaks  or
is cured.  If it breaks, dress it with balsam firr. 
180                     RECIPES.

                  WHOOPING COU(;H.

  Take garlics, onions, and sweet oil, each one gill, and sim-
mer them well together, and add one gill of honey, one-fourth
ounce of oil of anise, and one-fourth ounce of camphor gum,
cut in one gill of alcohol.  Shake them well  together, and
give a tea-spoonful three times a day.   Or take  elecampane
four ounces and honey  eight ounces.  Set it in a warm place
forty-eight hours, and give a tea-spoonful three times a day.
          FOR PALPITATION OF THE HEART.
  Take a tea-spoonful of powdered Indian hemp  root three
times a day;  or take one ounce of oil lavender, four ounces
ether, and tincture of blood root and valerian, each onetmnce,
and mix well  together.  Give  a tea-spoonful three times a
day.
                 FOR THE TOOTH-ACHE.

  Make a decoction  or  paste of white poplar (bark of the
root) by boiling it, and mix it with a little rum, and put it on
the tooth.
                      EYE-WATER.

  Take one-fourth ounce of Avhite  vitriol,  one-fourth ounce
rock salt, one ounce unslacked lime, and one ounce „of loaf
sugar.   Pore on them two gills of boiling water, let it settle
and bottle it.  Or take one-fourth ounce of alum, one ounce
of loaf sugar, and dissolve them in one  gill  of vinegar,  and
add one-fourth ounce  of  salt' and  one-fourth  ounce  of  salt-
petre.  Put in one drop. 
RECIPES-                    181
                FOR GRAVEL OR STONE.

   Take  lobelia, violets,  chamomile,  smartweed,  each  one
ounce, and boil them in two quarts of water down to one—
strain and add one ounce of pearlash, eighteen ounces onion
juice, and one quart of good  Holland gin, well filled with
juniper.  Take  a wine-glassful three times a day,  fasting.
Drink nettle and pumpkin seed tea, equal parts, for common
drink, and eat  freely  of raw onions  for breakfast—if too
strong raw, boil them a little.  Or taWe one ounce of spirits
turpentine, sweet spirits of nitre, and oil of balsam, one ounce
each, and cut them in one pint  of alcohol.   Put it in  one
quart of strong tea of the bark of high blackberry and horse
mint. Take a wine-glassful three times a day, fasting.   Drink
a strong tea of benne leaves freely.
         FOR DIABETES AND LIVER COMPLAINT.

   Take one-half pound of black cherry bark  and steep in
one quart of port wine forty-eight hours,  then dissolve one-
half ounce of alum in one gill  of  strong checkerberry tea,
and cut one-fourth ounce of oil of anise  in one gill of alco-
hol.   Put all together and shake  them well.   Take a wine-
glassful three times a day.

             FOR THE LIVER  COMPLAINT.

  Make a strong tea of burdock, wormwood and dandelion,
and drink it freely.
                         GOUT.
  Apply a leek poultice to the part affected.  Its effects are
worthy of notice.  Garlics and anise seed is good.
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1.82                     RECIl'Eo.
FOR ONE SEEMINGLY KILLED WITH  LIGHTNING, DAMP
                   OR SUFFOCATED.
  Plunge him immediately into cold water ; or blow strong-
ly with a bellows down his throat.  This may recover a per-
son seemingly drowned.

                FOR  RAGING MADNESS.
  Apply a cloth of six thicknesses  Avet Avith the Pain  Ex-
tractor ; or stand under a water fall or  pour Avater on  the
head ; or let him eat nothing but apples for a month ; or eat
nothing but bread and milk, and ride out often.
TO DRAW BOILS TO  A HEAD, AND DRAW OUT FELLONS.
  Make a poultice of ginger  and flour, and  lay  it on;  or
roast onions and lay them on as a poultice.  Renew it every
two hours.  This will draw fellons to a head.

                  FOR THE EAR-ACHE.
   Roast lean  mutton and drop  the juice in  the ear, warm ;
or put the juice of roasted onions in hot as can be borne; or
put in the sap of black ash ;  or put in a piece  of salt pork,
scalded a  little.
                  FOR  CATARRH.

Use snuff of sassafras (bark of the root.)
                  TO PREVENT FITS.
  Steep one pound peony roots in one quart of water, and
drink it freely when you feel symptons of a fit. 
RECIPES.                    183
                     FOR  LEPROSY.

  Use the cold bath ;  or wash in the sea often and long ;  or
wash the parts Avith  the juice of mountain mint; or take
one-half gill of the Indian Physic every night for six days,
and bathe Avith bath linament and Avarm water,  equal parts,
morning and evening, and annoint Avith the  camphorated oil.
Follow up this process three months and it will effect a cure.
Take the Indian Physic every other week, and after an ope-
ration take one tea-spoonful of the Health Bitters three times,
a day, and  diet light a few days.  Or mix one ounce of poma-
tum, one drachm  of sulphur,  one half ounce  of saltpetre—
boil them in one gill of sweet oil,  and  annoint  the affected
part three times a day.  Wash with  castile soap.  Or add!
one pint of juice of house  leek and one-half pint of unripe
lemons, grapes or crab-apples,put them in one and a half pints of
milk  and one-half ounce of alum, stir well together, and
drink largely for twenty-four hours once an  hour.   Or drink
one-half pint  of celery whey  morning and evening.   This
has cured in a desperate case^  Or drink morning and eve-
ning a strong elm bark tea for one month.
               GOUT AND  RHEUMATISM.
  Take puff ball root and pulverized salmony, each one scru-
ple.  Mix it Avith balsam Peru and make sixteen pills.  Take
one at night and one in the morning.
                        QUINSY.
  Sweat with thorne herb boiled in milk and water.  Take
penneroyal tea and sAveat three or four times powerfully. 
184
RECIPES.
                   FOR RHEUMATISM.

   Use the cold bath, with rubbing and  sweating; or rub in
warm molasses, and apply to the parts a  brown  paper  Avet
with it—it has cured in  twelve  hours; or drink largely of
warm Avater in bed ;  or tar Avater morning and evening ; or
steep six or eight cloves of garlic in one-half pint of white
wine, and  take one table-spoonful lying down.  It sweats and
frequently cures  at once.  Or mix equal parts of sulphur and
honey together, and take three tea-spoonfuls at night and two
in the morning, and afterwards one in the morning and eve-
ning till cured.   Or live on new  milk whey and white bread
for fourteen days.  This  has cured  a desperate case.  Or
pound the green stalks of English rheubarb in May, with an
equal quantity of lump sugar, and take a tea-spoonful three
or four times a day.
                   FOR SALT RHEUM.

  Take swamp sassafras bark and make  a strong tea of it,
and  Avash  the parts  affected  with  it three days—then add
mutton tallow and simmer it over a  slow fire till the  water is
gone.  Annoint the parts afflicted, after washing, four or five
days, and take a gill of the Reformed Botanic and Indian
Physic during the time.
                     FEVER SORES.

  Put on a poultice of stewed pumpkin as warm as can  be
borne.  Repeat it once in two or three hours till cured.  It
will bring out the loose bones.   Or bathe the sore in the wa-
ter where a blacksmith cools his iron.  Have it Avarm. 
RECIPES.
185
                   FOR HYDROPHOBIA.
   Take two ounces pulverized scull-cap,  divide  it into seven
 poAvders, and  give one every three hours.  Bleeding is  said
 to cure.  Draw one and a half pounds blood, and in six hours
 draw eight ounces more.  Give cold  water freely.   Or take
 two ounces rye dough, two ounces old hog's lard, mix them
 together, and spread them on Avhite leather and lay on the
 wound.  FoIIoav it  up two  or  three days.  Or bruise six
 ounces rue, six ounces garlics,  four ounces molasses and four
 ounces pulverized pewter.  Boil slow  in two  quarts of ale to
 three pints, and bottle and cork it tight.  -Give nine spoon-
 fuls, a little warm, seven mornings successively.   Give a  dog
 six spoonfuls nine  days after  the bite.  Apply  some of the
 ingredients to  the  part  bitten.   Or take  one drachm brass
 filings, two ounces brown  burnt  and  pulverized  white bean
 meal, in milk or in milk broth, and stir together.   Given in
 two doses,  one hour apart,

                      FOR SPRAINS.

   Take spirits  turpentine three  gills,  fourth-proof brandy
three gills,  chamber-lye, beef gall,  neat's-foot oil, each one-
half gill—add one ounce fine salt, one ounce alum, two ounces
vinegar, and simmer them altogether.  Annoint the sprained
parts with it, hot as can be borne, every three or four hours.
Or take one-fourth ounce  pulverized black pepper, one-half
ounce salt,  one-fourth ounce  ginger, and the white of three
eggs. Spread  it on a bat  of scorched  tow, and lay it on cold.
Renew it every tAvo or three hours.

                POLYPUS IN THE NOSE.
  Use powdered blood root as snuff freely.
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186
RECIPES.
                   CURE FOR CANCERS.
  Apply blood-suckers (called  leeches) every  two or  three
days till they drop off alive.   This is to effect a cure.   Make
a broth of the tail of lizards, and  drink  a few times  of it.
This has-cured inveterate cancers.
                         ANOTHER.
  Dissolve one drachm corrosive  sublimate in  one ounce of
water, wash the tumor with  it, scrape the tumor a little, and
then put on a plaster made of water hemlock.   Give a gill of
weak tea, morning and evening, made of water hemlock, or
a strong  tea 6f  Avintergreen, or evergreen,  or AAdnterberry.
Drink it freely, and keep the cancer wet with it.
                 FOR THE HEAD-ACHE.
  Put tAvo ounces camphor gum and two ounces ether in one
pint of alcohol—then dissolve one ounce salt, one ounce salt-
petre  and one ounce alum in one pint of vinegar.   Put all in
one bottle, and shake them well together.  Wet a cloth three
or four thicknesses with it, and lay the cloth on the crown of
the  head and keep  it on.   Also bathe the  temples freely
Avith it.
                     WEAK  LIMBS.
  Take leather shavings and comfrey root, equal parts, ste<.-p
them in fourth-proof brandy, and wash the limbs with it.
                      HICCOUGH.
  Take five drops  of the  oil of amber  in  wintergreen tea
every ten minutes until they stop. 
RECIPES.
187
                  STONE OR GRAVEL
  Take one and a half pounds of the  roots of garden leek,
simmer them over a slow fire, and keep them covered.   Put
them in one  gallon of soft water,  and simmer till reduced
one-half.   Take one-half pint  three  times  a day, morning,
noon and night, for ten or twelve days.  Or take  one gill of
horse-mint and one gill red onions, mix together, and take
one table-spoonful morning and evening. If green mint can
not be had, make a strong  tea of dry.  Or jam one-half
pound  of water-mellon seeds in one pint of gin—let it stand
for one week, and take  one-half wine-glassful  two or three
times a day.
           POISON FROM OXIDE OF COPPER.
  Take one  table-spoonful of pulverized charcoal  and mix
with butter,' honey, or molasses.  Immediately, or within two
hours, give a thorough -physic.
                FOR CRACKED HANDS.
  Take one-half pound fresh butter, one-half ounce red pre-
cipitate, one ounce spirits turpentine, and simmer  together.
Rub it on the places affected  when you go  to  bed,  or rub
them with ointment made of fresh butter and pitch pine gum.

              FOR URINE—OBSTRUCTED.
  Steep pumpkin seeds in gin and take  a wine-glassful three
times a day, fasting.

                  AGUE IN THE FACE.
  Put on a poultice of ginger and flour.  Apply it warm. 
188
RECIPES.
                   FOR CANKER-RASH.
  Make a strong tea of fever bush, saffron  and snake-root,
equal parts.   Sweeten it Avith loaf sugar, and take one-half
gill every hour till the rash comes out.  Then give light doses
of the Indian Physic every hour till  it operates  thoroughly.
Then stop and give a little Cordial for a few days, and bathe
frequently Avith a Avash made of one ounce alum, one ounce
salt and one-half ounce saltpetre in one  quart of water.
                     FOR RICKETS.
   Take two ounces buck-horn root, two ounces ginseng, fifty
grains saltpetre, rubed together, one pound raisins put in one
quart wine, steep twenty-four hours, and take a wine-glassful
morning and evening.

                 FOR SICK HEAD-ACHE.
   Take a tea-spoonful of pulverized maple or birch charcoal
in molasses every morning, and wash  it down with tea; or
drink a table-spoonful of gin, and drink Mayweed tea  freely,
morning and evening.

        FALLING OF THE BOWELS IN CHILDREN.
   Put them to their place and annoint them  with the' oil of
hen's eggs.  Roast one egg and lay it on as hot  as can be
borne.
                   FOR TOOTH-ACHE.
  Burn a sheet of clean Avhite writing paper on a clean white
plate, and take up the oil Avith clean cotton and put it on the
tooth for fifteen minutes. 
RECIPES.
189
                   FOR RHEUMATISM.
   Put one ounce camphor gum in one quart of spirits, and
add as much of the bark of the root of sassafras as the spirits
will cover.   Steep it twelve hours and take a  wine-glassful
three times a day.   Rub the  afflicted parts  with it.   Avoid
taking cold.  Or rub the afflicted part with a strong decoc-
tion of red pepper  and brandy.  Or  take  one^fourth pound
sassafras, one-fourth pound sarsaparilla, two ounces sweet flag,
two ounces mountain flax, and steep in  two quarts of beer.
Strain and add one pint new rum, one ounce pearlash, and
take one wine-glassful three times a day, fasting,  (that is be-
fore eating.)  Or put two  ounces sulphur in one quart of
brandy, and take a Avine-glassful three times a day.  Or take
one ounce Fern Greek seed and garlic, pound and steep them
in one pint water, and  add three pints  Santa Cruz  rum.
Take one tea-spoonful twice a day.
                  FOR THE JAUNDICE.

  Take the white of an egg in one gill of cold spring water,
beat well together, every morning for one month ; or make a
strong tea of black alder bark boiled in hard cider, and drink
of it freely ;  or take a tea-spoonful of pulverized ivory in one
table-spoonful of honey, three mornings, fasting.
                     CHICKEN-POX.
  Give a table-spoonful of the Reformed Botanic and Indian
Physic  every  six hours till it  operates.   Then  give  them
black cherry tree bark  tea, one-half cider,  well  sweetened.
Take one table-spoonful  three times a day, and diet light. 
190                     RECIPES.
                     FEVER SORES.
  Take hoarhound, low balm, sarsaparilla, loaf sugar, alloes,
honey, gum camphor, spikenard, spirits turpentine, each one
ounce, mix and pulverize all together,  and take a tea-spoon-
ful every morning.  Wash the affected part with a strong tea
made of  sumach berries, or bark of the root.  Or take two
drachms  blue vitriol,  four drachms alum, eight drachms loaf
sugar, and three ounces honey.  Put them in one pint of vin-
egar,  and wash the sore with  this.   Take a  dose of Indian
Physic every twelve or fourteen days, and drink a tea made
of burdock roots and balsam boughs, freely.
                       RATTLES.
  Give a small tea-spoonful of blood root powdered in mo-
lasses.   Repeat the dose every half hour till helped.
                  RHEUMATIC SALVE.
   Take one-half pound turtle oil,  one-half pound pulverized
cloves, and stir them together for  two days, then strain and
apply it to the affected part two or three times a  day.   It is
a sovereign remedy for Rheumatism, Numbness,  and Gout.

                   FOR THE DROPSY.
   Take Scotch cap leaves and steep them.  Drink freely for
six or eight Aveeks and it will effect a cure.
                     HEARTBURN.

^Drink lovage tea tinctured Avith prepared  chalk, say one
ounce, and  one-eighth ounce nitre, to a quart. 
RECIPES.
191
            HOT DROPS FOR RHEUMATISM.
  Take one pint brandy or alcohol,  two ounces gum myrrh,
one ounce gum  aloes,  one ounce gamboge, one-half ounce
gum guaiacum, one drachm African cayene,  pulverize all to-
gether, and put in the brandy.  Take a tea-spoonful in water
twice a day, and bathe the afflicted part with it.  Take a lit-
tle always before bathing.

                  TO  RELAX  CORDS.

  Pound green smart weed and put it on as a poultice.   Shift
often till the cord relaxes.   Or beat one ounce salt and one
ounce of the white of eggs, and bathe with it.

          TO GIVE ACTION TO THE  BOWELS.
  Poultice with powdered carrots or smart-weed.  Add and
moisten  with essence of sassafras.
                     FOR SCURVY.
  Dissolve three ounces saltpetre in one quart of vinegar, and
take a tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting.
                 FOR THE DIABETES.

  Drink freely of buck-horn brake root tea.   It will cause
abortion.
                 TO STOP VOMITING.
  Take four ounces pulverized buck-horn and steep it in one
quart of water for thirty minutes.  Take  one tea-spoonful
every ten minutes. 
192
RECIPES.
                 PHTHISIC OR  WORMS.

  Boil four ounces of wandering milkAveed in one quart of
water to a pint, and strain and add one pint Avine, one pound
loaf sugar or honey.  Take  one  tea-spoonful three  times a
day, fasting.
                 MENSES—TOO MUCH.

  Take four ounces buck-horn brake and put it in one quart
of water.  Take one spoonful every hour till cured.  Or one
drachm of blue vitriol, two  drachms  alum, and  dissolve in
one pint of sweet milk.  Give one tea-spoonful every  two
hours.
                   HYSTERIC PILLS.

  Take four ounces white root, four ounces motherwort, and
boil it thoroughly in one quart of water.  Strain  and boil it
down thick.  Add one-fourth ounce "assafcetida, one  drachm
laudanum—simmer it down thick, and pill it with prepared
chalk and magnesia.  Give one  pill every hour  till  the fit
stops.
                     SALT RHEUM.

  Take two ounces cocash, two ounces Even's root, two ounces
sassafras, and steep in one quart of water.   Wash the afflict-
ed part with it.  Add hog's lard to a part of the tea and
simmer it down to a salve, and annoint with it often.   Move
the bowels  often with the  Reformed Botanic and  Indian
Physic, and take some Strengthening Bitters. 
RECIPES.                    193
                  CURE FOR CANCERS.

  Take  four pounds of ashes of red oak bark and put on
three quarts hot water, and let it  stand  two hours.  Strain
and boil it down to a paste.  Put on a. plaster of it and keep
it on from one to one and a half hours.   Then put  on  a tar
plaster a few days, and repeat both plasters till the cancer is
eaten out, then dress with any healing salve.  Or make a
plaster of yellow dock by steeping in water and boiling to a
salve, and dress with it.  Boil down  scoke berry juice  to a
salve, and dress once or twice with it.   Afterwards dress with
the salve as above.
            FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.

  Take eight ounces  of tops and roots  of tory  weed, and
pound and simmer them in milk, and  give it to the patient.
Pound the tops and roots  and  put them on  as  a  poultice.
Repeat the poultice every  three hours.
                  CHOLERA MORBUS.

  Take one-half ounce beef gall, one-half ounce barberry
bark, one-half ounce gum myrrh, one-eighth ounce cayenne
pepper seeds, pulverize all together, and pill it the size of a
large pea.  Give one every two hours till cured.
                  ULCERATED SORES.

  Make a linament of one-half ounce of spirits of heartshorn
and one ounce of sweet oil.  Mix  them  well together, and
bathe the afflicted parts with it.
             R 
194
RECIPES.
               CURE FOR THE ASTHMA.

  Take one-fourth ounce of spirits turpentine, one  ounce of
gum arabic, one ounce of balsam, one ounce of sweet spirits
of nitre, and two ounces of honey—put all  in  one quart of
good gin, and take a tea-spoonful three times a day!  Drink
freely of a syrup made of  pond  lilly  roo^s  and bittersweet
roots and bark.  Sweeten the syrup well with loaf sugar.
                    FOR THE PILES.

  Take one ounce of garget  root, two  ounces of burdoek
root, two ounces yellow dock root, and one  ounce  of winter-
green leaves.   Pour  on one  pint of boiling water and let it
steep two hours.   Then  strain and  add  four ounces of loaf
sugar,  one-half ounce saltpetre,  and  one-half pint of gin.
Take three table-spoonfuls a day.  Or  take  four or five pills
of white pine turpentine and balsam daily, and annoint with
sun-flower seed oil, and use  injection  of bitter-walnut  meats
steeped in Avarm water, morning and evening.
          FOR THE BITE OF A RATTLESNAKE.

  Put on pounded rattlesnake master-piece  as a poultice—
shift every two hours,
                  CURE FOR THRUSH.

  Take one ounce nitre, one  ounce oil hemlock, one ounce
hemlock gum, one  ounce pikery, one ounce gum arabic, and
put in one pint fourth-proof brandy.  Shake all together, and
take sixty drops three times a day, before eating. 
RECIPES.                     195
    BOWEL COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS.

  Make a strong tea of sweet elder berry or floAvers, and add
to one gill of it (when cold) one gill of good cider, two ounces
of epsom salts, two ounces  sugar,  one drachm of saltpetre
and twelve drops of oil  of anise cut in alcohol.   Shake  all
well together before using.  Give a child  one table-spoonful
three times a day.  After it operates, then give a tea-spoon-
ful of black cherry bark tea, when cold—mix one-half cider,
and SAveeten well with sugar.  This  preparation will guard
against Jaundice and Stomach complaints.
                   FOR ERYSIPELAS.

  Take three ounces of salt  and oue ounce of saltpetre in
one pint of brandy,  and take one table-spoonful three times
a day.
                    THE GRAVEL.
  Make a  strong  tea of Jacob's ladder or heart's-ease, and
drink freely of it.
                   PAINTER'S COLIC.
  Drink  three  wine-glassfuls of lemon syrup a day; or of
tartaric acid syrup, made same as lemon.
                 BOR BLEEDING PILES.
  Drink freely of yarrow tea; or boil one ounce of garget
root  in one  pint  of water.   When  cold, drink what the
stomach will bear daily, before eating. 
196                     RECIPES.
                 FOR EPILEPTIC FITS.
  Take comfrey, sassafras, burdock, elecampane and horse-
radish roots, each two ounces, and two ounces of hoarhound
and two ounces of red raspberry leaves.  Steep in two quarts
of Avater two hours and strain.  Then add one ounce of cam-
phor gum, one-half ounce oil of lavender, one-half ounce  oil
of peppermint, all cut in  one-half pint of alcohol.  Shake
Avell together, and take one Avine-glassful  three times a day.
Give a child according to its age.
                  FOR CONSUMPTION.
  Take one ounce of tar, the  yolk  of three  eggs, and one-
half pint of port wine, beat them well  together, and take a
table-spoonful three times a day.
                  TO STOP VOMITING.
  Give straAvberry vine tea freely; or  camphor gum  in hot
water, in small doses ; or give the Slumbering Drops.
                  FOR THE PHTHISIC.
  Take two ounces of hen's oil, one-half ounce of elecam-
pane root, pulverized, and two  ounces of loaf sugar.  Take
one tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting.
              FOR THE STING OF A WASP.
  Rub the part stung with bruised leaves of house leeks; or
bruised water cresses ; or of rheubarb stalks and salt pound-
ed together ; or apply a plaster of balsam firr and honey. 
RECIPES.
197
                   FOR THE SCURVY.
  Live on turnips for a month ;  or on an entire milk diet for
six months ;  or take one-half gill of tar Avater morning and
evening for  three months;  or take one  table-spoonful  of
horse-radish morning and evening for tAvo months ;  or  a de-
coction of great  water dock;  or  three  spoonfuls  of  nettle
juice every morning; or infuse dried dock root in your com-
mon drink; or use  the infusion of the  powder  of wild rue
morning and evening; or pound several oranges, rind and all,
and powdered  sugar, equal parts, and  take a  tea-spoonful
three times a day; or boil  scurvy  grass and sorrel in broth,
and take it as food daily ;  or take a spoonful morning and
evening of garden cresses,  mustard and juice of scurvy  grass,
equal parts.  When there  is a salt taste in the mouth, take a
pint of lime water morning and evening.
  The  Scurvy is known by the heaviness of body, Aveariness
and rottenness  of  the gums, or yellow, lead or violet spots on
the legs.

DEAFNESS,  WITH  HEAD-ACHE  AND  BUZZING  IN  THE:
                         HEAD.

  Peel a clove of garlic and dip it in honey, and put it into
your ear at night Avith a little black wool.  Lie with your ear
upwards, and put in the other the next  night, if needed, for
eight or ten days.

               FOR A BLOOD-SHOT EYE.

  Apply linen cloths dipped in  cold water for three hours  ;
or blow in white sugar candy finely powdered ; or apply boil-
ed hyssop as a poultice.
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198                     KECIPES.

                   FOR HOARSENESS.
  Rub the soles of the  feet before the  fire with garlic and
lard well beaten together over night, for tAvo or three nights;
or take a pint of cold Avater laying  doAvn ; or instead of sup-
ping, eat an apple and drink one-half pint of water; or swal-
low the juice of radishes sloAvly ; or take a  spoonful of sage
juice morning and evening; or a tea spoonful  of conserve of
roses every night; or  fifteen  drops of balsam  of sulphur,
Avhich is eight  parts of olive  oil  and one part of sulphur,
boiled well together in  sugar.
                    VIOLENT COLIC.
  Apply warm flannels soaked  in  spirits  of wine; or im-
merge up to the breast in a Avarm bath;  or take a decoction
of the seeds of dill in olive oil and water, and then take a
piece of bread dipped in water;  01* take twenty drops of the
oil of anise in one-half gill of red pepper tea every  hour for
three hours.  Seldom fails.
     TO DRAW OUT THORNS, SPLINTERS AND  BONES.
   Apply nettle roots and salt bruised  together as a poultice.
 Or turpentine and balsam firr spread on leather.

                         WORMS.
   Take a spoonful of salt in a glass of water every morning;
 or take one and a half drachms of saltpetre  in  broth ; or a
 spoonful of spearmint juice evenings ;  or of lemon juice ; or
 a glass of onion water ;  or boil one ounce of dried sage, one-
 half ounce of alum and  one eighth ounce of salt, in one pint
of sweet milk.   Give one wine-glassful morning and evening. 
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                    FOR THE ITCH.

  Wash  the  part affected Avith rum ; or with strong dock
root tea nine or ten days ; or of strong hyssop tea for four
or five days ; or annoint three nights with  black soap ; or
steep a shirt one-half hour in  one quart of water with one
ounce of  sulphur, and wear it five or six days ; or mix the
powdered poke root with cream and let it stand two or three
days, and then annoint the joints  three  mornings  and eve-
nings.  It seldom fails.  Or mix bay salt and sulphur, equal
parts, Avith sweet oil, rub it Avell  in  the palms of the hands
and dry it in.  It generally  cures  in  three days.  Beat to-
gether lemon  juice and rose oil, equal parts, and annoint the
affected parts.  It cures in tAvo or three times annointing; or
mix one ounce of powdered ginger with  one-fourth pound of
fresh butter.  Annoint with it morning and evening for four
or five days.
           FOR STOPPAGE IN THE KIDNEYS.

  Take twelve grains of salt amber in one spoonful of water;
before breakfast.
              FOR PAIN IN THE JOINTS,

  Drink  a strong tea of herb robbin, and  apply it  as  a
poultice.
              FOR INVOLUNTARY URINE.

  Use  the cold bath; or  take  a tea-spoonful of agrimony
powdered in a little Avater, morning and evening; or take one
gill of milk curdled Avith alum, every night. 
200
RECIPES.
                     THE WHITES.
  Use light diet  and  moderate, constant  exercise.  Sleqi
sparingly, but never lying on the back.   Take a gentle physic
of twenty grains of rheubarb  and  one-half ounce of salts;
or boil one ounce of Avhite hollyhock in a pint  of milk  and
water and one ounce of sugar.  Add a tea-spoonful of balm
of gilead or of balsam.   Drink this every morning.   It sel-
dom fails.   Or  boil one ounce of nettle flowers and  two
drachms of  cinnamon  Avith one pint of milk,  and drink  it
night and morning.   Or  take Venice  turpentine, flour  and
sugar, equal parts, into small pills,  and take three or four
morning and evening.  This cures  most  pains in the back.
Or take Avheat brand  Avater morning and evening.  This sel-
dom fails.
                   FOR A WHITLOW.

  Apply molasses as a poultice ; or a poultice of moistened
bread, and shift it once a day ; or a plaster of ground ivy.
                 FOR INFLAMED LEGS.

  Apply Fuller's earth, moistened with  cold  tea, spread on
brown paper, and  renew it  when  dry ; or  boiled turnips
mixed Avith mutton  suet; or rub  them  with  plantain  juice,
warm.
                   UVULA RELAXED.

   Bruise the veins of cabbage leaves  and lay it hot on the
crown of the head.   Repeat it every two  hours  till  cured.
Or gargle Avith a decoction of  water-dock ;  or with an infu-
sion of mustard seed. 
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201
                    FOR WARTS.
  Rub them daily with radishes ;  or with the juice of dande-
lion ; or Avater in which sal ammoniac is dissolved.
             WEAKNESS IN THE ANKLES.
  Hold them in cold water one quarter of an hour morning
and evening.
                    A FISTULOUS.
  Apply wood betony, bruised, changing it daily ;  or leaves
of Avater-dock, bruised.
               SUPPRESSION  OF URINE.
  Drink largely of lemonade tAvice a day ;  or take a spoon-
ful of lemon juice sweetened with syrup of violets,  morning
and evening;  or a spoonful of radish juice ; or two spoonfuls
of onion juice.
                  UVULA INFLAMED.
  Gargle with a decoction of beaten hemp  seed; or with a
decoction of dandelions.
             FOR STOPPAGE IN THE HEAD.
  Snuff up the  juice of primrose and keep the head warm.
               FLOODING-IN,  (LYING-IN.)
  Cover the body  with cloths dipped in vinegar and water.
Change them as they grow warm.  Drink cooling acid liquors
tinctured with alum. 
202                      RECIPES.

                    CURE FOR FLUX.
  Use the cold bath daily, and drink water from the spring;
or set over chamomile flowers boiled in milk, and drink two
or three quarts of warm Avater; or  receive the smoke of tur-
pentine cast  on burning  coals.  This cures  the bloody flux
and the falling  of  the  fundament.  Or  put a large broAvn
toast  into three quarts of  Avater,  with one drachm  of cochi-
neal and one drachm of the salts  of worimvood.   Drink it
all in as short a time as you can  conveniently.  This seldom
fails to cure all fluxes, cholera morbus,  and  all inflammation
of the bowels.  Or take a spoonful of bruised plantain seeds
in bitter-Avalnut meat tea,  morning  and evening till it stops ;
or the leaves of plantain  and bitter-walnut  meats  boiled  in
broth ; or take four ounces of the juice of plantain  and one-
half ounce of bitter-wralnut meat's, pulverize and put together,
and take  one spoonful three times a day ; or one nutmeg
poAvdered in  the yolk of an egg; or one  drachm of the seed
of flux-weed  in three spoonfuls of mutton broth, twice a day;
or ten grains of ipecacanha three  mornings successively;  or
boil one pound of the breast of fat mutton in one quart of
water, drink  the broth freely, and take one-half tea-spoonful
of bitter-walnut meats powdered fine with loaf sugar, every
morning.   This will cure  the most  inveterate flux.

               FOR INTERMITTENT FEVER.
  Drink warm lemonade  on the first symtoms of the fit.  It
cures in a few days.  Take blood (say one-half pound) in one
quart of  spirits.  Take a tea-spoonful twice  a day, fasting.
Take a tea-spoonful of olive oil well saturated  with sulphur,
olive oil seven parts and sulphur one part, boiled Avell together
in balm tea,  twice a day,  fasting. 
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103
                  SCORBUTICK SORES.
  Put  half a pound of lignum vitae  shavings and one-half
ounce of senna into an earthern pot that holds six or  eight
quarts of soft water.  Shut the pot close and set it in a ket-
tle of cold water and put it over a fire  till it has boiled three
hours.  Let it stand in the kettle till cold, and drink daily a
half-pint of new milk, Avarm, fasting, and at night wash with
it a little.  In three months all the sores will be dried up.

                 FOR A HIGH FEVER.
  If delirious, use cold bathings, give a little port wine after
plunging.  It is safe and sure in the first stages of any fever.
Or apply warm lamb's lungs to the head.

          FEVER WITH PAIN IN THE LIMBS.
  Take twenty drops of the spirits of hartshorn in a cup of
water twice a day—or take it  in chamomile tea;  or take a
hemlock sweat, and drink lemonade afterwards.
                FOR A BROKEN SHIN.
  Bind on a plaster of balsam, beeswax  and mutton tallow,
equal parts, melted together.

                 FOR A SCALD HEAD.
  Annoint it with barbadoes tar, which is petroleum or rock
oil.
                       PHLEGM.
  To prevent or cure, take a spoonful of warm water the first
thing in the morning as you get up. 
204
RECIPES.
                     FOR SPRAINS.
  Hold the part in cold  water two  hours ; or apply cloths
wet with cold water of four or five thicknesses—change them
when Avarm ; or bathe it in crab-apple juice; or bathe it  in
brandy, water  and  vinegar,  equal  parts;  or boil  bran  in
wine vinegar to a poultice, and apply it warm—renew it every
twelve hours ; or boil eight ounces of castile soap, eight ounces
of salt and two ounces of white pine turpentine in one gal-
lon of chamber-lye.   Put the part  sprained in this one-half
hour and foment with it every  six hours.  Keep  on a cloth
wet  in it.  Or take one ounce  of turpentine, one-half  of
wheat flour and the  yolk  of tAvo eggs, mix  together, and
spread a plaster and lay it on.   Or bathe with the Pain Ex-
tractor,  three  times a  day, and  keep a  cloth  wet with
it on the sprain nights.   This will  help and  cure Aveakness
and weak joints.  If the limb or joint is weak, bathe in beef
brine.
            FOR A CHRONICAL HEAD-ACHE.
   Soak your feet in warm  salt and  water,  one hour before
you go to bed, for two or three weeks ; or Avear tender hem-
lock leaves under the feet, and change once a day; or pour
one gallon of cold water on your head every  morning in a
slender stream;  wet a cloth of four  thicknesses with alcohol
tinctured with nitre ; or boil wood betony in new milk, strain
it, and breakfast on this for five or six weeks.

                   FOR THE SHINGLES.
   Drink sea water every morning for eight days ; or salt and
water.   After the fifth day bathe in,  and the first night take
a dose of  the Reformed Botanic  and Indian Physic. 
RECIPES.
205
                 FOR THE HEAD-ACHE.
  Rub the head with  salt  for a  quarter of an hour; or be
electrified; or apply to the temples the new peeled rind of a
lemon; or pour into  the palm of the hand a little brandy
and lemon peel, and hold it to the forehead ; or wet a cloth
with the Pain Extractor of four thicknesses, and lay it on the
crown of the head;  or if you have taken cold, boil a hand-
ful of' rosemary in a  quart of water,  put it  in a mug and
cover your head well, and hold your head  over the steam of
it.  Repeat this till  the pain ceases.   Or drop the juice of
pimpernell into the ears ; or snuff up  the  nose camphorated
spirits  of lavender; or the juice  of ground ivy; or a little
juice of horseradish ; or half a pint of strong ivy tea every
morning and evening.

                 TO MAKE AN ELIXIR,
  Take one pound of gum myrrh, three ounces African cay-
enne, one gallon alcohol or fourth-proof brandy,  all cut and
mixed together.   Take from a tea-spoonful  to a table-spoon-
ful at a time in Avater sweetened with molasses or sugar.  It
may be used internally or  externally  in colds, coughs, con-
sumption, pains in the  bowels  or  stomach, rheumatism, in-
flammations, head-ache, tooth-ache, cramp, cold feet, &c.
                  TO STOP VOMITING.

   Drink a pint of warm water after every vomit, if it is not
the effect of medicine ; or apply a bruised acron poultice to
the stomach; or take a spoonful  of lemon juice  and six
grains  of the salt of Avormwood; or  infuse one ounce of
strawberry vines  in one gill of warm water, and then drink it,
              S 
206
RECIPES.
                  FOR THE SCIATICA.

  Take a gentle physic—I prefer the Reformed Botantic and
Indian Physic ; or use cold bathings and sweat together, Avith'
the flesh brush, twice a day ; or apply leaves of croAvfoot and
butter-cup, bruised, for six hours ; or drink cold water, one-
half pint morning and evening ; or apply pounded burdock
and elecampane,  cold.  This  usually cures in twenty-four
hours, but it causes pain.  Or boil nettles till soft, foment with
the liquor, and then apply  the  herb as a poultice.  It  has
cured Sciatica of long standing.  Or boil mountain mint and
drink a decoction of it morning and evening.  Or apply flan-
nels dipped infold lye  boiled  with  salt,  as hot as you  can
bear it, for an hour.  Or apply a plaster  of meed made of
pit-coal  (called sea-coal)  and water.  This  also cures  Palsy,
weakness of the limbs,  most disorders of the legs, swellings,
 stiffness of  the joints, and all sores.
   The Sciatica is a violent pain in the hip, chiofly in the joint
 of the thigh bones.
           PRICKLY ASH BARK OR BERRIES,

  Is good for chronic rheumatism, tooth-ache,  scrofulous hu-
mors, and ulcerated sores.


                  AN INWARD  ULCER.
  Drink tar water morning and evening ;  or a decoction of
pimpernell.

                     SHARP URINE.

   Take two spoonfuls of ground ivy.. 
RECIPES.
107
                   FOR AN ULCER.
  Dry and powder a walnut leaf and strew it on, and lay an-
other walnut leaf on that; or boil walnut leaves in water
with a little sugar—apply cloths dipped in  this, "and  change
them twice a day.

                A MALIGNANT ULCER.
  Foment morning and evening with decoction of mint, then
sprinkle on it powdered rue ;  or apply  the juice of pimper-
nell boiled with  the herb.

                A STUBBORN ULCER.
  Burn to ashes the  stumps of red  coolwort  (which is red
cabbage,) and mix it with ^resh butter—change it  once a
day; or apply  a poultice  of boiled  parsnips.  It will cure
when the bone is affected.   Or be electrified.
       TO PREVENT THE BITE OF A VIPER.
Rub the hands with the juice of radishes.
         BLEEDING ULCERS IN THE LEG.
Use cold bathings constantly.
           FOR SCORBUTICK ATROPHY.
Use cold bathings, which also cures all pains or sores.
                CHAPPED HANDS.

Simmer marroAv of  ox bones, strain and apply it. 
208                     RECIPES.

              AN EASY AND SAFE VOMIT.

  Boil half a handful of artichoke leaves in a quart of water,
and drink of it freely; or take one  and a half drachms of
primrose root, powdered.  It is  best  gathered in  August.
Or infuse  three drachms  of radish seed in  a quart of hot
water for twelve hours, then  strain off the water, and  take
two gills every half hour till  it operates; or a dish of tea on
twenty grains of ipecac, sweeten it, and drink it in five min-
utes.
       ULCERS IN THE BLADDER OR KIDNEYS.

  Take a decoction of agrimony morning and evening ; or a
decoction (powder  or  syrup)  of horse-tail—that is  knotted
rushes.                       #
                 FOR BLOODY URINE.

  Take one gill  of sheep's  milk morning  and evening ;  Or
one-half pint of  the decoction of agrimony ;  or  a decoction
of yarrow.

          URINE BY DROPS WITH HARD PAIN.

  Drink  nothing but lemonade;  or put five or six roasted
apples, free from  core or pealings, with six gills of water, and
take it as you go to bed.  It generally cures before morning.
         FOR A SPRAINED STOMACH OR COLD.

  Take a pill of white pine turpentine as big as a pea, three
times a day, fasting. 
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   POULTICE FOR SWELLINGS AND BRUISED BLOOD.
  Make a poultice of spikenard, sarsaparilla and elder leaves .
or bark, boil them in Avater till soft, spread  the poultice, and
grate on it one wake-robbin root.   Apply it warm, and keep
applying one after the other till the bruise is out.
          FOR WEAKNESS IN THE STOMACH.
  Make a strong tea of balsam bark, and to every quart add
one-half pint of good brandy and one-half pint of molasses.
Take a table-spoonful morning and evening, fasting.  Take
tooth-ache weed, pyrola, white pine, and  white-wood bark,
equal part, four ounces, and boil them in one quart of water.
Then strain and add one half pint of good rum.  Take one-
half gill three times a day.
                  CHOLERA MORBUS.
  Burn cork to a coal, pulverize it, and mix it with milk and
Avater, or sweetened  water.  Give a  Avine-glassful once  an
hour for three or four hours, or until cured.
                CONSUMPTIVE COUGH.
  Make a strong tea of yellow  lilly 'root, strain it, and put
one pint molasses to two quarts of the tea, and one-half pint
new rum.   Bottle it, and take  a wine-glassful of the syrup
every  tAvo hours.  The root pulverized and  mixed with mo-
lasses  is good.

                     SMART WEED,

  Used as a poultice will reduce swellings, and used as a  tea
will break up fevers.
               S2 
210                      RKCIPE6.

TO PUT A WOMAN TO BED EASY AND COMFORTABLE.
  Steep one pound of hog-brake root in one quart of rum,
and take a table-spoonful  twice a day, morning and evening,
for a week or two before your time.  Also take a table-spoon-
ful of the Indian Physic once or twice  a week, and take a
tea-spoonful of Slumbering Drops after  the Physic operates,
and every night as you go to bed for eight or ten days before
and after being confined.  Or make  a syrup of one pound
burdock roots,  one-half pound  of yellow dock, one-fourth
pound sarsaparilla roots, and  steep them in  one gallon of
water with one-half  pound  of balsam boughs.   Then  strain
the syrup, and Avhen cold add two  pounds of sugar and one
quart of good gin or alcohol, Avith one-fourth pound of juni-
per berries, bruised, and put in the gin twenty-four hours before
putting  to  the  syrup.   Put all together, and  take a tea-
spoonful  or  table-spoonful  of it,  as you can  bear it,  three
times  a day, before  eating,  during  the time of travail and
nursing.  It Avill also  regulate  young  and old females, and
save pain and doctor's bills.  It will  regulate males and fe-
males,  cleanse  the  blood,  and  prevent  all  scrofulous com-
plaints, by adding to it one-half pound of black cherry tree
bark.   It has cured  thousands.
                     FEVER SORES.

  Poultice it with Indian meal.  Poultice till it  comes to a
head, then make  a  plaster of white pine  turpentine, hog's
lard  and beesAvax, equal parts.  Keep this on till healed.

                      CHAMOMILE.

  The tea will stop A-omiting and bleeding at the stomach. 
RECIPES.
211
                     FOR CANKER.
  Steep the bark of the root of canker-bush (called by some
pepper-bush,) and  as  much  yellow willow bark, in honey.
Take one-half tea-spoonful three times a  day, and annoint
the affected part with it.   Or make a tea  of flax seed, mal-
lows, snake-root and saffron", sweeten it with honey, and take
a tea-spoonful once an hour.  Or  take life-everlasting, cud-
wort, mouse-ear, mallows and meadow  plantain,  equal parts,
and make a tea of  them.  Take a tea-spoonful three times a
day, and  use it as a wash.
                VEGETABLE POWDER,

  Take one pound of barberry bark, one-half pound of gin-
o-er, three ounces of cayenne,  and four  ounces of hemlock
bark, all pulverized together.  Take one tea-spoonful for  a
dose.                                   •
                 FOR SORE THROAT.
  Boil mullen leaves in milk and water and lay them on as
hot as possible.  Repeat it every hour  till the sore breaks.
Drink a  tea of equal parts of saffron  and snake-root.   At
the same time you use the mullen, make  a  tea of life-ever-
lasting and gold-thread.  Put  in  two ounces  of alum  into
every two quarts, sweeten it Avith honey, and take a tea-
spoonful every fifteen minutes when using the mullen.
     OBSTRUCTED  CATAMENIA,  (MONTHLY FLOW;)
  Rub together one  drachm sal martis and two ounces white
sugar.  Take one drachm three times a day one week before
the time.   Or make use of pennyroyal tea freely. 
212
RECIPES.
                     " CARROTS,

  Boiled in milk and water makes  a good poultice for old
sores.  Bathe the sore with the liquor  before applying the
poultice.

            DANDELION ROOT OR BRANCH,
  Is good for all bilious complaints  ; also for liver and drop-
sical complaints.

             POPLAR—BARK  OF THE  ROOT,
  Made into an extract and applied to  a  tooth  that aches,
will cure it—and will in like manner cure the rheumatism.

              BUTTER-CUP OR CROW-FOOT,
  Will draAv blisters, and is good in asthma.

                      CARAWAY.
  The tea will remove wind and relieve  the boAvels.

                    CHECKERBERRY.
  Steep in neat's foot oil and rub on for  salt rheum.

                       COMFREY,
  Is good in dysentery, consumptive complaints and coughs.

                    PENNYROYAL,
  Taken Avith black pepper is used  in obstructed menses. 
RECIPES.
213
FOR GRAVEL, KIDNEY  DISEASES,  AND  SCALDING OF
                      THE URINE.  ft
  Take one-half pound of sarsaparilla roots, one-half pound
of yellow dock roots, one-half pound of burdeck roots, and
steep them well in one gallon of soft water, strain and add to
the syrup one pint of gin,  one-fourth ounce oil of red cedar,
one-half ounce  oil of spearmint, both oils cut in alcohol. Take
a table-spoonful three times a day,  one-half hour before eat-
ing. You may add to the syrup one ounce of gum guaicum
cut in alcohol.   It is good in all venereal diseases.
               FOR FEMALE WEAKNESS.
  Make a  syrup of Solomon's seal  roots and life-of-man,
equal parts, sweeten with honey, and drink it freely.
           SPIKENARD ROOTS AND BERRIES,
  la uaed  In  all| kinds of sores and  ulcers, and is good  in
coughs and colds, and has a powerful effect on the blood.
                 FOR SWELLED LEGS.
  Put on a black cat skin while warm, and  bind it on close.
It generally fetches down the swelling the first application.

                  TO CURE WARTS.
  Make a poultice of raw carrots and salt.  Lay it on, and
repeat it till cured.

                      PLANTAIN,
  Will cure poison from vegetables and old sores.
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214
RECIPES.
               CURE FOR THE ASTHMA.

  Take the bag tha^iolds the musk of a skunk and hang it
up in the room where the patient  lives.   Rub ic  about the
mouth and nose  and  smell of it often.  If very  bad,  take
two  or three drops  of the musk.  This  has effected great
cures.
                        ANOTHER.
  Take new-made  linseed oil two ounces, loaf  sugar two
ounces, saltpetre one-half ounce, skunk cabbage balls or root
one-fourth ounce, and pulverize.   You may use molasses in-
stead of sugar.  Mix all together,  and  give a tea-spoonful
every hour till relieved.  Also smoke paper well saturated
with saltpetre.
                      BUTTERNUT.

  Extract from  the bark of fifteen  or  twenty  drops  will
physic.
                  BLACKBERRY ROOT.

  This root mixed Avith  gold-thread and made into a strong
tea, is a sure  cure for canker  in  the mouth and  stomach.
Wash the mouth with it and take a table-spoonful  inwardly
daily will help in the gravel and dysentery, taken frequently.
                 FOR TOE DYSENTERY.

   Take equal parts of round leaf, mallows, yarroAV, pepper-
mint, sweet golden rod, and make a tea of them.  Drink  a
Avine-glassful once an  hour.  Or white pine bark  boiled in
milk and water.  Take a wine-glassful three times a day. 
                        RECIPES.                     215

    FOR WEAKNESS IN THE WATER, OR DIABETES.

  Take te n drops of spirits turpentine ffid  ten  drops oil of
anise on loaf sugar, as you go to bed.  Oil of anise is good
in diabetes or kidney complaints.  Fifteen drops is a dose on
sugar.   Spirits of turpentine has been known to kill a tape
worm.
                 AGUE IN THE FACE.
  Take smart-weed and jam it well, wet it  with alcohol or
cider vinegar, and bind it on the afflicted part.  You can boil
it and lay it on.

                 CRAMP RHEUMATISM.
  Take twenty-five drops spirits turpentine, twenty-five drops
strong camphor made of brandy, on loaf sugar,  every morn-
ing for three or four weeks, and it will effect a cure.


                 BLACK ALDER BARK,

   Will help digestion and jaundice; the  tops of it is good
for all kinds of of swellings as a wash.  Take one-half a tea-
spoonful in molasses will drive and kill worms.
                 FOR THE JAUNDICE.

  Steep equal parts of poplar bark, white ash bark, black
cherry tree bark and walnut  bark,  say  one pound each, in
eight quarts water down to four quarts, strain and add  four
quarts cider.  Take a wine-glassful three  times  a day,  fast-
ing.  What I mean by fasting is before eating.
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RECIPES.
             DRINK FOR WEAK  STOMACH
  Boil barley in watfc", strain it, and then add  one ounce of
guisie to every quart of the barley  water.  Drink it at meals
as you would beer or ale.
                 PILLS FOR JAUNDICE.
  Take two  ounces  castile  soap, one  ounce rheubarb, one
ounce aloes, one ounce pulverized  mandrake root, one-half
ounce gombo, one ounce anise seed,  all pulverized together,
and moistened with melted loaf sugar.  Pill  and roll in flour
and pulverized sugar.   One to four is a dose/
                   CATARRH SNUFF.
  Take one ounce Avintergreen,  one-fourth ounce camphor,
one-fourth ounce nutmeg, and one-eighth ounce holly or high
sorrel, and pulverize them all together.
                      EYE-WATER.
  Take one-eighth ounce white vitriol, one ounce loaf sugar
and ten drops oil of rose, and put in a warm hard-boiled egg
Avith the yolk out and let it drain, then bottle  it tight, and
when used reduce it with rain-water or strong tea.
                    HEALING SALVE.
  Take one ounce honey,  one ounce  sweet  oil,  two ounces
mutton tallow, four ounces  beeswax,  one ounce  balsam firr
gum, one ounce camphor gum,  and steep them  all together
to the thickness of a paste. 
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                  CURE FOR CANCERS.
  Take  one ounce potash,  two ounces plantain root,  two
ounces crow-foot, one ounce skoke root, or dry-down sorrel on
pewter.  Lay either on as a plaster.  It will eat out the can-
cer.  Then make a salve of skoke berries and put it on.
                  TO CURE THRUSH.
  Mix one-half ounce camphor, one-half ounce  oil of hem-
lock, two ounces  spirits of nitre,  and one pint port wine.
Give a tea-spoonful three times a day,  and bathe the throat
with the same.

  LINIMENT FOR  RHEUMATISM AND SHOOTING PAINS.
  Take one quart  of brandy, one  ounce  oil origanum, two
ounces camphor gum, one ounce  oil of hemlock, one ounce
gum myrrh, and one-fourth ounce African cayenne. Put them
all together, and take one  tea-spoonful in cold water three
times a day, and bathe with the same morning and evening,
or when you feel the pain.

                   TO CURE CORNS.
  Mix ten grains of chloride, twelve grains of the tincture of
iodine, one-half ounce tincture of iron, four drachms of anti-
mony, and four grains of corosive  sublimate.  Put them all
in one-half pint of alcohol.   Wet the corn with it, and when
killed, spread  a plaster of turpentine and lay it on.

  ,^TO CURE SPIDER CANCERS  AND RING-WORMS.
il Steep plug  tobacco in spirits  turpentine, and annoint the
afflicted part with it from time to time till cured.
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218                     RECIPES.
                    BILIOUS PILLS.
  Take two ounces  of Avhite  ash  bark (bark of the root,)
one of poplar (bark of the root,) one ounce mandrake root,
one ounce spotted alder bark, one ounce butternut buds, and
boil in two quarts soft water to  a hard jelly.  Add one-half
ounce  pulverized saltpetre.  Pill it  with  flour  and sugar.
One to four pills as large as a pea is a dose.
                    FOR SORE EYES.

  Take the white of  two eggs and an equal part of rock salt,
pulverized, and one-fourth  ounce of wheat  flour,  mix them
well together to a salve, then spread a plaster  as  large as a
dollar on soft leather,  shave  the  hair  off the crown  of the
head, and lay it on ; repeat it from time to time till it creates
a running sore and draws out the inflammation  of the eyes
and effects a cure.

            SALVE  TO CURE FE\ KR SORFS.
  Take strained honey,  balsam  firr, white  pine  turpentine,
salt butter and mutton tallow, equal parts,  and  rub  or stir
them together till they become a salve—then dress the wound
with it once a day till cured.  When you  dress the wound
wash or clean it out with warm  castile soap suds.
   FOR DEAFNESS, RHEUMATISM, AND SORE THROAT.
   Wear brown paper next to the skin  made of flax or tow ;
wear it under flannel, on the head, and around the neck.  Or
fill your mouth with tobacco smoke,  and shut your  mouth
and nose for a moment or tAvo. 
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219
                   FOR ERYSIPELAS.
  Take one or two ounces of epsom salts  and  as much loaf
Bugar, and twelve grains of saltpetre to every ounce of salts,
and dissolve them in water.  Give as large  a dose as the
patient can bear, so as to operate briskly,  every other night.
Make a strong tea of burdock and sarsaparilla roots, and bal-
sam boughs, equal parts, and drink  freely of it.  Wash with
weak alum Avater, and if swelled bad, wet cotton cloths with
it and lay it on frequently.   Diet light.   I sometimes dissolve
the salts in cider.
                   FOR HOARSENESS.
   Take three ounces of epsom salts, three ounces loaf sugar,
one drachm saltpetre, dissolve all  together in one gill of hot
water, and take one table-spoonful Avhen you go to bed.  Re-
peat the dose every two hours till it operates briskly  as a
physic.  Afterwards drink a tea made of burdock roots and
balsam boughs, equal parts, and black cherry tree bark,  one-
fourth as much as either, and chew loaf sugar freely.
  MEDICINES THAT CREATE TUBULAR CONSUMPTION.
  Iodine,  calomel,  morphene,  opium,  and  lobelia.   Also,
coffee, tea, tobacco, thorn-apples, and night shade, creates dis-
ease and death.
                 SUMMER  COMPLAINT.
  Put the Avhite of three eggs  in  one gill  of vinegar, beat
well together, and give a table-spoonful every hour.  It may
be sweetened with  loaf sugar. 
220                     RECIPES.

                   FOR THE DROPSY.
  Simmer in two gallons of old cider forty-eight hours,  one
pound pulverized mustard seed, one pound parsley roots, one
pound lignum vita; shavings,  one pound horseradish roots,
and take one tea-spoonful three times a day.  Or drink strong
bohea tea freely, and eat the leaves for  four or five days.  It
operates powerfully on the water.   Or make a strong tea of
the herbs or ripe dwarf elder berries,  SAveeten it Avith  mo-
lasses, and drink it freely for eight or ten days, fasting—that
is before eating.  Or  put two ounces  poke  root (pounded)
and one-half ounce pulverized mustard seed in one pint pure
gin, let it stand tAventy-four hours, and take one-half wine-
glassful morning and  evening.

                  SYRUP  FOR DROPSY.
   Take one pound dwarf elder berries, or two  pounds roots
and leaves, one-half pound  milk-weed  roots,  one pound  bal-
sam boughs, and boil them in one and  a half gallons of water
two hours.   When cold, add one quart  gin with one-fourth
pound juniper berries mashed in it, and three pounds sugar.
Shake it well together, and take one table-spoonful for a  dose
three times a day.

SYRUP FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, OR BLOOD PURIFIER.
   Take tAvo pounds of burdock roots, one and a half pounds
sarsaparilla roots,  (American preferred,) one-fourth pound
parsley, boil all together two hours  in  two gallons of water,
strain and add eight pounds sugar, two ounces saltpetre and
two quarts of white wine with one-fourth pound juniper ber-
ries.  Shake well together, and take one tea-spoonful  for  a
dose  three times a day. 
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                 FOR THE TAPE WORM.
  Take two gills of pumpkin seed oil, one gill India molasses,
one gill strong sage tea, mix all together, and give one gill of
the composition once in two hours ; wait two hours after giv-
ing the last dose, then  dissolve four ounces  of epsom salts,
and four ounces brown sugar in strong sage tea, and give one-
fourth of this composition once in two hours with eight drops
of the  oil of anise and  twenty drops  of spirits turpentine
with each quarter.   If the  worm should pass off the firsts
second  or third dose,  stop and give one tea-spoonful of strong
black cherry bark tea and  cider,  well  sweetened with  loaf
sugar,  one-half hour before eating,  three  times  a day,  for
four or five weeks.   Take sage tea seasoned  with  loaf sugar
freely.
  DISTINCTION BETWEEN CHOLERA AND DYSENTERY.
  Real  cholera symptoms is  a copious  Avatery evacuation,
colorless, painless and inodorous.  It is a flowing away of the
blood of the system, or of that which is blood nearly made.
There is no more pain at any such time than Avhen blood is
floAving  from the  arm, until the  fainting or sinking  stage
arrives, which of course must be soon.  It is as dangerous as
the loss of gallons of blood.  The case of one attack is  hope-
less ; therefore it is best to get  medical aid before too late.
                 •     LIVERWORT,
  Is good in diseases of the liver, inflammation, jaundice,
chronic  coughs, ringworms and  running sores.  Made into
beer and drank freely, will reduce the heat of the liver and
kidneys.   It is both cleansing and cooling.
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222
RECIPES.
                     JUNIPER BUSH.
   The berries are counter poisons; a resister of pestilence.
Good in wounds made by serpents or any poisonous reptiles.
A lye  made  of  the  ashes will cure the dropsy.   They expel
wind, strengthen the stomach and eyesight, and repress flux.
Good for palsy and falling sickness.  Eating eight or ten ber-
ries every morning, fasting, are good for bad cough and short-
ness of breath, and consumptive complaints.
                      KNOT GRASS.

  The juice will stop bleeding at the nose or stomach.   The
powder of it taken inwardly is good for counteracting^hc bite
of any venomous creature.  It will expel Avorms, and is good
in inflammation, canker, ulsers,  broken joints and ruptures.
                    LADY'S SLIPPER,

  Is used instead of valerian, and. in most cases preferable to
opium.   It promotes sleep  and allays the  headache.   Take
one tea-spoonful of  the poAvder in warm Avater and sugar.
                     INDIAN HEMP,

  Is good for palpitation of the heart, and in old nervous com-
plaints of women.  Take a tea-spoonful in molasses,  three
times a day.   Is a good substitute for opium.
                      GUM ARABIC,

  Is good in dysentery, hoarseness, Avhooping cough and sup-
pression of urine; mix with barley.   Slippery elm steeped in
water sweetened with loaf sugar, strengthens the appetite. 
RECIPES.
223
                       GENTIAN,
  Is good for gout, hysteria, scrofula and dyspepsia.  Take
from ten to forty grains.
                    HORSERADISH,
  Gives appetite,  strengthens the  digestive organs,  helps
hoarseness, and is good in rheumatic complaints.
                        HYSSOP,
  Is good in producing expectoration or discharge of mucous
from the^pngs; cough, colds and croup.
                         HOPS,
  Are  good in dysentery, nervous tremors,  weakness and
tremors of inebriates; produce slumbers; help nervous irrita-
tions.   Also in after pains of women, and valuable in fomen-
tations
                     HOARHOUND,

  Strengthens the  lungs.   Good  in coughs,  and loosens
phlegm in the stomach.
               FOR STOPPAGE OF URINE.
  Bathe  the  boAvels with  the  Pain Extractor, and add ten
drops of spirits  turpentine to forty  of the Pain Extractor,
which makes  it better.  If bad, Avet a cloth of three or four
thicknesses Avith the above and lay it on the bowels, and give
pumpkin seed tea freely. 
224
RECIPES.
                 TO CURE SORE HEADS.
   SteAv four ounces of brook liverwort in four ounces of fresh
 butter, to a salve, and anoint the head with  it; or take  two
 ounces of the oil of  wheat, one-eighth ounce oil of lavender
 cut in four ounces of alcohol, and anoint the head with it.
 This will cure almost any sore.   You may add one-half ounce
 of camphor, one-half ounce of oil origanum, one-eighth  ounce
 oil of hemlock, one-half  ounce  of allum, one-fourth ounce of
 sal nitre, one-fourth ounce  of salt, dissoh'ed in two ounces of
 strong vinegar and shake them all together.  Makes an  excel-
 lent  linament for  burns, sprains, bruises,  neuralgia  pains or
 rheumatism.
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                     BILIOUS PILLS.
  Take one and one-half pounds of dandelion roots and tops,
 and boil well in two quarts  of water, strain and simmer  down
 thick, and pill it Avith rye flower.  Take one to three at  night
 on going to bed, and if  they do not operate, reneAY the dose
 in the morning.   After they operate, take a little cordial bo-
 fore eating, a fe*v days.

                   FOR SALT RHEUM.

  Take one ounce of  Peruviau  bark, two ounces of sulphur,
in one-half pint molasses;  and take  three table-spoonfuls a
day.   Wash the afflicted parts with  lime water, and anoint
them with mutton talloAv.

                    HEMLOCK BARK,

  Is a powerful astringent, and  is good to  bathe with in case
of falling  of the womb.  Weak joints and for bathing, add
one-third brandy. 
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     TO CURE VENEREAL DISEASES OF ALL KINDS.
   First, give  a thorough portion of the  Reformed  Botanic
and Indian Physic.   Physic frequently with it, then  make a
syrup of one-half pound of sarsaparilla roots, one-half pound
of burdock roots, one-half pound of sweet elder flowers, four
ounces of raisins, four ounces of black cherry bark, four ounces
of pulverized guaicum, two ounces of ozerian root, four ounces
of parsley root, two ounces of whortleberry leaves, eight ounces
of liquorice root, and put them in one and one-half gallons of
soft water, boil them down in a covered vessel to two quarts,
strain while warm, then add eight ounces  of balsam  copaiva,
eight ounces of sweet spirits of nitre, four ounces of pulverized
gum arabic, eight ounces of loaf sugar, four ounces of cubebs,
four ounces of carbonate  of soda, and shake them all well
together;  and after the physic operates, take a wine-glassful
three times a day one-half  hour before eating, diet light, and
let your drink be barley coffee or cold water.  If any invol-
untary flow of semen, syringe the penis with a strong decoc-
tion  of sweet flag every evening on going to bed, and bathe
all over one-quarter of an hour with a solution made of two
ounces of alum, one ounce of salt, one-half ounce of saltpetre,
one-half ounce of saleratus in two quarts of water;  wipe off
and  bathe lightly with the Pain Extractor, and then anoint
with Camphorated Oil.

                FOR LUNG COMPLAINTS.
  Take two ounces  of honey, one ounce  of balsam  firr, one
ounce of white pine turpentine, one ounce of juniper berries,
cut in  one pint of  Holland gin  and shaken well together.
Take a tea-spoonful three  times  a day, fasting.  You may
add one-half ounce of saltpetre, when the patient is dropsical • 
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226                     KBCIPE6.

             TO CURE FEVER  AND AGUE.                     .1

  Give one table spoonful of the juice of burdock leaves every
fifteen minutes, when you feel the  symptoms of the fit coming
on.
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                    FOR SORE  EYES.                          j

  Make a  strong tea of primrose leaves and  the best green
tea, equal parts, and wash the eyes with  it.  It  seldom fails
effecting a  cure.                                                .
  FOR NFRVOUS DEBILITY, CONSUMPTION, OR RELAX.

  Put one ounce of baberry bark, one ounce  of white oak
bark,  one-fourth ounce of gum myrrh, pulverized, in one pint
of good Holland gin.  Take  one tea-spoonful three times a
day, fasting.
                  RHEUMATIC WASH.

  Take one ounce of Cayenne pepper, two ounces of gum
myrrh and steep  Avell together,  strain and put in one quart
of best  brandy; bathe the parts afflicted with it.  In case of
cholera, add one ounce of camphor gum.  Take  twenty-five
drops every ten minutes,  in cold water.
                    FOR INJECTIONS.

  Take one gill of warm water, one gill new milk, one-half
ounce Epsom salts, one  ounce loaf sugar, one-fourth ounce
lard, sweet oil or fresh butter; stir them all together and give
them blood warm, in extreme cases, every fifteen minutes. 
RECIPE8.                     227
                  CURE FOR CHOLERA.

   Dissolve one ounce of camphor gum in six ounces alcohol;
give ten drops on a tea-spoonful of loaf sugar every five min-
utes ; repeat the  dose five or six times, till heat returns.   If
seized  with vomiting,  give a tea-spoonful  of hartshorn;  or
give fifteen drops  of the Tincture of Life in a tea-spoonful of
water and wait five minutes, then give fifteen  drops  of the
Pain Extractor, ten drops  of the Tincture of Life in two tea-
spoonfuls of the Health Bitters;  repeat the dose every fifteen
minutes till relieved, then give the Indian Physic till it ope-
rates, say a wine-glassful every four hours;  then give the pa-
tient a tea-spoonful of the Health Bitters three times a day
before  eating, for  six days.   It seldom fails  of a cure.
              FOR CHRONIC  RHEUMATISM.
  Take one  and one-half ounce oil  of origanum, one-half
ounce oil  of  lavender, and one-half pint alcohol.   Shake all
together.

               TO CURE THE SCROFULA.
  Make a tea of burdock and blue cohosh, equal parts; drink
it freely a day or two, and wash with  a tea made  of yellow
dock root.

          FOR  INFLAMMATION IN THE EYES.

  Put on  a poultice of slippery elm bark at night; also  lay
on cloths dipped in the white of  eggs, and pour into the eyes
a little slippery elm tea  three or  four times a day.  Physic
well Avith  the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic. 
228
RECIPES.
                      FOR WORMS.
   Grate sweet-flag fine and put in molasses, say one-half tea-
spoonful of the sweet-flag to one  of molasses for a child, and
grown persons in proportion ; then give a smart physic, and
grate one ounce wild turnip, and  pulverise one-eighth  ounce
lobelia seed, and put them both  in eight ounces honey and
one pint molasses ;  steep them all together and make a syrup
of them, and give a tea-spoonfuljthree times a  day, fasting;
to children, less, in  proportion to  age.

                    TO KILL WORMS.
   Take a tea-spoonful of the ashes of white ash and walnut
bark, equal parts burnt together;  put them in one-half pint of
brest or sweet milk, and sweeten  well with loaf  sugar if the
child is sick, and give a table spoonful  every thirty minutes;
if the child is able to be about, you may put the ashes  in one
gill of molasses, and give a large tea-spoonful every half hour.

                   FOR THE DIABETES.
   Make a  tea of white pine bark, hemlock bark, spikenard
root and fever bush, equal parts,  and  drink  it freely.    Also
use acids freely.

                     FOR COUGHS.
  Put one-half ounce Seneca snake root in one pint of giD.
Take  one table-spoonful three times a day, and if not  cured
when gone, continue taking.

                      FOR CORNS.
  Put on dry cotton and keep  it on till cured. 
RECIPES.
229
             FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.
   Wash the wound immediately with warm vinegar and tepid
water; dry it and then apply a few drops of muriatic acid,
which will destroy the poison  of the saliva or neutralize  it,
and the cure  is effected.  Physic the patient Avell every three
days with the Indian Physic, and dress  the  wound  twice a
day with the  Cancer Salve, and cleanse it when dressed with
castle-soap suds.

                   FOR RHEUMATISM.
   Steep  one  ounce  of lobelia  in  one quart of strong cider
vinegar and bathe the afflicted part with  it thoroughly two
or three times a day.

                      FOR BURNS.
   Wrap  the patint immediately in dry cotton and keep it on
three or four  days without opening it.   When opened, dress
it with pumpkin seed oil, if it is to be had—if not, linseed or
sweet oil constantly—keep it from the air with dry cotton.  Or
plunge the part affected in wheat flour,  and  keep it  covered
from the air some minutes—then Avrap it up in dry cotton.

             EVAN'S  OR CHOCOLATE ROOT,
   Is good in consumptive  cases  and debility—it is better
than Peruvian bark in the cure of dysentery, diarrhoea, wind
colic, affections of the stomach, asthma, "whites, and flooding.
It  is good in fevers after a proper evacuation,  and it may be
given till the  fever is broken.  Take one  pint of the tea or
six grains of  the powder, and divide it into three equal parts,
and mix  it with honey.   It is good for salt rheum  and scald
head by drinking the tea freely.
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230
RECIPES
                        LOBELIA.

  Must be dried, pulverized, bottled, and  tightly corked.   If
properly used, will break up diseases of long standing by its
powerful action upon the sympathetic nerve.  It allays irrita-
tion and inflammation.   It is good in  cholera, hydrophobia,
and bite  of all  poisonous animals;  lockjaw,  asthma,  fits
spasmodic affections, Avhooping cough, tightness in the chest,
difficulty in breathing, bilious complaints, and consumption.
Lobelia Avill penetrate and equalize the system,  removes ob-
structions, cleanses the  stomach  and  boAvels,  purifies the
blood, removes diseases from the lungs and liver—far better
than calomel ever could or aa ill do.  Dose, one  tea-spoonful,
sometimes requires two or three,  depends on the constitution
of the patient and  the nature of the disease.   When taken
as a vomit, mix an equal  part of blood root with it.  It  is
good in case of bilious colic when made into a pill and moist-
ened with balsam copavia, adding a small quantity of castile
soap, and take three pills for a dose—and if the patint does
not get relief in six or eight minutes, repeat the dose.  By
applying the powder to an aching tooth it will soon give re-
lief.  A tincture of it will cure the sting of bees, Avasps, and
all poisonous reptiles, and is good in venereal complaints and
St. Anthony's fire.
                 BLACK SNAKE ROOT,

  Aids  menstrual  discharges, good  in  heartburn ; also  in
pregnancy, administered in a tea, two ounces  to one pint  of
water, and drink  it  two or  three times a  day.   It is good
mixed with slippery elm  bark,  in child-bed—also in bowel
complaints in children. 
RECII'ES.                    231
              FOR FEVER, OR DUMB AGUE.
  Take two ounces of Avandering milk-Aveed, one ounce rheu-
barb, one  ounce anise seed,  two ounces ginger,  one ounce
black cherry tree bark, pulverized,  put them  all together in
one quart of brandy, sweeten it well  Avith loaf sugar,  and
give a grown person  one table-spoonful two or three times a
day, and children in proportion.  Or put the  above in  one
quart of Avell worked cider, only add three ounces of ginger
instead of two.  It is good to give a portion of the Reformed
Botanic and Indian Physic before you give the above compo-
sition.
                     MOTHERWORT,

  Is good  in  all nervous  and hypochondriacal difficulties?
dizziness in the head, and by drinking a strong tea of it  will
impart new life and vigor.

                      MOUSE-EAR,

  Boiled in milk and water, sweetened with  loaf sugar,  and
drank freely, will check the dysentery.
                        GINGER,
  Is good in colic, dyspepsia,  promotes perspiration,  and
taken in cider will break ague  fits.  It is good  in phthisic,
eoughs and asthma, mixed with molasses.
                     PRICKLY ASH,

  Is good for chronic rheumatism, tooth-ache, scrofulous hu-
mors,  and ulcerated sore*. 
232                      RECfrrs.

          ELDER BLOWS, BARK  AND BERRIES.
  The flowers are good for  scurvy,  bowel complaints, are
laxative, and purify the blood.  Also good for gout.   Steep
in vinegar and salt and rub on hot for erysipelas, salt rheum,
and St. Anthony's fire.

                      FOX ('LOVE,
  Is a poison, and  must  be  taken in small doses.   It pro-
duces free discharge of urine, and is good  in dropsy  of the
chest, and  reduces  inflammation of the lungs.  A dose of
the powder is  one grain.   It is used in head  affections—also
in stomach, kidney  and pulse  difficulties,  and in convulsion
fits.
                        MOSSES.
  The ground moss, when boiled in  Avater,  will ease all in-
flammation and pain caused by heat.  Tree  moss is cooling,
molifying,and digesting in its nature; taken in drink helps drop-
sy, strengthens the sinews, and with  the  oil  of rose will  cure
the head-ache.  Stone moss made  into  a tea will cure the
asthma and  phthisic.

                        MULLEN.
  The leaves steeped in  vinegar are good for lame  sides  and
internal bruises.   The centre leaves steeped in  milk will  cure
dysentery in children.   Steeped with strawberry leaves are
good for  kidney and urinary complaints.

       TO CURE POISON AND HEAL OLD SORES.
  Make a strong tea of  plantain and wash with it. 
RECIPES.
233
FOR CHRONIC RHEUMATISM,  INWARD ULCERS,  SORES,
         DROPSY, CUTS, OR GREEN WOUNDS.
  Make a  strong  tea  of sassafras (bark of the root) aud
drink it freely for the dropsy or inward ulcers.  For outward
sores, wash  the sore, and if it smarts bad wash around it till
you can bear it, then  wet  lint or cloths with the tea and dress
or apply them  to the  wound, and keep it wet Avith it.
                    FIRR BALSAM,
  Is good for  sore  nipples,  fluor albus,  fresh wounds, old
sores, and weakness  in the stomach and urine.
                     FEVER ROOT,
  Is good in typhus and all  other  fevers—creates moissure
without excitement.
                 ELECAMPANE ROOTS,
  Are good in suppressions of menses, general debility, weak'
ness of the stomach, dropsy, and is used in coughs.
                    ARROW HEAD.
  The tea of it is good drink,  and in  case of the bite of a
mad dog, drink and wash freely with it.
                      FOR CORNS.
  Take white pine turpentine, spread a plaster, and apply it
to the corn.   Let it stay on till it comes off itself.  Three ap-
plications never fails to cure.
              U2 
234                        KKC1PE8.

                      BLOOD ROOT.

   It is good in coughs and croup.   It is an  emetic and nar-
cotic, produces menstrual discharges, and is good in whoop-
ing cough and phthisic.  It is also good in bilious complaints
with black cherry tree bark ; also in scarlet fever and catarrh.
When dried and powdered, it is good to sprinkle in old sores,
cleanses them, and  is  a powerful physic.   It must be given
in small doses.
                    FOR THE ITCH.

  Take oue half pound of hog's lard, one-fourth pound spir-
its turpentine, two ounces sulphur,  mix them  together  cold,
and apply it to  the ankles, knees, wrists, palm of the hands,
and elbows.  Rub them Avell for three nights when going to
bed.
           SALVE FOR ALL KINDS OF SORES.

  Take one pound hog's lard, one-half  pound mutton tallow,
one-half pound oil of spike, heat  them  over  a slow fire till
united, and  then add beeswax  and rosin till it becomes  a
salve.  This cures all common  sores, where  there is no in-
flammation.
      CURE FOR SWELLINGS AND INFLAMMATION.

   Take linseed oil one-half pound, sweet oil or  fresh butter
one-fourth  pound, red lead one-half pound, boil them  to-
gether and slack  the heat, and then add  two pounds of bees-
wax, one pound rosin, stir them together  till cold, and put on
a plaster every night for one week, or till cured. 
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                   TO CURE BURNS.
  Take linseed oil and  white lead, pulverized, mix together,
and apply it immediately as you  would paint all over the
afflicted part.  It can be applied  any time after.  It is safe
and easy.   Or take one ounce of wood soot well pulverized
and four ounces of hog's lard—spread this salve on  cloth or
leather, or paper, large enough to cover the burn, bind it on
tight, and keep it on several days.   It needs no other medi-
cine.   ReneAV it every  two  or three days.   Neither of the
above applications fail.
         FOR TOOTH-ACHE AND RHEUMATISM.
  Take poplar (bark of the root) one pound,  boil it in one
quart of water till thick, add a little  alcohol, and  put it in
your tooth.  It performs a cure in a short time.   Apply it as
a plaster will cure the rheumatism.

    FOR SORE THROAT,  COUGH, OR CONSUMPTION.
  Take the bark of the root or  berries  of sumach, make a
tea of them, and  sweeten with honey.   Wash the mouth and
throat Avith it.  Take a tea-spoonful three times a day—will
cure  a cough  or consumption.

  OINTMENT FOR STIFF JOINTS AND SHRUNK SINEWS.
  Take one-half pound of hog's lard and two ounces  melli-
lot, (green,) stew them well and strain it—then add one
ounce rattlesnake grease, one ounce oliv« oil, ten drops oil of
lavender, mix well together, and annoint  with it three times
a day.   Rub it well with the hand. 
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                  SALVE FOR BURNS.

  Take wild lavender, (green,)  elder bark, chamomile  and
parsley, equal parts, and stew them  in  mutton tallow—add
to it beeswax, rosin and white daton, equal parts.   If of long
standing, pound mutton suet and  chalk well together, dress
the sore with it twice a day,  and wash it Avith castile soap.
          FOR THE BITE OF A RATTLESNAKE.
  Pound green hoarhound and squeeze out the juice—take a
table-spoonful three times a day,  and put the pounded herb
to the wound.   Change it twice a day, and drink a spoonful
of sweet oil every night when going to bed.
           TO CURE MENSES,  (OBSTRUCTED.)
  Make a strong tea of pennyroyal and  put to one gill of
the tea one tea-spoonful of pulverized black pepper, and take
it as you go to bed.   Soak  the feet in hot water tinctured
well with salt and saleratus, before taking the tea.
                  THORN-APPLE TEA,

   May be  used in cancers,  sores, rheumatism, and asthma.
It makes a good ointment for the piles.   Smoke the roots for
the asthma.  It has cured Avhen all other remedies failed.

           SALVE TO CURE OLD SORE LEGS.
   Take the bark of shrub maple, boil it to a strong liquid,
and wash with it   Boil some down to a salve and dress with
it  Wash the sore with the liquid every time it is dressed. 
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           FOR RHEUMATISM IN THE LOINS.
  Take ten drops of the oil of sassafras on  loaf sugar three
times a day, and bathe the parts with the oil in brandy.  Or
sweat with  hemlock boughs, and bathe  Avith brandy, salt,
and ground hemlock oil, ten  drops to one-half gill of brandy,
for six nights successively.

  SALVE FOR WOMAN'S SORE BREAST, OR ANY SORE.
  Take tobacco  and  spikenard,  equal parts, boil them  in
chamber-lye till almost dry, squeeze out the juice, and add to
it pitch and beeswax—simmer it over a moderate  fire till a
salve, and apply it to the part afflicted.
               GARDEN MUSTARD SEED,

  Is good  in  stomach pains.   White  mustard  is good  in
dyspeptical  complaints.   A tea-spoonful  will act as an emetic.
It will expel poison from the stomach.
                     A LINIMENT.
  Take one quart of alcohol, one  ounce oil origanum, one
ounce camphor gum, one ounce Venice turpentine, one ounce        *
oil of  spike, all cut and  shook together.  May  be used for
sprains, bruises, and swellings of all kinds.
                REMARKS ON YARROW.
  A strong tea made of yarrow and  wash  the  head with it
often, will prevent the hair from dropping off.  It is good as
a salve.  The root, chewed, prevents  the tooth-ache, and  is
good in diabetes diseases. 
238                      RECIPES.

                         MULLIN.
  Mullin is useful  iu  various  complaints.  When boiled in
milk and drank, is good for looseness of the bowels and flux.
A strong  tea made of mullin and  drank freely will help
cramps, convulsions, fits,  bursts,  old  coughs, and good for
opening urinary passages  and gravel.   A  tea  of the seeds
drank  freely will  cure colic  of all kinds  and  gout.  The
leaves pounded and  laid  on  a new sprained joint will ease
the pain and reduce the swelling.
              FEMALE ROOT AND FLOWER,
  Is good in all female difficulties, or menses, obstructed.  It
is found plentifully in the State  of Michigan.   It  has green
leaves and yellow blossoms, and has three or four  roots to a
stem.
                    YELLOW DOCK.
  Yellow dock is good in  dropsical  cases, and  cleanses the
blood.
                     CRAMP ROOT.
  Cramp root made into a tea cures night sweats-  put  it in
brandy and it is good in fevers.
              FOR MENSES,  (OBSTRUCTED.)
  Take four ounces summer savory,  one ounce pennyroyal,
one ounce sage,  one ounce spearmint, steep  all in one quart
water thoroughly, and take one-half Avine-glassful three times
a day, one-half hour before eating. 
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               FOR FEVER AND  AGUE.
  Take  two ounces cloves,  two ounces  cream tartar, two
ounces Peruvian bark, two ounces  black cherry or dogwood
bark, pulverize them all together, and put them in one quart
best port Avine.  Cut one-fourth drachm African cayenne, one-
half ounce gum myrrh, in alcohol,  and add to it.  Shake it
well together, and take Avhat the stomach can bear during  the
well days.

                 FOR THE JAUNDICE.
  Take  four ounces bayberry bark, four  ounces black cherry
bark,  two  ounces  barberry bark,  and  boil  them  in one
quart Avater to a pint.  Strain and add one  pint good  cider.
Take  two table-spoonfuls  three times  a day before eating.
Keep  the boAvels easy Avith the Vegetable  Physic.
                     SORE MOUTH.
  Take four ounces low blackberry  leaves and  steep in  one
pint water—add one-half ounce borax, two ounces loaf sugar,
and hold it in the mouth and gargle the throat with it.
           TO TAKE OFF FRECKLES OR TAN.
  Take four ounces lemon juice, one drachm powdered borax,
two drachms loaf sugar, and bottle  and shake it together a
few days.  Bathe the afflicted part with it every morning.
                   NIGHT SWEATS.
  Give cold sage tea and sweet fern, equal parts, freely;  or
ox balm tea.  Either will answer. 
240
RECIPES.
  To BREAK SWELLINGS AND STOP MORTIFICATION

  Spread a bat of tow on  a pewter plate, then kill a chicken
aud let the blood fall on the tow ; apply this three times to
the swelling  and it will break it and  stop mortification.  Or
take  good brandy  and cold water,  equal  parts,  bathe  the
swelling with it three or four hours, aud it will stop mortifica-
tion.  I tried it on myself.  Or  put on Hungary bryer leaves
with whiting,  in the form of a poultice, and renew it from
time to  time; this has  stopped  mortification when it affected
the bone.

     FOR  WIND COLIC IN WOMEN  AND CHILDREN
  Take four ounces  of ginseng,  two ounces  white Solomon's
seal, one ounce calmus,  dry and  powder them fine,  and  mix
them together.  Give a grown person one tea-spoonful,  and
a child accordingly.
  FOR THE TOOTH-ACHE, IF THE TOOTH IS HOLLOW.
  Wet a cloth of three or four thicknesses with the Pain Ex-
tractor and lay it on the side of the  face where the aching
is, and wet a little lint  with it  and  put it into the tooth aa
you go to bed.
            FOR THE RICKETS IN CHILDREN.
   Take one ounce of powdered rheubarb in one ounce  of
enceviniris, and put  them  in  one quart of wine or brandy.
Give a small child a table-spoonful,  and an adult  may  take
a gill three times a day.  If any part of the body is affected,
bathe with brandy and drink  turkey  root steeped in wine,
three or four times a day. 
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             FOR TUMORS IN THE BREAST.
  Take spikenard,  comfrey roots, yellow oak  bark and to-
bacco leaves, boil them to a strong liquid in water, and wash
the tumor with it.  Add to some of the  liquor, mutton tal-
low, beeswax and rosin—simmer them  to a salve,  and dress
the tumor with it once a day.   Take a mandrake root physic
as often as once in two Aveeks.  A dose of the mandrake root
pulverized is one spoonful.
                  FOR NUMB PALSY.
  Bathe  the  benumbed part with hot salt and water, or the
Pain Extractor; put the feet and legs in hot mustard Avater,
and  give  camphor gum  in hot water, eight or ten drops of
the oil of anise, one tea-spoonful every ten or fifteen minutes;
keep them Avrapped up Avarm over the tub of hot water, and
give  a table-spoonful of Slumbering Drops every three hours,
with  a little mutton soup soon after; rub the arms and legs
with  flannel cloths, and give a gentle physic.   I prefer the
Indian Physic.  It seldom fails effecting a cure.
                     FOR DROPSY.
  Take  two ouuces milkweed root, two ounces dwarf elder,
two ounces burdock, two ounces juniper berries, all pounded
or pulverized, put in one quart of good gin.  Take a table-
spoonful three times a day, fasting.
          TO  MAKE THE TINCTURE OF LIFE.
  Take six ounces rectified spirits of wine,  one ounce origa-
num, one ounce Hungary  water, one-half ounce spirits  of
lavender, and cut them all together.
             V 
242
RECIPES.
        TO  MAKE A  POULTICE FOR SWELLINGS
  Moisten rye bread with cold Avater, lay it on a  cloth,  and
sprinkle it Avith black  popper and  ginger.  Moisten  it with
viiiegar, and put on a laying of bread.   Put on the  pepper,
ginger and vinegar and spread on the bread again, and lay ft
on the SAvelling.
                      SALMON I AC,
  Is good for inflammation, inwardly or outwardly.  From
one to three grains given inwardly,  in  one table-spoonful of
cold water, is a dose, and  dissolved in cold water and used
outwardly.  It neutralizes the  gastric juice taken inwardly,
and gives action to the nerves when used outwardly.
              FOR DROPSY IN THE HEAD.
  Give large doses of the Indian Physic, and wot a  cloth of
three or four thicknesses with liniment profusely,  lay it on
the crown of the head, and bathe the temples frequently with
it.  After the  physic operates, give the Slumbering Drops
three or four times a  day,  fasting,  and every three  or  four
days give barley water freely.

                       DIABETES.
  Cut two weather's bladders fine and  put thorn in one quart
good wine, shake it together a few days,  strain, and take a
tea-spoonful three times a day, one-half hour  before eating.
You may add  one-eighth ouuce oil of anise cut in brandy.

                      STIFF JOINTS.
  Bathe with  soft soap and vinegar frequently. 
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  A UNIVERSAL CURE-ALL,  AND  TO  RESTORE WEAK
                         LIMBS.
  Make an ointment of one-half ounce oil of lavendfr, three
ounces sulphuric ether, one ounce alcohol, and  two drachms
laudanum—mix all together well,  and anoint a weak limb
with it and it will give it strength and vigor.  By rubbing
this composition  on or around the  part effected, will give
strength to any  weak part.  It will cure in the liver com-
plaint, broken breasts, sore or weak eyes.  Rub it around but
not on the sore or the eye.  Mix it with goose oil  and then
give a little physic, and it will help chilblains—and by giv-
ing one or two tea-spoonfuls in a  little  sweetened tea, will
cure pains in the side and stomach.  It is good  in  almost all
diseases.
                     FOR BURNS.
  Take one ounce of balsam and two  ounces  of sweet oil,
mix well together, and apply it with a feather.  Wet a cloth
with it and lay it on.

            TO PREVENT LOSING THE HAIR.
  Wash the head and hair in cold water morning and eve-
ning, and brush the hair and head till warm.
               FOR FEVER AND AGUE,
  Give two pills prepared for men  at  night, or physic well
with the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic, and then give
a tea-spoonful of blood root in whiskey (say one ounce to a
pint)  every  morning, fasting,  till  cured.   Diet light, and
drink  what cold water you wish at  all times. 
244                     RECIPES.
    TO PREVENT THE HAIR FROM TURNING GREY.
  Take  one-half ounce  vinegar  of conthorides,  one ounce
Eu de Cologne, and one  ounce rosewater.  Wet  and comb
the hair Avhile wet Avith it.   You may  add one-half drachm
oil of nutmeg and ten drops oil of  lavender.


                     SCALD-HEAD.
  Physic well Avith the Indian Physic  and wash the head
with a strong tea made of the root and herb of John's-wort
and white pine bark, equal parts,  twice a day.
                    FOR DIABETES.
  Take four ounces spruce gum, two  ounces tamarack gum,
two ounces blue  violet  roots,  pulverized, and  one quart of
brandy.  Take a large tea-spoonful three times a day,  fast-
ing.

                FALLING OF THE WOMB.
  Drink a strong tea made of (equal parts) clary, sage, and
red raspberry leaves—add one ounce each to a quart of wa-
ter.  Sweeten well Avith loaf  sugar.  Take  a wine-glassful
three times a day.
                 MENSES, (TOO MUCH.)
  Put one-half pound fire-weed tops in one pint good brandy,
and add one-half ounce alum, two  ounces wickum tops or
roots, one-fourth ounce saltpetre—shake  well  together, and
take a tea-spoonful every two hours till cured. 
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          FOR PALPITATION OF THE HEART.
  Take four ounces red beet roots, one ounce camphor gum,
pulverized, and put in one-half pint brandy.   Take one  tea-
spoonful every half hour till relieved.

            SYRUP FOR INWARD  WOUNDS.
  Take tAvo ounces John's-wort and  steep in one-half  pint
wine.   Take one table-spoonful three times a day, fasting.

                 JOHN'S-WORT SALVE.
  Take two ounces powdered John's-wort and put  in  four
ounces mutton tallow,  one  ounce balsam firr, and one-half
ounce saltpetre.  Spread and dress with it twice a day.

                   FOR ERYSIPELAS.
  Physic often with the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic.
Sweat the head with hemlock boughs, and  wet cloths with
strong alum water and lay on or bathe the afflicted part with
it  Let the patient diet light, and  be careful and not  take
cold.

             LONDON TINCTURE OF LIFE
   Take one pint alcohol, one-eighth ounce rectified lavender,
one ounce oil  origanum, one-fourth  ounce oil  of sassafras,
one-eighth ounce red sanders, and shake well together.
TO  CURE FEVER AND AGUE.
  Drink hop tea freely;  when the fit is coming on take a
thosough portion. 
246
RECIPES.
                    FOR THi: PILES
  Take mullin tops (in blossom),  nettles, milkweed, and ap-
ple Peru, equal parts, and boil well together—strain, and add
to one pint one pound fresh butter.   Simmer all  to a salve,
and anoint Avith it.   Or boil four ounces dogwood bark,
four ounces yarrow tops  and roots,  two ounces sweet elder
bark, in one pint water—strain, and add one half pound hog's
lard.   Simmer down to a salve, and  anoint the afflicted part
with it.

             TO STOP THE NOSE BLEEDING.
   Chew the leaves of smooth fireweed and  swalTow the juice.
Wet a piece of lint with  the decoction and put it up the nose.
The green  leaves pounded, or a cloth  Avet Avith the decoction
or juice and laid on a*wound, will stop the  flow of blood.

                  TO CURE THE PILES.
   Drink a strong tea  made  of fireweed, and  pound the
leaves and lay them on the afflicted part, will cure the pile?.
The same  will cure the dysentery.

                    FOR SALT RHEUM.
   Soak pulverized cocosh root in  cold water, and mix Evan's
root with it, equal parts.   Drink the water freely, and wash
the afflicted part with it,  will effect a cure.

                        WORMS.
  Take two ounces golden seal, two  ounces butternut buds,
one ounces  snake-root, one ounce ginseng, steep in rum, and
add one-half ounce alum.  Give one tevspoonful every hour. 
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                     DYSENTERY.
  Steep four ounces dysentery root over a slow fire in  one
pint  water,  strain,  and  mix in one  ounce browned flour.
Take one table-spoonful every two hours.  It can  be mixed
or put in one pint port wine, for weak, delicate females,  and
taken as  above.
        MENSES, (TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE.)
  Take four ounces of the roots of Avhite cohosh, steep in
one pint Avater, and put  in  one pint port wine.   Take one
table-spoonful every four hours, and in  extreme cases take it
every two hours.   Use the red cohosh  in  the  same way in
cases of stoppage of the menses.
                 FOR BILIOUS COLIC.
  Take tAvo ounces mullin  seed,  one  ounce mandrake root,
one-half ounce blood root, steep them altogether, strain, and
add two ounces epsom salts, one drachm saltpetre, two ounces
sugar, and one-half gill good vinegar.   Shake all together,
and take one table-spoonful  every hour for eight hours.   If
no relief, give an injection of tobacco tea and linseed  oil.
                RHEUMATIC LINIMENT.
  Take one aud a half pints alcohol,  one ounce oil of spike,
one ounce oil  of hartshorn, one  ounce camphor  gum, one
ounce oil of hemlock, one ounce  oil origanum, one  ounce-
camphor, shake them all together, and add one  ounce alum,
one ounce saltpetre, dissolved in vinegar.  Shake it well to-
gether and bathe with  it. 
248
RECIPES.
                  iWSUMPTIVE SYRUP.

   Take hyssop, balm, Evan's root lungwort, liverwort and
 water cresses, eight ounces of each.  Steep them in one gal-
 lon of water to two quarts.  Add two quarts of brandy, two
 pounds honey,  one pound raisins,  two drachms pulverized
 nutmeg, two drachms gum myrrh, two drachms  mace, and
 two drachms cloves—steep it doAvn  to five pints,  and fottle
 it.  Take a wine-glassful  three  times  a day, before eating.
 Or take one tea-spoonful of burdock leaf juice three times a
 day, before eating ; or diet on carrots almost entirely—cook
 them as suits you best—for three months.

                    FOR THE ASTHMA.
   Take four ounces onions, four ounces honey, one pint water,
 one-half ounce saltpetre, steep and make into a syrup.   Take
 one tea-spoonful three  times a day.

                       FOR RELAX.

   Take one-eighth ounce oil of peppermint, one-fourth ounce
 oil of sassafras, one-half ounce spirits of lavender, one-half
 pint alcohol, and  one ounce of the  Tincture  of Life.   Take
 one tea-spoonful for  a dose.

               TO EAT OUT PROUD FLESH.
   Put  on pulverized  dragon's-tooth.   It will  destroy  all
 honey-comb  sores.

                   TINCTURE OF LIFE.

   Take two ounces of gum myrrh, one-eighth ounce African
cayenne, one quart alcohol, and shake them all together.  I f
used in fits, add one-eighth ounce oil of lavender. 
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                   TO KILL WORMS.
  Mash gunpowder fine and put it in molasses, and give one-
half tea-spoonful to a child.  If needed^ repeat the dose.  Or
give the child a small crust of bread, then give a table-spoon-
ful of rum with one-half drachm  of alum.  Or dry angle-
worms, pulverize them,  mix them with molasses, and give one
table-spoonful at a time.  Or steep elecampane roots in wine,
and give a table-spoonful morning and evening.  Or give  a
tea-spoonful of runnet in molasses for several mornings, to
both women and children.
   FOR THE RHEUMATISM AND GENERAL DEBILITY.

  Put four ounces of garget root in one quart  of good gin,
shake it well together for twenty-four hours, and take a tea-
spoonful night and morning, fasting, for ten or  twelve  days.
Take a little of the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic.


                       GRAVEL.
  Take four ounces hearts-ease and two ounces  of the  roots
of Jacob's ladder, make into a strong tea and drink freely of
it till cured.
                     FLUOR ALBUS.
  Rub two ounces Peruvian or white oak bark and one ounce
quick lime together, and pour on thirty ounces lime water.
Let it stand twelve hours and give one table-spoonful of the
preparation morning and evening.  Or  make a strong tea of
lady-mantle, and take one-half pint  morning and  evening.
If the case is hard, give  injections of the same. 
250                     RECIPES.
               FOR INWARD WEAKNESS.
  Take one pound spikenard,  one-half pound  black  cherry
bark, one-half pound self-heal, one-fourth pound sarsaparilla,
and boil in three quarts water, strong.  Strain  and add  one
pound loaf sugar  and  one-half pint  alcohol.  Take a wine-
glassful three times a day, fasting.
                    BILIOUS COLIC.
  Give the Indian Physic  or  prepared  salts  freely, and give
an injection of strong  tobacco  tea and linseed oil, with one
drachm saltpetre dissolved in  the liquor.  Use the Pain Ex-
tractor outwardly on the bowels.

                      LOCK JAW.
  Give braudy, or Hot Drops, or Tincture of Life, or tincture
of lobelia, or the Pain Extractor.

                     HEART-BURN.
  Chew and swallow the meats of two  or  three  dry peach
stones, and it will effect an immediate cure.
          FOR FROSTBITTEN FEET OR BURNS.

  Simmer the bark of elder or plantain leaves in the fat of a
dunghill  fowl.  Anoint the afflicted parts with the ointment
and warm it m by the fire.

            POULTICE FOR  INFLAMMATION.

  Put on scraped or wilted  carrots  and rye meal, moistened
with salt and vinegar. 
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                  FOR TYPHUS FEVER*
  Shower with cold water even in the most deranged  state.
After shoAvering rub dry and put into a warm bed.  Or take
one and one-half ounce powdered saltpetre, and one and one-
half ounce oil of vitriol mixed in a cup ; place on a hot iron
and put in nitre, and add one drachm or one-sixth part of the
vitriol at a time; stir it with a pipe while  mixing ; shift the
cup in different parts of  the  room to prevent contagion.
          TO COUNTERACT INWARD POISON.
  Take  one ounce  ground mustard in one gill Avarm Avater,
and after it vomits give one gill of new milk and two table-
spoonfuls of the Reformed Botanic and'Indian Physic every
hour till it operates.  Drink sweet milk freely and eat raw
onions, and give a little Health Bitters.

                     SALT RHEUM.
   Take four ounces cohosh root, four ounces frost weed, four
ounces Evan's root,  and boil in two quarts water.   You.may
add two ounces burdock seeds.  Strain  and  drink  it freely,
and wash the afflicted part with the same.  After  bathing,
rub on mutton tallow.
                     STIFF JOINTS.
  Beat eggs  and water well together, and bathe and  wash
the afflicted part every two or three hours till well.

               SWIMMING OF THE HEAD.
  Put a poultice of powdered bittersweet root around the neck. 
252                      RECIPES.

                 •      FELONS.
  Boil pounded blue flag root in skim milk and thicken with
Indian meal, and poultice thoroughly.  Shift  often till easy.
Dress Avith the Cancer Salve.  Or take one  ounce salt, one
ounce castile-soap, one ounce spirits turpentine, one ounce  of
the yolk of an egg, one ounce mutton tallow, all melted and
stirred together till it forms a salve, and dress  with this every
eight hours for a few days.

                      ERYSIPELAS.
  Take one-half pound dwarf maple bark, four ounces witch
hazel bark, four ounces whistle wood bark,  four ounces bur-
dock roots and boil all  together in two  quarts water.   Strain
and  sweeten with molasses.   Drink freely of it till cured.

                      BAD COUGH.
  Take equal parts of white maple, white ash,  Avhite  oak
moss, and make into a  strong tea.  Sweeten with honey  and
take a wine-glassful three times a day, and oftener if necessary.
              PHYSIC FOR BILIOUS COLIC.
  Take aloes, mace, myrrh,  saffron, cloves, cinnamon, anise
seed, Epsom salts,  sunflower  leaves,  two ounces  each; add
one ounce saltpetre, pulverize  all together, and  take  one tea-
spoonful every six hours till it operates.
          FROG FELON UNDER THE TONGUE.
  Hold weak lye in the mouth as hot  as  you  can bear it,
with some garlic, and continue using the lye till well.
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                  REMARKS ON SAGE.
  A decoction of sage taken freely helps in stoppage of urine
or gravel, and helps to dry up old sores.   The juice of sage
sweetened with honey, is good in consumptive cases.   A pill
made of equal  parts of sage seed, red pepper and spikenard
root and taken, say one or  two morning and evening, will
help pain in the head  and joints, lethargy, and falling sick-
ness.  It may be used with wormwood and tansy, as a regu-
lator of female complaints.   Sage juice, when dropped  in the
ear, will help  the  memory and kill worms.   Sage, plantain
and  rosemary steeped in water, and add a  little  alum and
sweetened with honey, is good for a sore mouth and all canker
sores.

                  FALLING SICKNESS.
  Take two ounces powdered seeds John's-wort and put in
one-half pint wine.  Take one tea-spoonful three times  a day,
fasting.

                    SOLOMON'S  SEAL.
  The white Solomon's seal, made into  a salve, is good for
sores.   A decoction of it is good for sprains or slip joints, or
to dress broken bones.   Wash and drink freely of it will take
away blotches and freckles on the face.
                      SPIKENARD,
  Is good as a poultice for inflammations and swellings.  Is
made into a tea and taken for coughs, inflammations and
consumption.  Steeped in wine, is  useful in aU  complaints,
externally or internally.
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RECIPES.
          MENSES (TOO LITTLE OR STOPPED).
  Sweat thoroughly and  afterwards give a little  of the Re-
formed Botanic and Indian Physic;  or a little  of the Man-
drake Physic, and after give some strengthening cordials or
Slumbering Drops; or yellow carrots, one-half pound in one
quart water, boiled, and drink freely ; or take one ounce cham-
omile, one ounce may-weed, one ounce smart-weed, two ounces
hearts-ease, all steeped in one quart water, well sweetened and
drank freely, generally cures.
                   FEVER AND AGUE.
  Take one-fourth ounce lobelia seeds or  leaves pulverized,
and put into one  pint rum or brandy;  add one-half pound
lady's slipper and steep them well together, and add one-half
ounce pulverized blood root, one ounce pulverized black cherry
bark, one ounce ginger and one pint Hot Drops, all  put  and
shook together.   Give a tea-spoonful in hot water when the
fit is coming on, and repeat the dose every half hour till the
patient vomits.  Then give a gentle vegetable physic of the
Mandrake Preparation and Health Bitters, one tea-spoonful
three times a day before eating, till cured.
                 SPINAL COMPLAINT'S.
  Bathe the spine with  the Tincture of Life or Rheumatic
Drops, freely.
                       SCURVY.
  Take four pounds nettle roots or leaves, four ounces bur-
dock roots or leaves,  boil well  together  in  one pint water,
and take one table-spoonful three times a day,  before eating. 
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                   CANCER PLASTER.
  Take one-half ounce potash  and four ounces turpentine;
rub them together, spread a plaster, lay it on  and keep  it
there till it comes off itself.  Apply this plaster from time to
time till the cancer comes out.  After that heal the sore with
any healing salve; soap salve is the best.  Take a portion of
the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic every eight  days,
and drink freely of the Blood Purifier for three months.
                   TO CURE GRAVEL.

  Take one ounce ox-balm root, one ounce  sassafras bark, of
the root, two  ounces gravel root or weed, one ounce juniper
berries, and put them in one quart good gin.  Drink a wine-
glassful three times a day, fasting.
                         ANOTHER.
  Steep gravel weed strong and drink freely of the tea, will
dissolve the hard  stone in the bladder.  Or make a tea of the
roots of Jacob's ladder, and  drink freely.
                  MENSES (TOO MUCH).
  Steep one pound smooth fire-weed tops in one quart water,
Btrong;  strain and add one and  one-half pint good  French
brandy, and  bottle it  tight.   Give one  half table-spoonful
every hour till stopped.   Used as a wash will stop a flow of
blood in any form.

                          WENS.
  Mix salt and yolk  of an egg together  till it forms  a paste,
and dress once in twelve hours till well. 
256                     RE0IPE8.

                   AN EASY  PHYSIC.
  Fill a pint cup with barberry bark, simmer it one hour, and
take one-half gill of this every four hours till it operates.  It
does not distress the patient.  Or add to the barberry,  elder
bark, flowers  or berries, and burdock  root.  Steep them as
above.   Strain, and put in  one ounce epsom salts and one
drachm saltpetre.  Take a  wine-glassful as you  go to bed,
and one in the morning, if  no  operation.

                   FOR RHEUMATISM.
  Boil beech  bark  tea down to a plaster, and lay it on the
part affected ; or boil red pepper in strong vinegar, and bathe
the part afflicted with it thoroughly every night at bed-time;
or anoint the  joints with black snake's oil, before the fire,
twenty minutes night and morning for a week.
        SORE MOUTH, THROAT, AND STOMACH.
  Take one ounce sage, one ounce  burnt alum, one  ounce
burnt or parched egg shells, two ounces loaf sugar, one ounce
honey, one ounce bitter walnut meats,  pulverize all together,
and put in one quart water.  Steep,  strain, and bottle tight
Wash and gargle the  throat,  and swallow  a little, two  or
three times a day.
           FOR INFLAMMATION IN WOUNDS.
  Simmer white swamp moss in vinegar and put it on  the
part affected, as a poultice—when cold renew.  Continue this
application for four or six hours, and bathe in the same for a
day or two.   Or make a poultice of snake-weed and milk,
and apply it as above described. 
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              FOR NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE.
  Put on apple Peru leaves dipped in warm vinegar—at the
same time bind a poultice of them on your feet.   Continue
these applications three hours.  Or bathe the head with red
pepper tea ;  or take one-half pint of hogweed  and goosefoot
tea.
              FOR SUDDEN HOARSENESS.
  Make a strong tea of burdock roots, and take a tea-spoon-
ful every fifteen minutes.
                  FOR THE JAUNDICE.
  Boil one large carrot in two quarts of milk, and make it
your constant drink for one month ; or take the bark of the
root of peach tree and black  cherry  tree bark,  equal  parts,
steep in cider, and drink one-half pint of it three times  a day,
fasting.

                  FOR PALSIED  LIMBS.
  Wash in a strong tea of sage, mustard and nettle roots.


                 FOR THE NOSE BLEED.

  Give a table-spoonful of pulverized egg  shells  three days
running and skip three, for nine  mornings.
           .  FOR THE LIVER COMPLAINT.
  Eat dandelions, for herbs, and  drink freely of a tea made
of them ;  make pills of them and take through the winter.
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RECIPES.
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                  CURE FOR CANCERS,
   Cover the wound first with powdered borax, then take
equal parts of borax and  blue  vitriol,  pulverize together—
melt hog's lard, beeswax and rosin, say six ounces,  and stir
in four ounces of the powdered borax and vitriol.  Spread it
on linen cloth and let it remain three days, and so continue
till the cancer comes out.  After it is out, dust in loaf  sugar,
pulverized, and wash out the  wound Avith castile soap suds
made of rain or snow water.   Dress it with a  salve made of
fresh butter, beeswax, elder bark and loaf sugar, all steeped
together and strained.

              CURE FOR  BROKEN BREASTS.
   Take  one-half pound  mutton  tallow,  one-fourth pound
beeswax, one-fourth pound rosin, melt  all together, add  one
gill alcohol, and simmer  over a slow  fire till  all is mixed.
Spread  a plaster on thin leather or cloth,  with a hole for the
nipple, and lay it on.
                    FOR SORE EYES.
  Beat the white of six eggs in one-half pint of brandy, and
let it stand forty-eight hours—then strain it slowly  and bot-
tle it  Wash your eyes with it night and morning.
       FOR QUINSY, RATTLES,  OR SORE THROAT.
  Take green frogs one pound, fresh butter one pound, bake
them well, and strain the oil well—add one-half pound honey
or molasses, and take one-half tea-spoonful every fifteen min-
utes.  Drink sage tea sweetened with  loaf sugar and sweet
cream.  Bathe your throat with the oil.
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                CURE FOR THE ASTHMA.
  Pulverize and dry skunk's cabbage root, and take one-half
tea-spoonful when going to bed; or steep  the roots in water
and take  a wine-glassful—follow  up taking it  and  it will
cure ;  or take.one ounce camphor gum, one ounce firr bal-
sam, four ounces honey, and put them in one'pint alcohol
(95 per cent.)  Shake them  well  together till dissolved.
Take a tea-spoonful three times a day.  Shake it well before
taking.
                   FOR RHEUMATISM.
  Take one-half bushel  of Avhite beech  bark, ground, one-
half bushel tamarack bark, one-half bushel balsam bark, put
them all together, and  boil them well.   Strain and boil it
down thick.   Add one ounce spirits turpentine,  boil it to a
gum, and put it on the afflicted part.
               FOR THE AGUE GRAVEL.
  Take one-half pint of pumpkin  seeds,  (shell  them,) one-
fourth ounce bath root, pulverize them fine, and mix it with
the white of an egg.  Divide it into six  pills, and  give one
every hour.

           FOR THE LOCKJAW WHEN HURT.
  Make free use of  the Health Bitters, or take camphor gum
in hot water, or both, freely.  Use  spirits freely.

                 FOR INFLAMED EYES.
   Scald mullin leaves in vinegar  and [lay on as a poultice.
Repeat it every three hours till cured.
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260                     RECITES.
                   TO CURE BURNS.

  Mix sifted Indian meal with milk  and make a poultice of
it  Make holes in the poultice and fill them with cat grease.
Put a little on the face of the  poultice and renew it a few
times.
                    FOR DEAFNESS.

  Take house leek juice and honey, equal  parts, well baked
in a vial corked up tight, with a  hole  in the cork, and sur-
rounded with bread.   Drop two drops in the ear  as you go
to bed.
                        CANCER.

  Boil sweet oil  in a  new-tinned  copper vessel twenty-four
hours moderately, until it has the appearance of an ointment
Rub the part afflicted, and  it will effect a cure in fifteen or
twenty days.

        FOR THE BITE OF A DOG OR  SERPENT.

  Take the yolk  of an egg,  one-half ounce honey and mix
well together; grate over it dragons-root  and  mix in flour
sufficient for a poultice.  Apply it tAvo or  three times.
                         COLIC.

  Make a strong tea of blue flag root and take a wine-glass-
ful every hour till cured ; or give fifteen drops oil of anise pn
Bugar, every thirty minutes till relieved; or give one table-
spoonful camphor in brandy or rum, once in thirty minutes. 
RECIPES.
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       INTERMITTENT, CHILL, AND AGUE FEVER.
  Take eight  ounces plantain roots and tops, four ounces
mountain mint or balm, and boil in one quart water, strain
and add one pint brandy.  When you  have the  symptoms
take a tea-spoonful, and repeat the dose  every fifteen minutes
till it vomits or breaks up the fever.  Repeat the dose two or
three successive days' when the fit comes on,  and it will effect
a cure.  Take a little of the Indian or Mandrake and Blood
Root Physic.  After that take a tea-spoonful of the Health
Bitters three times a day.   This course of medicine will break
up the fit in any climate.
                 VEGETABLE PHYSIC.
  Take four ounces mandrake,  two ounces blood  root,  one
ounce butternut buds, one ounce Epsom salts, one-half drachm
oil of anise, all pulverised and put in one pint India molasses.
Take one tea-spoonful every hour.  This  physic acts power-
fully on  the liver.
                 SPINAL COMPLAINTS.
  Take one  and one-half ounce powder burnt clam shells,
one-half ounce sugar of milk, one-half ounce sulphur, pulver-
ized together; put them  in  one-half pint wine.   Take one
tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting.
       •                 ____
TO COUNTERACT SALTPETRE WHEN TAKEN BY MISTAKE.
  Drink sweet milk freely and profusely.  It will counteract
eamphene or almost any inward poison.   You may mix onion
juice with it, which makes it better. 
262                     RECIPES.

                       FOR CORNS.

   Bind on cotton~wet with spirits  turpentine, for twelve or
fifteen days;  if not cured repeat it  Light a brimstone match
and let a few drops fall on  the corn  or wart, which will re-
move them with very little pain or trouble; or mix the juice
of houseleek with balm or yeast that sticks to the barley, and
apply every six hours for eight or ten days, or till the corn is
cured ;  or dry down radish juice  to a soft plaster and apply
it and renew it as often as it gets dry;  or spread beer yeast
on a linen cloth and renew it once a day for six  or eight days,
or until cured.

                 ST.  ANTHONY'S DANCE

   Pulverize  two  ounces  cranes-bill and put it into one  pint
molasses.   Take  one table-spoonful  morning  and evening.
Drink cider well tinctured with saltpetre, say one-fourth ounce
to a quart.
                    SCARLET FEVER.

  Take one-half ounce saffron and one-half ounce  marigold
flowers, steep in rum, sweeten well with loaf  sugar, and give
one tea-spoonful, warm, every two hours, three times.  Then
give, to a child, one  tea-spoonful of the Indian Physic every
hour till it operates freely.   Then  give one-half tea-spoonful
of the Slumbering Drops before eating  for  two  days;  after
that give the Health Bitters as you  did  the Drops.  Bathe
with the Pain Extractor after you give the Physic.   Reduce
the Pain Extractor  one-half with vinegar  or water before
bathing.  Keep the patient comfortably warm. 
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TO CURE SHRUNKEN CORDS, CANCERS OR STIFF JOINTS.
   Take four ounces fresh butter from a heifer's first  milking,
four ounces white beth root, one ounce bee's-wax, one ounce
turpentine and four ounces tobacco; boil  the beth root  and
tobacco Avell together, strain and simmer it down thick;  add
the butter, turpentine and Avax, and simmer to an ointment;
add one and  one-half ounce spirits  of  Avine.   Anoint the
cancer,  swelling,  stiff joint,  shrunken cords, or a  woman's
swelled breasts.
              SALVE FOR FRESH WOUNDS.
  Take four ounces spikenard root,  four ounces birth root,
four ounces bark of the root of dog Avood, four ounces moose
wood, boiled in one quart water, well strained and simmered
down; add one-half pound  yellow pine turpentine  while
warm,  and  stir together.  Dress the wound with it twice a
day.
                        THRUSH.
  Steep four ounces black currants in one pint water;  strain
and add four ounces loaf sugar, one-half drachm oil of hem-
lock cut in alcohol, and mix all together.   Bathe the  throat
with the Pain Extractor, and gargle the throat with the syrup
and swallow a little.   After bathing three or four times, put
on a strengthening plaster aud wear it till well.
          STIFF JOINTS,  SPRAINS OR  BRUISES.
   Simmer one-half pound blossoms and buds of robin  plan-
tain in one-half pound  butter; strain and bottle, and anoint
the affected part with it. 
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RECIPES.
                     THE WHITES.
  Take four ounces red hollyhock flowers, four ounces bitter-
sweet, four ounces yarrow, four ounces Avickum, four ounces
Nicaragua shavings, four ounces black cherry bark, and boil
well together in tAvo quarts water;  strain  and add one pound
loaf sugar, one-half pint  fourth proof French  brandy, one-
half ounce alum, one-half ounce saltpetre, and bottle.  Take
one table-spoonful three  times a day, one-half hour  before
eating.  Keep the bowels easy by using the Indian Physic,
and take some Wine Bitters or Slumbering Drops.
                     BLIND PILES.
   Take one ounce balsam firr, one-half ounce balsam of life,
two ounces fire-weed buds, one-half ounce balsam  copavia,
one ounce bitter walnut meats, and put in port wine, or drop-
ped on sugar.  Take twenty drops every morning and  eve-
ning, fasting—and give injections  of garget root tea, sweet
oil, and one-eighth ounce sal  nitre.

                  FEMALE WEAKNESS.
   Take two ounces knot grass root, three ounces plantain
root, two ounces hemp tops, two ounces  fire-weed tops, four
ounces  black cherry bark, two ounces burdock root, four
ounces  spignard, four ounces  sarsaparilla, boil all in  two
quarts water, strain, and add  one  pound loaf 6ugar, one-half
pint  brandy, one-half ounce saltpetre.  Take one table-spoon-
ful three times a day.
           ITCHING OR CRACKED HEELS.
Rub them with red onion juice till cured. 
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                     DYSENTERY.
  Take four ounces white oak bark,  four  ounces  white pine
well rossed, six ounces small mullin leaves, and  boil them all
in two quarts new milk.   Take out the bark and  leaves and
put in, say one-half ounce pulverized alum.  Give one wine-
glassful every two hours, and give an injection of the same.
Never fails to cure.
             FOR WOMEN'S SORE NIPPLES.
  Chew slippery elm bark, rub the nipples  Avith  it, and lay
it on.  It will cure in three  days,

                  PAIN IN THE SIDE.
  Fry oat-meal in salt and vinegar, and put it on as a poul-
tice.
                FOR SICK HEAD-ACHE.
  Take four  ounces Evan's root, boil in  one quart water,
strain, and add one drachm nitric acid and two  ounces  loaf
sugar.   Take one large table-spoonful three times a day, fast-
ing.                      _____

                     KING'S EVIL.
  Make a strong tea of king's evil roots and tops, and drink
freely of it.  Pound the roots and tops, and lay them on the
tumor from time to time till cured.
  POULTICE TO BRING SWELLINGS TO A HEAD,
Moisten rye-meal and lay it on as a poultice. 
266                     RECIPES.
                     SCALD-HEAD.
  Wash with the lye of white ash bark ashes.  Anoint with
sweet cream and wash with castile soap suds.  Cleanse the
Wood well by taking the Indian Physic, and keep the bowela
easy.

               TO TAKE OFF FRECKLES.
  Boil four ounces  oat-meal  in one  quart  strong vinegar,
strain, and Avash with the tea.

               URINARY OBSTRUCTIONS.
  Take four ounces boneset, four ounces queen of the meadow,
steep in one quart water, strain, and  add one pound sugar.
Take one  table-spoonful every four hours.   You may add
two-ounces  juniper berries, two ounces  dwarf elder berries,
and one pint gin.

            CONSUMPTION OF THE  BLOOD.
  Drink a strong tea of knot grass freely—sweeten with loaf
sugar.
               DEAFNESS AND DIZZINESS.
  Dip garlics in honey and put in the ear; stop the ear up
with black wool.

                  TO BREAK FEVERS.
  Soak one pound coolwort in one  quart  cold water, and
drink of it freely.  You may make a poultice of the roots
and herbs, and laid on any sore, will draw out inflammation. 
RECIPES.
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                CHRONIC RHEUMATISM.

  Take three pounds red beets, three ounces blood root, one
and  a  half ounces  mandrake  root,  boil all well together,
strain, and boil down thick; then  add one  ounce spirits of
camphor, one ounce  strong  essence  of hemlock, and bathe
three times a day for six or  eight  days.   Then steep or boil
four ounces prickly ash  bark, and  four ounces princes' pine,
in one quart  water  to  a  pint,  and add one pint good cider.
Take a  wine-glassful three times a day, one-half hour before
eating.  If costive, move the bowels  with the Indian Physic
or prepared salts.

                CANKER IN THE MOUTH.
   Mix one-fourth  ounce puh*erized  wild  turnip, one ounce
bitter walnut  meats,  pulverized, and  two ounces honey.
Steep them  in one-half pint water, strain, and gargle  the
throut with it.   If the throat is swelled, add one ounce black
currants and steep with the  rest.
                  TO STOP VOMITING.
  Take four ounces  strawberry  leaves, one ounce pounded
nutmeg, steep  in one pint water, strain, and add one-half
pound loaf sugar.  Give one  table-spoonful every hour till
helped.
         TO RAISE A MOISTURE ON THE SKIN.
  Steep one-eighth pound dried smartweed in one quart of
water,  strain, and  add one  pound  sugar and one gill gin.
Take one table-spoonful every two hours till it takes effect 
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RECIPES.
             TO MAKE A BLOOD PURIFIER.

  Take two ounces cow-slips, four ounces burdock roots, four
ounces sarsaparilla roots, two ounces yellow dock, two ounces
spignard roots, two ounces Avintergreen— steep all in one-half
gallon  Avater well, strain, and add two pounds loaf sugar and
one-half pint .port wine.  Take one table-spoonful three times
a day.

                  FOR THE EAR-ACHE.
  Put roasted onion in the ear and fill it with black wool.
              CORDIAL FOR DUMB AGUE.

  Put four ounces Seneca snake-root in one pint water, boil
and strain it, and add one pint port Avine, one  pound sugar,
and one-eight ounce oil of wintergreen, cut in alcohol.   Take
one tea-spoonful every two hours.
                     RING-WORMS.

  Take one  ounce pounded night-shade, one-half drachm
saltpetre, one-half ounce gunpowder, one ounce bitter walnut
meats, pulverize all together, and  lay  it on  as a poultice a
few times.
               TO CURE CANKER SORES.
   Make a wash of gold-thread and bitter walnut meats; to
every gill add one drachm saltpetre,  one-half drachm alum,
and wash the afflicted part with it. 
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                   TO KILL WORMS.
  Pound  one-half pound  green sage,  one ounce butternut
buds, one ounce SAveet flag— steep in one pint  water, strain,
and  add one  ounce alum and  one-half pound  loaf sugar.
Give a tea-spoonful every hour  for twelve hours, and then
give  a gentle physic.  After the physic operates, give a tea-
spoonful of the Health Bitters for six or eight days.

                    TO CURE  COLIC.
  Make a strong tea of mullin seed, and  drink it freely till
cured.
                     RHEUMATISM.
  Dissolve one ounce gum guaicum, tAvo ounces honey, four
ounces spirits of wine, all together.  Take  twelve drops on
sugar two or three times a day, fasting.  Drink a tea made
of burdock seed, sweetened with honey, freely.   If you have
the flying rheumatism, add one-fourth ounce gravel root.

                     KING'S EVIL.
  Take one pound Avood sorrel, one pound  fresh butter, four
ounces beeswax, two ounces balsam firr, simmer them all to-
gether to a salve, and dress the affected part with it
                FOR  FEVER AND AGUE.
  Put one ounce dried, pulverized blood root in one pint of
good brandy, and take a tea-spoonful when the fit is coming
on—or take it three times a day, and it will cure, if followed
up, before the brandv is  gone.
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RECITES-
TO TEST THE CONSUMPTION  ON THE LIVER  OR LUNGS.
   Put their urine in a clear  glass bottle, hang it in a Avarm
place, and if on the lights a  Avhite froth will rise—if on  the
liver, a dark substance will settle; and when  they lift their
hand it will hurt on the left side—if on the liver, it will hurt
on the right side.

                     ROSE CANCER.
   Take eight ounces tobacco  ashes, tAvelve  ounces yarrow,
soak them two hours, strain,  and add  one quart  Avhite lye
made  of black ash bark.   Boil them down thick, and anoint
with it often.
                CANCER IN THE MOUTH.
  Boil two ounces plantain,  two ounces  rue,  two ounce?
honey, ojje ounce alum, put all in one pint vinegar,  and gar-
gle with it.

                       DIABETES.
  Take two ounces  ginger,  two ounces  anise seed, boil in
one pint wine, and sweeten Avith loaf sugar.  Take one table-
spoonful every tAvo hours.  Or boil one-half ounce  alum in
one pint milk, and drink it.  Or put one ounce spruce and
one ounce tamarack gum in  one pint brandy, and  take one
table-spoonful three times a day.
                     FOR EAR-ACHE.
  Drop one drop of pickerel oil in the ear; or broil a slice of
fat  salt pork and let two or three drops fall in the ear while
hot, gives immediate relief.   The sap of black ash is good. 
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                   FOR WEAK EYES.
  Take one gill strong old hyson tea made without boiling,
one-half gill French brandy, strain in, bottle and cork tight;
apply this wash six or eight times a day as you please.  Or
boil chamomile flowers in sweet milk and wash the eyes sev-
eral times a day, quite warm, till it cures.

                   FOR THE ASTHMA.
   Take the bark of the root of choke-cherry  tree, make  a
strong tea of it, sweeten with molasses, and add  rum, so as
to preserve it.  Take one-half wine-glassful  three times  a
day, fasting.  Or take one pint sweet oil, one pint molasses,
one pint rUm, and take a wine-glassful morning, noop  and
night, fasting.

            FOR  SORE BREASTS AND COUGH.
   Dissolve  one pound white sugar candy and  one-fourth
pound garlic in three pints Avhite  wine  vinegar,  and simmer
it over a  slow fire  to one pint.   Bathe the breast Avith  it.
For a cough, take one tea-spoonful at night as you retire.

             TO  REDUCE A CANCER  TUMOR.
   Lay on rennet moistened Avith vinegar.

                        BLOATING.
   Drink freely of Indian hemp tea made of the bark.
FILM ON THE EYES.
Put in new honey and burnt alum. 
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RECIPES.
                    CURE FOR CANCERS.
   Take one ounce muriatic acid, six grains chloruret of gold,
 and mix them Avell together.   Anoint  the  cancer often Avith
 it  If a tumor, spread a little on cotton or lint.  If raw, re-
 peat from time to time once a day till cured, or poultice with
 yellow dock root  Wash the cancer Avith a tea made of the
 same,  and drink  the tea  freely.  Take  a  gentle Vegetable
 Physic every eight or ten days.  ..

                      FOR DROPSY.
   Take four ounces horseradish, eight  ounces mustard, eight
 ounces lignum vitse shavings, two ounces Indian hemp, four
 ounces milkweed root, four  ounces dwarf elder berries or
 roots, two ounces juniper berries, two ounces balsam flowers,
 four ounces  white pine bark—bruise all together,  and put in
 two gallons  cider; simmer well  together, and  take a  wine-
 glassful three times a day, fasting.   Take a gentle Vegetable
 Physic to keep the boAvels  easy.

                       BALDNESS.
   Take four ounces pulverized lobelia,  eight ounces brandy,
four ounces sweet oil, put  all  in a bottle,  and shake  together
for two or three days.  Bathe the head with it  twice a day.
Before  bathing,  add one-half drachm  oil of lavender, and
strain it.                                     «
             TO CURE ALMOST ANY SORE.
  Boil pitch pine buds and leaves in milk, and bathe with it
twice a day.  Pound the buds and boughs and lay  them  on
the sore will cure when nothing else will. 
RECIPES.
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                  FOR MORTIFICATION.
  Take one pint yeast, two  ounces  pulverized slippery elm
bark, two ounces pulverized charcoal, one-eighth  ounce saltr
petre, and put on as a poultice.   Shift it often.

                   AGUE IN THE FACE.
  Heat a green turf, Avet it with  salt and vinegar, and lay  it
on.

                          COLIC.
  Boil puff balls in sweet  milk,  skim,  and apply  it to the
bowels of the patient.

                    TO CURE BURNS.
   Take  spirits  turpentine,  olive oil, linseed oil, each one
ounce, shake well together, and dress with it.

               WOMEN'S  SWELLED LIMBS.
   Wilt burdock leaves, dip them in hot chamber-lye, and lay
them on the affected  part.  Shift  often, and put drafts on
the feet.

                       STRANGURY.
   Take one-half pound dead honey bees, one-half ounce lo-
belia, one ounce dwarf elder  berries, boil well together, strain,
sweeten it well with honey, and  drink freely of it.

                    FOR  DYSENTERY.
   Boil the inside of cat-tail  flag in sweet milk,  and  eat and
drink the root and tea freely. 
274                     RECITES.
                  FOR RHEUMATISM.

  Drink smart-Aveed tea freely, and poultice the afflicted part
with it  Boil it in  rum and  lay  it beloAv the pit of the
stomach.  Keep renewing it till the  pain subsides.

                        ANOTHER.
  Boil one pound garget berries in oue quart good rum, and
take one-half gill every three hours.
                FOR  RHEUMATIC PAINS.
  Take one table-spoonful of gunpowder in one gill of sweet
milk as you go to bed.
                    FOR DEAFNESS.

  Take green black ash sap and drop in  the ear will gener-
ally cure.   It seldom fails curing the ear-ache.

                      FOR CUTS.

  Take spleen-root and hog-tush brake root, equal parts, jam
it up, and put on the wound in the form  of a poultice.  It
will take out the SAvelling and heal the Avound.

       TO TAKE OUT HUMORS FROM OLD SORES.
  Wet blue clay with vinegar and put it on  as a poultice a
few times.
           CANCER, OR LEAK IN THE FLESH.

  Roast  woodsorrel in wet paper, and lay it on as a poultice
till it comes to a head.   Dress it after it is opened with plan-
tain leaves and the Cancer or Cure-All Salve. 
                        RECIPES.                    275

                      SCALD-HEAD.   -
  Take two  ounces black pepper, two  ounces soot, eight
ounces salt butter—steep all- together,  clean the head with
castile soap suds, and anoint the head with the salve once a
day till cured.  Give a gentle physic every eight or ten days,
such as the Reformed Botanic  or mandrake.
                     FOR CANKER.
  Make a tea of marsh rosemary roots, called by some thrift or
sea  lavender.  Sweeten  with honey or  loaf sugar.  Wash
the  mouth, gargle the throat, and SAvalloAv a littlp.  It is used
with success.
                        ANOTHER;
  Make a tea of sage, rose leaves and blue violets, put in a little
alum, and  sweeten with honey.  *Wash the afflicted part
with it.
                    TO STOP BLOOD.
  Make a strong tea of basswood bark, wash the wound with
it, and bind on the bark.  A thick linen cloth Avet with spir-
its of turpentine, covered with flour, and bound on snug, will
answer the purpose.

                     FOR COUGHS.
  Take mountain ash bark and moose moss, and make a tea
of them;  take  one-half tea-cupful  night  and morning for a
few days.

            FOR COLDS AND CONSUMPTION.
  Make a strong tea of liverwort and drink it freely. 
276
RECIPES.
                  •  FOR SORE EYES.

  Take white vitriol  as big as a pea and  twice  the  quantity
of loaf sugar; boil an egg, take out the yolk, then put  the
sugar and vitriol in place of the yolk, press them hard  till the
juice is out and apply it  to the eye at night.  Or  boil  one
pint barley in two quarts Avater till it is soft, then take it out,
pound it, put it back again and put in as much turnips; boil
them  soft and strain, then Avet a cloth  of four  or five  thick-
nesses and lay it on the eyes at night as you go to  bed.
This practice is good to take out inflammation and cure broken
breasts.    ~
                      FOR CORNS.

  Take foyr ounces copper filings, put them in one-half pint
rain water and one-half pint vinegar ;  let it stand eight days
so as to turn thick, wet a cloth with it and bind it on for three
or four days; shave the corn well before you lay on the cloth.


                   TO PREVENT FITS.
  Pulverize deer's horn fine  and make a tea of it and it will
prevent fits.
                      FOR CORNS.

  Shave the corns thin, and as you go to bed wet it well with
spirits turpentine.  In the morning,  wet it with fasting spit-
tle,  and lay on a codfish skin.  Follow  up the same for three
days.  Then lay on a plaster made of beeswax and Burgundy
pitch, equal parts, and one-eighth as  much of mutton tallow
as both, simmer together, and spread it on suet skin. 
RECIPES.
277
                       CANCERS.
  Take four ounces alum, four ounces vinegar, four ounces
honey, and  pulverize all  together;  add four ounces wheat
flour, make a plaster of it, lay it on and change it once a day.
Or pulverize one ounce good gunpowder, the white of three
eggs, beat them well together; put this on as a plaster, and
keep it on till  raw; then poultice it with rotten sour apples
for  a few days; then put on any good salve.  Or take four
ounces yellow dock root, two ounces  bark of bittersweet root,
four ounces carrots, two ounces  dogwood bark, scrape them
fine and simmer all thoroughly in eight ounces  fresh butter ;
anointing the cancer or  any hard tumor  will cure it.  Or
make a tea of four ounces  red poppy leaves^ four ounces plan-
tain roots and tops, and four ounces rose leaves; simmer them
in one quart soft water till strong; wash two or three times
a day with it.

                    FOR  DYSENTERY.
   Take bitter walnut meats pounded and  steeped in water,
sweeten well with loaf sugar, and take  a tea-spoonful every
two hours.  The same will cure  inAvard or  outward canker
sores or salt rheum.
                CURE FOR KING'S EVIL.
  Steep the leaves of a chestnut tree, wash the sore with the
liquor, and bind on the leaves.

        FOR DYSENTERY OF LONG STANDING.
  Give ten drops of spirits turpentine on loaf sugar, two  or
three times a day.  Give children less.
             Y 
278  -                   recipes.

                     FOR FELLONS.

  Take equal parts of soot, salt and the yolk of an egg, make
a poultice  of  it and put it on four or five times a day ; and
for a salve, simmer housoleek, chamomile,  green elder and
beesAvax in sweet cream  and  lay  it on; or take pulverized
dragon's root and house leek, simmer and moisten Avith vine-
gar ; it  will take  fire  out of a burn, prevent blistering and
Avill cure corns by rubbing or binding  on the juice;  or soak
the fellon in weak lye one hour, then simmer scabish leaves
in hog's lard and bind it on.two or three  times ;  or take but-
ter, turpentine, honey and Avheat flour, mix together and bind
it on.
            TO TAKE i'lLM FROM THE EYES.

  Drop in the juice of wild sullendino, called celendine, and
if too harsh reduce it  Avith breast milk and loaf sugar.  If not
taken off, then  take  one-half ounce  alum, one  ounce loaf
sugar, one-eighth ounce saltpetre, one-eighth ounce salt, dis-
solved in equal parts of cider vinegar  and alcohol, say  one-
half giU each.  It  seldom  fails.   You may Avash the  eyes
and temples with it, one drop at  a time.  Celendine juice
simmered to an oil and dropped into the eye, has cured Avhen
the sight had failed for many years.


TO  CURE PAIN IN THE STOMACH, OR FOR BILIOUS COLIC.
  Steep two ounces pulverizod bath root  in  one-half pint  of
warm water, and take one-half gill as hot as you  can drink
it.  Continue taking it every two  hours  till cured.   It has
cured Avhen eA*erything else failed. 
RECIPES.
279
 ANOTHER CURE FOR DYSENTERY OR SUMMER COM-
                        PLAINT.
  Steep  summer complaint  flowers in water, and sweeten
with loaf sugar.  Drink freely of it.  It seldom  fails.  This
herb grows about two feet high, and has  a pale blue flower
and a narrow leaf, about two inches long.
                         ANOTHER.
  Eat plentifully of figs ; or drink freely of the  tea made of
Canada thistle roots ;  or  drink a  raw egg in cider or'port
wine, well sweetened with loaf sugar; or make  a strong tea
of iron bush leaves and tops, and drink  one-half wine-glass-
ful every hour till cured; or steep spleen  root  in water (not
boil it) and take one-half  wine-glassful every  t-vo  hours—a
child less; or steep tansy,  horsemint and  fever  bush, equal
parts,  sweeten with  molasses, and take as above one-half
wine-glassful; or boil milkweed roots in skim-milk,  and take
one gill every hour.
             TO CURE FEVER AND AGUE.
  Take four ounces horsemint, four ounces mullin root, four
ounces ginseng  or stinkweed  root,  four  ounces red pepper
pods, boil them in two quarts water to  one quart, sweeten
with molasses, and take one gill as hot as you can bear every
half hour for two hours.   After the first  day,  take - one gill
three times a day, one-half hour before eating.
                CURE FOR KING'S EVIL.
  Fry poke stalks and leaves in a pan till it becomes a liquid,
and rub it on, or wet a cloth with the liquid and lay it  on a
number of  times.  You must keep it in a bottle well corked. 
280
RECIPES.
                   FOR TOOTH-ACHE.
   Take white oak bark, white pine baric, and  beech leaves
that hang on all winter, equal parts, say one pound ; put in
one gallon water, and  boil to one  quart.  Hold it in your
mouth as hot as  you  can bear it.  Or take one-half gill of
rum,  one-half gill  vinegar,   add  one-half ounce  salt,  and
hold it in the mouth ten minutes—repeat the dose  several
times.   Or make  a strong tea of moose Avood  bark, hold in
the mouth, and it will  cure  the nerve and stop the tooth
aching.  Or make a poultice of roasted onions and salt, equal
parts, and  bind  it on the vyist.
                RHEUMATIC OINTMENT.
  Take one  pint  beef's gall, one-half pint  sweet oil,  one
ounce camphor gum, one-half ounce  spirits turpentine,  put
them in a warm place, shake them  together, and anoint  the
afflicted parts two or three times a day.
               CURE FOR THE JAUNDICE.
  Take white ash  (bark  of the  root),  poplar (bark of the
root), wild black cherry tree bark, each two ounces—steep
them strong in one quart water, and  mix it with  one-half
cider.  Take a wine-glassful,  one-half hour  before  eating,
three times a day.  One quart is a dose for a creature, and it
must be repeated till  it physics thoroughly.

                  FOR THE PHTHISIC.
  Wet brown paper  in strong  saltpetre water—wrien  dry,
smoke the paper and burn it profusely in the room. 
RECIPES.
281
                   FOR RHEUMATISM.

  Take one pound smartweed and steep in  one quart Avater,
without boiling—add to it  one  quart  SAveet milk  or good
spirits, and take a wine glassful of it for nine mornings.
                        ANOTHER.
  Simmer one gill neat's foot oil with tAvo gills good brandy
till they mix ;  put in one beef's  gall and one gill spirits tur-
pentine, and bathe Avith it once  or twice  a' day.   Take in-
wardly brandy Avell tinctured with mustard—one table-spoon-
ful, or more if you  can bear it, tAvice a day.
               FOR RATTLESNAKE BITE.
   Bind a bandage tight above the elboAv, or knee,  and take
a live fowl and cut off  a small piece of the  flesh under the
wing and apply the fresh wound  to  the  bite.  Hold it close
till the foAvl dies, and continue this operation  till one survives
the operation.  The wound may then be  healed Avith a  draw-
ing salve.  But to physic the bowels and blood well with the
Indian Physic is the best, and a syrup of burdock roots, sar-
saparilla, yellow dock and spignard, equal parts, with balsam
boughs, (one-half as much in weight,)  sweeten with sugar,
and to every quart add one-half ounce pulverized   saltpetre.
Drink one wine-glassful three times a day  for a month, if
you can bear it.   Take physic every week.
                     BLOODY URINE.
   Take two ounces agrimony, two ounces yarroAv, two ounces
juniper berries, two ounces dwarf elder berries, steep in  one
pint water, strain, and add one-half ounce saltpetre and one-
half pound loaf sugar.   Drink freely of it 
282
RECIPES.
  TO KILL THE TAPE WORM,  OR ANY OTHER WORM.
  Take one ounce of the bark of the root of SAveet fern, boil
in one gill water, and add one ounce honey.  Give one table-
spoonful, and repeat the dose  every  two hours.  Follow this
up a few times and it Avill kill the tape worm.  A strong tea
made of sweet fern, well tinctured with good  brandy, equal
parts, and sweetened with loaf  sugar, will destroy the tape
worm, if drank freely.   After that,  physic  with the  Indian
Physic.
                  SALT RHEUM WASH.
  Take two ounces blue flag (bark of the root),  two ounces
river  Avillow,  two  ounces skunk  cabbage root,  two ounces
cock ash root, tAvo ounces Evan's root, boil all together, strain,
and add one-half pound mutton tallow,  one  ounce sugar of
lead, one-half ounce soda, stir all  together, and anoint  with
it three or four times a day.
               TO PRESERVE THE TEETH.
  Take one-half ounce gum  myrrh, one-half ounce Jessewit
bark, one and a half ounces  white oak  bark, and steep  in
one pint rum or alcohol  two days.   Rub your  teeth and
gums Avith it.  Either  one of the barks in  rum, is good,  or
you may chew the bark.
                   HYSTERIC PILLS.
  Boil white root strong, and to one-half pint of the tea add
one ounce asafcetida, boil down thick and pill it,  Give three
or four as the fit is coming on. 
RECIPES.
283
                  FOR THE PHTHISIC.

  Take two ouuces hen's  fat,  two seed balls of skunk cab-
bage cut fine, steep and strain.   Take one tea-spoonful three
times a day.  Steep two ounces honey suckle blossoms, two
ounces queen of the meadow roots, strain, aud then add two
ounces honey and one gill brandy.  Take three glasses per
day.
                FOR ULCERATED SORES.

  Make a poultice of sassafras leaves and milk, and apply  it
to the sore two or three times a day.   Apply the leaves when
the poultice is off.
       FOR RICKETY AND WEAKLY CHILDREN.

  Fill  a bottle  Avith green hog brake,  then put in what
brandy it will hold, and when given  reduce it one-half with
water, sweeten with loaf sugar, and give a tea-spoonful three
times a day, after reduced, and more if the child can bear it.
Wash the afflicted part,  or the Avhole  body if you choose,
with the  above.
        OINTMENT FOR SWELLINGS AND SORES.

  Take fresh butter, rosin, beeswax, and mutton tallow, each
tAvo ounces, honey two ounces, sweet oil two ounces,  brown
sugar two ounces, balsam firr two ounces, castile soap one
ounce, southern wood jelly one ounce—simmer  all together,
and anoint with it two or three times a day.  It answers on
man or beast 
284
RECIPES.
       TO HEAL A BED SORE ON MAN OR BEAST.
   Wash the sore with a strong white oak  bark tea, with a
little saltpetre dissolved in it   Give one-half wine-glassful of
spirits with one-half tea-spoonful of ginger, inAvardly, to pre-
vent it striking to the stomach.  The spirits and ginger will
prevent any disease from striking to the stomach.
          FOR INWARD FEMALE COMPLAINTS.
  Take one ounce of white  cohosh roots, and pulverize in
t'vo quarts new rum and one pint molasses.  Shake them to-
gether and let them stand twenty-four hours.   Take one-half
wine-glassful three times a day,  and  if exposed to cold, at
other times.
                         AGUE.
   Take one-fourth pound black cohosh root, one-fourth pound
thoroughwort roots, one ounce Mayweed, boil  and strain—
add  one-half pound  loaf sugar,  one  drachm  cloves,  one
drachm blood root,  and one  pint  brandy.  Dose,  one tea-
spoonful every three minutes.
                  .JOINTS  NEWLY'SET.
  Boil two ounces mullin seeds and tAvo ounces plantain seeds
in one pint urine, anoint the joint with it, and it will cure the
pain.
                FOR THE TOOTH-ACHE.
  Wet lint with equal parts of oil of cloves and oil of laven-
der, and lay it on the tooth affected. 
RECIPES.
285
                   CANCER PLASTER.
  Take two ounces alum, one ounce rock salt, two ounces sal
soda, two ounces honey, one gill strong vinegar—dissolve all
together, and thicken with wheat flour.   Change the plaster
every day.                              i
                    FOR DIABETES.
  Take two ounces ginger, two ounces anise seed, two ounces
wintergreen, two ounces black cherry tree bark,  steep all to-
gether, strain, and  add  one-half ounce alum, one-half pint
brandy, and one pound loaf sugar.  Take a  wine-glassful
three times a day.

           SYRUP FOR WOMEN IN TRAVAIL.
  Take four ounces of the flowers and leaves of mallows
steeped in one pint water, strain, and add one pound loaf
sugar,  one pint  port  wine, |and one-half  ounce  saltpetre.
Take one large tea-spoonful three times a day.


               CANCERS OR  SWELLINGS.
  Take one pound tobacco, one pound white beet root, boil
well together, strain, simmer it down, and add one-half pound
fresh butter made from the first milking,  two ounces turpen-
tine, and two ounces beeswax,   "When cooling, add one-half
ounce spirits of wine.

                     CARBUNCLES.
  Sprinkle with  pulverized blood root,  and  dress the sore
with the cancer plaster. 
280
RECIPES.
                 TO DRAW A BLISTER.
  Take mustard,  ground  fine,  aud  Avet Avith vinegar, will
draw a blister.  Green rue will do the same.  Crow-foot will
also draw a blister.   Potatoe flies  gathered in  our country
are better than Spanish flies.
         FOR A DOG BITE WHEN  IN A TRAP.
  Boil lobelia and lay it on a feAV times—it will effect an im-
mediate cure, or  take out the  poison.

                     FOR A COUGH
  Make a strong tea of hyssop and sweeten  it Avith honey.
Take a wine-glassful as you go  to bed.   The moss of rock
made into a tea and sweetened with honey, will cure.  Or a
tea made of walnut bark, SAveetened,  and taken as above,  is
good.  Or make a tea of Indian  posy,  or  life-ever-lasting,
drink it freely, and it will effect a cure.

                     FOR BRUISES.
  Hold in,  or pour on, cold water two or three hours.  Rub
the wound with the hand if it will bear it.   After the bruise
and blood is out, lay on a plaster of beeswax, mutton tallow,
and balsam firr, or balsam alone.

            WASH FOR  FREEZES OR BURNS.

  Take four pounds Avhite oak bark,  one pound ^white pine
bark,  one-half pound sassafras sprouts, put them in one  gal-
lon water, boil it well and strain—then boil  it to one quart,
and wash the afflicted part with it 
                        RECIPES.                    287

          FOR A MAD DOG OR SERPENT BITE.

  Take the yolk of an egg and honey,  equal parts, and one-
fourth ounce dragon's root, pulverize and mix all with wheat
flour.   Lay it on as a poultice tAvo or three times.   Or take
water plantain roots, sprinkle one-half tea-spoonful  on bread
and butter after it is pulverized, and eat it a few times.
                 CURE FOR SORE EYES.
  Take one-fourth ounce alum, one-fourth ounce saltpetre,
and put them in one pint good cider vinegar, Avell SAveetened
with loaf sugar.  Shake them well together, and  put one
drop in each eye morning and evening.  If there is a film on
the eye, put in  a drop of the Pain  Extractor.   After  that^
follow up dropping in the above preparation,  and wash the
temples and eyes with it.  Every few days give a little of the
Indian Physic.

                   FOR DYSENTERY.
  Take whiskey and wheat flour,  equal  parts, mix  well to-
gether, and take a table-spoonful  once an hour for four  or
five hours.  Seldom fails.

     TO  PREVENT THE HAIR FROM FALLING OFF.
  Take one ounce beaver oil  or  marrow, one-fourth ounce
myrrh, simmer in one  gill good brandy, and anoint the  head
with it.

                   FOR SORE THROAT.
  Make a tea of succory and drink a tea-cupful as you  go to
bed; also smoke a stalk of it as you go to bed. 
288
RECIPES.
                     TOOTII-ACHE.

  Wet lint with oil of cloves or wintergreen, apply it tofcthe
tooth, and hold some Health Bitters and brandy, equal parts,
in the mouth.
                    INWARD ULCERS.

  Take one-half ounce blood root, one ounce sassafras  (bark
of the root), one ounce colt's-foot root, four ounces Avhite pine
bark, one ounce aloes, one ounce gum  Arabic—steep  all in
one quart brandy, and take two table-spoonfuls three times a
day, fasting.
                     FOR COUGHS.

  Steep one pound hemlock boughs with one pound Canada
thistle root and one-eighth ounce lobelia, and sweeten well with
honey or loaf sugar.   Take a tea-spoonful three times a day,
and less if it debilitates too much.  It can be bottled, corked
tight, and kept for years.


                     FOR DROPSY.

  Take one-half pound  spice bush  bark,  one-half pound
prickly ash bark, one-half pound dwarf elder roots,  one-half
pound milkweed roots, one-half pound sassafras, (bark of the
root), one-half pound horseradish, two  ounces  garlic, four
ounces parsley, two ounces blood root, two ounce* mandrake
root, one-half pound burdock—all  boiled in  two gallons of
malt beer  down to one gallon ; strain, and add one quart gin
with two ounces juniper,  and sweeten well  with India mo-
lasses.  Take a wine-glassful three times a day. 
RECIPES.
289
                       SALT-RHEUM.
    Take one pound cocash, one-half pound Evan's root, one-
 half pound burdock root, one-fourth pound yellow dock, and
 boil in three quarts water.   Drink freely of the tea and bathe
 with the same.  Make a plaster -of four ounces  mutton tal-
 low, four ounces white pine turpentine, four ounces Burgundy
 pitch, one-half ounce burnt alum, and one-half ounce borax;
 melt and simmer them all, and  lay it  on the affected part.
 Follow this up faithfully, and keep the bowels easy with the
 Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic.

                     CAMP DISTEMPER.
    Take four ounces black cherry bark, four ounces shumake
 bark, four  ounces white wood bark, eight ounces  poplar bark,
 boil in two quarts to one, and strain and sweeten;  then  add
  one ounce sal nitre,  two ounces  epsom salts, and take one
 table-spoonful every hour till  it  physics.  Make a syrup  of
' the tea, without the salts, and add to one quart of the syrup
 one pint good brandy, sweeten well with loaf sugar, and take
 a wine-glassful three times a day, fasting.
                  CORNS AND WARTS.
  Take two ounces scraped carrots, onerhalf ounce fine salt,
and lay on as a poultice.   Repeat the poultice  twice a day
till cured.  Or the ashes of willow bark and vinegar laid  on
will also cure either corns or warts.

                      FOR CORNS.
  Pound blood root and lay on the corn  as a poultice a few
times, will effect a cure.
             Z 
290
RECIPES.
                   CURE FOR CANCERS.
   Make a poultice  of onions,  sprinkle on  pulverized blood
root and white precipitate to kill it, and lay it on till the roots
turn blue;  then make a poultice of great brake root, garget
root and apple Peru leaves, and keep it on  till  the cancer
comes out; then heal it with soap salve.
                         ANOTHER.
   Put four quarts of olive oil in a new pewter-lined copper
vessel, and simmer it OA*er a slow fire till it becomes an  oint-
ment—it may take twenty-four hours.  Rub  the afflicted
part with the ointment  constantly, and wet a cloth with  it
and lay it on.   A cure  is said to be made in fourteen days.
                        ANOTHER.                     »
   Put two  ounces tobacco in one-half pint new  rum, simmer
them together, and  lay them on as a  poultice for  five days;
then take one-fourth ounce pearlash with one spoonful of tur-
pentine, warm it a little, and add one-half spoonful of honey .
and one-half spoonful of fine chalk.   Rub all together,  and
lay it on as a plaster.   Renew  it every two days.

         CURE FOR FEVERISH SWELLED LEGS.
   Take  the bark of the root of basswood,  simmer in sweet
milk after they are pounded fine, and  put on  the sore.  It
will bring down the swelling.

                  FOR BILIOUS COLIC.
   Dry and pulverize milkweed root,  and give a table-spoon-
ful to the patient every two hours.  This  has  cured whea
physician's  skill had failed. 
RECIPES.
291
                   CHOLERA MORBUS.

  Give the Indian Physic so as to effect a  gentle evacuation
—then give a syrup made of black cherry tree bark and port
wine or cider ; to each quart add  one-half ounce pulverized
nitre, one-half ounce alum, one-half ounce camphor gum cut
in alcohol, and sweeten well with loaf sugar.  Take one tea-
spoonful every hour.
                     THE DROPSY.

  Take one ounce prickly ash bark, one ounce cinnamon, one
ounce  cloves,  one-fourth ounce  African  cayenne,  and two
quarts  cider.  Drink moderately  till  it physics.  Then  take
one ounce sassafras, one ounce dog-wood,  (bark of the  root
of both,) four ounces sarsaparilla, and two ounces dwarf el-
der ; boil  them  in  two quarts water, sweeten,  and drink
freely.                        -

            FOR OVERFLOW OF THE GALL.

   Make a strong tea of blue  centaury  (which bears a  blue
flower  in September), and  put it  with three-eighths gin.
Take one-half wine-glassful three times a day, one-half  hour
before  eating.
                  TO CURE FELLONS.

  Take one ounce wild turnip, one ounce blue flag root, pul-
verize, boil in one-half pint water, strain, and add two ounces
turpentine, tAvo ounces mutton tallow, two ounces castile soap,
and two ounces honey ; simmer them down to a salve, and
dress the afflicted part with it twice a day till cured. 
292
RECIPES.
                     FOR A BURST.
   Take four ounces bag onions, two  ounces Solomon's seal,
comfrey,  sarsaparilla,  knot grass, shepherd sprouts, equal
parts, boil all together, strain the liquor, and add one pint of
molasses to a gallon.  Take a gill three times a day, before
eating.  If the burst is long, boil the tea to a salve  and lay
it on the breach.  Bind a piece of sheet lead  over  the plas-
ter, so as to keep it up.

                      FOR BOILS.
   Take flour of sulphur and pulverized pewter,  equal parts,
and stir them together.  Take one tea-spoonful (dry) as you
go to bed.   Cures for life.
              FOR COLD IN THE BREAST.
  Take equal parts mutton tallow, beeswax and  saffron, (say
two ounces each,) simmer together, put in one ounce of rum,
and lay it on the  breast.
            TO KILL WORMS IN CHILDREN.
  Boil sage in  milk,  curdle it with  alum, and give equal
parts of the whey and the  Reformed Botanic and  Indian
Physic, one spoonful at a time, every two  hours till  it ope-
rates.

                TO SCATTER A FELLON.
  Take four ounces poke root, two ounces  salt, four ounces
hog's lard, four ounces sweet elder bark, one pint vinegar, all
simmered well  together, and  put on as a poultice, will scatteT
a fellon before  it matterates. 
RECIPES.
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          TO DRIVE OUT THE CANKER-RASH.

  Steep red hollyhock flowers in vinegar, and sweeten it well
with honey.  Give the patient one  tea-spoonful every hour,
and it will drive it out.  To cure it, give  one table-spoonful
of the Indian Physic every two hours till it operates thorough-
ly.   Afterwards, give a little cordial made of raspberry jelly,
port wine and cherry bark tea, sweetened with loaf sugar.
               SALVE FOR FEVER SORES.
  Take one.pound hog's lard, eight ounces rosin, eight ounces
beeswax,  four ounces castile soap, one-half ounce oil of spike,
and  simmer them well together; or.  boil  ten pounds  red
clover blossoms well in rain water, say four  gallons, strain,
and boil down to a salve.  Wash the sore Avith castile soap
suds once  every  day, and dress  the  sore with  the salve.
Drink freely of a tea made of red clover roots and blossoms.
Or poultice with blue flag  roots boiled in skim-milk before It
breaks—put on three poultices a day till it breaks ; then take
four ounces  bittersweet, four ounces  sweet appletree bark,
four ounces sage,  four ounces  sumac bobs, and  boil in  one
gallon  water.  Wash with these and dress with the cure-all
plaster.

               TO KILL THE TAPE WORM.
  Take one ounce bark of pomegranate, one ounce male fern,
one  ounce sage,  four ounces loaf sugar, pulverize them all
together  and put in one pint brandy.   Give a  table-spoonful
every hour, twelve hours in succession; then give  a cathartic
of one ounce mandrake  root, two ounces Epsom salts,  four
ounces sugar, one-eighth ounce saltpetre.
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RECIPES.
                      DYSENTERY.
  Boil mullin leaves in new milk, take it freely,  and it will
effect a  cure;  or  take one spoonful of the juice  of black
cherries every hour for five or six hours;  or make a strong
tea of blackberry brier root, and drink it freely.  It seldom
fails.
                  FOR THE JAUNDICE.

   Take white ash (bark of the root),  Indian  roots and yel-
low roots, equal parts, pulverize them,  and put  nine  table-
spoonfuls  of the powder  in  one-half pint  molasses.  Take
one table-spoonful three mornings  and miss three, for nine
mornings.
                 ST. ANTHONY'S DANCE.

  Take one ounce cranes-bill root, two ounces fumitory, one-
half ounce  saltpetre, steep them  all in one quart cider, and
take a wine-glassful three times a day.
               TO CURE THE VENEREAL.

  Steep two ounces summer  savory in eight ounces fresh
butter and one ounce white pine buds, and use it as an oint-
ment  Drink summer savory tea freely.
                TO CURE THE ASTHMA.
  Take two ounces spikenard, two ounces elecampane, two
ounces sweet flag,  one ounce  saltpetre, one ounce  seed of
smart weed, pulverize all and put them  with one  pound  of
honey.  Take one tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting. 
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                  TO CURE A CANCER
  Take one pound scoke and dry in  on pewter  to  a salve,
then add one ounce blue vitriol pulverized, and mix well to-
gether.   For  a  healing  salve,  take  two ounces smart weed,
one pound white pine boughs, twelve  pounds night shade,
one pound red clover, and boil them all in one gallon water,
strain and boil to jelly; add four ounces mutton tallow and
one-half pint neAV rum.  Spread it on a linen cloth.  Prick
the cancer with a needle and lay on the plaster.   Dress with
the salve every twelve hours.
                        MEASLES.
  Put two ounces high nettle, two ounces sage and one-half
ounce plantain seed in one quart water; add  one-half ounce
saltpetre and drink it freely.   Pulverize the saltpetre.
                     SALT RHEUM.
  Take eight ounces Evan's root,  eight ounces  cocash root,
boil them in two  quarts water, strain, drink freely of it, and
wash  with it.  Sweeten what you drink, or drink Saratoga
Spring water.   Cleanse the blood well with the Indian Physic
in all  scrofulous cases.
                        CANCERS.
  Lay on a poultice  of powdered  turmeric root a few times
till it" can be taken out, fflrln put on a poultice of wood sorrel
or sour apples a few times, and you can heal it with any good
salve  or balsam  firr.   Physic the patient three or four times
thoroughly with the Botanic and Indian Physic, and give a
little cordial or Slumbering Drops.
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296
RECIPES.
                   FOR RHEUMATISM.
   Steep four ounces cocash roots in one quart brandy, let it
 stand forty-eight hours, and wash the afflicted part night and
 morning with it and take one-half wine-glassful  inwardly,
 night and morning.  A tea of the roots will cure colic,  pain
 in the bowels, or stomach.  When the  rheumatism is settled
 in the joints, boil cedar boughs in brandy till the bark comes
 off, strain the liquor, boil it down to a salve, spread a plaster,
 and lay it on  the joint.
                         ANOTHER.
   Put rusty iron in strong vinegar, let it stand one week, and
 rub the afflicted  pait with it when going to bed.
                        ANOTHER.
   Boil four ounces  logwood in three pints  water  to one pint,
and then put it  into one quart rum.   Take a Avine-glassful
 three  times  a day.
                        ANOTHER.
   Put one pint  of pulverized  garget root in  one quart of
St Croix rum, and  take a wine-glassful  three times  a day—■
morning, noon,  and night.
                  TO  CURE DEAFNESS.
  Put in the ear black wool moistened with oil  of .cloves o*
oil of cinnamon,' or oil  of  lavender, and honey, dissolved in
spirits of ammonia.
                     RHEUMATISM.
  Boil one pound cocash root and four ounces burdock seed
in two quarts water, strain and add one pint brandy and two
pounds sugar.   Take one tea-spoonful three times a day.
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                      DYSENTERY.
  Take one ounce white pine bark, one ounce birch bark, one
ounce ox balm, one-half ounce poplar  bark, one  ounce firr
bark  or boughs,  two  o#unoes  black cherry bark, one ounce
mouse-ear; boil all in three quarts water thoroughly, strain
and boil down to  one quart; add  one gill  French  brandy,
one-half ounce alum, one and one-half pounds loaf sugar,
one-half ounce pulverized gum myrrh, one-half ounce salt-
petre, one-fourth  ounce oil  of anise,  one-fourth ounce oil of
wintergreen cut in alcohol, one gill black raspberry syrup, one
gill port wine.   Bottle it and shake them all together.  Take
one table-spoonful every two hours till cured.
                AN ALL-HEALING SALVE.
  Take two ounces bark of the root of sweet elder, two ounces
comfrey root, two ounces male fern, two ounces sweet apple-
tree bark, of the root, two ounces balm of Gilead buds, one
ounce hen dung, eight ounces fresh butter, and steep and fry
them all together.
            TO TAKE FILM FROM THE EYES.
  Take one-half ounce loaf sugar, one-fourth ounce  alum,
one-half ounce white hen dung, pulverize them together and
blow it in with a 'quill two or three times, till the film is off;
or blow in strong tobacco spittle, then wash and put in  the
eye strong tea, made of rose leaves and  green tea, an equal
quantity of each, sweeten with loaf sugar and wash  the eyes
clean with sweet milk every time you operate on them.  The
tobacco spittle is used on brutes. 
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RECIPES.
 TO MAKE A DRAFT FOR THE FEET TO CURE HYPOCHON-
                         DRIA.
   Take tar and turpentine, equal parts, and stir in as much
 ginger as you can;  spread  it on  a  cloth and lay it on the
 bottom of the feet; keep it on as long as it will stick ; Avhen
 it comes off repeat it if necessary.

                    TO CURE RELAX.
   Take one-half drachm gum opium, one ounce gum myrrh,
 one ounce gum Arabic,  one-half ounce gum  camphor, one-
 eighth ounce oil of anise, pulverize all together and put them
 in one pint of good brandy.   Give thirty drops to a dose for
 an adult every half hour.

             SWELLED THROAT OR QUINSY.
   Make  a poultice  of burdock or plantain leaves, spread it
 with salt butter and sprinkle on ginger or black pepper;  lay
 it on  the throat   Gargle the mouth and throat with strong
 black current tea well sweetened with honey,  and swallow a
 little of it.  You can use mullen leaves if burdock cannot be
 had.  Give a gentle physic if the complaint is hard.

     CURE  FOR THE ASTHMA OF  LONG STANDING,
   Snakeweed, more properly called bastart—put two  ounces
 of the leaves into one quart of good Boston or  St  Croix rum,
 steep  it thoroughly and sweeten well witll India molasses.
 Take one-half wine-glassful of it half an hour before eating.
 It will do to steep it the second time in one quart rum. This
 steeping has cured the  asthma and  coughs of twenty years
standing.  One-half drachm  of the  root  pulverized  has as
 much strength as half an ounce of the leaves. 
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              CURE FOR HARD DRINKING.

  Take one pound wild black cherry tree bark, steep well in
one quart water, and add to  it, when cold, one  quart well
worked cider; dissolve in your cider one-half ounce saltpetre
and one-half ounce alum; cut one-fourth ounce anise oil and
one-fourth ounce camphor gum well in alcohol;  mix them all
thoroughly together  and sweeten it well with brown sugar.
Take one tea-spoonful three times a day half an hour before
eating.  Follow up taking the above bitters and it will effect
a cure.  It is also good for the health of any person, especially*
in hot  weather.
             TO PREVENT MORTIFICATION.

  Boil one ounce of hops in one quart  of vinegar, thicken it
with wheat or rye bran, and poultice the afflicted part with
it till cured.

                PAIN  EXTRACTOR, NO. 2.

  Take one-half pint linseed oil, one-fourth ounce saltpetre,
one-fourth  ounce oil of hemlock,  one-fourth ounce oil spike
and  one  quart  of alcohol; pulverize the saltpeter and shake
them all together.  Bathe or lay a cloth  of three or four
thicknesses wet with the above on the wound or afflicted part;
repeat whenever dry.
                    HYSTERIC COLIC.
  Take one ounce of sour apple tree bark from small limbs
and put in a table-spoonful of boiling water, stir it and give it
This will effect a real cure. 
300                     RECIPES.
                 TO CURE BREACHES
  Break four or six eggs in a fryingpan or spider over a slow
fire, placing  one  edge of the vessel lower than the other off
the fire, and pressing the egg with a flat iron till the oil runs
sufficient, may be a spoonful, and anoint the place once a day
for three or four days.
                   CURE FOR CORNS.
  Shave down the corns, then chew white beans  to  a pulp,
and rub the corn smartly with them for five or six minutes;
chew more and bind them  on the corns three  or  four times.
Spiders' webs wet in strong vinegar and bound on will also
cure corns.
                      WIND COLIC.
  Pulverize dragon's  root and mix it with molasses.  Take
one table-spoonful at a time.   Proportion the dose according
to the age of the person.
  FOR INWARD WEAKNESS OR FEMALE COMPLAINTS.
  Take four  ounces  squaw root,  four ounces valerian, four
ounces white or red bath root, steep them well  twenty-four
hours, strain the liquor and put in one pint brandy.  Take a
wine-glassful morning and evening, fasting, seldom fails a cure.

                    FOR BLOATING.

  Drink a strong tea made of Indian  hemp, sweetened with
India molasses, and add forty drops oil of anise cut in afcohol,
to every half a pint.   Take a table-spoonful every hour. 
RECIPES.
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                   SALVE FOR SORES.

  Boil one pound cat foot in two quarts of water to a syrup,
strain, then  add one-fourth pound mutton  tallow, one-half
pound white pine turpentine, two ounces honey;  then boil it
down to a salve on a slow fire.  Give a gentle physic of pre-
pared salts, and give a cordial made of one-fourth pound
black cherry tree bark, one-fourth  pound dwarf elder, one-
fourth  pound  yellow dock, one-fourth pound burdock, one-
fourth pound sarsaparilla roots, steeped all together  in four
quarts  water down  to  two.   Take one table-spoonful three
times a day.
                  TO CURE A BREACH.

  Put one-half pound  hog's  lard, one-half pound bark and
root of  bittersweet and one-half pound skunk cabbage root
into one-half gill  balsam  and  one-half gill brandy, simmer
down to a salve, then spread it on a cloth and lay it on over
night.   Make a strong decoction of one-half pound white oak
bark steeped in one pint brandy and bathe it or wet a  cloth
with it,  and keep it on through the day time.   Wear a truss
to keep  it up.  You may add two ounces rosin, if you choose,
and be  careful not to lift or strain.   In all  cases  keep the
bowels open.

                    TO KILL WORMS.
  Take  two ounces pulverized pewter or one ounce  pulver-
ized steel in one gill India molasses, one-half ounce pulverized
alum, one ounce pulverized sage.   Give a table-spoonful to
an adult every two hours, repeat the dose six times, and  after-
wards take a gentle physic of salt" and anise. 
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RECIPES.
         ?0R SWELLED THROAT AND STOMACH.
   Take one  ounce spirits nitre, one ounce pikery, one-fourth
ounce white pine turpentine or spirits turpentine, one-fourth
ounce oil hemlock, one-fourth ounce camphor gum, one-fourth
ounce alum, all cut in two gills of alcohol;  shake them well
together and give a tea-spoonful every two hours, and bathe
the throat with it.
              ENTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA.
   Take one pound sarsaparilla, two ounces guaiacum  root,
pulverized, one ounce senna root, one ounce licorice root, ten
drops  oil of sassafras, ten  drops oil of anise, cut in alcohol;
put them all in one pint of alcohol, then strain and warm it,
aud'add one-fourth pound loaf sugar.   Give half a tea-spoon-
ful three times a day.  This is great for cleansing the blood.
                  CURE FOR CANKER.
  Take swamp willow, bark of the roots, and rattlesnake bite
herbs or roots, equal parts,  steep  them together and  give a
tea-spoonful every hour, if hard, every fifteen minutes.   The
first tea is good for any sore.  If the patient cannot drink the
tea, make a powder of it and give in molasses.  One-quarter
of a tea-spoonful of the powrder is a dose.

              CURE FOR  HARD DRINKING.
  Gather Roman wormwood in the full  of the moon, dry it
in the shade and keep it from the air; make a tea of  it and
drink it freely.   When you are faint, drink a little cold water.
Take a spoonful  of it when you first rise, continue drinking
this bitter and it will subside ail desire for  ardent spirits. 
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              CURE FOR THE MAW WORM.

  Take three ounces Epsom salts, three ounces brown sugar,
one ounce sweet elderberry jelly, three ounces pink root pul-
verized, two ounces sage, one-half ounce  sweet flag root pul-
verized, one-half ounce  alum, one-half ounce saltpetre, one-
fourth ounce white cedar buds pulverized; put all in one-half
pint port wine, with twenty-five drops oil of anise well cut in
alcohol.  Take  one-half  gill  every two hours till you have a
thorough operation as a physic.  If given to children, it may
be reduced with cider and sugar, and given in doses according
to their age.   After the worms pass, give a tea  of black cherry
tree bark, one-half cider well sweetened with India molasses,
morning and evening, half  an hour  before breakfast and as
you retire.
            CURE FOR A STRAIN OR BRUISE.

   Bake  green frogs in  an earthen vessel in good  brandy,
 spread them on  a woolen cloth and lay them on warm.  It
 generally cures.

                 CURE FOR THE  DROPSY.
   Take large milkweed roots or tops, dwarf elder roots and
 tops or  berries, and balsam  boughs,  equal parts, and steep
 them in soft  water; add to  one  gallon  of the  syrup two
 pounds loaf sugar, one quart good Holland gin well tinctured
 with juniper berries.  Take one-half  wine-glassful  half an
 hour before eating, three  times a day, and more if you can
 bear it.   Soak  the feet in hot water well tinctured with salt.
 I always recommend taking a thorough portion  of  the Re-
formed Botanic and Indian Physic before taking the syrup. 
304
RECIPES.
              *       FOR DROPSY.

   Take cream of tartar, borax, ginger, gum myrrh, each one
ounce, put in one pint of gin, and take one tea-spoonful three
times a day.   Or take one drachm powdered broom seed and
put in one gill of Avine.  Take it in the morning for two or
three days, fasting.  Or take blue flag  root and elecampane
root, one-half pound of each, boil in one  gallon water  one
hour, strain, add one pint molasses and one pint gin, well
tinctured with juniper  berries.  Take  a wine-glassful  three
times a day.  Or steep the inside bark of sweet elder (say
one-half pound)  in  one quart  wine.  Take  a  wine-glassful
morning and evening.
                 FOR RAISING BLOOD.

  Drink freely of white oak bark tea for three or four days.
Or boil one-half pound yellow dock root in one quart of new
milk.   Take one-half gill three times a day, and  one pill  of
turpentine.
                  FOR BLOODY  URINE.

   Dissolve one ounce  of gum  Arabic in one gill of Avater,.
and put in ten drops of  the  oil of vitriol.  Take one tea-
spoonful twice a day,


          FOR WORMS, OR WEAK STOMACH.
  Take deer's horn, pounded or made into a strong tea, mix
with molasses or liquor, and take a tea-spoonful of the pow-
der, or a large spoonful of  the  tea, three times  a day,  one-
half hour  before eating. 
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       FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG OR SNAKE.
  Make a strong tea of lobelia  and wash the bite  or sting
with it; apply  the leaves as a poultice.   Repeat  it every
thirty minutes.   Or apply bruised onions and fine salt.

                   FOR  CONSUMPTION.
  Make a strong tea of vervine and boiled cider, sweeten well
with loaf sugar, and take a Avine-glassful one-half  hour be-
fore eating and at night.   Use  the  blue_ vervine  for/women
and the white vervine for men.   This has helped  all ages of
people.

                  FOR INWARD FEVER,
  Take spleen root and hog's tush root, four ounces  each ; to
one quart of  the syrup add  one-fourth ounce saltpetre, and
take a wine-glassful  one-half hour before breakfast and as
you retire.

                  FOR  A BAD COUGH.
   Take loaf  sugar, SAveet oil and spirits of hartshorn, equal
parts, mix them well together, and take a tea-spoonful when
the cough is hard.

               FOR BILIOUS COMPLAINTS.
   Take one-half pound  dandelion  (root  and  branch,) and
one-half pound poplar (bark of the root)—boil it down thick,
strain, and add one-half molasses.  Take a tea-spoonful three
times a day; or take one pound black cherry tree bark, two
ounces blood root, and steep in  two  quarts of good  cider.
Take a wine-glassful three times a day, fasting.
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RECIPES.
                POLYPUS IN THE NOSE.
   Take two ounces of blood root, one-half ounce  cinnamon,
one ounce cork root, one drachm borax, ten grains corosive
sublimate, and pulverize all together.   Take four  pinches (as
snuff) a day.   When it grows small, snuff a little beet root
juice.   It oftentimes  Woavs out.  Or take one ounce blood
root, one-half ounce skunk cabbage,  one-half ounce lobelia,
one-eighth drachm corosive sublimate, two ounces snake-rook
three  ounces slippery elm  (bark of the root), and one ounce
snuff.   Take four pinches a day.

                 ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE,
   Dissolve two ounces of  saltpetre in  one pint of strong bur-
dock root tea—cut one drachm oil of anise in one-half gill of
alcohol and  add to  the  tea.  Give a  table-spoonful three
times a day.

                    FOR THE GOUT.
   Dissolve one ounce  of camphor gum in one gill  of alcohol,
and add to it one gill of boiling water.   Rub it on as hot as
can be borne.
              •   FOR FEVER AND AGUE,
    Put one-half pound culver's root in  one quart good  rum,
.  and take a wine-glassful three times a day, if you can bear it.
                 TO CURE THE PILES

  Take one pound rough fireweed,  pounded  and steeped  in
s\* eet cream to  an ointment, strain,  and anoint the funda-
ment with it.   Drink a tea made of smooth firewood. 
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                      DYSENTERY.
  Make a strong tea of frost-weed,  (called cook ash root,)
sweeten it with loaf sugar,  and to one  pint  add one-half
ounce  alum and one-half ounce nitre.   Take a tea-spoonful
every  two hours.
                         ANOTHER.
  Simmer mutton suet over a slow fire, and take one spoon-
ful every hour.  Diet on parched corn soaked in sweet milk,
with no  other food.
                         ANOTHER,
  Take one ounce alspice, one ounce salt, and one egg—beat
together, and mix with one-half pint sweet milk.  Take one-
half ounce every hour till well.  Seldom fails.

           FOR PULMONARY CONSUMPTION.
  Take spignet, comfrey, elecampane,  burdock and black
cherry bark, one pound each, boil them down in eight quarts
water to four quarts ;  then add one quart good cider or port
wine, sweeten  well with loaf sugar, and take a wine-glassful
one-half hour before eating, three times a day.

                  PAIN IN THE SIDE.
  Boil one-half pint India molasses  and put in  one ounce
floured sulphur.  When cold,  stir in the white of six eggs,
and lay it on as a poultice.

                    BLEEDING  PILES.
  Take four ounces  head of young mullin and one pint good
rum or brandy.  Take three table-spoonfuls a  day—morn-
ing, noon, and night—and bathe with the  mullin juice. 
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RECIPES.
                     FEVER SORES.
   Physic the patient Avell and keep the bowels in order by
taking the Indian Physic.   Steep four ounces d*varf or spot-
ted maple bark, four ounces dogAVOod bark, in rain water, and
drink freely of it.  Wash Avith white Aveak lye made strong
with rock salt, twice a day.  Dress the sore  Avith  the cancer
salve, or leaden plaster, till well.
                      FOR COLDS.
  Take one-half pound raisins, one gill flax seed, two ounces
stick liquorice, put them in four quarts water, boil it down to
two quarts, SAveeten it well with loaf sugar, and take a wine-
glassful three times a day, one-half hour before eating.
              FOR BILIOUS COMPLAINTS,
  Steep one-half pound green white ash  (bark of the roots)
in one quart of water, and  take  one gill  of the  tea in  the
morning; repeat  the dose  every  hour  till it vomits  and
physics.  After it operates well, take a cordial made of black
cherry tree bark and port  wine, Avell  sweetened  Avith  loaf
sugar, before eating.
                     PAIN KILLER.

  Take oil of sassafras,  wormwood,  tansy, spike, sweet oil,
linseed oil, anise, lavender, and origanum, one ounce each, in
one quart of alcohol, and bathe the afflicted part with it.

                 CURE FOR SORE EYES.

  Drop in the distilled water of vervine three or four times a
day.  It will take off fellons. 
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           FOR SORE AND INFLAMED EYES.
  Take the juice of small houseleek, mix with one-half rain-
water, sweeten with loaf sugar, and drop in  the  eye two or
three times a day.  The houseleek is  good for  king's evil,
used as  a poultice.  The juice of honey suckle will take the
film from the eyes.

TO CURE KING'S EVIL, RING-WORMS, TETTER, OR SCALD-
                        HEAD.
  Anoint with the oil of wheat, and put it on ulcers, will cure
when nothing else will.  It  can be got by pressing the wheat
between two warm iron  plates.  A poultice  of new wheat
bread will cure king's evil, if laid  on  as a poultice and fol-
lowed up a few days.

         FALLING SICKNESS—EASY DELIVERY.
  Dry and pulverize  four ounces mistletoe leaves and put in
one pint gin—add two ounces juniper,  and give one table-
spoonful three times a day.   In falling sickness, leave out the
juniper, and  add one ounce prickly  ash bark.  Mistletoe
grows on the bark of the tree at the South.

                     PAIN KILLER.
  Take one ounce gum camphor, one ounce gum myrrh, one
ounce oil origanum, one ounce spirits turpentine, one pint al-
cohol, Avell cut and shook together.  Bathe the afflicted part
with it freely and frequently.  You may add  one ounce oil
of spike, one ounce spirits of nitre, one-half pint brandy, tAvo
ounces honey, and one ounce sweet oil.  It may be used for
sprains on man or beast. 
310                     RECIPES-
                      THE DROPSY.
   Take four ounces mandrake root, two ounces dwarf elder,
two ounces milkweed, two  ounces juniper  berries,  steep in
two quarts water, strain, and  add  one  pound loaf sugar—
scald it well together, and add one pint good Holland gin.
Take one table-spoonful every hour  till it operates thorough-
ly.  Then boil  one pound burdock roots,  one-half pound
sarsaparilla roots, one-half pound  dwarf elder berries, one-
half pound balsam boughs, one half pound  milkweed, one-
half  pound  spignard,  all in  two  gallons of  soft water,
thoroughly ; strain, and add  one pound loaf sugar  to every
quart scald, and add one quart of gin, well tinctured  with
juniper, to every gallon ; add  one-eighth ounce sassafras oil
cut in alcohol.  Take one table-spoonful three times a day.
After the physic operates, follow this up and it will cure.
                    BILIOUS PILLS.
  Take two ounces mandrake root, one ounce butternut buds,
one ounce hlood root, one ounce beef gall (dried), two ounces
slippery elm bark, two ounces castile soap, all pulverized to-
gether, and pill with rye flour  and molasses.  Take one pill
every four hours.
             TO CURE VEGETABLE POISON.
  Take four ounces rosemary blossoms or leaves, four ounces
wild turnip, four ounces sweet elder bark  or  blossoms, and
two ounces saffron—boil down in one quart water, and wash
the afflicted part with it.   Add one-half ounce camphor gum,
one-fourth ounce saltpetre, and drink one table-spoonful three
times a day, fasting. 
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                PAIN IN THE STOMACH.
  Take one wine-glassful of strong chamomile tea and lemon
juice three times a day,  fasting, for  one week.   It will  also
cure the  heartburn.
                  FOR THE  ASTHMA.
  Take one ounce Peruvian bark, one-half ounce gum myrrh,
one-half ounce black  cohosh roots, one  ounce logwood, one
ounce saltpetre, one ounce mountain ash bark—all pulverized
and put in  one quart good rum.  Take one table-spoonful
morning and evening.
                   FOR NUMBNESS.
  Take two ounces ginger root,  four  ounces  hemlock bark,
pulverized in one quart Holland gin, and take one-half wine-
glassful night and morning.   Or  steep four ounces sage in
one quart brandy, and take  as above prescribed.
                     EYE-WATER.
  Take six ounces pure spirits of wine, one drachm camphpr
gum, one-half ounce pulverized sweet elder bark,  one-half
ounce rose flowers, one  ounce good green  tea—shake it well
together, bottle it, let it stand twenty-four  hours,  then strain,
and it is ready for  use.  Put two drops in each eye twice a
day.

                       HIP GOUT.
  Put on a poultice of boiled or pounded  nettles and  hem-
lock boughs ; shift it twice a day. 
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RECIPES.
            SALVE FOR RHEUMATIC PAIN*.
  Take one-half pound  hog's lard,  four  ounces rosin, two
ounces beeswax, one-third ounce oil of spike, one-third ounce
oil of amber, and bathe the afflicted part with it.
                     ROSE-WATER.
  Take one pound rose leaves, turn on one quart boiling wa-
ter, and let it stand twenty-four hours ;  then strain, add one
pound loaf sugar, and bottle it tight.
                      FOR BURNS.
  Hold it in cold water, or wet a cloth  in cold water, and
shift them every five minutes till  it stops  smarting ; after-
wards, dust well with wheat flour, .and put  on a bat of raw
COtton—or dip the cotton in sweet oil and lay it on.
             TO KILL OR CURE A FELLON.
  Take one-fourth ounce slacked lime, one-half spoonful soft
soap, one-half spoonful vinegar, one-eight ounce salt, thicken-
ed with Indian meal and put  on as a poultice, will kill the
fellon.   Afterwards, dress with any healing salve.
                 BITE OF A MAD DOG.
  Take one ounce pulverized copper, one  ounce blood root,
one ounce of the false tongue of a  colt, four  ounces of the
jaw bone of a dog,  all pulverized together.  Take one  tea-
spoonful every hour in sweet milk. 
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       TO CURE THE BITE OF A RATTLESNAKE.
  Dissolve one-half ounce alum in Avater and drink it; pound
thoroughwort leaves, wet with  Avater, and  lay on.   Renew
the application every hour, and let  the patient drink a little
of the juice.
                 VOLATILE LINIMENT.

  Take one  pint sweet  oil, one-half pint hartshorn,  shake
well together, and  cork it  tight.   Rub it on stiff necks or
loins and sore throats.
                 DELERIUM TREMENS.
  Give a table-spoonful of the Reformed Botanic and Indian
Physic every hour, and lay a cloth of four or five thicknesses
wet with the Pain Extractor, on  the head..  Repeat giving
the Physic until it operates, and keep the cloth wet with the
Pain Extractor on the head.  Then give one tea-spoonful of
the Health  Bitters, before eating, for one month.

                 MENSES, (TOO MUCH.)
  Take three drachms burnt alum and one drachm dragon's
blood, and make it into tAvelve pills.  Take two pills morning
and night for three days.

            FOR BLEEDING AT THE LUNGS
  Take three or four drops of the oil of golden rod, morning
and evening, on sugar.

                   FOR THE GRAVEL.

  Take twenty drops Harlem oil three  time- a day.
             BB 
314                     RECIPES.
                     SALT RHEUM.
   Make a strong tea of the bark of the root of red or  Avhito
elm, drink the tea freely, and wash the affected part Avith it;
or take one ounce of blue flag root, steep it  in one-half pint
gin, and take a tea-spoonful  three times a day—wash  with
the same; or take  one ounce  of the  oil  of tar  and two
drachms of the oil of checkerberry, mix together, and  take
from five to twenty drops morning and evening.

   FOR NERVOUS AFFECTIONS AND SICK HEAD-ACHE.
   Drink freely of mullin seed tea ; or  take  one tea-spoonful
of powdered charcoal and one-half drachm nitric acid in one-
half gill of tea.

             FOR HUMORS IN THE BLOOD.
   Take equal parts of saffron and Seneca root, and make ;.
strong tea of  them.  Take one gill morning and evening.

                    FOR  DEAFNESS.
   Take ants' eggs and  onion juice, mix together,  let  them
stand one  hour, then strain, and put tAvo drops in the ear as
you go to  bed for three or four nights.

                 FOR THE JAUNDICE.
   Take the white of four hen's eggs and  beat them up in
one-half pint  cider.  Take a table-spoonful morning and eve-
ning.  Or take two ounces black cherry tree bark, two ounces
blood root and one ounce barberry (bark of the root.)   Put
them in one quart good cider, and take a wine-glassful  of it
morning and evening. 
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        TO REDUCE SWELLINGS AND CALLOUS.
  Take one-half pint of alcohol,  one-half ounce  camphor
gum, one-half ounce oil origanum, one-half ounce camphene,
one-half ounce oil of spike, and  one-half ounce beef gall—
put them in a bottle, cork it tight, and shake  it Avell to-
gether ; then /add one-half ounce alum dissolved in one-half
gill strong cider vinegar, shake all Avell together, and rub the
swelling with it every three or four hours.  Bathe it one-half
hour before rubbing with the composition in  cold Avater, and
it will reduce any swelling unless it is matterated.
               CRAMP IN THE STOMACH.
  Take five drops oil  of lavender and a lump of camphor
gum as large as a pea, shaved'fine in hot water.  Repeat the
dose every tAventy minutes till relieved.
                       CANCERS.
  Spread a plaster of gum ammoniac and lay it on ;  or boil
tobacco down thick and mix one-half turpentine.  Spread  a
plaster and lay it on once a week till cured.
                   FOR SALT RHEUM.
  Dissolve one ounce refined  pearlash  in  three gills water;
dissolve one-fourth pound loaf sugar and one and a half gills
lime juice—put all together, and take one-half wine-glassful
twice a day.   You may add one-half ounce of bitter  walnut
meats, well pulverized,  to the  syrup, and rub on the afflicted
part bitter walnut meat juice.   Take the  physic  frequently
__it Avill purify the blood and cleanse the stomach. 
316                    RECIPES.

          FOR THE BITE OF A RATTLESNAKE.
   Cut a gash in the Avound as deep as the teeth, and imme-
diately fill it Avith fine salt.   Wash it Avith  strong  brine or
plantain juice, moistened Avith a little water and squeezed out.
Add to it as much salt as will melt.  Keep it  wet Avith the
brine, and put a bandage tight above the wound above the
knee or elbow.   Rub the swelled part toward  the Avound as
hard as can be borne.   Continue Avashing till  it  stops run-
ning.   Give the patient SAveet oil, saffron, or snake-root tea,
to guard the stomach.  Be careful not to get the matter  on
raw flesh.
                TO CURE THE ASTHMA.
  Make a strong tea of skunk cabbage root, strain, and  add
to every pint one table-spoonful of garlic juice—sweeten well
with honey, and take  one table-spoonful three times a day.
Or take tAvo ounces spikenard root,  two  ounces  sweet flag
root, two ounces elecampane root,  and two ounces chalk—
pulverize them all together, and mix them with one pound
honey.  Take, a tea-spoonful three times a day.  Or take two
ounces saltpetre, one ounce sulphur, one ounce cream tartar,
one-half ounce magnetia, four ounces ball  liquorice, dissolve
them in one quart  water,  and take one table-spoonful three
times a day, fasting.   Or take a table spoonful of white mus-
tard in molasses or Avater, morning aud evening.


                  WHOOPING COUGH.
  Give flax seed tea freely, and give every two or three hours
a table-spoonful of the Indian Physic and one-half tea-spoon-
ful of Cordial three times a day, before eating. 
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                     RHEUMATISM.
  Take one drachm gum guaiacum, one drachm rosin, one
drachm soap, and one-half drachm  oil of juniper—make all
into thirty pills, and take one morning and evening.  Or take
one ounce gum guaiacum, one-half ounce gum  myrrh, and
one-half ounce saltpetre—put in one quart brandy, and take
one table-spoonful in water three times a day.   Or take one
ounce saltpetre, one gill vinegar, and one gill new rum—sim-
mer all together, wash the afflicted  part with it hot, and take
ten drops of the oil of  sassafras.
            CURE FOR YELLOW JAUNDICE.
  Take one pound horseradish roots, prickly ash bark, black
cherry tree bark, four ounces each, and two ounces hops; put
them all in two gallons cold cider, let it steep twenty-four hours,
and take a gill three times  a day, before eating.
                     FOR BRUISES.
  Boil in one gallon  of water  two pounds hog onion, one
pound corufrey, one pound Solomon's seal,  one pound life-of-
man or spignard,  one pound sarsaparilla,  one pound knot
grass, one pound shepherd sprouts—strain it off, and add one
pint molasses to a gallon.  Wet a cloth of  four or five thick-
nesses, lay it on, and  repeat as it dries.

               TO STOP MORTIFICATION.
  Boil dogmackimus leaves and ox balm well together, and
lay  them on.   It seldom fails, and has stopped the  disease
when everything else failed.
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RECirES.
                FOR A WEAK STOMACH.
  Boil eitrht quarts of green, or four of dried Indian root in
one quart molasses till soft; dry and eat it more or less every
day.
                        ANOTHER.
  Put one pound of ripe spikenard  berries in one quart of
good whiskey, and take one-half wine-glassful three times  a
day, one-half  hour before eating.


             TO PREVENT MORTIFICATION.

  Make a strong tea of spignard root,  bathe well in it, and
drink  the tea  freely.
                 TO BREAK A FEVER.
  Take a gentle physic that Avill act on the blood and bow-
els, and Avash the patient with cold salt and water thoroughly.
Put drafts to the feet, or bathe  them well in hot water,
well tinctured with salt.  After bathing well in cold salt and
water, go to bed and cover up warm.
                 FOR LUES VENEREA.
  Make a strong tea of the bark of the root of sumac,  high
brier, and mullin root, equal parts ; drink freely of it for one
week, and continue drinking till cured.

                         PILES.
  Take trumpweed, milkweed or ladies' thistle, make into a
tea, and take inwardly, or as an ointment outwardly. 
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                   FOR THE QUINSY.

  Take oil of almonds and  spirits of sal  ammoniac,  equal
parts, and apply to the part afflicted.  Or take a pint of new
milk from a red cow and one gill of water,  boiled in a new
red earthen pot by the application  of red hot  rusty steel—
w.et a flannel cloth while hot and apply it to the throat.  Or
make a strong tea of black currant bark,  leaves or berries—
drink it freely,  and rub the  throat with it hot.  It seldom
fails.
                         PALSY.

  Make a strong tea of southern wood boiled in a brass ket-
tle, and rub the afflicted part with a woolen  cloth dipped in
the tea, as hot as you can  bear it.  Continue rubing ten or
fifteen minutes a day for a month.   Go to bed immediately
after bathing.
                 CURE FOR CHOLERA.

  Take one-half ounce oil (garden)  lavender, three ounces
sulphuric ether, four ounces  alcohol,  one-half ounce lauda-
num, one-fourth ounce cayenne pepper, mix all together, and
take from one half to two tea-spoonfuls, according to age, for
a dose.
                MENSES, (OBSTRUCTED.)

  Take one table-spoonful of the tincture of gum guaiacum
in one-half gill of sweet milk  at  full  moon;  or take strong
tea made of Seneca snake-root;  or take borax, saffron  and
myrt-n, each ten grains. 
320
RECIPES.
  FOR THE STING OF A BEE, OR ANY OTHER INSECT.

  Apply laudanum  outwardly immediately;  or Avash with
strong brine mixed with plantain juice ;  or hold on a cloth
wet with cold water ; or pour cold water on for half an hour ;
or lay on pounded plantain leaves and roots.
                   CHOLERA MORBUS.
   Make a strong tea of burdock roots,  mullin  leaves and el-
 der berries, and drink freely of it ; or one-half pint  of sour
 cider—put in it a tea-spoonful of good hard  wood ashes,  let
 it settle, and take one table-spoonful every half hour.


                      RHEUMATISM.
   Take blue flag, sweet flag and blood root, each four ounces,
 and  four ounces prickly ash bark ; steep them in two quarts
 brandy, and take one-half wine-glassful three times a day.

                        ANOTHER.
   Take four ounces castile soap,  two ounces  camphor gum,
one-half ounce oil rosemary, and three pints alcohol;  soak
the soap three days in the alcohol, then  add  the other ingre-
dients, and shake all together.  Bathe the afflicted part with
 it often.
                PUTRID SORE THROAT.
   Take one gill  strong  cider vinegar,  one ounce  salt,  two
ounces honey, one drachm red pepper, boil them all together
in one-half pint strong  sage tea, and take a  tea-spoonful
every two hours till cured.                            _ 
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              FOR UTERINE COMMOTION.
  Make  a  syrup of mother of thyme, chamomile, mother-
wort, double tansy, catmint and pennyroyal, equal parts,?and
use it freely.
                CURE FOR SWELLINGS.

  Pound wormwood, red clover and dragon's  root,  well to-
gether, and mix it with a little sour cream.  Spread a plaster
and lay it on.   Seldom  fails.

                     FOR WARTS.
  Wash  the hands or warts in  strong sal soda water two or
three minutes ; let it dry on, and repeat it for two days.
           TO DRAW A FELLON TO A HEAD.
  Boil flax seed in new milk and stir in Indian meal.  Repeat
this poultice as often  as it gets cold, and it will draw it to a
head.
          FOR A FELLON WHEN ULCERATED.
  Roast an  onion till one ring comes off, and bind it on as
hot as you can bear it;  roast the remainder till another ring
comes off, apply it, and so on till the pain subsides, or till it
breaks.  You may hold your finger in skim milk and salt till
it boils.

                     FOR WARTS.
  Rub them with the juice of wild celendine frequently,  and
it will cure them. 
322                     RECIPES.
                      FOR SCALDS.
   Wet linen or cotton cloths with the oil of pumpkin seeds;
renew and apply the cloths  thus Avet every two hours.  It
has cured Avhen everything else has failed.   Or you may Avet
a cloth  Avith  India  molasses;  or you may Avet cloths  Avith
the Pain Extractor, which  will take out the fire and prevent
blistering.
        TO MAKE A STRENGTHENING PLASTER.
  Take white pine turpentine, rosin and beeswax, equal parts,
(say one ounce each,) one-half ounce mutton tallow and one-
fourth ounce camphor gum—simmer them together.

                       FOR PILES.
  Make a  tea of mullen  tops when in blossom and drink it
freely. Wet a rag with the tea and sprinkle on  pulverized
hemlock gum for a plaster.

                   FOR INDIGESTION.
  Take the inside skin of a pigeon, partridge or hen's gizzard,
pulverize it and take a tea-spoonful.  It will stop a disentery.

              FOR RATTLESNAKE'S BITE.
  Give a wine-glassful of the juice of hoarhound and plantain
as soon as possible, and  renew  the dose every hour.   If  the
herbs are dry, moisten them with water.   Lay on the wound
tobacco wet with rum.

                   BLOODY  URINE.
  Take balsam cut in alcohol, one spoonful, three times a day. 
RECIPEsJ.
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              FOR SORE LIPS OR MOUTH.
  Take gold-thread and meadoAv parsly, equal parts, make a
tea  of  it, put in  a little loaf sugar, and wash  the  lips  and
mouth  with it freely; or anoint your lips with rabbit's grease
a few times.  A  sprain has been cured by bathing with  rab-
bit's grease a few  times, and heating it in.  Or wet your finger
with fasting spittle, then rub it behind your ear, and rub your
lips with it; or wet a lump of saltpetre with your spittle and
rub your  lips with  it, when dry grease them  with mutton
tallow, follow this up  two or three days and it will cure; or
wash your lips with cold spring water  for  six or eight morn-
ings, and after that anoint them with opodeldock.
                         ANOTHER.
  Take bitter walnut  meets, pound and moisten them with
water, and rub the liquor on a few times.


                 FOR INWARD POISON.
  Drink a table-spoonful of ground mustard in a tumbler of
Avarm water, which will cause a vomit.
          FOR THE DYSENTERY WHEN HARD.
   Make  a tea  of sumac berries and  give  a table-spoonful
once an hour till cured;  or steep mare's tail  and simmer it in
milk—give it as you do  the sumac berry tea.

          FOR BROKEN BONES AND BRUISES.
   Boil beef brine and Roman wormwood half an hour, and
bathe the broken bone or wind it up with it every three hours. 
324
RECIPES.
                   FOR SALT RHEUM.
   Dissolve salts of tartar or pure pearlash in one-half pint
water,  mix it with one-half pint lime juice, and add four
ounces loaf sugar; take one-half wine-glassful morning and
evening, fasting. Or take bitter Aveed (called bistart),  make
a strong tea of it and put one-half pint rum to a quart of the
tea;  take a glass morning and evening.


           PLASTER FOR BROKEN BREASTS.
   Simmer the bark of bittersweet root in hog's lard, cream,
fresh butter or mutton tallow, and apply it to the part affected.
Dogwood  bark or  southernwood steeped in the same way is
good.
            TO DRAW A SORE TO A HEAD.
  Scabish and round-leaf mallows, equal parts, pounded and
simmered in  water until tender,  then stir in Indian meal.
Repeat this poultice, when dry, till the sore breaks.


              FOR POLYPUS'IN THE NOSE.
  Take one-half ounce  corrosive sublimate and one  ounce
tobacco  snuff.  Snuff it in the nose once a day for ten days,
if you wish to be cured.

                FOR  THE DYSENTERY
  Bum cobs and leach  the ashes, then boil the lye down  four
to one, so that it will keep, and give a  tea-spoonful  once an
hour a few times.   This will kill worms. 
                        RECIPES.                    '325

                  VEGETABLE ELIXIR.
  Take one-fourth pound pulverized gum myrrh, one-fourth
pound Cayenne, one ounce camphor gum, one ounce saltpetre
and one ounce salt, dissolved in one gill of cider vinegar;  put
the gums and Cayenne into one quart fourth  proof brandy,
shake them well together, let them stand one hour,  then add
the saltpetre, salt and vinegar.   One  table-spoonful will cure
a pain in the stomach or bowels.  If put on the head, wet a
cloth  of three or four thicknesses and lay on the crown of the
head  or back part, and snuff it up the nose.   Hold  some in
the mouth for the tooth-ache.  It will cure  swelled  joints,
strains, cramp, or any swelling, tetters,  warts  and  corns,  by
bathing the afflicted part with it.
                      FOR WORMS.
  Pulverized tansy and sage, mixed with molasses and given
to children, will prevent worms  and kill them; onions and
rue,jammed together and given, is good;  or pulverized pew-
ter, mixed Avith molasses and give a tea-spoonful  at  a time,
has cured  when  nothing  else would;  or double tansy juice
when green, mixed with rum and molasses; or spirits  of tansy
taken on sugar; or pulverized poplar bark mixed with molas-
ses, small doses every two hours.  Ten drops spirits of tansy
is a dose.
                   FOR DYSENTERY.
  Take six eggs,  six  ounces loaf sugar, three ounces gum
Arabic, pulverized, and stir them all together in three gills
brandy or gin.   Take one-sixth part  of it every two hours.
A child must have less.  If dry, drink balm tea.
             CC 
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RECIPES.
 FOR PALPITATION OF THE HEART, RHEUMATISM OR HIP
                    GOUT OR BACK.
   Make a strong tea  of  bog onion and take a Avine-glassful
 three times a day.   It will stop palpitation  of tJie haart and
 cure rheumatism.  You may add to every quart of the tea
 one-half pound sugar and one-half pint  brandy.   A plaster
 of Burgundy pitch and beeswax, one-half pound  each,  two
 ounces mutton talloAv and one-eighth ounce eagle  oil, make-.
 a good strengthening plaster.   Or take one ounce spirits tur-
pentine and two ounces honey, one tea-spoonful morning and
night.   Take a gentle physic: I prefer the Reformed Botanic
and Indian  Physic.  Rub the afflicted part with a brush  or
coarse cloth ;  wet your cloth or brush with a little liniment or
spirits turpentine.
                     FOR THE PILES.
   Symptoms—Itching in the hollow of the hands and  feet,
 and pricking in the mouth and lips ;  sAvelling and shortness
 of breath.  Put in one gallon of water two pounds angelica
 and two pounds rue, boil it Avell, strain, and put in one pound
 brown sugar;  then scald and cool it and put in one pint rum
 or alcohol.  Tako a wine-glassful three times a day till well.
 Or pulverize nutgall and mix them with hog's lard; put thi,
 ointment  up the rectum Avith a swab, once a day for two or
 three days.  Take the tincture of foxglove three or four days,
 say ten or .welve drops at a time; not known  to fail.   To
 make the tincture, put one-half pound of the roots or leaves
in one  quart of spirits and let it stand four days.

                 FOR CRACKED HANDS.
   Take oil of corn, rub it on and warm it in by the fire. 
RECIPES.
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             TO CURE VEGETABLE POISON.

  Take meadoAv fern, make a tea of it, wash  with it, and
drink the tea of either fern freely ; or wash with strong soap
suds as hot as you can bear it, for five or six mornings; or
boil  three ounces  plantain root and three ounces wild hoar-
hound in two quarts water, strain and add to it one-half ounce
saltpetre, and take a wine-glassful till gone.  For a drink, boil
six  ounces golden-rod in  two quarts water, and add, while
boiling, one ounce hoarhound and two ounces sassafras; after
strained, add one-half pint rum or brandy.  If any fever, take
a little saleratus and saltpetre water frequently.
                         ANOTHER.
  Make  a strong  tea of  lobelia and wash with it as soon as
possible.

                      FOR WORMS.           «
  Take one  ounce pulverized deer's  horn and mix it Avith
molasses or any other liquor; give  a table-spoonful twice  .1
day, morning and evening.

              TO MAKE ELIXIR OF VITRIOL.

  Take one quart spirits  of  Avine, six  ounces  oil  of vitriol,
drop the vitriol gradually into the  spirits  and let  it stand
corked tight  three days; then add one and One-half ounces
oil  of cinnamon  and  one ounce ginger, let it stand six days
and it is fit for use.

              FOR BILIOUS, OR ANY  COLIC.
  Make  a strong tea of white  maple bark, and take a tea-
spoonful every hour  till cured. 
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CURE FOR CANCERS.
   Spread a plaster as large  as a dollar of gum diachylon,
 sprinkle on it a scruple of corosive sublimate, pulverized, and
 so on in proportion to the  size of the plaster.   Apply this
 plaster forty-eight hours:  if it has not killed the cancer  keep
 it on longer.  AfterAvards apply a poultice of bread and  milk
 with sweet oil, Avhich must be shifted every four hours till the
 cancer comes out by the  roots.  The wound must be dressed
 with a salve made of  beeswax, white pine turpentine or bal-
 sam firr, castile soap and  mutton tallow, equal parts, melted
 together.   The patient must take a gentle physic every six or
 eight days.  I prefer giving  the Indian Physic.

            TO TAKE FILM FROM THE EYES.
   Rub on the eye, with a soft hair brush, the gall of  an  eel;
 or make a fash of one ounce lime, one-half ounce alum, two
 ounces  loaf sugar and one-half pint vinegar.   Put one drop
 m, and wash the temples and  lids with it morning and evening.

                   PILL FOR ASTHMA.
  Take  three ounces castile soap, two ounces gum ammoniac,
two  ounces dried  squills, called sea onion, one ounce  balsam
firr;  make into pills by rubbing all together/as big as  a small
pea.   Take one, three times a day; if they physic, hold up a
few days.

TO CURE A PERSON OF DRINKING, CHEWING OR SMOKING-
  Chew slippery elm bark freely and swallow  the juice of it •
follow it up and it will kill the thirst for smoking or chewing
tobacco, and for ardent  spirits. 
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              FOR COLIC OR DYSENTERY.

  Make a tea of rock brake root, called by some Indian dra-
ma, and take a Avine-glassful three times a day before eating;
or mix  the white of hens' dung, pulverized, with molasses,
and take a tea-spoonful every six hours; or the root of devil's-
bit, pulverized in molasses, one-half tea-spoonful at a time,.
three times a day.
           FOR SICKNESS AT THE STOMACH.
  Take a tea-spoonful of pulverized saffron blows in sugar, or
a tea made of saffron; also a tea made of hog weed is good
to settle the stomach.
      FOR SWELLED LIMBS ARISING FROM COLD.
  Dip salt  fish skins in warm water  and lay them on the
silled joints.- It will answer for  inflamed sores.  Take  a
gentle physic.

              FOR SCROFULOUS HUMORS.
  Make a strong tea of horse or wide leaf dock, and take a
wine-glassful three times a day before eating, for two or three
months ;  and anoint Avith bitter  walnut meats pulverized and
moistened Avith warm water.

           FOR HIP GOUT AND TOOTH-ACHE,
  Take one pint linseed  oil, one-half pound red lead,  one-
fourth pound white lead, one-fourth pound castile soap,  sim-
mer over a slow fire till mixed, in an earthen vessel.   Apply
it to the joint or jaw and under  the ear.
              CC2 
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          TO RECOVER A DROWNED PERSON.
  Handle the body carefully, and let  the head  and  mouth
hang down;  bathe it in salt and water as hot as you can bear
your hand in ; shut the nostrils and blow your breath forcibly
into the lungs till filled with air; press the bowels upwards,
repeat  the operation  several  times,  and  keep bathing with
salt and water.   Give warm injections, with  a little spirits
turpentine.  If signs of life, give a tea-spoonful of the Cordial
every half hour for two hours.
                    TIC DOLOREUX.
  Take two table-spoonfuls of the Reformed Botanic and In-
dian Physic every four Iiours till it operates thoroughly, then
take a tea-spoonful of the Cordial one-half hour before eating
for  two days.  After that  take the Health Bitters morning
and evening, and drink freely of a tea made of equal parts of
burdock, sarsaparilla roots aud balsam boughs.

         FOR PAIN IN THE STOMACH  OR SIDE.
  Take lovage,  cohosh, spignard,  horseradish,  Avakerobin,
coriander, peony roots, caraway  seeds, rue,  Avormwood, com-
frey, Solomon's seal roots and sweet apple  tree bark; steep
two ounces of each in two quarts West India rum, and take
or.e tea-spoonful three times a day before eating.
                  TO BREAK A FEVER.

  Steep one pound wild valerian roots in one quart of water,
not boil it, and take one-half gill every hour; if not  strong,
take one gill, and it will break the fever. 
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                 SORE MOUTH SYRUP.
  Take one ounce  sage, one ounce  gold-thread,  one ounce
hyssop, and  steep all together"  in one-half pint water ; then
strain, sweeten well with honey, and  add one-half ounce of
pulverized alum.

               TO MAKE CANKER SYRUP.
  Take one pound of  dried black  currants,  steep them well
in two quarts Avater, then strain, and  add two pounds loaf
sugar and one ounce pulverized alum.


                  .   COUGH  SYRUP.
  Take one  ounce lobelia seeds, one ounce  SAveet flag, four
ounces black cherry tree bark, one-half lb. burdock roots, one-
half ounce primrose flowers—boil them all together in two
quarts water, then strain, and  add one and a half pounds
honey, and bottle it tight for use.

               TO MAKE TOOTH POWDER.
  Take one pound prepared chalk, one-fourth pound cream
of tarter, one-fourth pound loaf sugar,  one-half ounce mag-
nesia, one-fourth ounce American  rheubarb—all pulverized
together.  You can drop in  the above tAventy drops of the
oil of wintergreen.

                        VERVINE,
   Opens obstructions and cleanses the blood.   It may be used
in jaundice, dropsy, gout, worms, lung complaints and gravel.
Mixed with  hog's lard cures the piles. 
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RECIPES.
                TO FASTEN THE TEETH.
   Chew the roots of brook  lime;  or  put one-half ounce of
alum in one quart of spring water, let it stand one day, then
strain it, and wash your mouth with it mornings; or pulver-
ize alum and charcoal  (equal  parts)  together, and  rub the
teeth and gums Avith it; reanse them  with water.

                  LUNG COMPLAINT.               '
   Take one pound black cherry tree bark and one ounce lo-
belia, steep well in one  quart  water  down  to  a pint, then
strain, and add one pint well worked  cider and  one pound
loaf  sugar.   Drink freely of it.
                   BATH LINIMENT.
   Take two ounces camphor gum, dissolve it in one pint  al-
cohol, and put in  one-half ounce oil  of origanum,  one-half
ounce oil of hemlock,  and one-half ounce  camphene ;  then
dissolve oue-half ounce alum, one-fourth ounce saltpetre, and
one-half ounce salt, in  one  gill  vinegar.  Mix all together
and shake them Avell.

     FOR A FAINT, HUNGRY, GNAWING STOMACH.
  Take hungry root, consumption or spignard root, poAvder
them together, and take a tea-spoonful at a  time, as you
think proper.

                 FOR THE PHTHISIC.
  Take a tea-spoonful of white oak acrons powdered in mo-
lasses, on going to bed.   Follow  it up  and  it will cure. 
RECIPES.
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    TO CUT THE FUR OFF THE TONGUE AND RAISEjAN
                         APPETITE.
     Take one pint of well worked cider, and add six ounces of
   loaf sugar,  one-fourth ounce  ginger, one  drachm baberry
   bark (pulverized), one-fourth ounce  black  cherry bark (pul-
   verized), and take one tea-spoonful  three  times a day.   In
   costive cases, leave out the baberry bark.  If you cannot get
   good cider, you can form the preparation of good cider vin-
*  egar,

                    VEGETABLE PHYSIC.
     Take four ounces  mandrake root, one  ounce blood root,
   four ounces burdock root, four ounces sweet elder  root, four
   ounces dwarf elder root, one-half ounce cloves,  and  one ounce
   ginger—boil well in two quarts water, strain, then boil down
   thick, and pill with rye flour.  Take one,  two or three at a
   time.

              TRUE WAY TO MAKE ESSENCES.
     Take ninety-five per cent, alcohol and put one-half ounce
   of any vegetable oil into one pint of the above[;proof alcohol.
   If  the oil does not mix well it will shoAv that  the alcohol is
   not good.

                        FOR A  FEVER.
     Drink  winter clover  (called by  some  squawberry) tea
   freely.

               SINEWS SHRUNK FROM A CUT.
     Rub it every morning Avith  fasting spittle. 
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RECIPES.
TO MAKE CURRANT, SWEET ELDER,  BLACKBERRY,  OR
                 ANY  OTHER JELLY.
   Squeeze out the juice of the  green  berries, and add one
pound of sugar to one pound of the syrup ; then  simmer it
down  till  it forms a jelly.
                  CAMPHORATED OIL
  Take one pint of SAveet oil, goose oil or lard oil, add two   *
ounces of pulverized camphor gum, and  simmer them over a
slow fire till all are mixed together.   It is  used for sprains,
bruises, or any sores.
                     LUNG SYRUP.

  Take one-half pound burdock root, one-half pound Amer-
ican sarsaparilla roots, one-fourth pound balsam boughs, steep
them in two quarts water down to one,  strain,  and add one
pound loaf  sugar.   Take one tea or table-spoonful three times
n day, before eating.  This folloAved up will cure any cough
or lung complaint
                        ANOTHER.
  Steep cuie pound of hemlock bark in one quart of water
thoroughly, then strain, SAveeten well with loaf sugar, and
drink freely. •
               FOR AGUE IN THE FACE.
  Pound spikenard root fine and simmer in new milk—stir in
wheat flour, and lay it on the afflicted part as a poultice.  Or
make a poultice of  wheat flour wet  with brandy, and lay it
on.   It has performed great cures. 
                         RECIPES.                    335

              TO CURE FITS OF  ANY KIND.

   Take equal parts of barberry bark, high cranberry bark,
 and spotted alder, (generally called black alder,) and dry and
 poAvder them together.  Take  a  tea-spoonful three times a
 day, fasting.   Then take one pound  galloAv root, put in two
 quarts  water, boil it down to a pint,  strain it, and put one
 pint molasses and one pint milk into it.  Take of this syrup
 a wine-glassful morning and evening, every other day. Take
 a tea-spoonful of spirits turpentine the  day you do not take
 the other medicine.   This never fails.


                     FOR SORE EYES.
   Take two ounces sweet apple tree bark, two ounces white
 maple bark, two ounces tag alder bark, and two ounces spruce
 buds, put them all together in  one pint of rain  water, and
 simmer it down to one-half pint;  then strain and  bottle  it,
 and add one-half drachm white vitriol  and one-half drachm
 sulphate of zinc.  Wash your  eyes at night as  you go  to
 bed.  This has cured the worst of sore eyes.


                      SMALL  POX.
   Drink freely of bread coffee,  and eat  mulled butter milk;
 or let your Avhole diet be bread and butter milk, sweetened;
 or bread and molasses, and  drink  milk and water ; or milk
 and apples, and take a wine-glassful of the Reformed Botanic
 and Indian Physic once  a week.  Take care to have pure
 cool air, but not too much.  If they strike in and convulsions
follow,  drink  a pint  of cold water immediately.   This in-
stantly stops the convulsions and drives out the pox. 
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RECIPE.-
                     SORE THROAT.
   Take a pint of cold water lying doAvn in bed ; or apply a
poultice of roasted figs to the throat;  or a flannel sprinkled
with spirits of hartshorn to the throat,  and  rub  Hungary
water on top of  the head ;  or drink a little  rose Avater and
syrup of mulberries ; or snuff a little honey up  the nose ; or
take one tea-spoonful three  times a day of bitter walnut meat
jelly made with  loaf sugar, and  eat  apples  and  drink the
water.
                  FOR  A SORE MOUTH,
   Apply the white of an  egg beat up with  loaf sugar; or
chew bitter walnut meats; or wash the mouth with the water
they are steeped in—sweeten with sugar ; or gargle with the
juice of five-finger; or boil together one  pound  of molasses
and the yolk of three eggs—add  one ounce  of bole  armo-
niac and one-half ounce alum—boil one-quarter  of an hour,
and apply this to the sore part or an  aching tooth.

                  TO CURE  THE PILES,.
   Jam up dead nettles and set on them ;  or drink a decoc-
tion of tormentile roots freely.
              TO MAKE  BATH POWDERS.
  Take two ounces fine salt, one-half ounce salaratus, one-
half ounce saltpetre, and pulverize all together.
          FOR THE STING OF A NETTLE.
Rub the part stung with the juice  of nettle. 
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                     FOR A COUGH.
  Take two ounces onions, two ounces anise seed, two ounces
garlics,  and  honey or  loaf  sugar;  boil  the  anise seed
and  garlics soft, and  strain them  through a cloth.  Then
add the honey, and add one pint gin to a quart of the syrup.
Take one-half wine-glassful  of the  syrup • when  you go to
bed.   Or steep yellow dock  and burdock,  equal  parts,  say
one pound, in one-half gallon water, add one pint gin,  and
sweeten it with molasses.  Take  one-half wine-glassful in
the morning and at noon.  Drink a  tea made of red clover
blows freely.
                         ANOTHER.
  Take one ounce  dragon root, one ounce  flax seed oil,  one
ounce neAV milk, and one ounce honey—mix all together,  and
take  one tea-spoonful  every  hour,  if the cough  is hard—if
not, every two hours.

                   SKIN RUBBED  OFF.
  Apply heal-all, (called  woundwort.)  It seldom fails.  Or
you may bathe it with the Pain Extractor.
               FOR A VENOMOUS STING
  Apply a poultice of plantain and honey ; or take inwardly
one drachm of black currant  leaves, powdered—it is  an ex-
cellent counter poison ; or you may  lay on a cloth  wet with
cold salt and Avater, with a little saltpetre dissolved in it.
        FOR THE STING OF A BEE.
y salt, saltpetre and  honey, stirred together.
       DD 
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RECIPES.
                   FOR RHEUMATISM.

   Drink the tea of garget root strong enough to physic you ;
or take a portion of the Indian  Physic; or  salts  and oil of
anise, (say twelve drops on sugar,) till you have a thorough
physic, then take wild black cherry tree bark, cider, and bur-
dock roots, steep the bark and roots (one pound each) in tAvo
quarts water, strong; make  the  tea  after steeped one-half
cider, and take a Avine-glassful three times a day, fasting.
                   CURE FOR CANCERS.

  Apply nitric acid to the edges of the cancer  with a gold
wire, and after several days, if the part becomes very much
inflamed, subside a feAv days.   Then apply  the acid till the
diseased part peals off.   The  cure is completed by  a  salve
made of equal parts of castile soap, beesAvax, mutton tallow
and turpentine, simmered together, and dress with it twice a
day.

                    SWELLED LEGS.
  Bathe every morning in cold water, and take a purge twice
a week;  or take wormwood, southern wood, rue, and honey,
equal parts, steep them together, and apply  them  hot  as a
poultice.
           FOR SICKNESS IN THE MORNING.

  Eat nothing after six  o'clock in  the  evening, take a tea-
spoonful of Health Bitters as you go to  bed, and one swallow
of cold water as  you rise in  the morning—fifteen minutes
after take one-half wine-glassful of  Health Bitters. 
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                        WORMS.
  Take blue flag root boiled in milk, sweeten with loaf sugar,
and to a grown person give two table-spoonfuls—to  a child
one.   Repeat the dose every two hours.   It is great to destroy
worms.
                         ANOTHER.
  Give your medicine about the second quarter of the moon.
Pour on to a piece of unslacked lime as big as a large hen's
egg, one quart of hot water, let it settle, then bottle the clear
part, and give one-half wine-glassful  three times a day.   It
is good in gravel complaints, and is used as  a  wash for foul
ulcers.
                FOR WHOOPING COUGH.
  Bind a piece of muskrat skin around the neck  for four or
five nights.
           FOR DYSENTERY AND DIARRHEA.
  Eat figs plentifully; or drink freely of a strong  tea made
of Canada  thistle roots ;  on boil sweet fern in new milk and
drink of it  freely.
                SALT RHEUM OR ITCH.
  Take one-half pint  spirits  turpentine, one pound fresh
butter, one-fourth pound Burgundy pitch, one ounce mutton
tallow, one ounce beeswax, and simmer them well together;
when cool, add one ounce pulverized red precipitate.   Rub
the afflicted part when going to bed, and follow it  up  for a
week.  Or simmer hog's lard and yellow dock together, anoint
all over, and drink freely of a tea made of the dock roet 
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RECIPES.
        TO DISSOLVE STONE IN THE BLADDER.

  Steep one pound golden-rod andrfour ounces honey bees in
two quarts water for two hours, strain and sweeten with four
ounces honey, and take a Avine-glassful every two hours; or
make a strong tea of horsemint and red  onions, equal parts,
and take a wine-glassful morning and evening, half an  hour
before eating.
                   HUNGARY EVIL.

  Steep equal parts wormwood, hemlock boughs, peppermint
elder flowers and pennyroyal all together,  and take half a
wine-glassful morning and night.  When a person has a cold,
or ague in the face, steam with  it.
                NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE.

  Take one' ounce white pine bark, one ounce hemlock, one
ounce barberry (bark of the root), one-half ounce sassafras
(bark of the root), one ounce black cherry tree bark, pulverize
all together, put them  in  two  quarts good French brandy,
shake well together and let it stand two days.   Take half a
wine-glassful in the morning and at noon, half an hour before
eating.
                   FOR KING'S EVIL.
  Take one-half pint brandy, two ounces beef gall, two ounces
spirits turpentine, one ounce camphor  gum,  put them  in  a
bottle and shake them together.   Rub the afflicted part with
it every two hours. 
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                TO CLEAN THE TEETH.
  Take bole Armenia, one pound, cream of tartar  and gum
Arabic, one ounce each, one ounce loaf sugar,  pulverize all
together and moisten with Avater; Avash out the mouth with
cold water, and apply the paste to the teeth and gums with a
brush, once or twice a day.  Or rub the teeth with powdered
red coral, and wash them with water which  has sal  prune!
dissolved in  it.
                PUTRID SORE THROAT.
  Steep one ounce hops in one pint spirits, apply a tunnel to
the lips, suck in the steam and swallow it.; put the  hops on
the outside of the throat as a poultice.  Or drop good brandy
on a lump of loaf sugar, as much as it will absorb, and hold
in the mouth till it dissolves; repeat it four or five times a
day for three or four days.

                    FOR OLD SORES.
  Take one-half ounce  copperas, one-half ounce white vitriol,
two ounces rock salt, three ounces mutton tallow, eight ounces
molasses, one pint urine, two ounces balsam, one ounce spirits
turpentine, one ounce oil of tar; simmer them over  a  slow
fire, and when cold, add one-half ounce oil of vitriol, stir well
together and dress the  sore with it.


                    FOR SORE LIPS.
  Wash them with a tea made of white oak bark; to every
gill add one-fourth ounce saltpetre and one-fourth ounce alum,
and anoint them with mutton tallow.
              DD2 
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RECIPES.
                   BONE OINTMENT.
  Take equal parts of Avormwood, chamomile, St. John's-wort,
henbane, nightshade,  plantain,  green  tobacco and  melilot,
simmer them in hog's lard or fresh butter, strain it and anoint
the afflicted part Avith  it two or three times a  day; or equal
parts mullen, chamomile, catmint, tansy,  burdock, may-weed,
pennyroyal, pepper, mint, assmart,  yarrov,  wormwood and
indigo  Aveed, simmer  all together in fresh butter, strain, and
use as you  do the first; or .take wormwood, elder bark or
elder buds  and  the  Avhite of hen dung, bruise and simmer
them gently  in hog's lard, strain  it  for use  and  anoint  the
afflicted part three times a day, Avarming it in.
                    FOR HYSTERICS.
   Make a strong tea  of motherwort, thoroughwort, and the
 bark  of poplar  root,  equal  parts,- sweeten it Avith molasses,
 and drink one gill of it  when the fit is coming on.

                FOR STIFFNESS IN JOINTS.
   Take white oak bark  and sweet apple tree bark, each four
 ounces, boil them in one quart Avater (down thick), and put
 in one-half goose oil.  Anoint the joints with  it warm.

                     FOR PIMPLES.
   Take a tea-spoonful of gum  guaiacum. and a tea-spoonful
 of wine vinegar; apply  it to the affected part.

             FOR STRAIN IN  THE STOMACH.

   Take white pine  turpentine, honey and sulphur, each four
ounces, make into pills, and take three every day, fasting. 
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                 FOR THE TAPE WORM.
  Boil four ounces of  the 6tems of pomegranate, four ounces
sage and one-half ounce alum in one quart sweet milk ; cool,
strain and add two ounces spirits turpentine, one pound sugar
and one pint brandy;  shake all well  together,  and take a
wine-glassful every hour for twelve hours;  then  take  three
spoonfuls  of the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic every
hour till it operates.   Or give one gill fourth  proof brandy
and one gill India molasses, and thirty minutes after give one
gill  of the Indian  Physic, Avait two hours  and give one gill
more of the Indian Physic, and so on until  it operates.

                   FOR THE JAUNDICE.
   Take stone soot (of the chimney), and poplar bark  ashes,
 two ounces each, put them in one pint cider  and take one-half
 wine-glassful for nine mornings, skipping every other three.
                     FOR ULCERS.
  Boil one  pound  Avalnut leaves  in  two quarts water and
wash the sore Avith it; and wet a cloth with the same and lay
it on.

           FOR BLEEDING AT THE STOMACH.
  Take a table-spoonful of chamomile tea every  ten minutes^
until the  bleeding stops.

                   FOR HOARSENESS.
  Make  a strong tea of horseradish and yellow dock roots,
sweetened with honey, and drink freely of it 
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RECIPES.
                  FOR AN INJECTION.
  Take three gills of strong thoroughwort tea, one gill  West
India molasses and  two  spoonfuls hog's lard, blood warm;
put it in a large  bladder, blow  the bladder full  of tobacco
smoke, put a quill or tube in  the neck  of  the  bladder, and
force  the smoke and tea up  the rectum.  Or put one gill
West India molasses  and one ounce fine salt  into  a  soluble
vessel, simmer  them together  till it is candy, grease your
hands Avith hog's lard, make a stick of it and  put it up the
rectum.  It Avill create pain, but it must be kept there five or
ten  minutes.
 FOR STRAINS, WRENCHES, OR  WEAKNESS INWARDLY.
  Make a strong tea of hog onion roots, strain, put in milk
and sugar, and drink it freely; or use buckhorn root  tea in
the sane way;  a poultice made of the roots and bound on  is
good for external applications—boil it in milk till  thick enough
for a poultice—boil both roots together.
          FOR INDIGESTION OR DYSENTERY.
  Take a spoonful of pulverized charcoal (of maple, birch or
alder) in the morning,  mix the coal  with  molasses;  if the
bowels are relaxative, make a tea of white oak bark and the
leaves of running blackberry bush.  Take half a wine-glassful
three times a day.

                   FOR A WHITLOW.
  Bind on the skin of hog's suet two or three times.   If the
whitlow breaks, bind it on till well. 
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               TO MAKE BILIOUS PILLS.
  Take twelve ounces pulverized Turkey rhubarb, four ounces
saltpetre, three ounces Epsom salts, twelve ounces castile soap,
four ounces syrup of buckthorn, one-half ounce oil  of anise
cut in alcohol, or  eight  ounces pulverized anise seed, eight
ounces gum  Arabic; mix them all well together, and if not
moist enough soften with molasses, and make them into pills
as big as a large pea; take one to four for a dose, and repeat
the dose  every four hours till  they operate.   Or take eight
ounces  pulverized gamboge, six  ounces aloes, four ounces
castile soap,  four  ounces  anise seed  pulverized, two ounces
saltpetre,  eight ounces Epsom salts,  two ounces mandrake
root, pulverize all together and moisten with  rectified  spirits
of wine, pill them as above, and take them in the same way.
TO HEAL FRESH WOUNDS OR SPRAINS IN THE STOMACH.
   Pound wormwood leaves, moisten them with alcohol  and
lay on sores, sprains, weak joints or wrenches in the stomach.
Steeped in spirits or water, is good to take inwardly.   Use it
freely for six or eight  days, or longer if necessary.

                   NERVE OINTMENT.
   Take equal parts of neat's foot oil, spirits turpentine, brandy,
oil of John's-wort and beef's gall, simmer  them well together,
anoint the afflicted part and bathe it in.

                 FOR THE TOOTH-ACHE.
   Take the powder of wild  celandine, put it on and  in the
tooth several times; it will cure the tooth, and catise it  to
drop out in a few days. 
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RECIPES.
                   BLOOD PURIFIER
  Take two  pounds burdock roots, one-half pound yellow
dock, one pound spikenard roots, one pound balsam boughs,
two ounces hops, and two  pounds  sarsaparilla—boil all  to-
gether in three gallons of water  for two  hours, strain, and
add to every gallon of the syrup eight pounds sugar, one pint
brandy,  and two ounces saltpetre.  Take  a table-spoonful
three times a day, before eating.
                   COUGH POWDERS.
  Take one and a half pounds loaf sugar,  one-fourth pound
saltpetre, one-fourth pound alum, two ounces salt, one-half
pound ginger, two ounces black pepper, one ounce wild tur-
nip, and one ounce sweet flag—pulverize  and mix them all
together, and then  add one-half ounce oil of anise.   What
will lie on the point of a knife is a dose.   Taken three  times
a day, fasting, will effect  any cough.

                  CURE FOR HUMORS.
  Make a strong tea of meadow fern (called bog bush) and
drink it freely with your  meals, seldom fails.  This bush gen-
erally grows around water, and is known by its golden  buds
or bur.
                FOR  WEAKLY PERSONS.
  Take one-half pound firr balsam  bark,  one-half pound
white pine bark, one  pound spignard root and  one-fourth
pound spruce gum, boil them thoroughly in one gallon water,
strain, add one pint molasses and one-half pint rum.   Take
a wine-glassful three times a day. 
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                   PAIN EXTRACTOR.
  Dissolve two ounces alum, two ounces salt, one ounce salt-
petre, in one quart vinegar; then  cut  two ounces camphor
gum  in  one pint of alcohol, in a separate  bottle ; then cut
one ounce oil origanum, one ounce camphene, one-half ounce
oil of hemlock, in one pint of alcohol.  Put all in one bottle,
shake well together, and it is fit for use.  It is good on cattle
by adding one-half ounce oil of spike.  For  head-ache, lay
on a cloth wet with this, of three or four thicknesses, on the
crown of the head, and bathe  the  temples.   It is celebrated
in cases of bruises, sprains,  head-ache,  catarrh, rheumatism,
neuralgia  pains, and for all  outward pains and aches.

                   HEALTH BITTERS.
  Take two pounds black cherry bark, one-half pound bal-
sam boughs, boil them two hours in  one and a half gallons
of water,  strain, and cool the tea; then add one gallon well
worked cider, eight pounds sugar, and cut one-half ounce oil
of anise and one-fourth ounce camphor gum in one pint alco-
hol.  Add, also, three ounces alum and one ounce saltpetre,
well pulverized.   Shake them all together,  and bottle it  for
use.  One to one and' a half tea-spoonfuls is a dose.

          SLUMBERING DROPS,  OR  CORDIAL.
  Take one pint Health Bitters, one-half pint best port  wine,
one-half pint raspberry Avine, put all  together, and add one
tea-spoonful of strong essence of wintergreen and one tea-
spoonful essence of anise.   Take one to  one  and a half tea-
spoonfuls  as you go to bed.   You may leave out the anise or
wintergreen,  as suits best. 
348                     RECIPES.
       REFORMED  BOTANIC AND  INDIAN PHYSIC.
        TO LAY A FOUNDATION FOR THE CUBE OF ALL DISEASES.
   Take three ounces Epsom  salts, three and a half ounces
 brown sugar, one-eighth ounce saltpetre, dissolve  them well
 in one gill hot Avater, then add one-half wine-glassful of good
 cider vinegar, one-half ounce elderberry jelly, and cut twelve
 drops oil of anise in one tea-spoonful of alcohol.  Take one-
 fourth, fifth or sixth part, as the stomach can bear, on going
 to  bed—and if it  does  not operate three  or four times
 thoroughly in eight hours, take another dose, and repeat the
 same every two  hours until it does operate three or four times
 thoroughly.   After that, take a  tea-spoonful  of  the Cordial
 one-half hour before eating, for a few days.

            HEALTH BITTERS AND CORDIAL.
   Take one pound black cherry bark, one-half  pound bur-
 dock roots, and one-fourth pound sarsaparilla—boil  them
 well in three quarts water to one and a half quarts;  dissolve
 in three pints good  cider, one ounce saltpetre, one ounce
 alum—cut one-fourth ounce camphor gum, one-fourth ounce
 oil of anise, in one pint  fourth-proof  brandy ; mix them  all
 together, and then  add  four  pounds  loaf sugar.   To make
 the Cordial, add  one-third good port Avjne.

             TO CURE  VEGETABLE  POISON.
  Rub the  afflicted part  with spirits turpentine—rub lightly;
or jam wild celandine and rub it  on; or white scabious, in
the same manner;  or wash with strong sweet fern freely.
   N. B.  Cold water can be drank freely in all the medical
operations of this  work, and vomiting should  be guarded
against, when giving the Physic, by taking small doses of the
Cordial, if symptoms of vomiting appear. 
RULES FOR  GIVING  MEDICINE.
Remarks on  the Rules  of taking Medicine, and the many
    failures in consequence of the neglect or non-attention to
     the rules laid down by experienced Physicians.
  Evert physician has his own mode and peculiarities in
treating diseases—some bleed, some vomit, some blister, some
cup, some sweat, some physic, some use leeches, and some  a
little of all.   But I, for one, standing alone like Elijah of old
against the four hundred Prophets of Baal—but, alas! my
case is still worse than the Prophet of old.  I feel as if I had
to stand against four hundred thousand,  as I differ in prac-
tice from them all.  I abandon the idea  of bleeding, vomit-
ing, cupping, leeching, or blistering.  My  mode of practice
is, in almost all cases of importance—I give a cathartic in
quantities small or large, as the  constitution or stomach of
the patient can bear, until :t operates powerfully enough to
remove the disease or the cause of it,  I generally prefer the
Indian Physic, which can be reduced with sugar and water
to suit any  stomach, without altering the  operation of it,  if
followed up properly from time to time.  A wine-glassful is
a dose for an adult.   It can be reduced one hundred per cent.
with sugar and water, and in  some cases a tea-spoonful is
enough.  It can be  given  to an infant one month, or one
hundred years old, without harm.  I immediately, after the
Physic operates three or four times, give  a  tea-spoonful of
the Cordial to an adult,  in  common cases,  and  sometimes
from three to four drops, varying to meet all stomachs.  This
           EE 
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RULES  for giving  medicine.
 preparation I generally give three times a day, a  short time
 before eating, for two or three days ;  after that I follow up
 the practice with Blood Purifier,  root syrups and poAvders of
 various kinds, to meet the  case, and many  times  outward
 bathings and baths, tepid and  cold.  Sometimes I  use the
 Bath Liniment clear,- sometimes in warm water, and at others
 in hot water, combined Avith Bath PoAvders—say  one ounce
 of Bath Powders to one table-spoonful of Bath Liniment, in
 one gallon of hot water.
   In chest difficulties I generally wet a cloth with Bath Lini-
 ment and warm water, equal parts, and lay  it on, and have
 the petient sleep with it on.  Sometimes I use the Pain Ex-
 tractor, clear,  in the same manner.  1 many  times follow  up
 these applications with a strengthening plaster : varying my
 Indian Physic sometimes  by mandrake  roots, pulverized—
 say to a common dose four grains, and sometimes, in  case of
 fever and ague and chill fever, I  add to a  dose  blood root,
 pulverized, two to four grains, which makes it still more pow-
 erful ; but in female cases, Avhere they are pregnant, it will
 not do to add blood root  or lobelia ;  although I  add some
 times, in cases of inflammation of the lungs, one  or two
 grains of lobelia, and in cases of  inflammation of the bowels
 I add six or eight grains of smartweed powders, and  in such
 cases I leave out the blood root and lobelia.
   Whenever disease is removed in any way, it is necessary
 to giA*e something to heal the  wound, of whatever  kind it
 may be.   I generally give Cordial first, but it requires judg-
 ment and experience  to give medicine  with safety, and a
 proper knowledge  of   man—physically  and  mentally—to
 know properly how to give medicine of any kind.   There are
 failures of effecting cures, many times, in consequence of the
carelessness of tho patient, even if the skill and medicine or- 
RULES  FOB GIVING MEDIOfNE.
351
dered by the physician would effect a cure ; and many times
when the patient is seemingly well and not aware of his own
weakness, will overdo or take cold, and  thereby overdo all
that has been done for him—and then  the doctor is blamed
and the patient discouraged—many times sinks down in des-
pair, and is thereby brought to  an untimely grave.  Others
are too poor to follow up enough,  even of proper medicine,
to effect a cure, and therefore a cure is not effected,  and still
remain sick.   There  are a certain class  of people  that are
too stingy and miser-like—that they had rather be  sick and
even die, than let their money go, even  if they knew they
would be cured if  they took the  medicine that would effect a
cure.   They will try to bargain with the doctor to cure or no
pay, and if they happen to fall in with any one foolish enough
to make  such a bargain Avith them, and they  get the medi-
cine, and get  cured or not, they  will not pay.  They will
want the doctor to wait three or six  months,  and  they will
expose and try themselves,  and if they ever fail or take cold,
then the doctor has not cured them,  and will  call him all  to
naught and swear  they  will not pay him; and if possible
will make a bargain with some other  doctor  of the like,  or
will get the medicine of him and promise  to  pay in a short
time—but, alas, that short time never comes—sick or well the
doctor is cheated out of his medicine, and  the libertine can
spend his money in  the grog-shop, or at  the  theatre,  and
houses  of ill  fame, and  at  last they die poor  wretches,
whether  they are poor or sick ;  for if they  are not born  of
water and of the Spirit, they are of all men the most miser-
able.   There are others that have to Avork for  a living and
cannot spend time to be cured,  as it is  necessary  that the
laws of Nature should be regarded.  There are others  that
will wait till to-morrow  or next  week,  when  it  is  too late; 
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RULES  FOR GIVING  MEDICINE.
 and although they are then willing to  employ  and pay the
 doctor, there is many times no help for them.  And there
 are others that will indulge in tight lacing and dressing, and
 thin dressing, and every fashionable, sinful amusement,  and
 spend their money for toys and trinkets of no value to them,
 rather than employ a doctor  when sick.  There  are others
 that are poor and plead so much honesty and promise so fair
 that the doctor will take unwearied pains and  effect a cure;
 and sometimes their friends, or the church to  which they be-
 long, will offer to pay  the doctor;  but miserable wretches
 they are—so proud, and poor, and dishonest, with all,  that
 they will stop their friends or the church to which they be-
 long, from paying it.  And if  the church should raise funds
 to pay it, they will, if possible, get hold of it and  whore or
 squander it away, and if taken to due by the doctor after
 they get well, will have the impudence  to  tell  him that he
 agreed to board and doctor them and wait* till they could pay
 him; and also  have their conscience so hell-hardened that
 they will tell him they had rather die than have his or her
 friends, or the society  to which they belong, pay their doctor's
 bill, and the doctor is  cheated out of his pay and treated with
 contempt by  them.  There  are  others that move in the
 highest circles of  life,  and are looking to somebody that can
 dress well, and live in large houses, and ride in fine carriages,
 and show large college diplomas.   To them  they will fly for
relief when sick.  The truth of the matter is, the doctor em-
ployed is a complete ignoramus, and knows little else but the
use of quick-silver  or quack-salver (from  which  the word
quack doctor originated)—ipecac,  tartar emetic, morphene,
quinine, or some preparations of silver or iron,  and is ignor-
ant of the simple  means provided for us by the God of  Na-
ture to effect cures, when we break Nature's  unerring laws,
which arise from the "Vegetable Kingdom. 
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353
   The patient lingers out  a miserable life of sickness, al-
though he wallows in wealth and affluence, and still continues
to support and patronize  those quacks  that say  they have
spent their younger days in college, and perhaps in houses of
ill fame,  and  indulged  in all  kinds  of licentiousness,  de-
bauchery, profane swearing,  and  all kinds  of sinful amuse-
ments, even to robbing water-mellon yards of their fruits like
Stephen Burroughs, who, after indulging in  all the vices that
man could hatch up, was just fit to preach to  the poor Pele-
mites  and  rob  them of their earnings.  But  he was at
last detected and imprisoned, and after all, most miraculously
escaping from prison,  became the most complicated counter-
feiter ever known.   And  in  consequence of so many coun-
terfeit doctors, many  of  the  good  class of community  are
carried to an untimely grave.
   You are therefore invited, one and all, to  forsake all those
foolish habits and shun those fraudulent  patent medicines
and counterfeit quack physicians, and study  your own selves^
both mentally and physically, and look into  and inform your-
selves more  of physiology, and bottany, and the medical  use
of the various roots, plants and  flowers which   our  Great
Creator has  surrounded us with for  our  relief  or  cure  when
sick, or when  we have broken Nature's unerring laws.
   But the doctor, though he may be ever so skillful, is  many
times blamed in  consequence  of the neglect or carelessness of
the patient.   But it is certain that all those great, big-look-
ing, ignorant doctors,  will at last have  to render a strict ac-
count for their conduct here, and the innocent  will  at last be
welcomed and called good and faithful servants, and become
rulers over many things,  and have  a seat at  the right-hand
of the great I Am.
              EE2 
354           RULES FOR GIVING  MEDICINE.
    In all my researches to  investigate the fraudulent patent
 medicines, and the frauds  and malpractice of the allopathy,
 homoeopathy, botanic, Thompsonian, eclectic, galvanic, clair-
 voyant quacks and quack-salver doctors,  I have at last  dis-
 covered that  most  of all  of the  great Eye Doctors,  so
 called,  is  practicing  the  greatest frauds on  the commu-
 nity of any  of all the other  orders  of  doctors.  It  appears
 that  he  possesses   the   subtility  of  a serpent  and  the
 power of attraction of a load-stone in the form  of a genius,
 and  the  strength of  a  three-fold  cord.   He flatters  his
 patients in the outset till he gets his spider-web around them,
 or his wan over them, so strong that he  holds them in bond-
 age, many  times for years,  without  the  least shadow of  re-
 lease, using nitrate of silver,  caustics, ashes  of the peth of
 sweet elder, hog's  lard, and many  other  poisonous  drugs, in
 the eye, without cleansing the stomach and bowels, and puri-
 fying and healing  the blood,  which is  of the utmost import-
 ance to heal all diseases.   And if one of  his patients gets out
 of patience and leaves him a  few days, and  calls on some
 other physician, after  being with him for months and years
 —from  four to twenty times  longer  than necessary for an v
 physician to cure them—he will send out some of  his slaves
 and spy them out, leave all  other business,  matters not of
 how much  importance, and follow slyly after  them  like a
 panther or wild cat, and  will pounce upon them,  even if it
 happens to be a poor  orphan  child—will  gnash  on them if
 he finds he cannot coax them, and  if he  can't catch his prey
 who has escaped from bondage, he will pounce  on the lady
 or gentleman, or any one that has helped the poor victim out
of his lion-like clutches, and if he cannot overcome them by
flattery or guile without money or  bribery, for itappears that
money » Lis god, like the silver  shrines that  the draftsman 
RULES  FOR GIVING MEDICINE.
355
made for the great goddess Diana of the Ephesians, he will
then pounce upon them,  and  abuse and  trample on  them,.
and thereby show his cloven foot.   And  of all the doctors
that I ever was acquainted  with, the great  quack-salver or
nitrate of silver eye  doctors practice the greatest fraud and
uses the most subtility and deception of any  other doctors I
ever knew.  Therefore I say [to all that are well-wishers to
themselves, by all the sacred ties that bind us  together,  and
by all the sweets of  life, and by the awful  consequences of
delay, to fly, fly from the monsters, and take hold of the sim-
ple means provided for you by the  God of Nature,  that will
help  your  eyes,  and  in  a  few  months   heal  them and
be restored  to  health,  and  rescued from  blindness,  and
be saved at last.  For the eye is one of the  most tender  or-
gans of  any one  of the human body, therefore it  is best to
keep at  a proper distance from the quack-salver,  nitrate of
silver, or any  other  silver  eye doctors. 
 
REMARKS  ON  CONSUMPTION.
A few remarks on the various causes of Consumption, effected
     by fashion and fraud.
  The form and fashion of the hollow-backed chair and sofa,
bowing the spine and thereby infringing on the lungs in such
a way as to prevent them from inhaling sufficient air to sup-
ply the wants of nature;  in short, all seats should be so con-
structed as to keep the  spine and chest straight, so as to give
the lungs full scope and quantity of air, that the blood  is
properly  changed  from veinoiis to  arterial blood.  Thick
feather-beds, bolsters and pollows are very injurious to health;
hard level beds of clean splints, husks or straw are the most
healthy.   Dust in  cars, stages, and work-shops of  all  kinds,
is  very  injurious to the  lungs  and  health.   Second-hand
clothing  and boots sold  in  our large cities and towns are
dangerous to wear; for the greatest  part of them  are those
worn by sick and diseased persons, and the  seeds of disease
and  poisonous matter  hang  about them, and they spread
poison, fire-brands  and death through the  country.  Small
pox and venereal diseases of all kinds cannot  be well eradi-
cated from them.  The seeds of those diseases many times
adhere even to paper money handled by diseased persons, so
that it has been caught by the handling of it; and even sleep-
ing in beds, or sitting on the seats of the privy, has many times
caused such powerful vaccination as to lead to  consumption.
Cold taken with measles ought to be guarded  against;  and
poisonous gases ought to be avoided.   Frowy butter and lard 
358
REMARKS ON  CONSUMPTION.
 ought also to be avoided ;  they, with all other damaged pro-
 visions, cause dyspeptical and bilious complaints Avith costive-
 ness, which sow the seeds of almost all  diseases;  we  ought,
 therefore, to be careful that our food and drink should  be of
 the purest kind.  Throat diseases often produce consumption
 and catarrh, causing sore  throat, and many times destroying
 the organs of speech.  The fumes arising from India rubber,
 paint mineral  and  vegetable drug manufactories  and type
 foundries, and setting type, are attended with  deleterious and
 bad effects on the lungs of any human being, and are powerful
 agents in shortening life.   And the vast amount of adulterated
 liquors, mineral drugs and vegetable  medicines handed out
 and improperly used, often  and invariably cause  premature
 death.  Most of  the candies  sold,  are more or less tinctured
 with  poison.  Adulterated flour, coffee, pepper, and spices of
 all  kinds, bakers' bread, cakes and pies, are more or less
 tinctured Avith poison or made of damaged materials.   And
 the vast amount of adulterated and diseased  milk sold and
 used  in our  large cities and towns, all tend to consumption,
 sickness and death.   In short, it would be well for the rising
generation and generations yet unborn, if there could  be a
thorough retrenchment and reform in all the habits of life in
every respect, not only in  manners, dress, living and habits
of all kinds—not only in body, but in mind ;—for  if wo look
with uneclipsed eyes, Ave find that the heart of man is deceit
ful, and above all  things, desperately wicked. 
REFLECTIONS.
  The author of this work, after half a century of assiduous
study upon the noblest work of God,—the being called man,
and of his noble parts, and the many and various diseases
he is afflicted with by reason of the fall and disobedience of
the noble pair which God created immediately after the crea-
tion of the planetary system,—the author's mind is carried
back  to the time when this planet was  a fluid,  dark and
shapeless  mass  of matter; but it did  not  remain so long.
The first thing done by its Creator was to create light, which
disrobed the darkness which the earth then was in ; and soon
the dry land appeared, covered  with youthful  vegetation
sufficient to satisfy the wants  of the  various and  numerous
animals, quadrupeds  and insects  that were placed upon it.
The fountain  of water was replenished with the finny kind.
The air teemed with the feathered tribes, and insects of all
sizes, shapes and descriptions.  But after  all created  things
Avere formed, man was yet in chaos; but he was after created,
the'crowning work of the whole of God's creation,—like the
golden ball on the spire of  a  church.  But as yet man was
alone; and to make  a helpmeet, called  woman, man  was
thrown by his great Creator into  a profound slumber,—not
with opium, morphine, chloroform, psychology, mesmerism,
magnetism, or any  kind  of isms which  apostate man, the
devil and his imps in human shape have hatched  up  to de-
rive,—but the sleep was caused by the  omnipotent power
of God, that raised and brought man from the dust of the 
360                   REFLECTIONS.
 earth;  and all  created things still remain and  will remain
 down to the  latest  ages  of time, to be in existence for the
 comfort, health and weltare of man, while in this probationary
 state.
   It appears that the disease called dyspepsia has  for ages
 staggered  and outrid  the skill  of all  orders of  physicians;
 even the cold-water treatment has failed of effecting  a cure of
 that fatal disease, whose poisonous fangs strike at  and corrupt
 the  fountain of life—the  stomach.  But  thank Heaven and
 give God the glory, that awful disease  has been and can be
 cured.  Cleanse the fountain and the stream flowing from it
 will  be pure, and that direful disease must give away.   And
 the day is  dawning  over  the  entire world, when  every phy-
 sician, if he please, may be master of it, and every lady and
 gentlemau, be  their own physician; and will teach their pos-
 terity how  to use the simple  means that the God of nature
has provided for them, and  Heaven will resound with the
praise to God. 
TREATISE
OH FAIRRIEY, AGRICULTURE, COOKERY, AND PRESERVING MEAT3, PRBPARXNO
       SMALL BBER, AND UNINTOXICATING WINKS. ALSO. TtEMARKS
              ON HUNTING, FISHING. CAtCHING GAMK
                          be. 4e.
              MARKS OF A GOOD HORSE.
  See that he has good feet and joints, and stands well on
his legs, and that his under jaw and teeth shut well together ;
fine  hair, bright hazle eyes,  stands  wide on the fore  legs,
straight knees, stiff dock, heavy  main and  tail, short back,
full breast and stifle, round, close built, full in  the loin3, low
built, short jointed, flat leg, good speed,  large, full, high,
bowing, neck, mild and gentle, are all marks  of a good,
strong-constitutioned horse; broke well makes them pleasant
and puts on  the  polish.  To  detect the age, young horses
have wide, white,  even  teeth, fleshy  mouth,  lips hard and
firm; while  old  horses  have lean mouth,  long teeth, soft
lips easy turned up, and teeth yellow.


                   FOR RING-WORMS.

  Take tobacco  ashes,  wet  with  vinegar,  apply it,  and it
will cure them.

  TO DRIVE OUT WORMS FBOM WOUNDS, AND KEEP
                       THEM  OUT.
  Steep elder bark in fresh butter, put it on or in the  wound,
and it will drive them out, and keep them from getting in.
              FF 
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KSCIl'SS.
                FOR IlKAVES IN HORSES.
    Make a strong tea of balsam firr boughs or bark aud black
 cherry tree bark, soak your oats in it,  and feed  your horses
 with the oats for one week.  Or take  four ounces of opium,
 three ounces sulphur, four ounces ginger and four ounces salt-
 petre, pulverize, moisten  with molasses, and make it into pills
 as  large as a robin's egg.   Give one pill, and in three days
 after give one more.  After that, give  one  ounce  a Aveek for
 four or five  Aveeks, or till  gone,  or the horse is cured.   Or
 take one and a half pounds ginger for a  horse, and give him
 one table-spoonful mixed with Avheat bran, at night, and one
 in  the morning.  It seldom fails.  Or  dissolve  one-fourth
 ounce  asafcetida and put it in  his provender a number of
 times.   Or take hornet's  nests, comb and all,  and pick  it  to
 pieces, and mix it with his provender;  immediately after give
 him some boiled potatoes.   You may boil the nest and mix
 it—the horse will eat it better.   Or tie leaves of tobacco on
 the bits, and give one and a half pounds ginger in the follow-
 ing manner:  one table-spoonful at night  and  one in the
 morning.  Or mix one pound ginger, one-half pound sulphur,
 and two ounces pulverized saltpetre well  together, and give
two ounces in provender at night;  give him  cut  straw and
Indian meal; moisten his hay and see  that it  is not musty.
                  WORMS IN HORSES.
  Sweeten one quart of milk with honey, and give it to the
horse; then powder one-half ounce aloes, and  give it  in a
strong decoction of savine boughs.  If they  have  not eaten
through it will effect a cure.   Give them a little  tobacco cut
fine in their provender.  It will carry  them off,  and  prevent
botts and worms from gathering. 
RECIPES.
363
        TO MAKE HOGS GROW AND FAT WELL.
  Never wean your pigs till six weeks or three months old ;
feed them only'tAvice a day, as nigh  twelve  hours apart as
possible; give them  their regular  allowance, and no more
than they will eat up clean ; give a hog weighing 50 lbs. two
ounces sulphur in sweet milk and Indian meal fall and spring;
keep them in summer in a grass yard, well rung, where they
can get water ; keep their pen clean, and in winter give them a
warm pen and a clean, dry nest;  never keep  more than four
in one pen.  I have tried it for twenty-five years, and with
great success.   I have raised the Aveight of a hog one and a
half to two and a half pounds  a  day  for one hundred and
fifty to two hundred days successively.
      FOR CORNS OR WARTS ON MAN OR BEAST.

  Take tobacco moistened with  vinegar, and  lay on a few
times, will cure them ; or mash  scoke berries and lay on  a
few times.

             TO KILL WORMS ON CATTLE.

  Curry them well in  the fall; chop savine small aud mix  it
with fresh butter ; give them a small ball or tAvo of it.   Also
sweetwort and black soap mixed together as a drink, destroys
all sorts of worms in cattle or on them.
           TO  CURE THE BLIND STAGGERS.

  Split the skin from the top of the head to the eyes, rip up
the skin, and put  in  fine salt ; or  pour cold  Avater on  the
head every five  minutes. 
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EECII'ES.
FOR BOTTS IN HORSES.
    Take poplar and white ash bark, pulverize, and put them
 in their provender, one ounce at a time.  Or boil one pound
 hemlock boughs in two  quarts  water,  strain it and put it
 with one quart rye, one pint molasses,  and one ounce alum ;
 boil them together, and give the  horse  as it is, or in proven-
 der.   Or take one-half pint flax seed oil, one-half pint sweet
 milk, one-half pint molasses, one ounce  pulverized alum, one-
 half ounce pulverized saltpetre—put them  all together,  and
 give it to the horse.  Or take two ounces savine boughs, cut
 fine, and give it in the provender.   Or give one pint of strong
 tea of dogwood.  Or take one-half gill  spirits turpentine,
 one-half pint rum, one-half  pint milk, one-half pint molasses,
 one large charge of  gunpowder, one-half ounce alum—all
 mixed together and given at once.   This is to be clone in ex-
 treme cases.  Rub the horse's breast and chops  before you
 give the dose, with spirits turpentiue.   Take two ounces  of
 alum and two ounces  of  dry hen  dung, pulverized, and put
 in one pint of spirits,  or any kind of liquid.   It gives imme-
 diate relief.   Or give one quart of fresh  blood, warm from a
 beef creature.  If the horse is troubled  with botts there will
 be bunches on the inside of the upper  lip ; rub them with
 salt till they bleed ;  then give  your  horse potatoes  and flax
 seed oil freely for a day or two.  Or give two  ounces  of un-
 slacked lime in their water or feed night and morning regu-
larly, for three or four days.   Or take one-half pint  of new
milk, one-half pint molasses,  tAvo ounces common salt, one
ounce copperas, one-half pint warm  Avater, put all together,
and give it all at once.  Do this two or  three times.

              FOR STAGGERS IN  HORSES.
  Give one pint of rum mixed with  one  ounce of  powder. 
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                        RECIPES.                     365

               GREEN HORSE OINTMENT.
  Take one ounce rosin, one ounce beeswax, one-half pound
hog's lard, one ounce honey, one-half pound turpentine, and
melt them all gently together; then add  one ounce pulver-
ized verdigreese, and simmer it slowly, but not boil it  This
oiutment will heal all manner  of chafes, bruises or sores, if
rubbed on every day, and made to  penetrate to the bottom.
It will draw out splinters, nails, thorns,  and grav*el.  It will
keep flies and maggots from sores.   Copperas water is good
to wash with before you use the green ointment.  To make
the copperas water,  take one-half pound copperas, four ounces
salt, two ounces honey, one ounce rosemary,  boil all in two
quarts water, and add, when boiling,  one  ounce alum.   Put
it in a glass bottle, and cork it tight.   This  water will  cure
any sore.

              FOR HORN AIL IN CATTLE.
 • Bore the horns underneath  and put a table-spoonful of tur-
pentine  on the head, just back of their horns ; keep the hole
open for a week.  If bad, put bread in their mouth, and pour
down them a pint of whiskey, mixed  with  one pint of mo-
lasses.
                FOR A FRESH STRAIN.
  Take one pint of Avhite wine and one pound of fresh but-
ter, simmer together, thicken with wheat  or rye bran, and
put it on as hot as possible.

              CRACK  IN A HORSE'S HOOF.
  Bore a hole at the upper end of the crack with a gimblet.
              FF2 
360                    RECirES.
FOR BLOOD OR WIND  SPAVIN IN THE GAMBREL JOINT.
  Open the swelled part carefully  and squeeze out the blood;
simmer one  ounce of alum  in one pint of chamber-lye—
syringe out the blood  well Avith it, and  bathe it outwardly
(hot) Avith it.  You may have to use the syringe two or three
times.   Or take one-half pint of tanner's oil and one gill of
spirits turpentine, and shake  them w.-dl together when you
use it.   Bathe Avith this  once a day  till  the  bunch is  gone.
Then make a strong tea  of white oak bark and alum wash,
(one ounce alum to a pint.)  Wash the wound with it  twice
a day, and anoint it Avith dog's grease or mutton  tallow and
sweet cream.

       FOR CATTLE  THAT CANNOT MAKE  WATER.
  Take one pound of cardus and steep it in white Avine over
night, strain  it, and give  to your beast.   It will  force urine
and increase the appetite.  Or take one-fourth pound  anise
seed, one-fourth pound cumin seed, one-fourth pound parsley
seed, one-half  pound pumpkin seed, two ounces dwarf  elder
berries, steep them all together in  two quarts  Avater, and give
a pint of it every twelve hours.
       FOR THE THROAT DISTEMPER IN HORSES.
 . Take devil's-bit or wild turnip one spoonful, made fine, and
mix it Avith wheat bran.   Give this dose  repeatedly to your
horses.  It has never been knoAvn  to fail.
       TO BRING DOWN SWELLINGS ON HORSES.

  Boil sorrel in "chamber-lye,  rub with a  wbolen rag when
hot, and dry it in with a hot brick.  Do  it twice a day. 
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   FOR A HORSE FOUNDERED BY DRINKING WATER.
  Give immediately one-half pint  of strong camphor ; if of
a few days' standing, repeat the  dose  three or four times.
Add to it  one-half ounce  pulverized saltpetre.  Then take
one pound salts, three-fourths of an  ounce nitre, one and a
half gills elderberry syrup, three gills vinegar, one-half pint
molasses, one-fourth ounce oil of anise  cut in alcohol, shake
all together, and turn it down ;  immediately after give one
pint of sweet milk.  Have them stand  knee deep  in water
one or two hours every day, and grease their hoofs  and legs
with the Pain Extractor—when dry, grease them with mut-
ton tallow.  Wash them once a  day  with soap  suds and
chamber-lye.   Follow this up six or eight days.   Exercise a
little.  This" will effect a permanent cure.
                  FOR SOFT  SPAVINS.
  Take three ounces hog's fat, one pound poke root, and one
ounce  spirits  turpentine, simmer  them all together over a
moderate fire, and put on a table-spoonful every day, and rub
it in.
                  TO CURE A SPAVIN.
  Take one ounce oil origanum, one  ounce oil of spike, one
ounce camphor gum, one ounce spirits turpentine, all  cut  to-
gether in one and a half  pints of alcohol, and dissolve two
ounces alum in one-half pint vinegar.  Bathe lightly with it
twice a day.   The above will cure ankle sprains.  If a blood
spavin, let out the blood  and matter, and syringe it out with
warm chamber-lye and alum, (one-fourth  ounce to a gill,)
well simmered together. 
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RECIPES.
            FOR POLE EVIL, OR THISTELOW.
   Make a strong decoction of SAveet  flag roots,  and syringe
 out the wound Avell with it twice a day  till cured.  Or take
 one-half ounce corrosive sublimate, one ounce potash, pulver-
 ize them  together—make  a  probe of whalebone or tough
 hickory, Avind the end with ravelled  silk, moisten it, role it
 in the powder, and run  it down the tube.  Be sure and get
 some of the powder to the bottom  of the  pipe.  Probe it
 and put in the powder till you can pull out the pipe.  Then
 put in one table-spoonful of spirits turpentine,  and Avash it
 out with castile soap suds a few times.  Then Avash  once a
 day with the Pain Extractor.

            FOR WIND AND BLOOD SPAVINS.
   Bleed the horse in  the leg below the gambrel joint;  then
 boil salt, let it cool, and take one-half pint of the scum, one-
 fourth pound tobacco, and  one-fourth pound southern wood,
 and boil them together  in  one quart of Avater.  Wash the
 joint  with it four or five times a day.  They  have been cured
 in three weeks.  You must put it on hot, but not to scald.

          FOR  THE POLE EVIL, OR  THISTELOW.
   Drop in the  pipe a few drops of the oil of vitriol, and re-
 peat it till you  can pull out the pipe.   Be careful  and get it
 all out  Then  wash it with cold water once a day, and anoint
 it with the Pain Extractor, once a day.  After  ten minutes,
 anoint it with an ointment made of two ounces of sweet  el-
der bark steeped in one pint of sweet  cream, with two ounces
of white pine  bark  and one-half ounce of alum.  Follow
this up and it will effect a cure. 
RECIPES.
369
          TO CURE BONE SPAVIN ON HORSES.
  Dissolve blue vitriol  in  oil of spike, and rub the spavin
with it twenty days.   Or  wash the spavin  well with  soap
suds, and put one cent's worth of corrosive sublimate in two
spoonfuls of vinegar.   Rub the afflicted part with it a few
times, and oil it with eel oil.  Or put one ounce of saltpetre
in one quart of alcohol, cork it up tight, and rub it on and
bathe it in every night.  When first  put  on it causes more
lameness.   Don't  use the horse  much.   Or  simmer one
pound of poke root in one pound of hog's  lard or fresh  but-
ter, strain,  and  add  one-half pint white  pine  turpentine.
Put it on one or two days.  Be  careful and  not affect the
cords.   After that make a tea of white oak bark, put in one
ounce alum to a pint, and  wash with it five  or ten minutes,
for two  or three days.  After that, put on your plaster again
for a day or two, and then wash as above—and so continue
till cured.
TREATMENT OF MARES, AND HOW TO HAVE THEM HAVE
      HORSE COLTS, AND IMPROVE YOUR STOCK.
  Put to a sound, well-built, strong-constitutioned horse, and
take your mare early in the morning to the horse, and throw
on a pail of water as soon as she is covered.   Use her care-
fully, and keep her from the smell of fresh blood.  Milk her
before the colt sucks.  If you want a horse  colt, put your
mare Avhen the sign is in the head, neck, arms, breast or heart;
if the wind is west or north when your have your mare cov-
ered it never fails—west wind is best.  If you put your mare
when the sign is below the heart, she will have a mare colt.
If your mare has conceived,  she will have  a good stomach
and be contented. 
370
RECIPES.
            INFALLIBLE CURE FOR RING-BONE.

   Take two pieces of round lead, three-fourths of an inch in
 diameter and long  enough  to  go around the horse's ankle,
 and bind it on tight above the ring-bone  on the upper part.
 It is best to make your loop  in two parts; it can be made to
 fit better, and can be tightened with a leather string or strap.
 Make regular loops and holes in your leather straps, Avhich
 will enable you to fasten it on easier and  better.   You  must
 have your loop around  before.  Anoint the ring-bone and
 hoof two .or  three times a day Avith tanners' oil.  You must
 not use the horse while you have the lead  on.  You may
 have to keep the lead on six  months.  If the lead makes the
 hoof sore, anoint it with mutton tallow.  Or cut into the heel
 after the fetter-lock, up and down, pull  out the bladder, anoint
 or bathe the ankle with the Pain Extractor, wash it frequently
 with chamber-lye and alum simmered together hot, and grease
 the hoof with  dog's  grease.   Or take two ounces spitits tur-
 pentine, six ounces tanners' oil and one ounce  oil of vitriol,
 mix them together in an open glass jar, rub on  a table-spoon-
 ful every other day, dry the medicine in with a hot brick, and
 every other day rub Avith soap; keep the hoof dry and grease
 it with dog's grease.  Make  a boot for the horse's foot, tie it
 above  the hoof and fill the boot around the ring-bone with
 new-burnt lime of oyster shells.  Place  the horse's foot in u
 tub  of water  or in  a pond for four or five hours, repeat this
 five days, aud after that poultice the foot with  a turnip poul-
 tice for four or five days.  Observe  to chafe the part before
you apply the poultice.   After apply a plaster  of white pine
turpentine for two or three weeks ; or wash twice a day with
a hot  strong  assmart tea, and wet a cloth with it and lay it
on till well. 
RECIPES.
371
           TO CURE RING-BONES ON HORSES.

  Cut the ring-bone in two three or*four times, wash it with
the Pain Extractor and anoint with dog's grease; or dissolve
blue vitriol in oil of spike, rub it without cutting, and  grease
it  with eel oil; or  bathe it with tanners' oil fifteen minutes
with  a hot shovel,  do this once a day for three weeks, then
bathe it with sweet oil as above.  Take one-half ounce oil of
spike and one-half ounce  aqua-fortis, mix the two together,
droping  in the  oil of vitriol drop by drop until the phial is
quite warm, but not  to blaze; cast the  horse  and cut from
the knape of the fetter-lock joint, skin deep about two  inches,
and if a ring-bone, you will find a small cord running round
the ankle very close, draw that with nippers  as fast as  you
can and  cut it off both ways; put on the above liquor and
let it remain two hours; then apply the  ©il of angle-worms
all around the  foot  and  in the sore, twice a day until well.
Or when it first comes, anoint it with cusk oil two  or three
times  a day;  or  take toads, split them open and bind them
on the ankle tight, fasten them on and turn the horse  out till
he gets well; or bind on  stink-weed in the  same manner.
Take one pint tanners' oil,  one pint spirits turpentine, two
ounces verdigris, dissolved in  one-half pint vinegar, and two
ounces oil of spike; mix them all together, and once in two
days anoint the ring-bone with a  spoonful and bathe it  in
with a hot iron till the ring-bone  is  eaten away; afterwards
rub it with mutton tallow till well.


   FOR  A HARD SINEW SPRAIN, THOUGH PAST CURE.

   Take shoemaker's thread, melt the grease of it and rub it
in hot with your hand—heat it in with a hot iron. 
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RBCIl'M.
     FOR THE YELLOWS OR JAUNDICE IN HORSES.

   Steep celandine and black cherry bark, one pound each,
 strong, and mix  it  one-half cider ;  add to it one ounce salt-
 petre to one gallon  of the syrup; give the horse one pint at
 a time, morning and evening.  You may put to every gallon
 two pounds sugar and one ounce orl of anise  cut in one quart
 alcohol.  Before you give him the syrup, give him one pound
 Epsom salts and three ounces elderberry  syrup; or  dissolve
 it in one pint vinegar, and cut one-fourth ounce  oil of anise
 in one  gill alcohol, and -add one-half pint molasses; put all
 together, shake it well, and give the horse one-half  at  night
 and the other in the morning.  After that give one pint of
 the  cherry bark syrup in the morning and one pint  at night
 for  twelve or fourteen days.


               OVERFLOW  OF THE GALL.
  Steep black cherry tree bark in cider, strong, and give yotrr
beast one pint a day for ten or twelve days.


       TO CURE THE CRICK IN A  HORSE'S BACK
  Bathe with good brandy tinctured with alum.


       TO WEAN CALVES, COLTS,  OR CHILDREN.
  Wean them when  the sign'is in the feet.


             TO CURE SWINE OF SCURVY.
  Wash them well with soap  suds and grease them. 
RECIPES.
373
                PULSATION OF A HORSE.
  In a healthy horse, the pulsation is about thirty-six to forty
times a minute, and may be felt distinctly on the left side, or
in the artery which lies over the lower jaw bone.  When the
pulse arises to eighty or one hundred times a minute, there
is but little help.

           TO HAVE YOUR SOWS PREGNANT.
  Give them eight or ten ears of roasted corn.

                 FOR  THE GLANDERS.
  Take one-half ounce  flour benzoin, one-half ounce nitrus
ether, one ounce spirits of  lavender, and one ounce  highwine
—mix all together,  and keep it  in  a bottle  well stopped.
Shave off the hair between  the ears, and put it on in a liquid
form twice a day until cured.
              FOR THE YELLOW WATER.
  Boil two pounds of black cherry bark in one gallon Avater
two hours, strain  and add two ounces  saltpetre,  two ounces
flour of brimstone, two ounces cream tartar, two  pounds su-
gar, one quart alcohol—put them all together with two quarts
cider, and give the horse  one pint for  a dose twice a day.
Or make a strong  tea  of tamerack and black cherry bark,
equal parts, and give them one quart of it with fifty drops of
oil of anise cut in alcohol, once a day for six or eight days.

              FOR CALVES THAT SCOUR.
  Boil one pint new milk, put in  two spoonfuls of rennet,
and pour it down the calf.
              GG 
374
RECIl'ES.
   TO MAKE A STAR IN THE FOREHEAD OF A HORSE.
   Take pickled mackerel and bind it on any shape you wish,
 for three or four days, repeating, and it will produce a Avhite
 spot.  Rub a white spot made by the saddle (in the  spring,
^before he sheds his coat,) with  bacon grease, and it  Avill  be
 black, or have its natural color.

                  FOR BRITTLE HOOF.
   Anoint them Avith dog's grease and turpentine mixed to-
 gether.
                    STRING HALT.
  Take up the middle vein above the thigh, and under the
vein you will see a string:  cut the string  away, and  anoint
the Avound with fresh butter.

       FOR  CRAMP IN THE BOWELS OF A HORSE.
  Give one-half ounce of camphor gum in one pint  of hot
water,  as hot as the horse can bear it.
CLAP IN THE  BACK SINEWS OF  A HORSE,  BETWEEN
      THE GAMBREL AND FETTER-LOCK JOINTS.
  Use the same ointment prepared for a shoulder, and bathe
it in the same way.

                  FOR  A SORE BACK.
  Bathe your horse's back with Pain Extractor, and rub ou
a little white lead ground in linseed oil.  This method will
cure the breast of a horse by cleaning your collar every morn-
ing, and pounding and greasing it. 
RECIPES.
375
       FOR THE SCOURS IN HORSES OR CATTLE.
  Boil Avhite oak and white pine bark (equal parts) together,
and give one quart morning and evening ; or  give one pint
of Health Bitters and one pint sweet milk immediately; or
give them strong mullin tea once an hour ; or give one table-
spoonful spirits turpentine once in three hours till cured ; or
give one ounce bitter walnut meats,  pulverized, and steep in
one pint water, and sweeten Avith two ounces brown sugar.
Repeat the dose  every three hours till cured.   Boil one pound
of black cherry tree bark and two ounces rock  soot in two
quarts water to one,  strain, and add  one  quart  well worked
cider  and  one  quart molasses.  Give your horse  or  cow one
pint every morning till gone.   If not entirely well,  prepare
and repeat the dose till Avell.  This  will cure the scours or
murrain.
         TO TAKE WARTS OFF FROM CATTLE.

  Tie a string or horse hair on tight as you can around the
wart, then wait eight or ten days, and if it don't fall off, tie
it tighter; when it is  off, heal  it  Avith unslacked lime and
honev.  If it is a flat Avart, burn it with a hot iron, and heal
it as above.   If it is  among  the sinews or veins,  eat it out
with corrosive sublimate, and heal it as above described.

         FOR WORMS  IN  THE TAIL OF CATTLE.

  Split the tail under side above the worm, prick the vein,
and take garlic, butter  and salt, and bind it on.

      TO CURE CATTLE  POISONED WITH SORREL.

  Give one pint good  rum  and one-half pint sweet cream.
Repeat the  dose if  needed. 
376
RECIPES.
      TO KEEP FLIES FROM TORMENTING HORSES.
  Take the leaves of garden pumpkins or cucumbers, pound,
strain out the juice, and Avash your horses Avith it; or wash
them with the juice of mallows ; or take pulverized verdigris,
boil in vinegar, and wash with  it.  Be  careful  and keep it
from  the eyes.

FOR STOPPAGE IN THE MANNEFOLDS IN NEAT CATTLE.
  Take one pint of melted hog's lard, one pint molasses and
one pint  ground  mustard seed,  mix all together, and give
them  blood warm.   Wait  three  hours, and if there is no
movement, give one-half to one pound, of salts in warm wa-
ter with one-fourth ounce  oil of anise,  cut  well in alcohol,
both together.  After waiting three or four hours, if no move-
ment, repeat  the dose of salts.
              FOR SORE EYES IN CATTLE.
  Burn egg shells, powder them  fine, and  blow it in the
eyes; or pulverize burnt alum and loaf sugar, and put it in
the eyes; or burn salt in a wet  cloth, take  out the middle,
pulverize it, and put it in the eyes; or mix it with the juice
of celandine and drop it in ; or put in pimpernell; or mix
burnt alum and honey, and put it in the eye; or put tobacco
spittle in the eye.
 TO PREVENT THE GARGET IN THE HEAD OF CATTLE
   Bleed them in  the spring  and fall, and give  them two
ounces of anise seed, one-half ounce red  pepper and one
ounce liquorice, all pulverized with one ounce of saltpetre, in
one quart of ale  or  beer. 
RECIPES.                    377
           TO TIGHTEN TEETH OF CATTLE.
  Slit their gums against every tooth,  and rub them  with
salt and alum,  equal parts.
                FOR RAISING CALVES.
  Boil for two calves one  pint  of flax seed ten minutes in
water, and put it in  skim-milk, warm.  Give  cattle warm
water to drink in cold weather.
              FOR STOPPAGE IN WATER.
  Take  two spoonfuls of honey  bees, two ounces currant
buds, steep them in hot Avater very strong,  and give two ta-
ble-spoonfuls every hour till relieved.
                   FOR SORE EYES.
  Take one-fourth ounce white vitriol, one-half ounce sugar
of lead,  one-half ounce gunpowder,  one  quart  rain water,
shake them well together, and wash the eyes three times a
day.

           FOR BLEEDING AT THE LUNGS.
  Take one gill of gin sling and grate on  one-fourth  ounce
of nutmeg.

                   FOR OLD SORES. .
  Wilt carrots and lay them on as  a poultice.
TO TIGHTEN THE TEETH OF CATTLE WHEN LOOSE.
Rub the teeth and gums well with fine salt.
           GG2 
378
RECIPES.
                   FOR WIND GALLS.
   Open them carefully and squeeze out the wind or matter;
syringe them out with Pain Extractor, or chamber-lye and
alum simmered together,  one-half ounce to a  gill.  Bathe
with Pain Extractor or with chamber-lye hot   Wet a cloth
a few thicknesses, lay it on, and lay on a  piece of  sheet lead
and bind it on over the Avind gall.  Wet it with either of the
above washes twice a day for six or eight days.  Any swell-
ing on  a horse or man can be cured in this way.   You can
cure  a  hip sprain, or any sprain, or almost any sore, by using
either of the above liquors—but I prefer the  Pain Extractor,
as it  needs no drying in.

                MURRAIN IN CATTLE.
   Bleed a little, and then take rue, featherfew, sage, hyssop,
thyme, marjoram, marigold, fennel, tansy, lavender and spike-
nard, two  ounces each, and boil  in one gallon water to one
quart;  strain it, and add tAvo quarts of ale.  Give the sick
ones  a  pint,  and the Avell  ones half  a pint  Add  to it one
ounce red pepper, four ounces green pounded anise seed, four
ounces peas, four ounces salt, one quart molasses, four ounces
liquorice  (poAvdered)  and  one-half pound fresh butter—all
before giving.

     FOR HORSES FOUNDERED BY EATING GRAIN.

   Pour spirits tujpentine in the frog of each foot immediately,
and hold it till it dries in ; or pair down the hoof, put in tan-
ner's oil, and heat it in with a hot iron.

         TO HELP HORNED CATTLE TO DUNG.
   Put red pepper or tobacco up  the rectum. 
RECIPES.
379
       GARGET IN THE TONGUE AND THROAT.
  Bleed them in the neck and  under the tongue—make  a
slit in the skin under the tongue, lengthwise, two inches long,
and wash the tongue Avith salt, alum and vinegar, well shaken
together.

                     STIFF HORSE.
  Put the white of three eggs  in three spoonfuls  of hog's
lard, and rub them together till they become an oil; then
bathe with it one-half hour, and heat it in with a hot brick
or shovel.  Repeat it three  times.
FOR BOTTS IN HORSES.
  Mix one-half gill of spirits turpentine with  one-half pint
of gin, and turn it down the horse ; or take two ounces of
pulverized alum, two ounces saltpetre, one  pint  sweet milk,
one pint molasses, and shake all together—is a sure cure ; or
bleed in the mouth, and after the blood stops, give two ounces
of alum in cider.
HOOF BOUND.
  To prevent it, keep the hoof cool and moist; to cure it,
open the hoof at the edge  of the  hair, and grease it  with
woodchuck, skunk, or dog's grease.
                 FOR BROKEN HORNS.

  Put them on properly and fasten them ; then wind them
with a strong bandage, well  daubed Avith  tar or pitch,  and
keep it on four or five weeks. 
380
RECIPES.
                FOR GRAVELLED HOOFS.
  Dig out the gravel carefully and turn in spirits turpentine;
then put on a little tar, heat it in with a hot iron, fill it up
with tow thoroughly, and fasten it in.   Or make a poultice
of turpentine, put it on a feAv times, and when  the gravel is
out fill it as above directed.   Or prick out the gravel,  put in
hog's lard and turpentine hot, stop up the hole Avell, and put
on the shoe.  Keep this foot dry.

             FOR THE GRIPES IN HORSES.
  Take  one-half pint ruin,  one-half pint molasses, one-half
pint new milk (hot), one-eighth ounce oil of  anise cut in al-
cohol, shake all together, and give to the Jiorse.  It will cure
soon,

    FOR CANKER IN HORSES MOUTH  AND THROAT.
  Make a strong tea of wild willow (bark of  the root), and
wash his mouth Avith it four or five times a day.

    TO  STOP BLOOD IN THE NOSE OR ELSEWHERE.
  Pound the tender tops of hyssop and put them in the nose,
or bind  them  on the  Avound.
          FOR THE TETTER, OR RING-WORM.

  Wash with precipitate tAvo drachms with  one gill of wa-
ter, and keep it stopped close.

              TAPPING TO LET OFF WIND.

  Gage your knife one inch and  pierce the belly just below
the short ribs on the left side. 
RECIPES.
381
BROKEN LEGS.
  Take two  ounces Solomon's  seal root, two ounces buck-
horn, two ounces comfrey root, boil them in one gill of tar
and splinters, and bind up the leg with it.

                     WIND COLIC.
  Take a quart of warm'water, one pint gin, one pint mo-
lasses, tAvo gills powdered mustard seed,  pour  it down, and
drive the creature around briskly.

              TO STOP CATTLE VOMITING.
  Boil tansy and mint, equal parts, and give one quart once
an hour till  it stops.

              TO CURE WENS ON CATTLE.
  Put a hair rowel through them, and wash them daily  in
soft soap.

                     LOSS OF CUD.
  Take one-half the cud of another creature, and put  it  in
the mouth warm.
               FOR A COUGH IN SHEEP.
  Take  colt's  foot, lungwort, and  maiden hair,  each  two
ounces, boil them in one quart water strong, sweeten witn
honey, and give one gill a day to  a sheep.

                  FEVER IN SHEEP.
  Dissolve one-half ounce saltpetre in one gill water and one
gill vinegar, and give it to them. 
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RECIPES.
          TO CURE THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.
  Take raw onions, green rue, salt, and the poAvder of ele-
campane root, beat them Avell together, and  apply them to
the wound.  ReneAv it as occasion requires.  Or take a wild
pigeon, chicken or hen, open it and lay it hot  to the wound.
It draAvs out the venom.   Heal the sore with turpentine and
hog's lard.   Or scrape the wound and put mashed garlic and
salt on it.   It will draAv out the poison.
             FOR THE STAGGERS IN SHEEP.
  Dissolve one-half ounce of asafcetida in one-half gill warm
water, and put one-half spoonful in each ear.

           TO PRESERVE  SHEEP FROM ROT.
  Wash the mouth of the sheep once a week  Avith the above
mixture.
             TO KILL MAGGOTS IN SHEEP.
  Take one-half pound of sweet elder  bark, tAvo ounces tar,
two ounces goose oil, boil them all together, strain while hot,
stir in one ounce of the flour of  brimstone, and anoint them
with  it.
                       FOR BOTTS.
  Give  one quart of blue dye.   It  gives immediate relief.
Or one-half pound of salt dissolved in water.

       STOPPAGE OR  DRY BLEACH IN A HORSE.
  Make two  quarts  of strong clover bay tea and one-half
pint of molasses, and give it to your horse. 
                        RECIPES.                    S88

         CURE FOR URINATING OR STA1LING.
  Dissolve one ounce of saltpetre in one quart of ale or beer,
and give it blood warm; or one-half pound juniper berries
boiled in two quarts water to one quart,  and given warm ; or
pulverize and give one-half ounce rosin  in his  provender a
few days ;  or pound and give one pint of pumpkin seeds.

            SHOULDER STRAIN IN  HORSES.
  Take one  pint alcohol, one gill oil of spike, one gill pig's
foot oil, one  ounce camphor gum, simmer these together over
a slow fire, and apply it warm to the diseased part, a*nd heat
it in with  a hot iron twice a day.

           FOR INWARD HURTS  OR ULCERS:
   Take comfrey, elecampane, spikenard, angelica, masterwort
and ginseng roots, one  pound each, balsam  boughs two
pounds, and chamomile one pound—put them in a tin kettle
or lined copper vessel, and boil them  with two gallons water
down to one gallon.  Give a wine-glassful  morning and eve-
 ning.                    _____

                 FOR THE SCRATCHES.
   Cut away the hair and wash it with hot chamber-lye with
 a cob till  raw, then wash it with chamber-lye, soap, alum and
 salt- then  boil the buds or  bark of  elder, sweetwort and
 green brier  leaves.   Add to the tea alum,  and wash the legs
 two or three times  with it.  Oil them with sweet cream.

                     LOSS OF CUD.
    Give the sheep one-half the cud of another sheep, warm. 
384
BECIPEs.
           TO FEED AND KEEP HOGS RIGHT.
  Give them small doses of brimstone occasionally, feed them
but twice a day, keep them in a grass yard in summer, and
in winter give them a cool, Avarm, and clean nest; give their
meal dry, and turn their slops  on it.  If you boil potatoes,
drain off the Avater and mix the meal with it  while hot

             TO CURE MEASLES IN SWINE.
  Rub them well with a brush  dipped in cold water ; boil
parsley roots and rue in salt water, and give them to drink.

                FOR FEVER  IN SWINE.
  Bleed them in the tail; give  them boiled parsnips,  well
peppered, with water and all that it is boiled in, twice a day—
put in one-fourth ounce pulverized saltpetre.

                TO GET HORSE COLTS.
  Put your mare before the full of the moon and when the
sign is below  the  heart.

             TO KILL MAGGOTS IN SHEEP.
  Take elder bark  or leaves, make a strong tea of them, and
if in a wound or the nose, put it in.   Add to it fresh butter
and a little tar, simmer it down to an  ointment, and anoint
them with  it.
                     SWINE POX.
  Take one ounce saltpetre, pulverize it, and  add to it one
pint cider, one-half pint sweet oil, and  one spoonful honey.
Give it to the hog in three doses, luke-warra. 
RECIPES.                     385
               FOR THE ROT IN SHEEP.
  Take rue juice and salt, mixl it,  and give them  a  table-
spoonful once or twice a  week.

             FOR THE PLAGUE IN SHEEP.
  Wash them in alum and salt water, and give  them a tea
made of rue and balm leaves to drink.
                  POISONED SHEEP.
  Take sweet oil, fresh butter or hog's lard, one gill of either,
mix it with one pint of sweet milk, and give it to the sheep
at one dose.
           TO CURE CATTLE OVER-HEATED.
  Give them one quart of gin, or West India rum, with one
ounce of black pepper, pulverized.
              FOR CASTORATED HORSES.
  Anoint  with skunk, dog, turtle or woodchuck's grease.
Either will take down the swelling.
                  TO INCREASE MILK.
  GiA*e the sheep beans, corn or potatoes, and  change  their
pasture often.
                    SCAB OR TICK.
  Anoint them with tar and fresh butter mixed  together;  or
wash them with pennyroyal tea.
             HH 
 
RAISING AND  TREATMENT OF POULTRY.
  Corn is the most congenial food for domestic poultry of
all kinds.  It ought to be fed as  much without cracking to
the young as soon as possible, and always have food by them.
Eight quarts of corn will supply the wants of fourteen dung-
hill fowls for seven days in winter.  If you  wish your fowls
to lay in winter, you  must  house them  warm,  and in
cold weather give them plenty of slops made of potatoes and
wheat bran,  once a day,  arid have  a  box of  sand, lime,
gravel, and pounded earthen, to go  to  when  they please.
Change your fowls often, and see that they have boxes  with
plenty of nesting..  If you Avish them to hatch,  set them as
much as possible on the ground, and as  early as possible in
April and May.  Set three or four hen's  at once, if possible,
and when they hatch put all the chickens  to one hen, and
coop or yard them separately, on loose ground,  where there
are plenty of angle-worms.  Spade the ground  a little every
day.   Give them in winter, now-and-then, some fresh meat
Roasted bones, pondered,  will  facilitate their  laying, and
make them healthy.   Never yard your  chickens on a chip
yard.  Keep plenty  of  wind-mills around your house and
the hawks will not trouble your fowls.  If you  wish to keep
off foxes and skunks,  keep a hound dog.   If  you  wish to
make turkeys profitable,  yard them in a pasture till they get
able  to run well—then let them run  and catch  grasshoppers
and flies.  If you wish to keep geese and ducks, have a small
pond or marsh, with a small outlet, and let them run in sum-
mer.   Let them have dry resting places, and in  winter house 
388        RAISING AND TREATMENT OF POULTRY.

them warm in a dark house, over a spring of water, Avhere
they can get gravel plenty,  and set in water.   Throw their
grain in the water.   A goose, in this way, will live well on
fifty kernels of corn a day, and you can  pluck  their feathers
as well in winter as in summer. 
RECIPES FOR MAKING  WINE, BEER, &C.
                    INDIAN WINE.
  Take one gallon of well worked cider,  put  in two pounds
sugar, one pint Health Bitters, and one pint black raspberry
syrup—shake it well, and it is fit for use.

                    CIDER WINE.
  Take twenty-six gallons of sweet cider from the press, fifty-
two  pounds sugar,  one  gallon  cider  brandy,  five pounds
raisins, put in a clean barrel,  and keep full with  the bung
open to let it work off.  After it is worked, draAV it off in a
clean barrel, and bung it up tight.

                   CURRANT WINE.
  Take one quart currant juice, three pounds sugar, and add
water enough to make a gallon ; put it in a clean cask, fill it
up full, and let it stand till it works  itself clear.  Add sugar
and water from time to  time to keep it full, till it works  it-
self clear, then rack it off and bung it up tight.   You can
make black currant, raspberry  or  strawberry wine in the
same way.

               BLACK RASPBERRY WINE,
   Can be made by  adding two pounds sugar to one quart of
the juice.  You can make elderberry wine in the  same way
you do this.
             HH2 
390
RECIPES.
                    TO REFINE  CIDER.
  Take four ounces powdered  alum, six eggs,  two pounds
clean sand, two ounces slacked lime,  one pound loaf sugar,
and one quart spirits, and put them in one barrel of cider.
                   BEST ROOT BEER.

  Take one-fourth pound American sarsaparilla  roots,  one-
fourth pound burdock roots, one-fourth pound balsam boughs,
boil them Avell in one and a half gallons water to  one gallon,
then strain the syrup;  add one  pound sugar  and one-half
ounce root ginger, bottle it,  and let it stand twenty-four hours
till it works.
                    SPRUCE BEER.
  Take one ounce hops, one-half ounce ginger and  one gal-
lon  water, boil it well, and add one  pint  molasses, one-half
ounce essence of spruce; when cold, add a tea-cupful of yeast
and put it in a clean,  tight cask;  let it stand twenty-four
hours, and then bottle it.
                    TO SAVE EGGS.
  Scald them one minute and  pack them in salt,  the little
end doAvn ; and  dip  them  in  strong  lime  water, dry,  and
pack them in salt.
                TO FIT CORN TO PLANT.
  Soak your seed in warm water and saltpetre twelve hours,
turn off the water, and put on hot water—stir it, turn it off,
put in a little tar, and  stir it;  then put  in  plaster as long as
it will stick on. 
RECITES.                   391
                    SMALL BEER.
  Boil one ounce of hops, one ounce ginger and two quarts
molasses in two gallons water, strain and keg it,  and when
blood warm  put in- your yeast.
                       ANOTHER.
  Take one ounce ginger and three pints molasses to six gal-
lons warm water, put them all together, shake them well, and
in six or eight hours it will be fit for use.
TO PREVENT BLACK FLIES FROM DESTROYING GARDENS.
  Plant buckwheat among your other seeds, and let it stand
till the plants are out of their way.

TO PRESERVE CUCUMBERS  AND SQUASHES  FROM FIES
                     AND WORMS.
  Make a strong tea of hops and elder leaves, and mix a lit-
tle flour and whitewash the plants.

    TO DESTROY CUT WORMS AND HESHIAN FLIES.
  Take the water that you boil potatoes in and sprinkle your
grain and plants.  It destroys insects from the egg to the fly.

 TO  KEEP  INSECTS FROM CUCUMBERS AND SQUASHES.
   Sprinkle them with weak hen dung water; or wet a quill
 with spirits turpentine and put in the hill.

     TO DESTROY CATERPILLARS ON FRUIT TREES.
   Smoke them well with sulphur, pitch or  rosin, and it will
 destroy them on herbs and flowers. 
392
RECIPES.
TO SAVE BEEF, AND KEEP IT SWEET AND TENDER ONE
                         YEAR.
   Take one-half bushel  salt,  eight pounds  broAvn sugar or
molasses, and  one-fourth pound saltpetre,  to  one barrel of
beef; lay a laying of salt and sugar, then a laying of beef,
till your barrel is full.   Put in one quart of salt to three gal-
lons of Avater; put in  your saltpetre, and fill up the barrel
with brine made as above described.  Beef cured in this way
is  worth twice as much as the old way.

              TO  PRESERVE FRESH MEAT.
   Put fresh meat in a close vessel containing vinegar.  Put
tainted meat in potash water for three or four clays—then dip
it in vinegar, and pickle it in salt before you cook it.

              PUTRID  OR TAINTED MEAT.
   Throw away the old pickle and  repack your meat; place
between each layer birch or maple charcoal;  make a new
pickle, and add a little saltpetre—four ounces to a barrelr
             PICKLE FOR BEEF OR PORK.

  Take six  pounds salt, one-half pound brown  sugar, six
ounces saltpetre, dissolve them by boiling in four  gallons of
water, and skim ; when cold, put in it any sort of fresh meat.
It will save and be tender, and fit for use without freshening.

       TO DRIVE RATS AND MICE FROM BARNS.
  Take the plant called  dog-tongue,  pound  it with a ham-
mer, and put it in your grainery, or  barn,  or in your celler,
and  they will  leave very quick. 
RECIPES.
393
             TO PRESERVE BEEF'S GALL.
  Put it in spirits, or dry it in smoke.  If dried,  it makes a
powerful drawing salve.
TO PREVENT FLIES AND BUGS FROM BLOWING  MEAT.
  Bruise elder leaves, moisten them  with  water, and rub
them on the flesh side of the meat;  let a little of the juice
run into the holes.
TO PRESERVE POTATOES, APPLES,  AND ALL KINDS OF
                       FRUIT.
   Put them in a box or barrel,  and fill up all  the crevices
with dry sand.
           TO SAVE POTATOES IN SUMMER.
   Scald them in hot water.

           TO SAVE POTATOES AND APPLES.
   Head them up in  an  air-tight cask.  They will keep  the
whole year.
     TO PRESERVE PEACH TREES FROM MILL-DEW.
   In March or April take away all the turf and dirt you can
and not hurt the roots, and put fresh rotten turf in its place.

             TO PRESERVE FRUIT  TREES.
   Pour hot soap suds around your trees, and wash them with
thin soap in the  fall and spring; scrape off the moss and
rough bark, and cut off the nubs and gummy spots. 
394
RECIPES.
 TO  CUT HARD WOOD TIMBER TO  MAKE IT DURABLE.
  Cut it in October, November,  December and January, in
the old of the moon, Avhen the sap is doAvn.   Cut all kinds
of timber that sheds its leaves in the fall, in the third quarter
of the moon—but, if possible, in the winter.  It is more du-
rable when cut in the month of December,  which  is the best
month.  Evergreen timber must be cut in the second quarter
of the moon, and in the fall and winter.  All kinds of tim-
ber cut in December, as above stated, will  last as long again
as it will cut in June.
             TO KILL CANADA THISTLES.
  Sprinkle them Avith  blubber  oil and it will kill them; or
cut them in June, July and August, Avhen the sign is in the
heart, in the old of the moon.
                  TO SAVE BUTTER.
  Take tAvo ounces salt, one ounce saltpetre,  one ounce loaf
sugar, beat them well together, and  it is  enough for four
pounds of butter.   It must be well mixed with the  butter,
and the butter well packed down.  Keep it from the air, and
it will keep sweet a year.
                    TO SAVE BEES.
  About the first of May raise your hive and  lay salt under
the edges of the hive.

          TO KEEP SKIPPERS FROM CHEESE.
  Mix fresh butter with red pepper, put it in a bag, and rub
your cheese with it. 
RECIPES.
395
            TO SWEETEN STRONG BUTTER.
  Take one ounce of saltpetre and two ounces of loaf sugar,
dissolve them in water—make a hole through the butter, and
pour it in.

                     INDIAN BREAD.
  Take one quart wheat flour, one quart Indian meal, wet it
with warm water, put in yeast, saleratus and salt to season it,
and add one-half pound sugar ; make . a thick batter of it,
let it stand warm till it begins to raise, and then bake it well.
                   DYSPEPSIA BREAD.
  Take three quarts unbolted flour, one quart soft water, one
gill fresh yeast, one gill molasses and one tea-spoonful salera-
tus.  Let it remain in the oven two hours.  It will take from
eight to ten hqnrs to raise.

                       CUP  CAKE.
   Take one tea-cupful of sugar, one  of butter, three of flour,
three eggs, and season to suit the taste.   To make it into a
fruit cake, lay a laying of the batter in the pan, then a laying
of strawberries, then a laying of batter,  and so on till the pan
is full, and cover it with batter.

                   COLD WATER CAKE.
   Take  one tea-cupful of water, one of molasses,  one large
table-spoonful of butter, one tea-spoonful of saleratus, three
tea-cupfuls of flour, and season  with  ginge*  and a  little salt.
You can use buttermilk instead of water. 
396                    RECIPES.



                  FALL PLOWING.



  Fall plowing kills weeds, worms, and grubs.





                TO  CLARIFY HONEY.



  Warm it, and skim it as long as the scum will rise. 
                   REMARKS
ON HUNTING, FISHING, AND CATCHING GAME.


  The finny kind are so numerous and differ so much in size,
shape, appearance, and mode of living, that it would require
a large volume to give  their minute  particulars ;  therefore I
shall be under the necessity of making but a  few brief re-
marks.
  In the first place, it is evident that all kinds of big fishes
that have wide, open mouths, live more or less on the small
fish.  The aborigines in this  wilderness—North  America—
before it was discovered by the celebrated Christopher Colum-
bus, found various ways to trap and  take what of the finny
kind they wished.  They would sometimes snare them by a
slip-noose of elm and other kinds of bark, or shoot them with
their stone arrows as they  did the elk or reindeer, and some-*
times they would spear them with sharp  sticks, and on rafts
whip  them to death with poles.  They were  so  plenty that
they could (in that age of the world) take what they wanted,
for  they never  caught more  than  to  supply their wants.
And so with regard to hunting.  They  trapped  by snares,
dead-falls, and cutting long holes in hollow trees, and placing
bait in the hole where foxes, wolves and bears could get their
head in so high that when they jumped for the bait and fall-
ing back, they would hang fast by their head  in the narrow
hole below.  In taking wolves, they would build low pole
yards with narrow tops, and place a  deer or some fresh meat
in the yard, and the ravenous  wolves would run  up on  the 
398
HUNTING,  FISHING, 4C.
 poles to the top and jump in, and when there they could not
 jump out   In taking bears in summer  and fall, they would
 set dead-falls or traps,  with two  heavy  logs, one over the
 other, with a figure 4, and  place the bait in such a position
 that the instant they touch  it the upper  log falls, and they are
 caught.
   But  since the white men have settled this country, and
 brought Avith them hooks, lines,  nets  and  spears, and have
 sought out many inventions to take  the  finny kind and quad-
 rupeds, they use the fire-arms and  steel traps, and  various
 stratagems, such as hooks of various shapes, baits and  instru-
 ments of various kinds.  Some use in taking fish the harpoon,
 tow-lines, lances, hooks  and  baits, such as the spoonfly or
 worm baits—seins,  scoop and  gill  nets, and thereby have
 made a trade and traffic of  it, and have so thinned  out the
 deer,  elk, bear, moose, wolf and buffalo,  and all kinds of
 game, and fishes of  all kinds, and the feathered tribe, so that
 they are hard  to be taken, and come high charged.
   In taking the wide mouth fish that inhabits the streams of
 fresh Avater,  the flesh or worm bait may be scented with the
 oil of anise or asafcetida, and  in  deep  and sluggish  waters
 you may throAv in large quantities  of unslacked lime, which
 causes them to float and die, so that they can be taken easy
 and in large quantities.  The testicles  of a  female of any of
the canine kind can be used to a good advantage in scenting
 bait.  The beaver, otter and muskrat  can be caught by set-
 ting steel traps by the edges of ponds and  running streams,
 under water,  Avith chains attached  to  them, so that when
 they jump into the  Avater after  taken, they  will sink  and
 drown.  You may bait them with sweet apples or parsnips,
 on a stick, just over the trap.   Minks  maybe  taken  in the
 same  Avay—only bait  with  meat.  The .white man, when 
HUNTING, FISHING, &C.              399
hunting foxes Avith a hound  and gun, when the fox appears
he will squeal like a mouse, and the  fox  will stop his  pace
and look around—in the meantime the hunter will fire upon
him, and, if a good marksman, the fox is taken.   In hunt-
ing the reindeer, the hunter will bleat like a fawn or whistle,
and the buck or doe will  cease jumping  and look  around,
which gives the hunter time to take deliberate aim and  drop
him in an instant.  When the snow is deep and a sharp thin
crust on  it, the  deer, elk and moose tread a yard, and live on
what browse and  bark  they can -get—but when disturbed
they Avill bound into the snow, and  before they run, many
times, one-half  mile, are so cut to pieces and worried out that
a man can out-run them on snow shoes,  and beat out  their
brains with a club or axe. 'When the snow is deep and loose,
            """' "        L-  —«1tt taken, for their fur and
tail will  soon fill Avith loose  snow andT they   canuut i«~ -...
To take  skunks, you will select  a bright, moonlight night
and a good dog,  and stay around farm yards  and  hen roosts,
armed with a long pole or fire-arms,  and  when they appear,
shoot them, or punch with your  pole  a  few times till they
have used all of  their ammunition—then you may chase and
catch them by  the tail, and  carry them home alive ; not let
 their fore feet touch the ground and they can't scentyour clothes.
 The coon can be taken in moonshiny nights in the fall of the
 year, by being around corn fields  with good guns and dogs.
 The'bear, many  times, is found in corn fields in the night, and
 can be shot or trapped  in the same  way the coon is taken.
 The martin can be snared by nooses attached to a staddel,
 bent so that when they touch the bait they will be taken by
 the neck and  hoisted from the ground.  The  weasel  and
 ferret are cunning saucy animals, and are hard to trap.  The
 hare can be taken by snares and box traps.   The woodchuck
 or ground-hog can be shot, or holed and  dug out. 
400
HUNTING,  FISHING, AC.
   To destroy and get rid of rats and mice, lay burdock burs
 in and around their holes.   Or take a barrel or tub and fill it
 eighteen inches with water, and hang a swing cover on it—
 tie a piece of cheese one side, and  as they jump on they will
 tumble  into the  water.   But the quickest  way, in cold
 weather, is to bait them a few nights  with Indian meal and
 stir in a little arsenic with the meal, put it  in  their way, and
 you will sweep them all off in one night.
   The panther, wild cat, catamount, linck and  common cat
 are the most ferocious, sly and subtle kind that inhabit North
 America—are hard to trap. They are very daring, and the
 light of fire will allure them, and many times  they will ven-
 ture close upon you before  you  are aAvare  of  their near ap-
 proach, and there is no better way  to take  them  than to use
 the fire-arms.  The cat kind and  nantli^"  —■•"----'   -A1-
      _,_  ^ . ,.--, .... mey are  close upon it, and make one
 tremendous  bound, and catch their prey or not,  they go  no
 farther.
   In speaking of the aborigines who in former  days inhab-
 ited this now thick-settled, fertile country,  they made use  of
 birch bark canoes to traverse and  cross  the- streams,  rivers,
 lakes and ponds, and as occasion required, they carried them
 from river to river, and from lake to lake, on their shoulders,
 to enable them to cross and float at  their'leisure—to enable
 them to fish and catch game.   When they were in pursuit of
 the reindeer, near some river or lake, the deer would, to avoid
 their grasp, plunge into the water a short distance all but the
 nose, and the Indians, in  order  to  take them;  would launch
 their bark canoe and follow them, and when coming up would
 beat their brains out with their  paddles.   In taking the bear
in winter, they would traverse the woods, and if happily they
found a hollow tree well scratched  up, they cut it down, and
many times  found a good fat bear in a stupid,  senseless state 
HUNTING, FISHING, AC.
401
—which, if not killed by the fall of the tree,  are very easily
dispatched, the prize is secured, and the Indians have a feast.
They never throw  anything away.   They  formerly  eat en-
trails, flesh  and all, only scalded and took off the hair or
feathers.  I have seen them empty the entrails of large ani-
mals of their dung, reanse them in cold  water, boil or roast
them, and feast on  them  with  as much satisfaction  as the
white man would an oyster soup, roast pig, beef, or turkey.
The smaller animals, such as squirrels, rabbits, rats and mice,
quails, and partridges, they only scald and pluck off the hair
and feathers, cook them whole, and if they have not enough
of them, flesh, guts, and all, many times without salt.
   As touching their medicinal operations, it appears, in short,
as though they had instinct equal to their sphere, planted in
them by the God of Nature, to  enable their medicine men
(as then called) to prepare from the Vegetable Kingdom such
medicines as would cure any disease that they happened to be
afflicted with ; and it appears  that  the fathers taught their
children from generation to generation as they passed off, so
that there was no necessity of using quack-salver,  or any of
the mineral drugs, and thereby rob and destroy  each other.
But since the white man has come among  them, who has for
several hundred years studied  the art of the poison mineral
 drugs,  and how  to use them in such a dark way so as to
 cheat and destroy  one-another, and  carrying into  their wig-
 wams liquid fire, and all  kinds of poisonous mineral drugs,
 scattering fire-brands, diseases of various  kinds,  and death,
 among them, they have passed almost entirely away, and their
 blood will be required at the white man's  hands, at the great
 day of retribution.  But when the pure gospel is  carried to
 and preached to them, they receive  it in good  and honest
 hearts, and bring forth, some thirty, some  sixty, and some an
 hundred fold.                                Il2 
INDEX.
 f£T Por Fairrey, Agriculture, Manufttctore of Wine, Beer, &c, see Index B.,
                          following this.
Abortion, to prevent,.................................Page 140
Ague,...................................................284
     fever,.......................................•........ 261
     gravel,................................................259
     in the face,.........................179, 187, 215, 273, 384
All-healing salve,.........................................297
Ankles, weakness  in the...................................201
Appetite, canine or craving,................................187
         to create an......................................338
Apoplexy,................................................138
Arrow head,.............................................283
Asthma.....,....138, 162, 178, 194, 214, 248, 259, 271,  294, 811, 316
       dry  or convulsive,.............................138, 139
       cure for, of long standing...........................298
       pill for,...........................................328
Atrophy, scarbutic,.......................................207

Back, sprains and  weakness in the,..........................129
      pain in  the,.........................................156
Baldness.............................................143, 272
Bed sore on man or beast, to heal,......................... .284
Bee Bting,............................................320. 387
Bite of a mad dog,..................159, 193, 229, 287, 305, 312
          rattlesnake,............171, 194, 236, 281, 318, 316, 322
          viper,............................................171
          dog........................................260, 286
          serpent.....................................260, 287
          6nake,..........................................305
Bilious pills,.............................160, 218, 224, 310, 345
           colic.............Ill, 146, 160, 247, 250, 262, 290, 327
           fevers, cure and preservative against,.............163
           complaints,................................805, 808
Bitters, health,.......................................347, 348
Bladder, stone in the,.................................109, 340
        gravel in the,.....................................164
Bleeding, to stop,.........................................112
         at the lungs, to stop,.........................127, 318
               nose, to prevent,...........................189
                       stop,..........................246, 257
               stomach,................................164, 843 
INMSX.
403
 Bleeding piles....................................pAGE i59( 307
         ulcers in the leg.....................................207
 Blind piles,..............................................264
 Blindness"...............................................131
 Blue flag root.............................................136
 Blood, to stop............................................275
        coagulated, to dissolve,.............................145
        purifier, how to make a,....................220, 268, 346
        root,..............................................234
        raising,...........................................304
        for humors in the,..................................314
 Blood-shot eye............................................197
 Bloody flux,..............................................15?
, Black alder bark..........................................215
 Blackberry root,..........................................214
       snake root..........................................230
 Bloating,...... .....................................2?1,300
 Blister, how to draw a,..-..................................^°°
 Boiis,.:..............................................i«.j;;
       prevented,..........................................f°°
       how to draw to head.................................182
 Bowel complaint in  children and adults,....................19°
 Bowels, to give action to the,..............................191
 Bones,  broken,;.............,............................J23
         to draw out........................................*98
 Broken skin,........................................::"5Jl
         breasts........................................?S' 25J
 Breasts, swelled and sore,..............................j^f > "f1
 Breast, cancer in the..................................141» ***
         tumors in the,..............&.................•.---

 irulsl^
 Bruised blood,  poultice for.............................300 301


 Burst, for a,....................................     "   ' 214
 Butternut.............................................212
 Buttercup or crow foot.............................

 Cancers,. .109, 166,  178. 186, 193, 217, 258, 260, 263, 272, 277, 285,
            290 295, 315, 328, 338                ....129,255,285
         salve for..........................             .... 217
         spider, cure for,.........................         "' 2^q
  Cancer, rose,...................................' '141> 149
         in the breast......................         ___143  2<70
                mouth,.............................      ' j^g
            any other part,...................              "' <p(\
         tumor, to reduce  a,................... 
404
INMCX.
Cancer or leak in the flesh.............................Page 274
Canker..........................................211, 276, 302
       common...........................................165
       Bores,.......................................?115, tS68
       in the mouth,.................................161, 267
       syrup.............................................381
Canker-rash,.....................................103, 188,293
Catarrh..............................................166, 182
       snuff,.............................................216
Catamenia, obstructed.....................................211
Carbuncles,..............................................286
Camp distemper,.........................................289
Callous, how to  reduce....................................315
Camphorated oil..........................................334
Carrots,................................................ -212
Caraway.................................................212
Cholera,.......................................•. .108, 227, 819
       and dysentery, distinction between,..................221
       morbus,..........................138,  193, 209, 291, 320
Chilblaines, to prevent.....................................187
              cure,.......................................141
Chapped  hands...........................................207
              to prevent,................................139
         lips.............................................155
Chicken-pox,....................'.........................189
Chill fever,...............................................261
Chamomile,..............................................210
Checkerberry.............................................212
Cough,... 107, 118, 128,  136, 148, 168, 174, 228, 285, 271, 275, 286,
          288, 337
      syrup..........................................128, 3Sl
      powders............................................346
      asthmatic,..........................................147
      bad,.........'..................................252, 305
      convulsive,..................;.................147, 148
      hectic,.............................................160
      pleuritic,...............................................................148
      tickling,...............................................................150
      whooping,..................................145,  165, 180, 316, 339
Colic,..............................................173, 260,  269, 273, 327, 329
     bilious........................Ill,  146, 160, 247,  250, 252, 290, 327
     from fumes of white and red lead,...............................120
     hysteric,............................................................117, 299
     habitual, .................................................................146
     nervous,................................................___............H6
     :n children,............................................................140
        the fit,................................................................147
     painter's,............................................................195 
IKDEX.                        405
Colic, violent,.........................................................pAGK  198
      wind,...................................................................300
           in women and children,.........................„_..........240
Consumption.................113, ng, 128, 163, 196, 226, 235, 275, 305
             remarks on,..................................................357
             medicines that cause,.......................................219
             pulmonary, ................................................,.307
             of the blood..................................................266
             to test  whether on the liver or lungs.................270
Consumptive cough....................................................134, 209
             syrup,.........................................................248
Convulsions,....................................................................121
            or  fits in children,............................................120
Convulsion fits,........................................................136, 164
Corns,.............115, 135, 144, 168, 217, 228, 233, 262, 276, 289, 300
      to prevent..............................................................142
        take  off,...............................................................175
Cold  in the breast.............................................................292
           head,..............................................................141
"Colds,....................................................140, 166,208, 275, 308
Coldness of the stomach,.................................:........„........155
Cords, how to relax,.......................................................!.191
Cordial, or slumbering drops,...........................................347
Comfrey,..............„..........................................................212
Croup....................................................................110,  113
Cramp, to prevent or cure,...................................122, 123, 173
        rheumatism,.........................................................215
        in the stomach,...............................................159, 315
          any  inward part,............................................... 159
Cramp root,....................................................................238
Cracked hands.........................................................187, 326
Cuts,.................................................................150, 233, 274
Cut of a vein or sinew,......................................................171
Cure-all, universal.............................................................243
Currant leaves,................................................................134

Dandelion  root or branch,..................................s..............212
Deafness,.........................................123, 218, 260, 274,296,  314
        settled,.............'.................................................143
        and dizziness........................................................266
        with head-ache  and buzzing...................................197
        from wax,...........................................................123
Delivery, to cause an easy,...........................................145,  309
Debility, .......................................................................249
Delirium tremens,..........................................................313
Diabetes,..........144, 176, 178, 181, 191, 215, 228, 242, 244, 270,  285
Diarrhoea, ......................................................................339 
40 (J                        INOEX.

Doctors, modern,  the common practice of,......................Pai.e 105
Dog, bite  of a,.....................................................20<>, 286
Dropsy,.... 124, 142, 162, 173, 176, 190, 220, 233, 241, 272, 288, 291,
           803, 304, 310
       in  the  head...........................................................242
       windy,...............................................................171
Drinking,  cure for hard.................................17S, 299, 302, 328
Drowning, to recover from,..........................................1S2, 330
Dragon's claw, or fever root,....................,........................107
Dull sight,......................................................................182
Dumb ague, cordial for,...........................................231, 268
Dwarf elder herbs and berries,...........................................187
Dysentery...214, 247, 265, 273, 277, 279,  287, 294, 297, 307, 324, 325,
           329, 339, 344
          in children........................................................167
          when hard,.......................................... ............323
          longstanding,....................................................277
          to prevent a relapse,.............................................169
          and  cholera,  distinction between,..........................221

Ear-ache,.............................................133, 165, 182,  268, 270
              cold,'.........................................................133
              worms,.............'........................................138
Ears, hard wax in the,.......................................................120
     noise in the,.............................................................127
Elixir, to make an,............................................................205
      vegetable.......................................................115, 325
      of vitriol, how to make,.........................................327
Elecampane roots..........................................................238
Elder blows, bark and berries.............................................232
Epileptic fits,.................................................................196
Erysipelas,.............................................161, 195, 219, 245, 252
Essences, true  way to make,..............................................333
Evan's or chocolate root^................................................229
Extract of sarsaparilla.......................................................302
Eye, bruise in  the,............................................................126
     hot or sharp humors in the..........................................131
     pearl in the,.............................................................125
     white specks in the........................'.............................127
Eye-water, to make..................................125, 126, 180, 216, 311
Eyes, bleared,..................................................................127
     blood-shot,..............................................................197
     dim  or decayed.......................................................131
     hot rheum and burning,............................................131
     clouds flying before the,.......................  ..................131
     inflamed.........................'............................125, 259, 309
     inrlammation of the,........................................ ......227 
INDEX.
407
Eyes, pain in the,......................................................Page 165
      to take film from the..............................271, 278, 297, 328
      sore,...........................218, 226, 258, 276, 287, 308, 309, 335
      weak,...............................................................135, 271

Falling of the bowels in children,........................................188
              fundament...................................................133
              womb,...................................................133,244
       sickness................................................134, 253,^309
Fellon, how to draw to a head,.........................................321
       frog, under the tongue,...........................................252
       to kill or cure a,....................................................312
          scatter a, .........................................................292
       when ulcerated,....................................................321
Fellons,.................................................112, 197, 252, 278, 291
       how to draw  out....................................................182
       plaster for,...........................................................162
       salve for,...............................................................129
Festers,.........................................................................158
Fever.............................................................130, 281, 333
      and ague,.....122, 226, 239, 243, 245, 254, 261, 269, 279, 306
      burning,............................/...................................120
      chill.....................................................................261
      hectic,..................................................................120
      high,.....................................................................203
      for a continued,.......................................................119
      intermittent.....................................................202, 261
      inward,.................................................................305
      rash......................................................................129
      scarlet,..................................................................262
      slow,..................................................................••^*
      sore6......................184,190,210,308
           'saive'fory.'.........................................129,218,293
            to prevent heading and to scatter,......................177

      tjPus.........................•.........................................ill
      worm,...................................................................***
      with pain in the limbs,............................................203
      root, .............................:.........;............................2fJ
Fevers, bilious, cure and preservative against,........................163
       how to break...........................................266> gX8, 330
Female complaints, syrup for,.................................220, 284, 300
       weakness,.......................................................   'lit
       root and  flowers,..................................•....."•■*•••"„„„
Film on the eyes,.....................................181. 271. 278, 297, 328
Fire, to take out,.............................................................233
Firr balsam,.................................................................20j
Fistulous, a,......................................................     ......„„
Fit,  in a raging,................................................................ 
408
INDEX.
Fits, convulsion........................................................Pagk 164
     or convulsions in children,...........................................120
     epileptic,................................................................190
     of any kind, cure for,.................................................385
     to prevent..........................................................182,  270
Flowers, roots, plants and herbs,  and  their medicinal uses, alpha
     betically  arranged..................................................88-102
Flooding-in,...................................................................201
Fluer albus,.............................................................197,  249
Flux, bloody,.."..........................................................157, 202
Fox glove,.............-T......................................................232-
Freckles, to take off,...........................................175, 239, 200
Freezes or burns, wash for,.................................................286
French sweet clover salve,.................................................178
Frost-bitten feet,............................................................250

Gall, overflow of the..........................................................291
Garden mustard seed,.....................................................237
General  remarks................................................................7
Gentian.....................................................................223
Ginger,..........................................................................281
Gout,................................................................181, 183, 806
     in the foot  or head,....................................................112
            hip,..................................................811, 826, 329
           stomach,......................................114
       any limb,.............................................................151
Gravel.................108„ 111, 181, 187, 195, 218, 249, 255, 313
      in the bladder or kidneys,...........................164
Green  sickness)...........................................Ill
Guts, twisting  of the......................................169
Gum Arabic..................:...........................222

Hard breasts,...............................................................136
Hands, palsy of  the......................,..................................156
       cracked.........................................................187, 326
       chapped....................................*.........................207
               to prevent,................................................139
Hair, to prevent losing the,........................................243, 287
                turning grey..............................................244
Head, dropsy in  the..........................................................242
      pain in the,........................................................165
      stoppage in the...............................................121, 201
      swimming of the....................................................251
Head-ache,..........................................................173, 186, 205
          chronic...........................................................204
          from  heat,.......................................................124
          nervous,..............................................132, 257,'340
          one-sided,...,.................................................127 
                          INDEX.                       409

Head-ache, sick,...........................................Page 188, 265, 314
Health, how to enjoy.......................................................103
       for decline of,.......................................................119
Heartburn,..................................................130, 173, 190, 250
Heart, palpitation of the,...............................155, 180, 245, 326
      swelling in the,.......................................................1?1
Healing salve,................................................................216
Herbs, roots, plants  and flowers, and their medicinal uses,  alpha-
    betically arranged,..,..............................................33-102
Hemlock bark,................................................................224
Hiccough................................................................129, 186
Hip gout,...........................................................311,326, 329
Hoarseness.........................................................198,219,343
          sudden..........................................................257
Hoarhound, ........................  ..................................•........223
Hops.............................................................................223
Horseradish,...................................................................223
Hungary evil.......^........................................................340
Humors, cure for.............................................................346
Hydrophobia..................................................................185
Hypochondria, draft for the feet to cure,...............................298
Hypochondrical disorders......................................127, 168, 173
Hysterical disorders,..........................................127, 173, 342
Hysteric colic,.................................................H?> 299
  3     pills......................X.*...........164. 192, 282
Hyssop......:......................•.....................223

Infant children, diet and treatment ot.......................104
Inflamed eyes,....................................I25. 259> 309
         legs,...........................................200
Inflammation, cure for,....................................234
             poultice for..............................• • • •2°0
             in  wounds,..................................256
             of the eyes..................................227
Indigestion..........'.................................322.344
Indian hemp,.............................................*j"
Influenza,.............................................••■•■JJJ
Injections,.. ........................................226.344
Intermittent fever,.....................................>zo-5' j°t
Inward fever,............................................™o
        female complaints,.................................~°*
        injuries,......................................mi '828

        rZe^r.nr^-:::.'::::::::.-:::.iVe,^6;S


Itching heels or feet,..................................164, 264
                KK 
410                        '  INDEX.

Jaundice,. .118, 123, 124, 173. 189, 215, 239, 257,  280, 294, 314, 343
        yellow,..........................................317
        in children,......................................128
        pills for..........................................216
Jellies, how to make,....................................■  ■ 384
John's-wort salve..........................................245
Joints newly set,.........................................284
       pain in the,........................................199
Juniper bush,............................................222

Kidney diseases...........................................218
Kidneys, stone in the.......................................108
         stoppage in the,..............................108, 199
         gravel in the.....................................164
Kind's evil,.................112, 132, 265, 209,  277, 279, 309, 840
Knot grass,..............................................222

Lachrymal fistula,........................................125
Lady's slipper............................................222
Laudanum, how to make,..................................187
Legs, inflamed,...........................................200
      swelled.....................................213, 290, 838
      sore,  salve to cure.....................................230
Leprosy..................................................188
Lightning,  to recover from,................................182
Lime water, how  to make.......................■-...........140
Liniments,.......................................237, 813, 332
Lips, chapped,...........................................155
       sore,..........................................323, 841
Liver complaint.......................................181, 257
Liverwort,...............................................221
Lockjaw.........................................167, 250, 259
Lobelia,.................................................230
Loins, rheumatism in the,....'..............................237
Lunacy,.................................................146
Lung complaints,.....................................225, 332
      syrup...............................................334
Lungs, to stop bleeding at the,.........................127, 818
Lues venerea,............................................818
Lying-in.................................................201

Mad dog bite,.......................159, 193, 229, 287, 805, 312
Madness, raging,.........................................182
Man, frailty of,...........................................103
Maw worm, cure for,......................................303
Measles,.............................................158, 295
 Menses, obstructed,...........................157, 236, 238, 319
         too little or stopped,...............................251 
INDEX.
411
Menses, too much,..................Page 153,  192, 244, 255, 318
                 or too little,..............................247
Medicine, rules for giving..................................349
Midwifery............................................210, 285
Milk, how to increase,.....................................171
     to agree with the stomach,............................ 172
         to resolve  coagulated,.............................174
Monthly flow.............................................211
Morning sickness,...................*....................338
Mortification,.........................................178, 273
             how to prevent,..........................299, 318
                    stop,.............................240, 317
Mosses...................................................232
Mouse-ear,..............................................231
Motherwort,.............................................231
Mouth, cancer in the,.................................143, 270
        canker in the..................................161, 267
        palsy in the,.......................................156
        sore,.............................839, 256, 823, 331, 336
Mullin........'.....................^.................232, 238

Neck, swelled glands in the.................................118
Nervous disorders,..........'.................,.... 154, 226, 314
Nettle sting,.............................................136
Night sweats,............................................239
Nipples, sore,.....................................161, 165, 265
Noise in the ears,.........................................127
Nose bleeding, to prevent, and to stop,..............139, 246, 257
     ' polypus in the,..............................185, 306, 324
Numb palsy,..............s..........................116, 241
Numbness,..............................................311
           of the limbs,...................................158

Oil of  spike,  how to make,..........r.............,........118
Ointment, bone,..........................................342
          nerve,..........................................345
           yellow,........................................137
Old  sores, salve for............................129, 232, 274, 341
Opodeldock, how to make,.................................127
Overflow of the gall,......................................291

Pain extractor........................................299, 347
     killer...........................*................308, 309
     in the back,.........................................156
           eyes or head,..................................165
            ioints.........................................199
           stomach,.........................168, 278, 311, 380 
412                        INDEX.

Pain in  the stomach from bad digestion,................Page 162
                   or accidental sickness,..................152
                   with coldness and wind,................168
                   hot colic,..............................168
           side,.................................265,  807, 880
           testicles,.....................................149
Pains, rheumatic..........................................274
                salve for,..................................812
Painter's colic............................................195
Palpitation of the heart.......................156, 180,  245, 826
Palsied  limbs.............................................257
Palsy,...............................................156, 819
     numb..........................................116, 241
     from working with white lead and verdigris,............172
     of the hands,........................................156
     in the month........................................150
Pearl in the eye...........................................125
Pennyroyal...............................................212
Phlegm,.................................................208
Phthisic.........................118, 162, 192,196,280,  288, 832
Physic, Reformed Botanic and Indian,.......................848
       vegetable.....................................261, 888
Physiology and  anatomy, remarks on.........................18
Piles,..............115, 155, 165, 194, 246, 306, 818, 322,  326, 386
     how to  prevent,.....................................165
     bleeding,........................................195, 807
     blind,...............................................264
     inward,...............«.............................151
Pimples,................................................342
Plague, to prevent the.....................................158
         cure the,........................................173
Plantain.................................................213
Plants, roots,  herbs and flowers,  and their  medicinal uses, alpha-
    betically arranged..................................33-102
Pleurisy,................................................172
Poison, to cure,...........................................232
       from  oxide of copper...............................187
        inward, to counteract,.........................261, 828
       vegetable, cure for.....................167, 310, 327, 348
Poplar, bark  of the root,...................................212
Polypus in the nose...............................185,  306, 324
Powders, to make bath,..................v.................386
Preface.....................................................5
Prickly ash bark or berries,............................206, 231
Proud flesh, to eat out,.....................................248
Pulmonary consumption,..................................307
Purge, an easy one,....................................172, 266 
                           INDEX.                       413

Purge, to make a strong,..............................Page 169
Putrid sore throat,....................................320, 341

Quinsy..............................119, 174, 188, 258, 298, 319

Raising blood.............................................304
Rattles...............................................190, 258
       in children, best remedy for,.........................Ill
Rattlesnake bite.................171, 194, 236, 281, 818, 816, 322
Recipes,.............................................107-848
Reflections...............................................859
Relax...........................................226, 248,298
Rheumatism,.. 109, 183, 184, 189, 218, 229, 285, 249, 256,  259, 269,
               274, 281, 296, 317, 320, 326, 888
            chronic,...............................227,238, 267
            flying,........................................161
            hot drops for,..................................191
            in the loins,....................................237
Rheumatic cramp,.....................................• • .21a
           liniment,..................................217, 247
           ointment,......................................280
pains,
.274
               salve for,.........................119, 190, 312
          wash..........................................226
Rickets,.................................................188
       to prevent or cure..................................170
       in children....................................240,288
Ring-worms,.................................1?9, 217, 268, 309
Roots, plants, herbs and flowers,  and their medicinal uses,  alpha-
    betically arranged,................................................33-102
Rose-water,  how  to make,................................• 312
Rupture,................................................151
        wind,............................................151

Sage, remarks on,........................................253
Salmoniac,...............................................242
Salt rheum.....148, 192, 224, 246, 251, 289, 295, 314, 315, 324, 339
          wash for.......................................282
Saltpetre, to counteract when taken by mistake,............261
acai5X                        ........................144,822
scaid head;::::::::::::::................203,244,266,275,309
Sciatica,.........-........................................|06
Scarlet fever.............................................*J{


      'in the gums and teeth,........................mV'Jm
Scrofula,............................................    • „R7
Serpent, bite of a.....................................iW> *-87
                KK2
-» 
414
INDEX.
 Shingles,............................................Page 204
 Shooting pains, liniment for,...............................217
 Shrunk sinews from a cut,.................................388
               ointment for............................235, 268
 Sick head-ache..................................188, 265, 814
 Sickness at the stomach,...............................178, 329
         in the morning,..................................338
 Skin rubbed off,..........,...............................837
     to raise a moisture on the,.............................267
 Sleep, inability to.........................................170
 Slumbering drops or cordial,.................................347
 Small pox................................................835
 Smart weed,............................................. 209
 Snake, bite of a.........................................305
 Sore breasts,.....................................167, 237, 271
     eyes,..................218, 226, 258, 276. 287, 808, 309, 835
     heads,.............................................224
 »    legs, salve to cure....................................236
     lips,............................................323, 841
     mouth,............................239, 266, 323, 331, 386
     nipples,....................................161, 165, 265
     stomach............................*................156
     throat,....................211,218, 235, 256, 258, 287, 836
           putrid....................................320, 341
 Sores,..............................288,  234, 237, 272, 283, 301
     how to draw to a head................................324
     inflamed, poultice for,................................176
     scorbutic............................................203
     ulcerated...................................182, 193, 288
 Solomon's seal............................................258
 Spider cancers, cure for,..................................217
 Spikenard, roots and berries,..........................,213, 258
 Spinal complaints,...................................254, 261
 Spitting blood, to stop.....................................135
 Splinters, to draw out,....................................198
Sprained stomach,......................'..............208, 846
 Sprains and weakness in the back...........................129
       liniment for,..........................118, 185, 204, 268
Stiff joints,......................................242, 251, 842
Sting ot a bee or  other insect......................196, 320, 887
          nettle..........................................886
     vonomous,... .•......................................887
Stitch in the side,.........................................151
Stitches, frequent and violent,.............................162
Stomach, bleeding at the................../............164, 343
         coldness at the,.................................', 155
         cramp in  the................................'159, 816 
INDEX.                        415
Stomach, faint, hungry, gnawing,......................Page 332
         hot colic pains in -the,............................153
         pain in the,.........................168,  278, 311, 330
         swelled.........................................302
         Btrain in the,..........................•-•...................342, 344
         weakness in the......................................209, 304, 318
         wind and pressure in the,....................................178
         pain in the, from bad digestion...............................152
                     or accidental sickness,.........................152
                     with coldness and wind.......................153
Stone,...................................................................181, 187
       to prevent,.......................................................110,156
         ease or cure the,...................................................107
       in the bladder,.................................................109, 340
            kidneys,..  .^................................................108
Stoppage in the head,.................................................121, 201
                water,..............................................114, 176
Strain or bruise, cure for,..................................................,303
Strangury,................................................................110, 273
Strengthening plaster, to make a,........................................322
St. Anthony's dance,...................................................262, 294
             fire,.................................................140, 161,306
St. Vitus'dance,...............................................................177
Suffocation, to recover from,...............................................182
Summer complaint..............................................115, 219, 279
Sunburn, smarting,..........................................................110
Sunburns, to take off,......................................................175
Surfeit, a,........................................................................118
Sweating, to stop profuse,..................................................113
Swelled breasts, to cure..................................................—167
        glands in the neck,................................................118
        ]ege> ......................................................213, 290, 338
        limbs, arising from a cold,......................................329
              women's,......................................................278
        throat,..........................................................1H 298
Swelling caused by a cold, how to cure,................................166
Swellings,  how to break................................................;','"2?2
          on man or beast, how to reduce,......................174. 315
          ointment for,..................................1^5, 284, 283, 285
          poultice for.....................................209, 242, 265, 321
Swimming of the head,......................................................251

Tan. to take off,..............................................................239
TapeWorm..................................................221,282,293,343
Teeth, how to preserve them,......................................r^'oft
       to clean...........................................................-™» |«
to fasten the,.
382 
416
INDEX.
Tooth-ache,-...............-150, 180, 188, 286, 280, 284, 288, 329, 846
           to prevent,.......................................................170
           if hollow,.................................................161, 240
Tooth powder,..............................................................881
Testicles, pain in the..........................................................149
Tetter,..........................................................................309
Throat distemper.............................................................115
       sore,.............................211, 218, 235, 256, 268, 287, 836
       putrid sore,..................................................820, 841
       swelled....................................................170, 298, 802
Thorn-apple tea,..............................................................236
Thorns, now to draw out,....................................  .............198
Thrush........................................................162, 194, 217, 263
Tic doloreux,..................................................................380
Tincture of life, how to make,................,.....................241, 248
               London....................................................245
Tobacco  chewing or  smoking, cure for,.................................328
Tongue, frog fellon under the.............................................252
       to cut the fur off the,.............................................888
Torpor of the limbs,......................................... ..............158
Tumors in the breast,.........................................................241
Twisting of the guts,.........................................................169
Typus fever,...................................................................251

Ulcers,...................................................................207, 848
       malignant,.............................................................207
       stubborn.............................................................207
       to cure inward,.............................159, 169, 206, 283, 288
       in the leg (bleeding),..............................................207
            kidneys or bladder,........................................208
Ulcerated sores,..................................................182, 198,'283
Urine, bloody,........................................173, 208, 281, 304, 322
       by drops, with pain,.............................................."..208
       obstructed,.............................................................187
       involuntary,...................................................... ..199
       suppression of,......................................................^201
       sha,rP>.....;-•...............•.....................»V.V."V.\V.'.'.V.'.V.'206
       scalding of the,.......................................................213
       stoppage of,................................................V.V.V"...* .228
       white,..............................................................170
Urinary obstructions...................................................... '..268
Uterine commotion,.............................................        .*:321
Uvula inflamed,...........................................'..)..       ::.".201
       relaxed,...............................................................200

Vegetable  powder,................................................        2H
           poison, cure for,..................".'"."".'.V.16'7,""si6,'m,'248 
INDEX.
417
Venereal diseases, cure for,..................................Page 226, 294
Venomous sting,.............................................................337
Vervine,........................................................................331
Vertigo........................................................................171
Viper bite,...............  .....................................................171
          to prevent the bite of a,....................................207
Vomit, a safe and easy,......................................................208
Vomiting blood,.............•..................................................135
         to stop,.............................138, 177,  191, 196, 205, 28*7

Warts,..................................................176,  201,213, 289, 321
Wasp sting,   ..................................................................196
Water,  stoppage in the,.............................................114, 176
    .   weakness in the,...................................................215
Wax in  the  ears,...........................................................126
Weak eyes,.....................................................................135
      limbs,.................................'............................186, 243
      stomach,.............................................209, 216, 804, 818
Weakness, female,.....................................................213, 264
           and sprains in the back,....................................129
          inward,..................................176, 250, 300, 344, 346
          in the ankles,...................................................201
Weakly and rickety children,.............................................283
Wene,....................................................................177, 255
White swelling on the joint,...............•................................170
Whites,....................................................................200, 264
Whitlow,.................................................................200, 344
Whooping cough...................................145, 165, 180, 816, 339
Wind colic,  ...................................................... -.240, 300
      rupture................................................................151
Windy  dropsy,................................................-............1^1
Woman in travail, syrup for,.............................................285
Womb,  falling of the,................................................133, 244
Worm, pin or tape....................................................113, 221
       powders, to make,........ .........................................114
Worms, for,. 121, 158, 179, 192, 198, 228, 246, 249, 804, 825, 327, 339
        to kill,....................................................269, 282, 301
        and  worm fever,....................................................121
Worms in children, to kill,.................................................292
Wound  bleeding, to stop a,................................................139
Wounds, green,...........................:......................283, 263, 345
         inflammation in,...............................................h"*25&
         inward,........................................................174,245
         to take cold or swelling out  of,.............................175
Wrenches, inward,..........................................................344
Yarrow, remarks on,.............................•..........................237
Yellow  dock,................................................................23J
       jaundice, cure for,..................................................*17 
INDEX—B.
                               Paok
 ApplM and potatoes, how to save,.. .898

 Beef, to keep sweet  and tender one
    year,.....          ............892
 Beef '8 gall, to preserve,............898
 Beer, best root,              .......890
      spruce,......................390
      small,.........................891
 Bees, how to save,..................894
 Bite of a mad dog,..................882
 Black flies, to prevent from destroy-
    ing gardens,...................891
 Bleeding at the lungs,...............877
 Blind staggers, euro for,.............868
 Blood in the  nose or elsewhere, to
    ■top,..........................880
 Botta,..............................882
 Bread, dyspepsia,..................'.898
       Indian,.....................895
 Broken horns,......................897
        legs,.......................881
 Butter, how to save,................894
        to sweeten strong,..........895

 Cake, cup,.........................895
      cold water,...................895
 Calves, how to raise them,..........377
       that scour,..................878
 Canada thistles, how.to kill,.........394
 Caterpillars on fruit trees, to destroy.891
 Cattle, for horn ail in,...............865
       garget in the head, to prevent.876
       murrain In,..................878
       poisoned with sorrel,.........875
       stoppage iu the mannefolds of. 876
       sore eyes In,.................876
       to kill worms on,.............368
         take warts off from,.......874
         tighten teeth in,...........877
         help them to dung,........378
         stop vomiting,............881
         cure wens on,.............881
             over-heated,...........885
       that cannot make water,......366
       worms in the  tail of,.........875
Cheese, to keep skippers from,.......894
Cider, how  to refine,................890
Corn, to fit for planting,.............890
Corns or warts,....................868
Cud, loss of,...................8S1, 888
                                Paob.
 Cucumbers and squashes, to preserve
    from flies and worms,...........891

 Eggs, to save,......................390

 Fruit and potatoes, how topreserre,. 398
      trees, to preserve,...........?.898

 Gall, overflow of the,...............372
 Cambrel joint, blood and wind spavin
    in,............................866
 Garget in the tongue and throat,.....879
 Glanders,..........................878

 Hessian flies and  cut worms, how to
    destroy,.......................891
 Honey,  how to clarify,.............896
 Hunting, fishing, &c................397
 Horse colts, how  to get,.............884
      marks of a good,.............861
      ointment, green,..............865
      stiff,.......................879
 Horses,  bone spavin on,.............869
       botta in,................864, 879
       canker  in the mouth  and
           throat of,...............380
      clap in the back slnewB, be-
           tween the gambrel and
           fetter-lock joints,........374
      cramp in the bowels of,......:t74
      crick in back of,.............872
      castrated,................   ,'^5
      gripes in,...................;;so
      foundered  by eating grain,... .37R
                   drinking water.3f,7
       heaves in,...................;jr,2
      pulsation of,.................^73
      ring-bones on,...............871
      shoulder strain In,...........388
      staggers in,..................364
      stoppage or dry bleach in,... .382
      throat distemper In,..........866
      yellows or jaundice in,......872
      worms in,...................352
      to bring down swellings on,... 360
         keep flies from tormenting. 870
         make a star in the forehead
„          °f.....................374
Horses' hoofs, cracks ia,.............865
Hoof bound,........................879 
INDEX.
419
                                Page.
Hoof brittle,.......................374
Hoofs, gravelled,...................380

Inward hurts or ulcers,.............388

Mares, treatment of,................369
Meat, putrid or tainted,.............892
      to preserve fresh,.............392
        prevent flies and bugs from
            blowing,...............898
Milk, to increase,...................835

Old sores,..........................377

Peach trees, to  preserve  from mill-
    dew,..........................393
Plowing in the fall,.................396
Pole evfl, or thistelow,..............368
Pork or beef, pickle for,............392
Potatoes, to save in summer,........393
Poultry, raising and treatment of;.. .387

Eats and mice, to drive them from
    barns,..........................392
Beeipes for making wine,...........889
Eing-bone, infallible cure for,.......870
Ring-worms,.......................861

Scours in horses or  cattle,...........875
Scab or tick,.......................385
•Scratches,..........................383
Sheep, cough in,...................881
       staggers in,..................382
       fever in,....................881
       poisoned,...................385
       for the plague in,............885
                                Page.
Sheep, to kill maggots in,.......382, 884
         preserve from rot,.....382, 885
Sinew sprain,......................871
Sore back,......................___374
     eyes,..........................877
Strain, fresh,.......................865
String halt,........................874
Stalling or urinating, cure for,.......383
Spavin,............................867
Spavins, soft,.......................867
        wind and blood,............368
Sows, to have them pregnant,.......873
Swine, for fever In,.................384
       to cure measles in,...........384
       cure of scurvy,..............872
       to feed and keep right,.......384
         make  grow and fat well,.. .863
       pox,........................884

Tapping to let out wind,............380
Tetter, or ring-worm,...............380
Timber, time of cutting for durabil-
    ity, ............................894

Water, stoppage in,.................877
       yellow, for the,..............873
Weaning calves, colts, or children,.. .872
Wind colic,........................881
      galls.........................878
Wine, black raspberry,..............889
      cider,........................889
      currant,......................889
      Indian,......................389
Worms in wounds, to drive and keep
    out,............................862 
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