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     NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN

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 ITS MfcOICAI. aciXtTIZS ttffifOLDED, &YMP ro;tr Q«

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       BY JOSIAH^UtlNGAMt;



            NORWICH, N. Y
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                  BE IT REMEMBERED,  Tttat  oh
                   the fifteenth day pf November, in the
        h.S.       fiftieth year of the Independence of
                    the United States  f America, A. U.
                    1825, Josiah Rubi.im.4mk, of the
,ffaid.district,,ha1h deposited in this office the title oi a Book,
 .he right whereof he claims as author, io the word* fol •
,',f wing, to wit:
'<  ,l The Poor M m\ Physician, the Sick  Man's Friend 't
■*r Nature's Botanic Garden exhibited to view ; its medi-
 ct.l  qualities unfolded ; symptom1' of diseases described,
 3nJ met.lr.ds of cure made easy.  Being  a self tiion o!"
   lie- ■. ecipes from the most eminent Botanic Prn /iciaus
 .: lii'rop* *nd America, wherein the  medical virtues  of
 a  gre-n vancty of American  roots, herbs  and flowers.
 vith ihei; perulitir properties and excellent qui 'ities ..re
 unfoldod and made plain am.1  easy to be undei stood by
  rd'n^i'  reader? ; with \ roper cautions in regard,to usiug
 ;]ii>n v,-;-*b safety.  'Designed  wholly for tfie uee and be-
 -."i"'i .if families, by Jo/tah Burlingxme.';   J« cou.~>rmity
 t ■ i. ■  ir.t uf the UoiUd States," ©..titled "An act for the
   ■   ->  ■• ^cnu.nt. of learning, by -securing  tile  copies  of
  . <•;■-, <.u<»'ts  and Books, to the authors and proprietors
       .: '•.'. :,.'-:, uurinythe timca therein men i. i.id;" and
     . . • '> e. :  * entitled " An act supplementary «.o r.n act
        „ •• \  :i.( ior the encourr.trenunt of learning, br
       "^ ttie ■:opiet of Maps, Charts and Books,  to the au-
 i  ■    '.id proprietors of «^ch  copies during the  time:
         ■.vulione'J,'' anl extending the benefits Ihereol
        ..  of designing, Engraving, and Etching hi-U'ica!
       .i.c: prints.''
                          ■R. R. LANSING, Cler!-,
                  o(theKortoern District of New York.
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   Man, when he first came out of the hands d£
his Great Creator, was pure in his nature, not sub-
ject to death, sorrow or pain ; breathing the celes-
tial airs of Paradise-; all the hosts of Heaven and
Earth were benign and friendly to man ; and all
the sons of God shouted for joy.
   But sad reverse : man being in honor abode not,
he disobeyed his God, eat the forbidden fruit;
broke the divine !avv ; sin entered, and death .»itl;
a  numerous train 0/ evils, with their er.vcnom.evi
darts sharpened, and ready to strike the fatal blow,
and driv3 poor rebel man back to hisd'ist again*5
armed with the poisouous effluvia exhaled from
those desolating regions of rebellion and stubborn-
ness, where hatred, variance, extortion, drunken-
ness, lying, swearing, whoredoms, filthy omnia-
n Ctions, intemperance, blasphemy, envyiugs ami "*
stnf.-s tp. found.   Offsprings of sin ; nursed &r.<l
brought up by intemperance; educated in laf-hr
•"mab'ie  vices; initiated^as  fellow ci-.tfts into thi 
If
INTRODUCTION.
mystery of iniquity, by stubbornness and rebel-
lion.
  Alas, alas, this swinish herd again  engender,
and bring forth  a  sorry tribe, whose malignant
breath, whose very touch, is often death.  Their
names indicate no good to man :  Such as plagues,
fevers, sores, consumptions, dropsies, gravel, ca-
tarrh, influenza, diarrhoea ; with three or four at-
tendants ; pain, sorrow, sickness and death ; which
follow close at their heels.
   These unwelcome guests have made their way
into every town and vicinity in the universe ; poi-
eoning every stream of  consolation ; separating
and breaking the tender ties that bind the nearest
friends and dearest relatives in love.   Lamenta*
tion, mourning and woe, seem to be written  on all
 the dwellings of vice.
   And, instead of those pleasant gales, that waft-
 ed ambrosial perfumes and healthful effluvia, thro'
 shady groves on Eden's plains; we are now infested
 with  pestilential damps,  poisonous effluvia, nox-
 ious  vapours, harbingers of death, pointing us to
 dissolution.
    But, is there not a remedy provided ?   Truly
 there is.  We answer with  gladness of heart—
 There is a remedy.  The adorable Jesus, the ever 
Introduction.            v
'blessed son of God, hath undertook to relieve us
from our desperate situation, where we lay enve-
loped  m the regions of death.   And,through his
mediation hath opened a door, of hope to  all that
will make use of the blessed means put into our
hands, prepared before tl^e face of all people, tem-
poral and spiritual, like the vegetable kingdom of
v.hich 1 am about to speak, which lies open and
free to all people:  And that same Jesus who could
heal the sick with a word hath given healing vir-
tues to each herb and flower, suitable to our vari-
ous complaints, an antidote to all our pain.   And
 if suitably and seasonably applied, would greatly
 relieve our distresses.  J^tt as *u»food, so in physic;
 we must use the  means to obtain it; and  suitable
 knowledge in the use of it, that good may come
unto us. Every good and perfect gift cometh dowa
 from  abov.-; therefore all the healing quplitie?
 found in the vegetable kingdom, are a gift to us to
 alleviate our distresses, remove our pains,  cheer
 our minds, and gladden our hearts, while journey-
 ing through this vale of tears.
   And may we not  reasonably suppose, that the
 medicine that grows spontaneous in our own cli-
 mate, where we first drew the vital air, to be more
congenial to our nature, and suited to our con~?<>
                      A3 
^i
INTRODUCTION,
tution, than that brought from foreign climes, ano
distant countries ?  I believe every candid person
will answer in the affirmative.   Then who will
not be glad to see my little book come abroad ; the
whole design of which is to publish useful know-
ledge.  I think  none will be offended, but those
who wish  to keep the bulk of mankind in ignor-
JSQ£ertbat they may make merchandize of them? 
PREFACE.
  In compiling this little treatise on the use ©F"
our own country medicine, I have not been over
anxious to avoid the scoffs or ridicule of that part
of community, who treat  all  such publications
with contempt; neither have I endeavoured to
court the applauie of any  one ; but simply to
compile and bring together this valuable body of
recipes, which lay scattered in such a manner,
that the public could not be benefitted as they
Bow may, provided they pay that attention '■> the
work w  ch will he  both for their healtt  an i in-
terest.  Being persuaded, and fully in the belief,
<hat our country afforded medicines of the best
quality, sufficient to cure all diseases that are cu-
rable, and observing that there are  many linger-
ing complaints that our regular Physicians did
not, or  could not cure, whether through ignor-
ance or design, I am not able to say.
  And having my wife and one daughter taken
away by consumption, and my other remaining
daughter going the same way, I began to look
around me, to see if there could not be a remedy 
a               PREFACE.

found short of the apothecary shop, from which
I despaired of getting any relief.  In this dilem-
ma, I applied to a good old honest root doctor*
and by the infusion of a simple vegetable in cold
water, my daughter was cured in less than three
months, and has had  no symptoms  of the com-
plaint since.  Eighteen years have  rolled  away
Suv-e this cure was effected.  This circumstance
encouraged me to look into the nature and cause
of disorders.  And while musing on this subject,
my son, a lad of about eleven years of age, was
attacked with the bilious cholic, and no ordinary
means that  I then knew of would  remove the
complaint.  I, of course, called a Physician, who,
I have no ^oubt, thought he was doing for the
best;  yet, by the repeated potions put down one
after another, in three or four hours  after the op-
eration, he closed his eyes in death, too power-
ful indeed for the poor  child, even enough for
four  strong  men, as the doctor informed me.—
This gave me a shock, and I formed  a resolu-
tion not to rest contented without a knowledge
of our own  medicine,  and the nature of this
coniolaint as well as others; and finding  it not
half  sp difficult as I at  first imagined, began to
practice in this way with such success, that the 
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vegetable  kingdom  seemed op :ring before'me
with astonishing lustre.  From this period I left
no stone unturned.  I visited the most experien-
ced Root Doctors that I could hear of, from whom
I received much valuable information.  I soon
found the dropsy could be cured without the tap-
ping instrument; fever and ague sores could be
cured  without  taking off the limb; that fevers
might be thrown off, without calomel or puke,
and that the kings evil  could not withstand
the  power of a single  root  rightly  applied.—
These, and many other circumstances combined
together, made me believe that the people were
 kept in ignorance by some means or other, and
 that such a publication was absolutely necessary,
 and would be a valuable acquisition to the know-
 ledge already attained  by the little publications
 now extant, and the frequent discoveries that are
 made ; the knowledge  of which, seems bursting
 upon  us like the rays of the morning.
   But I would  here observe, that I have no de-
 sign to encourage Quackery, nor give counte-
 nance to those men  who go  about the country
 pretending to great skill in the a.t  of healing or
 curing diseases ; when,  in fact, they can neither
 make good their pretentionsj nor  sjiew any ant* 
10              PREFACE.
    davits  of such  cures being wrought by them ,
    neither do they shew suitable recommendations
    whereby peopie of common sense would, or ought
    to employ them.  Every professional character
    is known some where, nd if he is a person wor-
    thy of confidence, it is not difficult to obtain such
    recommendation, whereby he  may he  received
i   with honor and respect.   Neither do Iwish to in-
    jure thos."  professional gentlemen, whose skill
    and abilities entitle them to the patronage of a
    fnee and generous people.  Those amiable char-
    acters stand high in the public estimation* and as
    shining constellations they eclipse those grovel-
    ing  satellites  that  move  around  them ; men
    whese deeds will not bear the light; those that
    rob the burying grounds, and disturb the  sleep-
    ing mansions of the dead ; those that will prolong
    a iisorder to increase their bill, and are not wil-
    ling that every means should be tried  to save  a
    li:'ib from amputation, or a cancerous breast from
    b-.'iug taken off.   Such men deserve not the con-
    fidence of  the  public.   It  matters  not from
    whence they originated, eitheT from behind the
    jpl.uv or the inside of a college, they ought to bo
    «dett'st"d.
      As to myself I make no pretentions  \<i erud?- 
PREFACE.     -v        li
tion or eloquence, but in a plain and simple man-
ner have compiled this little  work, that every
person may read and understand.  1 have strip-
ped it of all technical words by explaining every
such  word as  c >me in  my way.   I have not ar-
ranged the work in alphabetical order, believing
it to be of no particular use.
  Firstly, you have the introduction.
  Secondly, the preface.
  Thirdly, rules in regard to the preservation of
health.
  Fourthly, Nature's Botanic Garden exhibited te
view.   In this I have endeavoured to follow the
most plain and easy  authors that have wrote on>
this subject..
  Fifthly, symptoms of diseases described.  In
this I have been as conscise as perhaps was i.ou-
sistent, and have given as many as would come
within the ability of a family to determine or
prudence to dictate.
  Sixthly,  methods of cure made easy.   Here
you have the body of recipes, selected  from \ a-
rious authors the most experienced, and, as I be-
lieve, honorable, good and useful men ;  who have
not enriched themselves by their  labours, but ao 
PREFACE.
 ted chiefly from a principle of love and good will
 to their fellow men.
   This part of the work I esteem valuable, be-
 ing selected from the most eminent practitioners
 in this mode of practice in Europe and America.
 I have made some extracts from Wesley, Culpep-
 per and Morley, of Europe, and Becket, Cole-
 man, Carpenter, Williams and Steward, who were
 Americans; besides many valuable recipes from
 the natives, together from my own practice for
 a  number of years, wherein  I have had an op-
 portunity  to prove the  virtue of many of the
 medicines recommended in the work ; and thinkj,
that I can say with a clear conscience, that I es-
teem them as much superior to the apothecary's
drugs, as the bright shining of the luminary of
Heaven is superior  to  the feeble rays of the
moon.*
   Seventhly, I have endeavoured to  give prop-
er caution in regard to using  them with safety,
with some useful hints to parents, which I hope
they will receive as from a friend.
  Eighthly, how to prepare all kinds of family

  * i would not ho understood to undervalue the apothe*
Pary'o drugs, for many of them are valuable and necessa.
ry, aud so it the light of the moon. 
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physic, syrups, beers, cordials, drinks, strength*
ning plasters, salves, ointments, &c.
  Ninthly, the indexes  in their  different orders
and arrangements.
  Tenth, an essay from Doctor Morley, on < he-
cure of  scrofulous disorders  commonly  cuiied
kings evil, &c.
  Whether the work will fully answer  the ex-
pectations of the public, 1 am unable to  deter-
mine ; for it is too often the case that the exp<  -
tations of subscribers  are raised  too hi/-
this case it is impossible for any human p
 tion to  satisfy  them.   But the author h
 earnest request to make to his readers ; tlu  :,
 not to condemn the work and lay it aside, -.<  >
 out giving it  a fair trial, and  not be discourse;, d
 if some particular thing should not  exactly  >
 swer  their expectations; perhaps it may in  ■ e
 next  case very far exceed what you could re >
 aonablv  expect.   And be assured  that there is
 not the least design to impose upon the public in
 this work ; therefore your author  will rest with a
 clear conscience, having the heartfelt satisfaction,
 at least, of having meant well, who is not insen-
  sible <f his many imperfections  aud [utility te
 >fcrT hoping his kind patrons will cast the mantle 
 14              PREFACE.

of charity over the errors and imperfections they
may discover  in the work, and impute it rather
to human frailty than any design ; and may the
great author of all good, bless my feeble attempts
to do good  to my fellow men, and may they be
amply rewarded and richly paid for patronizing
this little work.  May we always remember that
we are fellow travellers to that boundless ocean
of eternity, where, if we are truly pious, we shall
be numbered with the blessed, and there we shall
have no  need of an earthly physician; for sor-
row, sickness, pain and death are not known, in
that happy  land where withered limbs and pain-
ed bodies will be seen and felt no more.
                JOSIAH BURLINGAME. 
lfl!SS
TO BE OBSERVED IN REGARD TO THE

      PRESERVATION OF HEALTH,


   Are  transcribed from different authors and
my own experience ;  and experience  is said to
be the  best school master.  Therefore I shall
recommend to my countrymen, these few plain,
simple and easy rules.
   1st. The air we breathe is of  great conse-
quence to  our health.   Those who have been
long abroad in easterly or northerly winds, should
drink some thin and warm liquor going to bed,
or a draught of toast and water.
   2d. Tender people should have those who lie
with them, or are much about them, sound, sweet
and healthy.
   3d. Every  one that  would preserve health,
should be as clean and sweet as possible in their.
houses, clothes and furniture. 
  4th. The gre it rule of eating and drinking, is
to suit the quantity and qu.dirv  f-f the iood, to
the  st■v'jigtii of our  digestion ; to  take always
such a sort  and such a  meas ire of food, as sits
light, and er.sy on the stoimt^h.  All high season-
ed  food is unhealthy, especially to persons of
slender constitutions.
  5th. For studiwiis persons, about eight ounces
of anraul iood, and twelve of vegetable is enough
in twenty-four hours.
  6th. Wu'or, >mlk and  water, buttermilk and
moljsbes and water, are  the best of all  drinks:—
q:r:c..en  the appetite and strengthen  the diges-
?ie  i .Host.
  Peo fleof full habit and fleshy, should be very
i.areoil how they drink cold water when they are
in    ••*■   of free  perspiration ; and I would re-
ef  ii'iiei  u it to every  person  when very warm, to
w.:  ii the hands, wet the temples,  and rinse the
it    i before drinking ;  and then  drink two or
ti <>.* ■'■: swallows, and rest a little  before taking a
fu;! -i'raught.   It may be proper to take a little
 S]•:< r.3 before drinixing large draughts of cold wa-
 ter.  But  herein  I should feel myself inexcusa-
 bi-.:, if i gave ot my '.voders a caution  against
 what is called dram drinking. 
         TO THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH.     If

    He who, being engaged in works of labour, flies
  to liquor for a spur, whenever nature droops from
  too great exertion, makes terrible havoc with him-
  ■self.   Nature, being worn down,  is now forced
  and strained by these m.natural efforts, and ii ihey
  are often repeated, the shattered nerves will she v
  the vast damage they have suffered.  Tremblings,
  sinking of the spirits, sleepless nights rnd d;.y? of
  dreadful  listlessness, will  be the  forerunner of
  some deadly  malady.   Drunkenness, that crime'
  which engenders all other crimes, is a baneful curse
*»'whefe ever it  falls.  It degrades man below the
  meanest reptile, renders his sober hours irksome
  beyond bearing, brings on the most dreadful  dis-
  eases, and at  last places him on a death bed, the
  pillow of which it has  filled with thorns.
    Dreadful is this picture, and many, alas too  ma-
  ny, will feel its truth realized. But how, you ask,
  shall we profit by it ?  How shall we rid ourselves
  of such a dangerous foe ?   Not by trifling with
  him—not by gentle resistance—not by endeavour-
  ing gradually to disengage yourself from his hor-
  rid gripe.  No, an enemy so formidable must  be
  firmly and strongly opposed, not an inch must be
  yielded to him.  Consider if you break not his
  neck he will break your bones, and your heart too;
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together with all that is r.eer and dear to you.—
Call to your ..id, self-love, as well as  regard  and
compassion for  your family, who innocently  suf-
fer for your indiscretions.  Crave the support of
reasoa and religion—let godlike reason from her
sover-.ieii throne, speak the commanding word.  I
wi'i, jnd it is done.   Strong, and especially spirit-
ous iiuiors, are a certain, though  slow poison.—
Experience shews there is no danger in leaving
them off all at once.
   Strong coffiv  and tea, are extremely hurtful to
persons who have weak nerves.
   Tender  persons should eat very light suppers,
and that, two or three hours previous to going to
bed.
   They ought constantly to go to bed  at nine,  and
ric * Jt four or five.   A due regard to exercise is
in.ti-pensably necessary to health and  also to long
life.
   Walking is thn best exercise for those  that are
ah1  to bear  it; riding for those that are not.  The
op.m air, when  the weather is fair, contributes
much to the benefit of health.
   Those who read  or write much, should learn
to do it standing, otherwise it will impair their
health. 
      TO THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH.    10

  The fewer clothes any one uses by day or by
night, the heartier he will be.  Exercise, first,
should be always on an empty stomach.   Second,
should never be continued to weariness.   Third,
after it we should take  care to cool by degrees ;
otherwise we shall catch cold.   The flesh-brush
is a most useful exercise, especially to strengthen
any part that is weak.  Cold bathing is an advan-
tage to health ; it prevents numerous diseases.—
It promotes perspiration, helps the circulation of
the blood,  and prevents the danger of catching
cold.
   Tender people should pour water upon the head
before they go in, and walk in  swiftly.  To jump
in with the head foremost, is too great a shock to
nature.  Go in early in the morning, then retire
to bed, and sleep one hour.
   Costiveness can not long consist with health.—
Therefore, care should be taken to  remove it at
the beginning ;  and when it is removed to prevent
its  return, by soft, cool, open diet.  Obstructed
perspiration, (vulgarly  called catching cold,)  is
one great  source of disease.  Whenever there
appears  the least sign  of this, let it be removed
by gentle sweats.   The passions have a greater 
influence on health, than most people are awate
of.
   All violent and sudden passions dispose to, or
actually throw people into acute diseases.
   The slow and lasting passions, such as grief and
hopeless love, bring on chronic diseases.   Till
the passion which caused the disease is calmed,
medicine is applied in vain.   The love of God,
as it is the sovereign remedy of alfmiseries, so in
particular it effectually prevents all bodily disor-
ders the passions introduce, by keeping the  pas-
sions within due  bounds.   And by the unspeaka-
ble joy and  tranquility  it gives the mind, it be-"
comes the mo3t powerful of all the mean? of health
and long life.
   Moderation, in every respect, ought to be the
first and leading  maxim, of those who wish to live
long and enjoy health.   Extremes, in the most op-
posite things, frequently border on each  other.-—
The greatest joy may  occasion the most acute
pain ; and, on the contrary, moderate pain is often
accompanied with feelings not altogether disagree-
able. Lewis Cornaro had been a professed  epi-
cure and libertine, till he entered into the fortieth
year of  of his age.  His constitution  was so far
reduced by the  cholic, rheumatic pains, fevers- 
       TO THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH.     2 1

&.c. that  his physicians at length  assured him
that he could not survive much longer than two
months ; that no medicine  whatever could avert
this catastrophe, and that the only possible means
of preserving his life, would be  a regular adher-
ence to a frugal diet.   He punctually followed this
advice, and  after the lapse of twelve months, was
not only completely restored, but found himself in
a better state of health than he had ever been, du-
ring any period of his life before.
   It should also  be  observed, that, during sixty
years, he carefully avoided violent heat, cold, pas-
sions, and extremes of every kind ; and by right-
ly  and uniformly  adhering to this mod ".rate diet,
not only  his body, hut his mind also acquired so
determined a tone, that no common incidents could
affect them.  Therefore I shall conclude by ob-
serving, that intemperance  is a fruitful source from
whence originates a great host of complicated dis-
orders, both in the natural and moral world ; and
I anxiously request my country-men, who lov? life
and w:sh to see good days, to shun all the haunts of
vice, and moderate  the desires for all  unlawful
 pleasures.
   Let not the sound of intoxication be heard with-
 it)  our dwellings, and may we have free access to 
the vegetable kingdom  here, and insure to our*
selves  a ready admittance into that kingdom  of
peace, where pain is not known. 
TUB POOR MAWS FHYSXCIABT

                PART I.
      NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.


  GARDEN CELEND-INE ; OR, FILE WORT ; OR, FIG
                   WORT.
   1. The virtues of this herb are known by ex-
perience, that the decoction of the  leaves  and
roots, doth most wonderfully help the piles and
hemorrhoids ; as also, kernels  by the  ears  and
throat, called kings evil, or any other hard wens
or tumors.  There is another secret for my coun-
trymen—a couple of them together.  Celendine,
made into an oil, ointment or plaster, readily cures
the piles, hemorrhoids or kings evil.   The very
herb borne around the body next the skin, helps
in such diseases, though it never touch the place
aggrieved. With this 1 cured my own daughter of
the kings -evil, broke the sore, drew out a gill of 
24        nature's botanic garden.           I

corrupted matter, and cured it without any scar irt
one week's time.

        CIN9.UEF0IL ; OR, FIVE FINGERS.
  2. This spreads and crawls far upon the ground,
with long slender strings like straw berries, which
take root again and shoot forth  many leaves made
of five parts dented about the edges, and some-
what hard.  The stalks are slender, leaning down-
wards, and bear many small yellow  flowers with
some yellow threads in the middle, standing about
a small and green edge ; which, when it is ripe, is
a little rough, and contains small brown seeds.—
The root is of a blackish brown colour, seldom so
large as one's little  finger, but grows long, with
>>ome threads thereat.  It grows by wood and path
ways on piles, and in almost every place.   This
herb has great virtues.  If you give twenty grains
of the powdered herb in wine or wine vinegar, it
will seldom rniss of curing an  ague of whatever'
nature or kind.   The juice thereof drank, about
four ounces at a time for certain  days, cures  the
quinsy and yellow jaundice, and  taken for thirty
days, cures the falling sickness.  The roots boil-
ed in milk and drunk, is a most effectual remedy
for all fluxes either i« men or women.  A  decoc- 
          NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.         25

tion of the root boiled in vinegar, eases the toolh
ache.   The juice and a little honey  helps the
hoarseness of  the throat, and is  very good for a
cough. The root boiled in vinegar helps all knots,
kernels, hard  swellings and inflammations and St.
Anthony's fire.

     COMFREY, A WELL KNOWN GARDEN HERB.
  3. Comfrey is good  against all inward hurts,
bruises and wounds : that is, the decoction drank,
cureth the same.   It is good for women that have
immoderate courses, and a syrup of the  root is
effectual in all these complaints.   The root being
pounded and applied outwardly, is good for wound*.
ruptures, broken bones, knotted breasts, hemorr-
hoids, inflammations,  gout, pained joints,  gan-
grenes.

        VELLOW DAISY ; OR, CROW FOOT.
  4.  This herb grows in abundance in our coun-
try, on mowing  and pasture grounds.   It grows
from one to two feet high, has a roundish leaf, and
blows in the forepart of summer—the  blows are
of a bright yellow colour.   The  herb, if bruised
and applied to  the skin, draws  s perfect a blister
us the Spanish  fly : but the better way  is to mix it 
2.C        NAThRE:S BOTANIC GARDEN.

with salve.  Thejuice is good on  application It
palsied limbs and cold swellings :  it stimulates and
produces a degree of excitement.

WAKE ROBIN, MARCH TURNIP 5 OR, CUCKOO POINT.
  5. This herb, if a tea spoon full of the  pow- % <
dercd root be given, is a present sure remedy for
poison and the plague.   A little vinegar with it,
allays the bilmg taste upon the tongue.  The said
powder taken in  wine as  other  drin!:, procuies
urine and brings down woman's courses, and pur-
ges them  effectually after child bearing;  taken
with sheep's milk, it heals inward ulcers.   The
leaves either green or dry, or'the juice of them
dotli  cleanse all  manner of rotten  and filthy ul-
cer, in what part of the body soever.  The de-
coction of the root dropped into the eyes, cleanses
them from any film or skin, clouds or mists that
begin to hinder the sight.  Thejuice dropped iuto
the ear eases the  pain of ear ache.

                  DANDELION.
    6. This herb is well known and grows frequent-
 ly  in all  meadows and  pasture grounds, and is of
 an  opening  *w5 eh">nsing quality, ;ind therefore
 yerv  effectually opens obstructions  of the liver 
          NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEV.        27

and gall.   It wonderfully opens the passages of
the urine both in old and young; it powerfully
cleanses imposthumes and inward ulcers.  The
decoction of the roots or leaves in white wine, or
leaves boiled as pot herbs, is very effectual.   It
is good for a person drawing towards a consump-
tion, and many  times will produce a healthful
state.
        dove's foot ; or, crane's bill.
  7. This  herb has divers  small, round, pale
green leaves, cut in about the edges much like
mallows, standing upon long redish hairy stalks,
lying in a round compass upon the  ground.   It
has very small brigiit, red flowers, of five leaves
apiece, when they seed they form short beak.-, or
bills.
  The herb is very good for the wind cholic, as
also to expel the stone and gravel  in  the  Kid-
neys.  The decoction is good for inward wouuds
and bruises and to stay the bleeding  thereof, jnd
will expel congealed blood.   The deeortiii in
wine is  a  good foment to ease the  pain of the
gout.  It is of singular use for ruptures and Imrsf*
/ft either old or young. 
2S        nature's botanic gardea.
      \
                ELECAMPANE.
  8. This herb needs no description.   The fresh
roots of elecampane preserved in sugar, or made
intp a sirup is very effectual to warm a cold win-
dy stomach, and to help the cough, shortness of
breath, wheezing of the lungs.  The dried root
powdered and mixed with sugar, answers  the
same purpose, and is good for a stoppage in the
urine, or of women's courses.  The  root and
herb, beaten and made into beer and drank daily,
strengthens the sight of the eyes wonderfully.—
The decoction of the roots in wine, drives forth
and kills all manner of worms that people are
tr:>.ibled with.   It is good  to fasten loose  teeth,
spitting blood, cramps, gout, cankers, &c

                EVE HRIGHT.

  9. live bright  is generally  known.  If this
herb was but as  much used as it is neglected,
it would half spoil the spectacle maker's  trade.
Thejuice, distilled  water, or decoction of eye/* \
bright dropped into the eyes for a number of days,  V
help j all inflammatirm of the eyes and dimness of   *
sight; almost any way prepared, it is a nowerf"' /"• 
         NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.        29

remedy for weak  sore eyes, and to strengthen
those that are dim through age.

                FEATHERFEW.
   10. This is an excellent herb to open obstruc-
tions of the body, and a great strengthener of wo-
men, and will remedy such infirmities as a care-
less  midwife hath been the cause of; in such ca-
ses it will do  them all the good they can wish
for.   A decoction  of tiie herb made in wine or
of the flowers, or  a syrup, or apply the boiled
herb outwardly to  the  parts,  doth wonderfully
help;  It is good  against the gravel, to cle:-.se
away phlegm to cure  melancholy, head  ache.
ague cholic.

                   FENNEL.
  11. Fennel is good against wind in the stomach :
is useful to  increase milk in women's breasts and
make it wholesome for the child ; also to prevent
sickness in the stomach, shortness  of breath and
wheezing ; to open obstructions of the liver .md
to cause  urine.  The  seeds and roots are much
used in drinks and broths  to  make po<ude more
«nare and lean that are too fat.
• '•                 c;- 2 
•iU
NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.
               WINTER GREEN.
  12. This is a singular good herb, uid especially
to heal green wounds.   A salve made of the green
herbs stamped, or thejuice boiled, with hogs lard
or with sallad oil and wax, and  some turpentine
added unto it, is sovereign salve, and highly ex-
tolled by the Germans, who affirm it to  heal  all
manner of wounds.   A decoction of the  herb, or
in wine, and given to  drink, doth  wonderfully
help ulcers, fluxes, women's courses, bleeding of
wounds, inflamationsrisingupon pains of the heart,
cankers or fistulas, and the distilled waters answer
the same purpose.

                 ARTICHOKES.
   13.  The decoction of the juice of artichokes.
is good to open the passages of the urine, and of
course is good for stone in the bladder.

                    HEMP.
   14. This herb is good  for something else be-
 bides making  halters of.  The  seed  steeped,  is
 excellent for  wind in the stomach ; it opens ob-
 structions of the gall, and is good against all flux-
 es, and is very good to kill  the  worms either  in 
         NATI Rt's BOTANIC GARDEN.        Si

man or beast.  Thejuice dropped into the ears,
kills the worms in them, and draws forth ear wigs.
A decoction of the root is good to allay inflamma-
tion in the head or any other part, or pains of the
gout, joints, shrinking of sinews, pains of the hips.

                    HYSOP.
  15. Hysop is known to be a garden herb.  Hy-
sop boiled with  rew  and honey, helps coughs,
shortness of breath, and wheezing, and rheumatic
complaints.   It helps to destroy  worms  in chil-
dren, and being taken with figs and nitre, helpeth
the dropsy.   Being boiled with  wine, it is good
to wash inflammations ; and takes  away the black
and blue spots that rome by bruises, or falls ; it is
an excellent remedy for the  quinsy, or swelling
in the  throat; it helpeth the tooth  ache, beinu;
boiled* vinegar, and  gargled therewith, the hot
vapour of the decoction conveyed into the ear,
eases the inflammation and singing noise of them.
The*oil thereof killeth lice, and helpeth the  itch-
ing of the head.   The green  herb bruised with a
little vinegar doth quickly heal any cut or wound

                JUMPER BUSH.
   !»J.  The juniper t,"*--:7~ ~-~ "----'   ^. •- ■>* 
142        nature's botanic garden.

counter poison, and as great a resister of the pes-
tilence as any that grows.  They are excellent
good against the bitings of venomous beasts ; they
cause  urine;  it is a powerful  remedy  against
the dropsy,  even  if the  ashes  of the bush be
made into lye  and drank, cureth the disease.—
it provokes the terms  in women, helps the fits of
the mother, strengthens the stomach exceedingly,
and expels wind.   Indeed there is scarce a better
remedy for  wind  than  the chymical oil drawn
from the berries.  Those that know not how to
extract the oil, may eat tan or twelve of the ber-
ries each morning,  fasting.   They are admirably
good for a cough, shortness of breath  and  con-
sumption, pains in the bowels, ruptures, cramps,
and convulsions.  They give speedy and s.'fe de-
livery  to women with child.   The ashes of the
wood made into lye, cures the itch, scabs, and le-
prosy.   The berries break the stone, procure ap-
petite that is lost.

                    HOPS.
  17. Hops  are so well known that they need no»
description.   Every good housewife is acquain+ed*1
W!•'-• -hem.   The decoction  of the hops is gooc\
to open obstructions of the  liver aud  spleen, f<> 
         nature's botanic garden.       33

«leanse the blood, and help costiveness ; is good
against the gravel.  They help to cure the French
disease, and all manner of scabs, itch, and other
breakings out of the  body; as also tetters, ring-
worms and spreading sores.   Half a dram of the
seed in powder taken in drink, killeth worms in
the body, helpeth the terms in women, easeth the
head  ache which cometh  from heat. .A sirup
made of the juice and sugar, cureth  the yellow
jaundice, tempereth the heat of the stomach and
liver.

                  HORSETAIL.
   18. This is of the rush kind thatgroweth upon
 land, and are many sorts, but the sort that I shall
 here recommend is the bushy top jointed ever*
where, resembling a horse tail, from whence it.
took  its name.  It is very powerful  to staunch
blood wherever, either inward or outward.   A
decoction  of the herb being drank, it stayeth all
manner of fluxes, and healeth inward ulcers.   It
is good to heal a green wound, it cureth ruptures
in children, and it doth ease the inflammation  in
the f«:i■dan'""* 
.14        nature's botanic garden.

              st. John's wort.
  19. It is well known that John's wort is a sin-
gular wound herb as any other whatever, either#
inward wounds, hurts or bruises, to be boiled in
wine and drank, or prepared into oil or ointment,
bathe or taken inwardly.  It hath power to open
obstructions, to dissolve swellings,  to  close  up
wounds, and to strengthen  the parts that are
feeble.  The decoction of the herb and flowers,
but of the  seeds especially, in wine, helpeth all
manner of spitting and vomiting blood : be it by
any  vein broke  inwardly, by  bruises,  falls, or
whatever provoketh the terms.   Two drains of
sceH made into powder,  and drunk in broth, doth
expel  choler, or congealed   blood  in the sto-
mach ; it is good for all  kinds  of agues.  A  de-
coction of the seed is good for the sciatica, fall-
ing sickness, and the palsy.
                 LIVER-WORT.
   20. Common  liver-wort groweth close, and
spreadetii upon  the ground, in  moist, shadowy
places; with many sad green leaves, as it were,
sticKHtg liat, one upon another, very uneven, cut
 • nou the edges, and crumpled.               ' 
          N VTURe's BOTANIC GARDEN'.       35

  It is a singular good herb for all diseases of the
liver,  both to cool and cleanse it.  It is a singu-
lar remedy to stay the spreading of  the  tetters,
ring-worms, sores, and scabs.   It is good  against
surfeits of the liver.

                   MALLOWS.
   21. This herb grows in every country, and al-
most in every door yard. There are two sorts of
mallows, but their virtues are the same.   A de-
ration  of  the  herb and root, made in  wine, i<
opening to the body, and good in agues.  A de-
coction of the seed made in  milk, or wine,  d -th
 marvelously help the phthisic, pleurisy, and othr.;
 diseases of the  chest.  The juice drunk  in wi;u
 or the decoction of them therein, doth help v •..•-
 men to speedy and safe delivery.   Pliny saith^
 that whoever drinketh a spoon full of tfce juice m
 a morning, will be free from any disease that day.
 The leaves bruised and laid upon the eyes, t*kes
 the  inflaraation from them.   The  decoction of
 the leaves and roots, helpeth all sorts of poi^jn;
 it is good for scabby heads, scalding,  St. Vntho-
 ny's fire, sore  mouth, and throat.  The  green
 Iea\es bruised, with nitre, draw out thorns  and
 prickles in the flesh.  The high mallows is  morr 
Ov,        nature's botanic garden.

effectual in all the before mentioned diseases.-—
The decoction of the leaves, is used in clisters, to
case all  pains of the body, and open  the pas-
sages.   The decoction in white wine, is good for
the king's evil, or swelling  in women's breasts.
A decoction of the root or juice, is good to give
persons fainting, through loss of blood, and ap-
ply the same, mixed with hoaey and rosin, to the
wound.  Mallows bruised and boiled in milk, and
the decoction for constant drink, boiled in water,
cureth the dysentary.
               mother-wort.
  22.  This herb  is so well known, that I shall
not describe it.  There is no better herb to drive
melancholy vapors from the heart;  to strengthen
it, and make a merry, cheerful, blithe soul, than
this  herb is.   Besides, it makes women joyful
mothers, and regulates them  after delivery,  as
they  should  be.   Tlie powder thereof, to the
quantity of a spoon full, being drank in wine,
is a wonderful help to women in sore travel.  It
is good for worms  in children, it helpeth cramps,
and convulsions.
                 spear-mint.
  23.  Spear-mint hath a healing, bindinc, and 
           nature's botanic garden.       37

 drying quality; and therefore, thejuice taken in
 vinegar, stayeth bleeding.   It is good to repress
 the milk in women's breasts.  The bruised herb
 applied with salt, cureth  the bite of a mad dog.
 The often use of the decoction, stayeth women's
 terms.  It is good to wash  the  head of young
 children, that have breaking out sores, %r scabs
 thereon.  The powdered herb being taken after
 meat,  helpeth bad  digestion.   Mint and  worm
 wood, being boiled in but little  water, and  the
 herbs wet with spirits and bound on the  bowels of
 the child,  hath a wonderful effect in bringing
 away worms.

                   MULLEN,
   24.  Mullen is well known.  A small quantity
 of the root given  in  wine, is good against i\sk
 and fluxes.  The decoction  of the herb is good
 for those that  are  burst, for cramps, and con-
 vulsions, and for those that are troubled with an
 old cough.   The decoction  of the root in wine
or water, is good against the ague ; it openeth  ob-
structions of the bladder und reins, when one
can not make water.
   Three ounces of the  distilled  water, drank
morning and evening, for some days together, is 
 38        nature's botanic garden.

 a most excellent remedy for the gout.  A de--
 coction of the root and leaves, hath great effect
 in dissolving the tumors, swelling, and inflamma-
 tions of the throat.   The seeds and leaves boiled
 in wine, and applied, draw forth  speedily, thorns
 and splinters from the flesh, easeth the pains and
 healeth them.   The same laid on any  member
 newly sprained, or out of joint, or newly set, ta-
 keth away all swelling and pain thereof.

                  mustard.
  25.  This herb is singular good in  all  disease*
 of the chest and lungs, hoarseness of voice, and
 by  the use of the decoction thereof, for a  little
 space, those have been recovered, who  had ut-
 terly  lost their  voice, and almost  their spirits.
 It is good for coughs, shortness of breath,jaun-
dice, the  pleurisy, pains in the back and loins,
 for cholic, being also used in clisters.  The seed
 is good against poison, for the s iatica, gout and
joint aches, sores, cankers in the mouth, throat,
 or behind the ears, for hard and swelled  breasts..

                 HOARHOUND.
  26.  A decoction of the herb with  the seed, or
 the juice of the green herb, taken with honey, i* 
          nature's botanic garden.        39

a sure remedy for those that are pursey, or short
winded, or that have a cough, and are going into
a  consumption.  The  green herb boiled with
milk, and a spoon full taken every morning, will
restore a person far gone in the consumption. It
is an excellent thing for women in travel, and for
those that have taken poison.  The leaves used
with honey, are good for foul ulcers, and will stop
running or creeping sores.  Thejuice with wine
and honey, helpeth to clear the eye-sight.  The
decoction is good for those that have bad livers j
it killeth worms, and is good for the asthma.
          catnip, catmint, or nep.
   27.  The blows of catnip dried and powdered,
and taken with honey for thirty days, is a  certain
cure for the phthisic.   It is a good remedy ; that
is, the decoction of the herb for women to regu-
late their terms; it is good for pains in the head,
catarrh, or dissiness thereof, and is used for colds,
coughs, and  shortness of  breath.   The juice
made into an  ointment and applied, is good for
the piles.
                   NETTLES.
   28.  Nettle  tops, eaten in the spring, consonte 
<ik)        nature's botanic garden.
 the phlegmatic superfluities in the body of man.
 that the cold and moistness of winter hath left
 behind.  An electuary made of boiled roots, leaves
 or juice, is a safe and sure remedy  to open the
 pipes and passages of the lungs ; it is good to pre-
 vent the pleurisy : the same helpeth the swellings
 of the almonds of the ears and throat.   The de-
 coction in wine is singular good for women, and to
 open obstructions of the body.  The decoction of
 ♦he herb, or juice, or of the roots, is  excellent to
 wash old rotten and stinking sores,  fistulas,  or
 gangreenes ; it is of great use to bathe benumbed
parts of the body, and gouty limbs.

                 white-oak.
  29.  The leaves and  bark of the oak, are both
 binding and drying.  The decoction of that bark
 and the powder of  the cup that holds the acorn,
 will stay vomiting, and spitting of blood, bleeding
 at the mouth, and other fluxes of blood  : the-oak
 buds before they break out into leaves  in decoc-
 tion will do the  same.   The same is good in pes-
 tilential fevers,  for it resisteth the force  of the
 infection, it cooleth the heat of the liver.  A de-
 coction of the leaves is one of the best remedies
 fpr women's weaknesses that I know of. 
          kature's botanig garden.       41

                    OATS.
   30.  Oats fried with salt, and applied to the side
taketh away the pains thereof.  The meal of oats
boiled in vinegar and applied, taketh away freck-
les, and  spots in the  face, or other parts of the
body.

                    ONIONS.
   31.  Onions bning roasted in the  embers, and
eaten with honey and oil, do help an inveterate
cough.   The juice of onions  is good for a scald
or burn ; and used with vinegar, taketh  away all
blemishes, spots, and marks of the skin; and drop-
ped into the ears, easeth the pains and noise in
them.   Leeks are wild and very common, and as
good an herb as groweth, to eat  in the spring to
physic the blood, and is an excellent guard against
epidemical fevers, and other disorders.  The root
and herb, b  ing boiled and applied, is an excellent
remtdy for the piles.
                   PARSLEY.
   32.  Parsley, a garden herb well known, is  of
an opening n  ture, and therefore good to open ob-
structions of the liver and spleen.  It pro voketft 
42        nature's botanic garden.

urine mightily, especially if the roots be boiled and
eaten like parsnips; is of course good for the gra-
vel in the bladder; it is good  to  give children
troubled with wind, and it taketh away inflammation
of the eyes.  The herb being fryed in fresh but-
ter and applied to women's breasts, takes the pain,
and swellings thereof.   Take of the seeds of pars-
ley,  fennel, amsey  and caraway,  of each one
ounce ; of the roots of parsley, burnet, sasafras
and caraway, of each an ounce  and half; let the
seeds be bruised  and  the roots  washed  and cut
small; let them lie all night and steep in a bottle of
white wine, and in the morning let them be boiled
in a close earthan vessel, until a third  part be eva-
porated, which being strained and clear, take four
ounces morning and evening, first and last, abstain-
ing from drink after it for three hours.  This will
open obstructions of the liver and spleea, and ex-
pel the dropsy and jaundice by urine.

               the beech tree.
   33.  The leaves and flowers of the beech tree,
made into  a syrup, does exceedingly help weak
and debilitated constitutions.  Two spoons full of
the  sirup may be  taken  every morning.   The
leaves bruised and laid on the bowels, killeth 
         nature's botanic garden.       43

worms : it doth the same in decoction, being drank
for that purpose. The decoction is gently physical
A sirup made of the flowers, as the sirup of roses
is made, is a gentle puke, and spendeth waterish
and hydropical  humors by the continuance there*
of.   The flowers made into a conserve, worketh
the same effect   The meat of the  stones steep-
ed, doth most wonderfully help all  pains  in  the
bowels.

                PENNY ROYAL.
   34.  Penny Royal warmeth the coldness of any
part to which it is applied; being boiled, it helpeth
forward the terms of women regularly. It stay eth
vomiting ; being taken in water and vinegar, min-
gled together, and being mixed with  honey and
salt, it cleanseth phlegm from the stomach.   The
green  herb  bruised and put into vinegar, clean-
seth foul ulcers, and taketh away the marks and
bruises upon the eyes. Boiled in wine, with honey
and  salt, it helpeth the tooth ache.   Mints  ;md
penny royal put into vinegar, are excellent against
swoomngs and faintness.

                  PLANTAIN.
   3,5.  This herb growcth in every place in mead- 
 •*M        Nature's botanic garden.

 ows, by paths, that it needs no description.   The
 juice clarified and drank for several days together,
 prevaileth wonderful'y against all  pains  in the
 bowels, and stayeth all manner of fluxes.   It is
 gouu to stay spitting of blood, or the making foul
 an-.1 bloody water,  by reason of ulcers in the kid-
 neys or bladders;  it is held a special remedy for
 the phthisic, or consumption of the  lungs, or ul-
 cers of the lungs, or coughs that come of heat.—«
 The decoction, or powder of the roots or seeds,*is
 mueh more powerful for the aforesaid purposes,
 than the leaves.  A decoction of the root is effec-
 tual to cure agues of any kind.   The clarified
 juice, dropped into the eyes, cools the iriflammar
 tion, and takes away the web ; and dropped into
 the ears, restores the hearing.  The decoction'or
juice, is good for old foul ulcers, and for car.kers
 in the mouth, or sores in any part.   It is good to
 apply where any bone is out of joint, to hinder in»
 fl; mmations, swellings and  pains that rise  there*
 upOn.  The dried leaves, powdered  and  taken in
honey  or molasses, will  destroy  worms.    One
 part plantain water, and two parts of beef brine,
boiled together and clarified, (that is, all the scum
 taken off,) is a most sure remedy to heal  all man-
 ner of scabs ©r itch,  tetters, ring worms and. 
           nature's botajuc garden.*        45

 shingles.   Finally, plantain  is a singular herb to
 heal wounds or sores, either inward or outward.

               * POPLAR TREE.
   36. Poplar  is very cooling.  Therefore, the
 leaves bruised with vinegar and applied, helps
 the gout   Poplar buds are used by women to
 beautify their  h;ur, and by  bruising- diem  with
 fresh butter, and setting them in the sun, makes
 an ointment that is good for inflammations of eveiy
 kind.

            queen of the meadow.
   37. The stalks are reddish, they grow three or
 four feet high, having at the joints,  large winged
 leaves, standing one above another, being hard,
 rough or crumpled, much like an elm leaf, having
 also, some smaller leaves with them of a sad green
 colour on the upper side, and greyish underneath,
 of a pretty  sharp scent and taste, somewhat l.'e
 burnet.   At the top of the stalks an I bneicho-s,
 stand many tufts of small white flowers, thrust
 thick together which smell much sweeter thsm the
 leaves.   The root is blackish on the out side, and
 brownish within, and has a strong scent, but nol
•fhing so pleasant as the leaves and flower*. -<-. 
4.6       'nature's botanic garden..

  Qjnen of the me <dow grows in moist land and
pear rivers and water courses.  It is good to stop
all  manner  of bleedings,  fluxes,  vomitings and
courses, and also, other weakness.  It is said to
stop agues  and mak~ a merry heart, for  which
purpose, soine use ih lowers and some the leaves.
It h-">h>s speedily those that have the cholic.  It
!•■ ,»s all ulcers that are cankered, rotten and hol-
low, and f'Stulas, and sores in the mouth or  secret
p .r ts.   The leave-, when full grown and laid on
th-i skin, draw a blis.cr.
                garden rew.
  38. Rew is a counter poison.  The seed there-
of, taken in wine, is an antidote  against all dan-
g?rous medicine or deadly poison ; it will destroy
worms in children, and  is good  (being bruised
wiih wormwood and wet with spirits and applied
to She bowels,) to fetch away worms.  The herb
being often made use of in drink, will cause abor-
tion, and will stop venereal inclinations.   A de-
coction, made of the herb, with some dried dill
leaves and flowers, eases all pains  inwardly, to he
drunk and outwardly to be applied to the  pained
parts 
         Nature's botanic gadren.       4"?

               RUI'TURE WORT.
  39. Rupture wort spreadeth very many thready
branches round  about upon the  ground about a
■span long, divided into many other smaller parts,
full of small joints set very thick together, where-
at come forth two  very small leaves of a fresh-
yellow green  colour, branches  and  all,  there
grows forth also a number of exceeding small yel  •
lowish flowers, sci ice to be discovered from the-
stalks and leaves.   The seeds are as fine ;«sdust.
The root is very long, thrusting down deep  into
ttv: ground, a little  bitter  and sharp withal in
taste.
   1 upture wort has not its name in vain, for it is
found by experience to cure the  rupture in  chil-
dren  and other people, by taking a dram  of the
powdered herb  every day in wine.   It  helps all
other fluxes, either of men or women, vomiting
also.   It is good for the gravel and stone, and the
same also helps  all griping pains in the  stomach
or belly or the obstructions of the liver, and cures
the yellow jaundice ;  it likewise kills worms in
children, and it dries foul  ulcers or spreading
sores.. 
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                     RYE.
   40. The bread and leven of rye meal, ripens and
breaks imposthumes, boils and other swellings.—
Rye meal moistened with vinegar, put into a bag
and laid upon the head, does very essentially ease
the pain.

                   SAFFRON.
   41. It is a grcit strengthener of the heart, and
only ten grains must be taken at a time.  It quick-
ens the brain, helps the consumption of the liver,
difficulty of breathing, and  is an excellent thing
in epidemical diseases, as pestilence and measles,
and a notable remedy for the yellow jaundice.

                    SAGE.
   42. A decoction of sage causes urine, stays the
bleeding of wounds, and cleanses foul ulcers and
sores.   Orpheous  says  three spoons  full of the
juice of sage taken fasting, with a little honey, stays
the spitting of blood, of them that are in a con-
sumption.  Take  of ginger and spignard, each-
two dnms.of sage seed toasted by the fire, eight!
drr.ms, of long pepper twelve drams ; make this/
into pills, and take a pill or two morning and eve 
NATURE*S BOTANIC GARDEN.       4$
 ?m"ig.   It is good for all pains in the  head, and
 cleanses away humours ;  it helpeth pains in the
joints, is good for the lethargy and falling sickness,
 and it enlivens the spirits.   Sage taken with worm
 wood, is good for the bloody flux, and is a regula-
 tor of women's terms.   Sage juice dropped into
 the ears kills the worms  therein, and  is good to
 help the memory.   Thejuice of sage drunk with
 vinegar, is a good medicine for the plague at all •
 times, and an excellent wash may be made with
 sage, rosemerry, honey suckles and plantain, b\
 adding a little honey and allum, for sore throat or
 mouth cankers, in any part of the bod}'.

                Solomon's seal.
   43. The great white Solomon's seal is founr by
 experience to be available in the cure of wo.IikIe
of every description, by making use  of the  pound-'
 cd  root, or in salve.   The decoction of the root
 will stay vomiting, and plagues in general  ot <:ny
kind, and is most excellent to apply the pounded
root or bathe with the decoction, any joint that is
out of place, or bone broken ; it will cause it to
knit soon,  nd will dispel congealed  blood,  his
good  in syrups made withcunk r«.-ots end spirits,
for the consumption and other wcalrnejs  of the

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50        NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.

breast and stomach.   It i? good to cleanse the face
rrom freckles or spots on the skin,leaving the skin-
smooth and fair, and is much made use of by the
Italian ladies for this purpose.

       SANICLE ; OR, BLACK SNAKE ROOT.
  44. It grows in moist rich land and generally in
meadows, bearing a number of burs on the top of
the plant.   The root is blackish, and of a strong
gootiMnell.  The decoction of the herb or root,
or the root in powder, or made into an ointment,
is good to use as the case may require, for green
wounds,  ulcers, imposthumes, inward bleedings,
sv.v.lhngs, ulcers in the mouth, throat and privates,
and it helps to stay immoderate fluxes.   The root
put into  good rum and drunk, has cured a deep
consumption.  This root and  herb, may  be reck-
oned amongst the b:\sl of medicine, for  weakness
and debility, being a great strengthner of the  sys-
tem.

                  SCABIOUS.
   45.  Scabious grows up  with many hairy, soft,
white, green leaves, some of  which ere  but very
little,if at all, jagged oa the edges, oih^rs are very
-ouch rent and torn on the sides, and have threads 
          Nature's rOtanic garden.        51

in them, which, upon the breaking, may be plainly
seen, from among which, rise up  many  hairy
green stalks,  three or four feet high, with such
hairy green leaves on them ; but more deeply and
finely divided, and branched forth a little.  At the
tops thereof,  which are naked and bare of leaves
for a good space, stand round headj of  flowers, of
a pale blewish  colour, set togoti>.er i;i a head.—
The root is large and runs down into the ground,
and of a reddish cast.  It grows in meadows and
ia old fields and amongst corn.   There are three
or four sorts  of scabious, but they are similar and
their virtues are the same.
   Scabious is very effectual for all sorts of coughs,
 shortness of  breath, and all other diseases  of the
 lungs and breast, ripening  and'  digesting cold
phlegm, and other tough phlegm and humors, a void-
 ing  them by coughing and spitting.  Drink the
 clarified juice in the morning, fasting, with a dram
 of mithridate and molasses, frees the heart from
 infection, pestilence and epidemical  complaints.
then let the party go to bed  and sweat. The green
 herb pounded and applied to any boil or swelling,
 eases the pain and will draw  it  to  a head.  It
 helps all  sores proceeding  from the  French dis-
 ease.  Thejuice of scabious, made up with the.* 
 •52       NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.

 powder of bor-ix and cam phi re, cleanses the face
 of freckles or pirnples, and the head washed with
 the same cleanses away dandruff, scurf, sores, itch
 and the like.   The bruised herb applied to the
 flesh, draws forth  splinters, thorns, arrow heads
 or the like, lying in the flesh.

 shepherd's purse ; or, shepherd's pouch, toy-
            wort ; or, cace weed.
   46.  Thi' little herb  has  sundry names, and is
 an excellent pot herb.   The root is  small  and
.white, and perishes every year.  The leaves are
 small and Jong, of a pale green colour, and deeply
 cut in on both sides, amongst which, spring up a
 st.dk which is  small and round, with small leaves
 Upon it even to the top, and the flowers  are white,
 ■and very small.
   It is of a dry, cold binding nature.   It helps
 all fluxes, spitting  of blood, and those  that make
 bloody water, and  being bound to the  wrists and
 soles of the feet, it helps the yellow jaundice.—
 The herb made into a poultice, and applied, helps
 inflammations and St. Anthony's fire,and thejuice
 dropped in o the ear, easeth the pain  thereof.—
 A good ointment may be made of tins hero for afl[
*wx>uirJs and especially those in the head,. 
          VVIURE'S BOTANIC GARDEX.        $3"

               COMMON SORREL.
  47. Sorrel is  a cooling herb, and  .herefore if
helps inflammations and heat of blood  in agues,
sickness  and fainting, and td refresh over spent
spirits, that have had fits of fever and  ague, and
to quench thirst and cause an appetite in decayed
stomachs.  It resists (he putrefaction of the blood,
kills worms, and is a'-Bordial  to the heart.   But
the seed is most effectual, being more drying and
binding. • The roots, seeds and herbs, are good for
the poison of a serpent.
  A decoction of the flowers made in wine, helps
the black jaundice and inward  ulcers.  A syrup
made of the juice of sorrel and  fumatory, is an
excellent remedy to kill those sharp humors' caus-
ed by the itch.   Thejuice with  vinegar and ap-
plied outwardly, is good for scald  head or tetters,
ring worms, &c.  It helps the kernel in the throat
and  the juice is good for sores in the mouth.  The
herb pounded and roasted, being applied to  a
humour, blotch or boil,  will quickly fetch them
•to ahead and break them.

                 WOOD SORREL.
  ■48. W#od  sorrel is of the same nature, and is
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54        NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.
good for all the aforementioned disordes, and is-
thought to be more effectual in hindering the pu-
trifaction of the blood, and tempering inflamma-
tions,  it is good to stay vomiting, and is excellent
in pestilential and contagious fevers, cools inflam-
mations in the throat, and helps them much.

               STRAWBERRIES.
   49. Strawberries when .greenj are cold and dry,
but when ripe are cold and moist.   The berries
are excellent to cool the liver, blood and spleen,
or any choleric stomach, fainting spirits, or quench
thirst.   They are not good  to take in settled fe- •
vers.   The leaves and- roots boiled in wine and
water, stays the bloody flux.  The juice of ihe
b"iries distilled, is a sovereign remedy 'for, the
panting and beating of the heart, and isgojdfor
the yellow jaundice.   The juice,  or the decoc-
tion  of the herb  or root, dropped  into, or wash-
ed with the same,  helps to cure foul ulcers, in any
p..rt of the body ; is: good to fasten loose teetb^and
helps spungy and foul gums.   The juice is good
for infl-imed and sore eyes ; it is good for sores and
humors on the body, redn-.-ss of the face, or spots J
or other deformations of the skin,  and will make \
<i smooth aud fair.-            .•-.    V 
          Nature's botanic'garden.       ;».-j

   It is a very wholsome, codling herb, and good
 with bread and milk ; but to smie people they are,
 poison, and  they cannot  make  any use of them
 whatever.

              SMALL HOUSE-LEEK.
   60. It grows with many trailing branches upon
 the ground, set with many thick, flat,  roundish,
 whitish, green leaves^ pointed at the ends.   The
 flowers stand  many Of them together.  It grows
 Upon stone  walls and mud walls ;'upon the tiles ot
 houses, and  amongst rubbish ; upon stumps or al-
* roost any place, wjth..but little earth -or moisture.
 U;is. of a cold nature and something binding, and
 therefore good to stay deductions, especially such
 as fall upon the  eyes.  It, expels-poison, resists
 pestilential fevers, being exceeding good for tri>
 tian agues.   You may drink the decoction of the
 herb for all the aforementioned diseases.  It  ;- s<
 harmless an herb that you ban hardly use it aurii^a
 Beings bruised and applied to the place, it helps
 the kings evil, and many other knots in thejftesb,
 and also the piles.

                   TOBACCO.
   51. Tobacco .is found-by experience to be gQOt> 
5B       nature's botanic garden.
to expectorate  tough phlegm from the stomach*;
chest and lungs. The juice is an excellent remedy
for worms.  You may sweeten, distill or make it,
into a syrup, and it answers the same purpose.—-
It eeses the pain in the head, and the griping pains»
in the bowels.   It helps to eXpel the stone in the
kidney or bladder, and casts it off by urine.   The
seed thereof is very effectual  to cure the tooth
ache, and the ashes of the herb to cleanse the
gums, and make the teeth white.  Theherb brui-
sed and applied to the place aggrieved  with the*
king's evil, is very effectual in nine or ten  days.
Manardas says  it is a  counter poison to any ven-'
omous serpent.  The juice is good to kill lice • in
children's heads.
   The juice applied to any green wound of cut
cures it very effectually, and will cleanse and heal
old iores.

          SPIGNARD ;  OR, PET1MORAL.
V  52.  This is  good in  syrups for consumptive
complaints.  The roots boiled in wine or water,
and drunk, helps the stoppage of the urine, sweK
lings and pains of the stomach, pains in the mouth.
and all joint aches.  If the  powdei of the root|
ihe taken with honey, it breaks tough phlegm, and 
          NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.        o7

dries wp the rheum that falls upon the lungs.   The
roots are accounted very effectual against the sting
or bite  of any  venomous  creature.  The roots
pounded and applied to an old sore or wound, [the
root must be  boiled- and the pith taken out,] will
do  wonders,  when other  things fail.   The sore
must be washed in the water in which the root was
boiled, at every dressing.

               GARDEN TANSY.
  53. There grows nota better herb for women
than this.  It regulates, them just  as though it
was made wholly for their use.  It will pi -vent
miscarriages.   It will consume the cold and moist
humors that  are  caused by winter, winch effect
the bodies of men and women.  Thejuice ot tan-
sy drank in wine, is good to open the passages of
urine, and expel wind,.  The seed is good,to give
children for worms, and thejuice is effectual, be-
ing  boiled in  oil.  It is good for shrunk  sinews
occasioned by crump.   You may use it in decoc-
tion, in syrup, in powder, or in wine, and thejuice
»S equally good, as the case may require.   ."*

               LADIt-S' THISTLE.
, ,J34. It is tke common thistle that grows  almc^fe 
58        NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.

every  where.  It is thought to  be effectual fot
agues, to cure phlegm and to open obstructions in
general.  It isgood against the jaundice and dropsy,
pains in the  sides, and many other pains and gn»
pings, and cleanses the  blood exce dingjy.  And
in spring, take the leaves, cut off the prickles and
boil them as common greens, and eat them in this
way ; it will change the blood as the season chan*
ges, and that is the way to be safe from disease.

     HONEY SUCKLE ; OR, MEADOW CLOVER.
  55.  If the herb be boiled and used as r> clister, /
it eases the griping pain of the gout.   The herb
boiled, made into  a poultice and applied to inflam-
m.- tions, will  ease them.   The  juice thereof
dropped into the eye, takes away the pain and
web, and  helps eyes that  are blood shot.  The
seed and flowers boiled in Water, and made into a
poultice,  with some oil and applied, helps hard
swellings and inflammations.
                   VIOLETS.
  56.  The  blue  violets grow spontaneously in
mowings, by the side of streams, and it has a leaf
about the bigness of a cent, of an oval  form, and
"omewhat rough.  It bear<? a pale blue blow, and 
         nature's botanic garden.        59

blows early in the summer.  The root is about.
an inch long, and appears jointed, and when
chewed in the mouth, becomes slippery like the
white of an egg.  This root is  used  in  the bil-r
Iious  cholic,  dysentary, coughs, Sec.   It eases
the pain of the gravel, stoppage of urine, and is
an excellent remedy in debilitated eases of al-
most every kind.  A dram weight of the dried
leaves or  flowers, purges  the  body of choleric
humours.   The dried flowers  are  accounted
among the cordi&l drinks, especially where cool-
ing cordial is necessary. They are good for plas-
ters and poultices, for inflammations  and swel-
lings.
                   WHEAT.
   57". To eat the green berries of wheat is hurt-
ful, as it breeds worms in the stomach.  Pliny
says that the corns of wheat roasted on a shovel,
and  eaten, is a present remedy for those that ace
chilled with  the cold.  The oil pressed from it
between  two small  plates of iron, heals all tet-
ters, scald head and ring worms.  The same oil
is good to  put  into hollow ulcers, and will heal
them up, and is good forchapped hands and feet.
Hot wheat bread, being applied for an hour .at 
 oO        nature's botanic garden.

 a time, three days together, perfectly heals the
 kernels in the throat, commonly  called king^a
 evil.   The meal- boiled in vinegar helps the
 shrinking of the sinews,  says Pliny.  And mixed
 with vinegar and  honey, boiled together, heals
 all freckles,  spots  and  pimples on the  face.—
 Wheat flour, mixed with the yolk of an egg, ho-
 ney and turpentine, doth draw, cleanse and  heal'
 any bile, plague, or foul ulcer.  The bran boil-
 ed in vinegar, and applied to swelled  breast*,
 helps them and takes away the inflammation

                WORM woop.
   58.  This herb is as hot as your blood, and no-
 hotter, and is a wonderfnl remedy  for worms, if
 you take  the powdered  leaves in honey or mo*
lasses.   The juice is equally as good, for it-pro-
vokes urine, and helps surfeits and swellings, and
restores appetite that is lost.  It helps the  yel-
low jaundice, and is a great preserver of health.
 Put the herb imo a chest among clothes and the
worms never will touch  them.  The juice  will
prevent rats  or mice from eating or gnawing
where  ever it is applied,  and it cures the cholic.
 ■'i drop of the mice will prevent any harm frf>m 
         nature's botanic garden.       61

those that have drank too  much  spiritious li-
quors.
yarrow,called also, nosebleed; or thousakd
                   LEAF.
   59. An ointment of them cures wounds, and
 are fit for such as have  inflammations.  Boiled
 in white wine, it stays  all manner  of fluxes, and
 the decoction being drunk, as also  the  bloody
 flux.   The ointment of it  is not o:il> goo:! for
 green wounds, but also for ulcers and fistulas.—
 The decoction of the  herb  applied to the head,
 srt-jpsthe shedding of  the hair, and it helps such
 as cannot-hold their water.   The  leaves  :lu wed
 in the mouth,  lielps the tooth ache.  The virtues
 of this herb are drying and binding, and is good
 of course, for  all  fluxes of the body, if righny
 applied.

         self-heal; or, sickle wort.
   60. The common self-heal is a small, l.<w creep-
 ing herb, having many small roundish leaves,
 somewhat like the leaves of wild mint, of dark
 green colour,  without any dent on  the edges ;
 from among which, rise divers squaie hairy stalks,
 sc.rce a foot hiiih, which ?];:  :ad aoanetimes ittt»
                     r 
6.2        nature's botanic oarpi.n.

branches, with  divers leaves set thereon, up  to
the top ; where stand brown spike head'; of small
brown leaves like scales and flowers set together,
almost like the heads of cassidopy, which flow-
ers are gaping  and of a bluish ipurple, or  more
pale blue, in some places  sweet, but  not  so  in
others.   The  root consists of many  strings  or
fibres  downward, and spreads  strings where  it
increases.  The small stalk <  with the leu  is
creeping upon the  ground, whereby it is made a
great tuft in a short time.  It is found in woods
and fields every where, and it flowers in May.—
Self-heal is a notable wound he b, and is a spe-
cial  herb either taken inwardly in syrup,   r ap-
plied outwardly as a poultice.   If it be accompa-
nied with sanicle and other wound herbs, it will
be effectual, and to wash or inject it into ulcers
outwardly, where there is ca.ise to repress hoi
ham irs and  inflammations, swellings or the like ;
or to stop the blood in any wound, it is used with
success ; and alsu to cleanse the foulest sores, and
cause them speedily to  heal.  The juice  with
oil of roses, to annoint  the temples  and  iure-
head, is very effectual to  remove the head  iche.
The.'€h»jmsm proverb is herein verified ; timt  he 
          NATURES BOTANIC 6*RDEV.       6J

needs neither Physician nor Surgeon, who  has
self-heal and sauiicle.


   61. Sow thistre is cooling and something bind-
ing, and is very fit to cool a hot stomach ana to
ease the gnawing pains thereof. 1 he milk that is
taken from the stalks, is good for those  that u.re
short winded.  Pliny says it has caused the gra-
vel and stone to be voided by urine, and that tue
eating thereof, helps a stinking meath.   Three
spoonsfull of the juice taken in white wine warm-
ed with some oil put therein, causes women to
haves:  easy and speedy delivery that  they  will,
be able to walk presently after.   The herbs brui-
sed, or tiie juice is profitable to cure inflemma-
tio.is in  the eyes, or  any other piace, or  the
heat and sharpness of humors in the privates.—*-•
It is excellent for women to wash their faces with,
and clear the skin, and give a lustre thereto.

            VERVAIN ; OR, VARVINE.
   62. The common vervain has somewhat long,
bro.ul least s next the  ground,  deeply gasiied
about the edges, and so.nedeeply d.nted or cut%
all alike;  of a blackish, green colour on the  up- 
 64        nature's botanic«garden.

 per side, and somewhat gray underneath.   The
 stalk is square, branched into several  parts, ri-
 sing about two feet hi;:;, cspctialft'' if you reck-
 on the long spike of flowers atwfc tops of them,
 which are set on the sides one above another, and
 sometimes two or three intermixed ; after v* hich,
 come small round seeds.   The blow is small and
 gaping, of a purple  blue colour, and white in-
 termixed, and the root is small and long, but of
 no use.   It grows generally  throughout, wav
 sides and we t'' grounds.
   Vervain  is hot, dry and hitter  ; opening ob-
 structions, cleansing and healing.   It helps the
,yel!-nv jaundice, dropsy and gout, and the leaves
 b.:;invh')ili .1 and the dec Ktion being drunk, is
 good against the bite of a serpent, or any venom-
 o.:s h< ast.
   It kills  and expels worms in die belly, iseffec-
 iiial in ail diseases of the stomach and lungs,
 coughs, shortness  of breath, expels the gravel
 and stone, and used with some  honey.heals all
 old ulceus and fistulas in the legs or other pans
 of thel>>dy, as al-o  the  ulcers in the mouth, or
 used with hogs grease, is good for the piles and
 ♦hemorrhoids.  The distilled vv.rter of the herb,
 tvhen in its full strength dropped  into the eyes, 
nature's botanic garden.
6»
cleanses them from films, clouds or mists that dar*
ken the sight; and the said water is very power-
ful for all the above mentioned diseases, inward
or outwani, whether old sores or green wounds.

                   TIME.
   63.  It is an herb so generally known that it is
 not necessary to describe it.  This is  a notable
 strengthener of the lungs, and there is not a bet-
 ter herb for the chincough.  It purges the body
 of phlegm, and is very excellent for shortness of
 br ath.  It kills worms  in children, and being
 an herb of Venus, it  provokes  the  terms, and
 gives safe  and  speedy delivery to women in tra-
 vel.   You need not fear to use it, as it is a harm-
 less herb.   An ointment made of it takes away
 hot swellings and wart-i, and helps the sciatic and
 dull  sight, and is good for the gout.  It eases the
 pams m the loins and hips, and the herb taken
 any  way inwardly comforts the stomach much,
 and  expels wind.

                  MARIGOLDS.
   64. It is an herb of the sun and under Leo-.
 They strengthen the heart exceedingly, and are
 good to he u<ed  in the small pox and me. sjes.—
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  66       Nature's botanic garden.

  The juice  of marigold leaves, mixed with \ m-
  egar, is good to bathe any hot swelling ; it eases
  the  pain and  gives'relief  immediately.   The
  cjreen or dried flowers, are good ire possets and
  broths and  drinks, as  a comforter of the heart
  and spirits.  A plaster made with the dry flowers
  in powder, hog's fat, turpentine and rosin, and ap-
  plied to the breast, strengthens and  succors the
  heart infinitely  in fevers.

               swr.zr MARJOREM. ,
    63.  Our common  marjorem  is warming and
  comfortable in  cold diseases of the  head, sto-
  machs, sinews and other parts taken inwardly, or
  applied outwardly.  The decoction  thereof be-
  ing drunk, helps  all  diseases of the  chest, and
  asthmatic complaints, and is good  for  female
 Complaints.
   •(The powdered  herb, in honey, applied to a
» bruise, d'aws out  the black and green spots, and
  is good for inflammations of the eyes, being mix-
 ed with fine flower and applied to them.  The
 juice "dropped into the ears, eases the pain and
  singing noise in  them.  An ointment made of
  rhe juice, hoe's lard, turpentine and  the  yolk oi' 
          NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.        6?

*n ege;, is good for stiff and swelled joints and
shrunk cords.
                 MOUSE-EAR.
   66. Mouse-ear  is a low  creeping herb, of a
small hairy leaf, and being broken gives a white
milk.  The blows are something like dandelion
flowers, a little red on the under side.  It grows
on dry and sandy ground, not more than a span
high.  This herb  is  under the government of
the moon.   Thejuice of the herb taken in wine
is good for the jaundice, and is excellent for the
tormenting pain of the gravel, and all other gri-
ping pains of the bowels.  It is a singular wound
heib, both inward and  outward.   It  helps the
bloody flux and is excellent for women that flow
too much.   A syrup made  of thejuice and su-
gar, is good for those that have a cough and
 phthisic, and the  same is good for ruptures and
 bursts.   The pounded herb is good to apply to
 any fresh wound.  The distilled water is availa-
 ble  in all the above mentioned diseases, and to
 wash outward wounds and sores, by applying wet,
 cloths thereon. 
68        nature's botanic garden,

                dwarf aldf.r.
  67. This herb dies every year with the stalks
©n theg-oun.'h and rise:-afre«h in thr. spring, and
is hk< the othe. aide  both inform and quality,
though  notof the same tasre, it being nearly that
of sissuferrilla ;  ; ising  up with a four square,
rough, hai'-y  stidk, lour feet high.  The winged
leaves are  somewhat nearc than the  common
alder, otherwise very much like them.  The flow-
ers are white, with a dash of purple, standing in
Umbels  like other alder,  but more sweet in scent.
After which, come smallVblackish berries full of
juice, while they are fresh wherein there lies hard
kernels or seeds.   The root creeps under  the
upj><. r crust of the ground ; springs afresh in di-
vers places, being the bigness of one's finger or
thumb, in gn.und that suits  the plant.  The
dwarf alder  is more powerful  than the common
alder, in opening and purging eholer and phi' '.mi
from the stomach.  It helps the gout, piles and
women's dis.:a^es, colours the hair black, helps
the inflammation of the eyes, pains in the ears,
 the bite of a serpent or mad dog, burnings  and
 schlding9% wind cholic and stone in  the bladder.
 Either  leaves or  bark stripped  upwards, causes 
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vomiting ; but downward it purges.  Dr. Butler,
in a manuscript of his, commends dwarf elder
to the skies, for dropsies ; and has, of late, been
found to be a most effectual remedy, and hath
speedily cured those in the last stage of that dis-
order.   The decoction in wine or without, either
root or branch ; but the root I believe to  be the
most'eflectual, being made or taken in decoction,
it works off by urine.

              MULLBF.RRRY TREE.
   68.  This herb is well known in every country
where it grows, and needs no descripten.   The
bark of the root of  mullberry in powder, kills
the broad  worm of the body.  Thejuice or the
syrup made of the juice of the berries, helps all
infla.iimations or sores in the mouth or throat.
and the. palate of the mouth when  it  has fallen
down.
   Thejuice of the leaves is  a remedy against
the bite of a serpent.  The leaves beaten with
vinegar, are good for  a burn.  A decoction of tin*
herb and leaves is good to wash the mouth  and
teetli when they ache.  If the root be slit a lit-
tle and a hole be made in the ground, so as-'o set
a vessel  under in harvest time, it will catch a cen- 
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tain juice, v. hicli being hardened, is fit for use, it
will help the tooth ache and dissolve knots in the
flesh  and purge  the bow«ls.   A branch of the
tree taken when the moon is in the full, and fas-
tened t> the wrist of a woman's arm whose courses
come down  too much, will stay them  in a short
time.

                 golden rod.
   60. This herb rises up  with small, brownish,
round stalks, two or three feet  high ; having  on
them many narrow and long leaves, of a dark
green, very  seldom  any dents  about the edges,
or any stalks beside the main branch ; yet divi-
ded at  the top into many small  branches, with
6mall yel w flowers on every one of  them,  all
of which are turned oneway.  !t dies down to
the ground every fall, and springs up anew in the
spring.
   Venus owns the herb, and it is said it will re-
store beauty that is lost   It provokes urine and
expels the gravel and stone.  A decoction of tne
herb or  juice is effectual for inward bruises.  It
stavs bleeding in any part of the body, and is no
less preval  nt in all  ruptures and bursting, 1>< mg
drank or outwardly applied.  It  is a sovereign 
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voimdhcrb, both for inward and outward hurts,
green wounds, old sores, ulcers,qua Idy uud cures
them.   A decoction  to wash the mouth is good
to fasten loose teeth.
               tamerack trre.
  70. It is so well  known where it grows that  it
needs no description.  The leaves boiled in wine
and drank, ;<re good  to stay the bleeding of the
hemoirhoidical veins, spitting of blood, to stop
women's courses, help the  jaundice cholic, bi-
ting of a serpent, and the bark is as effectual for
all  the aforementioned diseases.
   The  balsam is contained in small sells which
may be found by  cutting into the tamerack.—
This balsam has a wonderful efficacy in curing
wounds, bruises  in the breasts, coughs, weak
e\ e>, &e.   A dose for an adult is but three or
four drops, which is as much as the stomach will
bear.   This balsam spread upon bather, make-
an  excellent strengthening plaster for  the stom-
ach and back, and for joints tuat are effected
witn rheumatism.
          ROSA solis ; OR, sun dew.
  71. It has inau>  small,  hollow leaves, som-- 
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what greenish, but full  of certain red hairs.—
There is a dew upon the leaves in the iiotest, dry
weather; yea, the hotter  the  day the  moister
they seem.   It grows on marshy, wet places.
   Sundew is a; counted good for those that have
the  salt rheum, distilling  on  the lungs, which
breeds  a consumption; therefore the distilled
water, in vrine, is goed for the same, and wdl be
of a gold colour.  The same  water is good for
all the  diseases of the  lungs,  and comforts  the
fainting spirits.  The leaves applied to the skin,
will raise a blister,   it is good for sickish qualms
in the stomach.&. .

                    poppy.
   72.  The  garden poppy heads and seeds made
.nto a syrup, is frequently u.-ed with  good suc-
cess, to procure rest and s'ei'p for those that are
siek and feeble ; and to stay catarrh, and deflec-
tions of the hot rheums from the head intotlie
 stoma h and upon the lungs ;  causing a contin-
 ual cough, and forerunner of the  consumption.
 Il helps hoarseness of the throat, and when one
 has lost their voice, which the oil of the  seed
 does likewise.   The empty shells of the poppy
 are usually boiled  in water, and given t.»  pro- 
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cure rest, so do the leaves in the Same manner ;
and also, the  head and  temples, being  bath-
ed with the  warm decoction of the oil of pope
pies.   The green heads or leaves bruised and ap-
plied with a little vinegar, or made into a poul-
tice with barley meal or hog's grease, cools and
tempers  all inflammations, and also the disease
called St. Anthony's fire.  Opium  made  of the
juice of the poppy, is good to put into hollow
teeth.

           PILLITORY OF THE WALL.
   73.  It rises up with many brownish, red, weak;
clear, and almost transparent  stalks, about two
feet high ; upon which grow at the several joints,
two leaves somewhat broad and long/of  a dark
green  colour, which afterwards turn brownish ;
smooth on the edges, but rough and hairy as the
stalks are also at the joints, with the leaves from
the middle of the stalks upwards, where it spreads
into branches, stand many small, pale,  purple
flowers, in hairy, rough heads  or tufts; after
which, come small, black, rough seeds,  which
will stick to tiny cloth or garment that shall touch
them.    The root is rather long with niariy fibj-g,: 
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 thereat, of a dark reddish colour which abided t
 the winter, but the stalks perish.
   It groweth wild generally through the  land,,
 about the borders of fields, by the side of walls,'
 and among rubbish, and  it flowers in June.   A
 decoction of this herb, with sugar or  honey, is a;
 singular remedy for an old dry cough, and short-
 ness of breath.   The juice is good to expel the
 gravel-stone in the kidney or bladder.   It is of-
 ten used with other herbs for injections, to ease
griping pains in the back, sides and bowels. The
decoction of the herb being drank, eases female
complaints, and  is good, mixed with honey, to
gargle a sore throat.  Thejuice  dropped into
the ears  will ease the pain of them.   Thejuice
is very effectual to cleanse fistulas, and to heal
them up safely.   The herb bruised and applied
with a little salt, is excellent to heal any fresh
wound ; and if  it be bound on three days* you
will need no other medicine.  A poultice made
 of this herb and mallows, boiled in wine, with
wheat bran and bean flower, with  some oil put
 therein, and applied  to  any bruised  sinew, ten-
 den or muscle, restores them in a very short time
 to their strength, and will hoth ease the pain and
 dissolve the congealed blood.  The juice of pil- 
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litory clarified and boiled into a syrup with ho-
ney, and a spoonfull being drank every morning
for a week, and if any person ever has the dropsy,
let them come to me and I will cure them gratis,
says Nicholas Culpepper.

               DOGMACHEMOSE.
  74. This shrub grows ten or fifteen feet high,
and  commonly in clusters.   The bark is of a
darkish green and smooth, with large leaves and
rather  rough.  Amongst the clusters are seen
many straight, green, smooth, whips  or sticks.
Some people  call it dogmackky  It is an Indian
name, however, and is a good medical bush.
  A decoction of the bark is  very effectual to
cleanse the  blood and  strengthen the system,
where  it  has  become vitiated  by the king's evil,
cancer, consumption, and many old debilitating
complaints which have been of long standing*

                 BLUE COHOSH.
  75. This is an Indian herb.  It grows in moist
uncultivated  ground, fourteen or fifteen inches
high, and may be known by the blue berries on
the top of the stalks about the bigness of a buck-
shot, sometimes there are four on a stalk ; and it 
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    may be found by the berry in the winter when
    the snow is not deep.
      Blue cohosh is gently physical, and is good to
    open obstructions in general, and is a most effec-
    tual remedy for the canker in the mouth, a mouth
    water being made of the  root in decoction, and
    sweetened with honey.

                   'BLOOD ROOT.
      76. This herb grows in rich uncultivated lands,   J
   ^and is generally known  in countries where it
    grows.   The leaf is roundish and the root is red,
    and sometimes the bigness of one's finger.   This
    root is excellent for all diseases of the lungs and
    other complaints;  but it  being a powerful me-
    dicine, should be given in small doses and-fre-
ij,  «juently repeated.   The root in powder is gene-
    rally used.  This powder is good to sprinkle into
  ■  old filthy  sore ulcers and fistulas, cleanses them
    and causes them to heal.
       The green root pounded  and applied to a can-
    cer, soon destroys its malignity, and effects a cure.
    But the patient should drink a tea made of five
    fingers while the cure i$ progressing. 
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                YELLOW DOCK.
  77. The decoction of yellow dock is  very ef-
fectual in cleansing the blood of humors of every
kind.  It helps those that are falling in a dropsy,
especially at the beginning of the disorder.  It
is most effectual against the poison of serpentsj
and good against all diseases of the  brain and
continual head ache.
           PIUNKUM i OR, NUNK ROOT*
  78. This herb  grows on rich intervale lands,
by the side of streams, and on  low ground that
is washed by rivers in the spring.  It  has a smalj
round leaf and very fine, with notches on the
edge of the leaf.  There are a number of leaves
standing on small foot stalks.  It grows not more
than six or seven inches high, and the root is of
a purplk colour, and has a very good smell.
  There is no better herb grows in our country
than this, to stop blood and heal a fresh wound.
A decoction of this herb being drank, is good for
a consumptive cough.  The herb and root bruis <
ed  and  put into  spirits or in  clear water, and
drank as a ' itter> is an excellent remedy for th*
consumption.
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              balm op gilead.
  79. The buds of this tree put into w ine and
drank, are very strengthening to those of a weak
constitution.  The buds and deer's tallow make
an excellent salve for broken breasts, and for any
fresh wound.  I have thought there was no salve
could equal it.

         CRAMP ROOT ; OR, IRON ROOT.
  SO. Cramp root steeped and the decoction be-
ing drank, cures  night sweats, and  is an excel-
lent  remedy for the cramp in the stomach, and
else where, it may be  put  into spirits.  Brandy
is thought to be the best.   It is also good against
fev em.  Cramp  root  is found under white or
black oak or beach trees, and adheres fast to the
root of the tree, under which it is found.  It ri-
ses up a  small stalk, something like  convulsion
root, eight or ten inches high, and  has no leaf
except a kind of husk which  lies  close to the
stalk. Upon the top is a bowl as large as a bean,
similar to the pod in which the seed of tobacco
is contained.  And this pod is full of seed that
hath so near resemblance of tobacco seed, that
it is difficult to distinguish it apart.   Th«  root 
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is a rough, jagged, uneven burl or knot, grow-
ing fast to the root of the tree under which it is
found and cannot be  separated  without an axe.
Upon the top of the root and round  about, are
many buds, that are ready to rise in the spring.

 OX BALM, YELLOW AKTICHOKE, HARD ROOT ; OR,
                 TOAD ROOT.
  81. The top  of this  herb resembles the arti-
choke, and has  a/strong aromatic smell. It grows
in moist, rich soil, generally about two feet high.
The root is as hard as the white oak root, resem-
bling a bumble  bee's nest, of a knotty shape.—
Tin root is used in cases of dysentery and night
sweats.

         FEMALE ROOT AND FLOWER.
  82.  It often  grows by the side of ponds, has
a leaf, and  blossoms some like cowslips.  But it
grows single, one root or stalk by itself, and some
srnaller than the cow-slips. The Ierves are green.
and  the  blossoms yellow.  This is one of the
finest of  roots for the female use iir the world .—■
The ladies would do well to gather this in sue-!
ruer. 
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        BLUE FLAG ', OR, FLOWER DF. LUCE.
   S3.  The blue flag is so generallyknown, I shalt
 not describe' it.  Its use is  in ointments, and to
 pe.t into spirits a small quantity in case of worms,
 It is good to  relieve pains in the head, and pro-
 perly prepared, makes excellent physic ; but be-
 ing a powerful root, must bo very carefully hand-
 Jed.

 PRIDE, FIRE WEED, WHIPCYWOG, HORSETAIL ; OR.
                 WHITE TOP.
  84.  It grows about  waist  or  shoulder high.
nne stalk from the ground, and has a very bushy
 top.  The stalk is round,  hairy, and the leaves
 are long, narrow and pointed ; of a dark green,
 with three small notches on each side of the leaf.
 The leaves stand thick upon the stalks, nearly
from the bottom.   This herb is used in stopping
 immoderate evacuations of blood from any part
 of the system, by making use of the juice of the
yreen herb or the dry in decoction.   It should be
gathered before it blows out, and the juice got
 out, and add a little spirits  to preserve it; or the
 herb  gathered and dryed to be  taken in decoc*
 rion,—(fj^lt. groweth in old fields on dry land. 
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         SAXIFRAGE ; OR, GOLDEN SEAL.
  85. This herb grows in rich  intervale lands,
blossoms in May, and goes to seed in June.  It
rises up eight or ten inches high, and sometimes
eighteen inches before seeding.   The leaves re-
semble the elder leaf; the blossom is yellow ;the
stalk runs up four or five inches above the leaves
and spreads out into  ten or twelve little stems.—
On each stem  is a dozen or more blows,  from
which originate the seed, which  is something si-
milar to dill, though  more plump and round.—
The root is brownish on  the out side, but  very
yellow within, and has  a warm aromatic taste.
The root is somewhat jointed, and  runs  along
three or four inches.  This is used in all cold com-
plaints of the stomach and bowels, and  is a verv
warming, stimulating, astringent, good in dysen-
tery, and is excellent for  pains in the head, and
the root chewed helps the tooth ache.  It is good
in syrups for consumptive complaints, also in bit-
ters where a cordial is made.  It is a very cheer-
ing and useful root, and put into wine is  ^ood frtf
female weakness. 
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           hound's-tongue ; or, smooth leaf.
        86. Hound's tongue lies flat upon the ground,
      and resembl* s the hound's tongue.  It is smooth
      an 1 sinning and has generally  but two leaves,
      but sometimes there  will be more.   It is of a
      purple green colour, six or eight inches in height,
      about an  nch and a half wide in the middle, and
      sometimes two inches or more, not dented on the
      edges, and  the taste somewhat resembles the
s      garden cucumber.  The  root has three or four
      yehow strings which, in taste, are nearly the same
      as the lady slipper root.  It grows in  moist tim-
      ber lands.  The herb and root jammed up and
      steeped in cold water, is an excellent remedy in
V     consumptive complaints, coughs, tire.

                      NERVE ROOT.
*       87. This is  a beautiful little brake, growing on
      beech and maple land, rising up with but one
      stalk smooth and round, without leaves except at
*.     the top ;  where it branches out into three or four
      litue M-ui'hes, something like the hog  brake,
      th-'vh  ,K>t more than  a foot high, and in the
      en1   if these branches arises a strait spire, and
      th<s niossoms are seen  towards the top,  from 
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whence the seed is produced.   The root is black,
and composed of a number of strings of a strong
bitter taste.  This is an astringent, and used in
nervous complaints, and is a fine cordial root,
and  is good in all complaints of the breast and
lungs; but  being a small root, a large quantity
is not  easily  obtained   It is  generally  used in
cordial drinks, and put into wine or taken  in pow-
der, with honey or molasses.

              dragon's tooth.
   88. This is a little dwarf turnip, found late in
the fall under an old bed of  March turnips, bui
many of them are not larger than a pea.   They
ext act all  their powers from  the old turnip.—
They are called by some Doctors, the royal ve-
getable caustic.  When these are dried and pow-
dered, they make the easiest caustic ever applied
to human flesh.
   These powders will kill all honey  comb sores,
and all proud or fungus flesh, in any sore what-
ever.

                 lockawash.
   89. This I cannot describe  very accurately  ;
however, it grows in swamps and wet rich soil. 
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and along spring brooks that run through mea-
dow lands.   It grows two or three feet high and
blows late in the fall, with a pale blue blossom*.—
It grows in bunches, and I think blows out the
latest of any herb.  By this 1 think it may be/
known, for the blows stand thick and my be seen
at a distance.   There is  another  kind  which
grows on dry land, and called the frost blows by
the bee hunter. The blows are similar, but lock-
awash grows in the swamp or wet ground.
   The root of this herb jammed and steeped in
cold water and drank, and the parts affected with
the salt rheum washed with the  same, is a cer-
tain cure, and the root is good in syrups.

            osier ; or, dogacame.
   DO.  This bush grows nine or ten feet in height
with a small round leaf, and the bark is as green
as grass.  It  bears a blue berry when ripe, and
is generally known by the name of  dog wood.—
The small  branches that die  turn  as yellow as
gold.  The bark of this bush is physical, tho?
crabbed.   I never make much use of it.

         GARDEN HEMLOCK ; OR, CICUTA.
   91. It is known where  ever  it grow  ; and  ii 
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Used in making ointments for cancerous humns.
and  by infusion by steeping  in  cold  waier to
wash the tumor,the juice boiled down to the con-
sistency of a pill.   This is a powerful herb, ami
great care must be taken in the use of it.

              dysentery root.
  92. This  root grows on dry, open land, and
about old fields.   It rises  up five or six feet high
aud  has a long slim leaf growing two thirds up
the stalk.   The stalk is round and hard, and it
branches out towards the top into a number oi"
branches, and bears a purple blow, similar to  a
peach  tree  blossom.   The blow being off, you
may see a long pod about the bigness of a darn-
ing needle.   The root creeps aljong under the
ground similar to dwarf elder, and -being chew-
ed in the mouth has a peppery taste, and is as
slippery as slippery elm bark.  The root '.ntst
not be  boiled, but steeped upon the coals mode-
rately, till it becomes like starch.  In some deli-
cate cases in the female, the root ought to be put
into wine.
             meadow* plantain.
  ,*>:*. It grows every  where in meadows, three
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86       nature's botanic gadren. '

or four feet .high, and has a number of branches
towards the rap ; and the blossom has a nearre-
seiuhhmre to May w: ed blows.  Theleaf is not
more than th ee inches long, h.«t in shape resem-
bles a piantoiii leaf, and the stalks are round and
hairy.   The fine roots have a little sharp  taste
like pepper.  This herb is used in curing dysen-
tery, and is good in all cases of immoderate eva-
cuations of blood.
  CC/^The top of this herb is for use only, and
should be gathered when in the blow; or a con-
vulsion root is described.

                beech drops.
  91. These are commonly  known.  The root
and top is for use, and it is excellent for fits in
children.   It is a good tonic medicine, bracing
and strengthening the system, and may be used
in wine  as a cordial with others of a similar na-
ture.
           cohosh, red and  white.
  95. It is generally known or may be, by  a lit-
tle inquiring, and is peculiarly adapted to female
complaints, each colour to its own colour.   She
that reads, let her understand. 
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   Wandering milk weed ; or, indian hemp.
  96. It grows by the side of rivers and  near
ponds, and is a milk weed.   It grows  three or
four feet high, bears  a  silk pod like silk givss,
though smaller, and the stalk is  reddish.  The
root is composed of a number of white strings,
four or five inches long.  The root is anthilmintic
or a powerful remedy for worms, the  root being
powdered  and given in  molasses, or the decoc-
tion drunk.

            GENSION ; OR, GFNTION".
  97- It grows on dry warm hill lands, and re-
sembles silk  grass; has a paleish, green, rough
leaf, and bears  a yellow  berry as big  as a  small
bean, with each  berry lying close to the stalk
above the leaf.  The root is brown, branching
out every  way from the  stalk.  This root is one
of the best our country affords, for all  com-
plaints of the breast or lungs, and is  used in sy-
rups, wine or spirits.  It is a great strengthener
of the system, and is good  in  dysenteries, di-
arrhoea, &c.
  £Crlt is a stimulating  astringent. 
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                  GINSENG.
  9s-.  It grows  in beech and maple timbered-
land, in a rich moist soil, rising  up  one round
smooth stalk, twelve or fourteen inches high ;
sending  out  two or three breaches similar, in
leaf and branch, to sassafarilla, and bears a red
berry, and the root runs  down into the ground
like a carrot.  This isu tonic medicine, bracing
and strengthening, and taken in  wine or spirits,
as a cordial, is good against epidemic fevers, for
pains in the breast, and to cleanse filthy  humors
from the blood.
   WATER FERN ; OR, POLTPOD ; OR, EOG ONION.
  99. It grows in  bog meadows and  swampy
places, on a great black bog or root.  The stalk
runs up with a row of leaves on each side of the
stalk, long  and jagged similar to the sweet fern.
The root boiled in milk, is good for rickety chil-
dren.   Pounded and made into  a poultice, and
steeped  in milk and applied, helps a breach or
burst ; and is used by steeping in cold water, in
cases of asthma, phthisic,  consumptive cough^ 
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        ,     buck's horn brake.
  100. It grows similar to the other, though but
two or three stalks in a bunch, with a small run*
ning jagged root, with pikes running out like
the deer's horn.  The leaves are of a dai k green,
and more smooth than the polypod.  One kind
of this grows on high wood lands, but their qual-
ities nearly the same.
  A decoction of this root is very useful for aged
women, about the change of life.  let younger
women forber, it causes abortion.   A hint to the
wise is enough.

                  HOG BRAKE.
  101. It grows on dry sandy land, rises up a
strait  smooth stalk two feet high, branching out
into three branches, the leaves have a resem-
blance to the other brakes, and has a black slip-
pery root.  It is used in syrups in cases of con-
sumption, and is of a cooling nature, and eases
the pains of the gravel,

         BONE SET ; OR, THOROUGHWORT.
  102. It grows in moist land, and rises up with
si rou*4 hairy stalk three feet high, and hath *zl
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whitish  blow.   The leaves are long and rough,
two leaves coining out opposite nreach other, and
growing together around the  stalk, with two lit-
tle leaves just above them.  This herb Is emetic
and cathartic ; that is, it will puke and purge.—
It is good  to open  obstructions, cleanse the sys-
tem, eradicate  the  bile  from  the stomach, and
being taken in decoction, is an excellent guard
against  fevers.
  Q^rThe top is only for use.

        ARCHAr\GEL; OR, DEAD NETTLE.
  103.  It grows by the  side of the highway and
near fences and  stone walls.   It rises three or
four feet high, and nearly resembles the square
stalk nettle, with only this difference. The leaves
have rather a  darker green  and roundish, and
have no sting as the nettles have, peculiarly ad-
apted to female weakness, used in syrups.

            KNOT, OR DOOR GRASS.
   104  It grows in door yards, around  houses,
and along path^.  It is used in syrups, in case of
consumption  in the blood, General  debilitIP and
''vvd-:jjess. 
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         RATTLE SNAKE'S PLANTAIN.
  105. It grows almost every where in meadows,
and resembles the common plantain, only  tho
leaves are smaller and more notched upon the
leaf, and the root is hot like pepper.   This little
plant is  said  to cure the  bite of a rattle snake,
by keeping the pounded leaves bound upon the
bite.
               RIVER WILLOW.
  106. It is so  generally known I shall not de-
scribe it.  The bark of the root is  used  in an
ointment for  the salt rheum, and is good with
other barks to cleanse away filthy humors from
the blood.

                 BOX WOOD.
  107.  It is generally known where it gro <vs, and.
that is in dryish land, where white oak, chesnui
and walnut trees grow, and there you will  be the
most likely to find it.  It has an oval leaf, and
beareth a white flower somewhat smaller ih:m
a rose.
  The leaves are hot, dry and binding, and it is
said the  leaves are excellent to cure  -horse* 'hat 
02        NATURE'S BOTANIC OARDEN.

have the botts.  The bark and flowers may be
Used to help diarrhoea  and fluxes, and as stimu-
lating astringents.

               wood violets.
  108.  It grows in pine and hemlock lands most-
ly.  The leaf  lies  close on the ground, of a pale
green ; they blossom in May, and have a white
blow.
  The properties of the wood violet, are  nearly
the same as the blue or meadow violet; and used
in fevers, asthmas, dysenteries, &c.

      prince's pine ; or, rheumaty weed.
  109. It grows on plains or dry land; where ever
winter green grows you may find it.   It helps the
pains in the head, being drank in decoction.  But
1 am very little acquainted with this herb, and shall
say no more about it.

               MANDRAKE ROOT.
  110.  This is a well known herb in every coun-
try that produces it.  The root of the mandrake,
when taken to any considerable extent, operates,
both as a puke and purge  ; very effectually cleans
ses the  stomach  and bowels; opens  Obstruct* "j: 
 I           NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.        93

f of the system, and operates peculiarly on the liv-
  er and other glands of the system, particularly
  those of the mouth ; causing as complete a saliva-
<  tion, as can  be caused by  calomel, or any other
  medicine whatever.
     Mandrake is an excellent purge in fevers of all
  kinds, jaundice, obstructions of the system in ge<-
  neral, dysentery, diarrhoea, canker ash, dropsy^
  piles, coughs, &c. and is good in all chronic com-
  plaints.

           LOBELIA ; OR, INDIAN TOBACCO.
     111. This herb  grows spontaneous in roads
  pastures, mowing grounds, &c.   It grows from a
  half a foot to a foot high.   Near the top come
  forth branches, that produce, in the forepart of
  summer, a kind  of blue and white blow, that af-
  terwards turns into a husk or shell, about the big-
  ness of a flax-seed ball; and this husk or ball con-
  tains a number of seeds.  The first year's growth
  of lobelia seldom rises much above the surface of
  the earth, and much resembles a young thistle.—
  The herb, when chewed in the mouth, resembles
  tobacco in taste, excepting that it is much more
  biting and acrid.   This herb, if taken in a dose of
  half a tea spoonful! of the herb dried and pow- 
94        NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.

dered, doth  powerfully puke and purge.  When
rightly  managed, it opens obstructions of the li-
ver, causes  a free  perspiration, reduces excite-
ment, allays  heat, and operates peculiarly  upon
the glands of the mouth.   Lobelia (being a  pow-
erful medicine, and its operation being very quick)
should, unless in particular cases,  be given in
small doses  ; in which case, its operation is per-
fectly safe.   If the  object is to puke, a tea spoon
full of the powdered herb  might be  divided  into
potions, and an eighth part taken every five min-
utes until it operates as a puke, and in this way it
is: perfectly safe.  When given with an intention
to purge only, it should be boiled ten  or fifteen
minutes, which  destroys its emetic  quality, but
does not injure it as a purge.  Lobelia  is  used
in fevers, dissenteries, diarrhoeas, dropsies, gra-
vel, and many other diseases.

         WHITE ROOT ; OR, SINK ROOT.
  112.  It is known  in all countries where it grows,
and s of a physical nature ^and good to remove
wind in the bowels  or stomach ;  and it is good jf
made into pills (the decoction) for hysterical conn.
plaints. 
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                  COWSLIPS.
   113. These are pretty well known.  They arc
found in wet swampy land.  The blow is yellow
and the leaf round as  a colt's foot.  The root is
said to be physical, although I have never tried it
myself.  The flowers of cow-slips are  used in
medicine to strengthen the brain, sense and  me-
mory, and resist all diseases there, as convulsions,
falling  sickness  and  palsies.   The distilled water
of cow-slips, being drank, takes away pains in the
head, vertigo and megrim, and is exceedingly good
for women upon a nine month's journey.

                 PRICKLY ASH.
   114. It is generally known, anu ..". : bark is ef-
fectual for all  cold complaints of the body and
blood ; gives a quick circulation to the fluids, and
is good in rheumatism, palsy, &c.
   The pods that enclose the seeds, are called In-
dian cloves, on account of their spicy and aroma-
tic smell and taste, and are exceeding useful in all
rheumatic complaints.
             KEY ;  OR, WHITE ASH.
   115. The bark of the root on the norfi 
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the tree, is an anthilmintic, or medicine that  de-
stroys worms, being  drank in decoction ; and i-
good in old weak debilitated cases, where the pa-
tient is worn down with taking apothecary drug*.
In such  cases it has  done wonders.  The bark
burnt to ashes and laid upon the flesh, draws  ;i
blister, and is used in  making issues.

      CANCER MAPLE ; OR, CARAVAN WOOD.
   116. It is merely a bush and grows ten or twelve
feet high, nearly resembling the sugar maple, both
in leaf and bark, and  bears a long string of keys.
It grows near water courses, upon the sides of the
banks, and in wet swampy places, and you need
not look for it on dry hill lands.   The bark of this
bush and dogmanose  steeped in cold water, being
drank for  any considerable length  of time, will
eradicate from the system, the baneful effects of
mercury.   The patient at the same time taking a
small pinch of pulverised Lobelia in  cold water
three times a day, will wholly effect the cure im-
mediately.

                URAVEL  WEED.
  ■ 117.  It grows on dry lands where winter greeu
     vl.  The stalk risq? not much from the ground, 
Nature's botanic garden.       $7
but runs along and takes new  root.  The leaf is
oval, of a pale green, thick and rough, but not
hairy, as wide as a spoon bowl but not so long, and
bears a small white blossom.  It grows in little
beds or mats like cammomile, with the leaves thick
together, almost one top of the other.   This is in
truth  a lithontrlptic, that  is,  a medicine for the
gravel  and stone.   The leaves and vines steeped
(not boiled) and drank,brings  away the sand won-
derfully, and will finally dissolve the stone. (Look
at the recipes.)

              KING'S EVIL WEED.
   US. It grows in wild shady land under almost
all kinds of timber.  It grows in the  form* of a
plantain, but the leaves are smaller and are spot-
ted, green and white, and  it is a  beautiful plant
when it goes to seed.  There comes up one stalk
in the middle  of the plant, six or eight inches in
height.   It bears the seed on the top of the stalk
in a small round bud.  Take this root and branch,
pound  it soft and apply it to the tumor, and drink
a tea made of the same.               ♦

       SWAMP PLANTAIN ; OR,  DEER's EARS.
   119.  Another noble remedy for the kine's evil. 
It grows in swamps and muddy places, has a Jong,    j
pale, green leaf, rather rough, and near the size    I
and shape of a deer's ear, four or five lying round
from the root, and rising up a little.   This pound-
ed and applied to the tumor, presently  cures the
king's evil, and drinking at the same time, a de-
coction of the pounded root steeped in cold water,.
for a constant drink.                               i
         SPICE : OR, FEVER WOOD BUSH.
                                                ■\
   120.  This bush is known in every place where
it  grows.  / iid the bark and twigs steeped in cold
water or in decoction, makes a fine cooling drink
in fevers.

   CHECOBERRV, ONE BERRY J OR, SQUAW BERBV
   121. This grows with winter green, and has  a
 small, dark, green, spotted leaf.  It  is merely  a
 vine, and bears one red berry on the stalk, about
 the size of a winter green berry.   A decoction
 of this herb being drunk, is excellent for the dys-
 entery.
               NANNY BERRY BUSH.
    122. This bush grows on intervale lands, and
 by the side of rivers, ponds or lakes •, but the lerf
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somewhat resembles-dog-wood, though of a dark-
er green.  It generally grows ten or twelve feet
high, but some are not m.,re than six or seven.—
The berries hang in bunches and are black, about
the size of white bean, though more flat, with a
kind of a stone within them.  They  are a sweet
berry and good to  eat.
  The bark of the root  of nanny berry bush, is
excellent in all  pulmonary or consumptive com >
plaints, and for all the diseases of the breast and
lurfgs.
            LARGER GOLDEN 1HREAD.
   123. It is a vine, growing on the banks of riv
 ers and flat intervale lands.  It grows and is simi^
 lar to Jacob's ladder, and winds itself around the
 first bush it comes to,*butmorein this respect like
 the bitter-sweet.   The root is long, running along
 under the  ground some distance, and about the
 bigness of a pipe stem.   It is very bitter, and has
 very nearly the virtues of the little yellow golden
 thread, and of course good for the canker in the
 mouth ; and in all cases  where  a bitter is neces-
 sary to strengthen digestion, and cause a good ap-
 petite. 
104      NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.

of the branches," and is white.  The root is brown
and almost as bushy as the tail of a horse, and of
a very strong aromatic taste and smell.
  This is a very powerful, stimulating  root, bra-
cing, healing, cleansing, cheering, and animating
the whole system ; and making an excellent cor-
dial, being put into wine.

                MASTER WORT.
   133. It grows by the side of rivers on rich in-
tervale lands. It grows up four or five feet high,
is jointed, and has  a hollow stalk.  The leaf is
large, and somewhat resembles the leaf of a pump-
kin vine.  The flowers stand in bunches similar
to parsnip blows, only they are white.  The seed
is large and  whitish, and has a  very strong taste,
and steeped in water are very powerful to expel
wind, and of course a noble remedy for the cholic.
The root has nearly the virtues of  angelica, and
 is used, with others, in pulmonary or breast com-
 plaints, in syrups or wine.

                  ARSE SMART.
    134. It is a small low herb, growing along the
 highway and Wound old buildings,  and  it may be 
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 known by tasting of the leaf, which is as hot as red
 pepper.
   The dried herb steeped, and the  decoction be-
 ing drank, is a noble remedy in cases of obstruct-
 ed perspiration, (vulgarly termed catching cold,)
 and of course is good in all complaints of the sto-
 mach or bowels.

                CUCKOLD WEED.
   135. It is a good herb to strengthen weak lungs,
 healing and  strengthening, and may  be used in
 syrups for that purpose.

                SKUNK CABBAGE.
   136. It is known in every place  where  it
 grows, and may be known by its smell and large
 leaf, and nearly resembles the garden cabbage.—
 The root and seed, and seed ball are  for use.—
 The root  is good in the phthisical complaints, and
in ointments.   The seed pulverized and steeped,
is powerful to expel wind.   Three or  four of the
seeds to a  gill of boiling hot water, is a dose, and
the ball that  encloses the  seed is usefid in oint-
ments. 
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                SWEET ELDER.
   137.  The  bark  of the sweet elder  operates
when taken moderately, as a cathartic, being both
diuretic and physical; and is good in dropsies com-
bined with  other diuretics.   The bark  of  the
root is most powerful, but should be boiled to  de-
stroy its emetic quality, which otherwise, it would
retain.

                SASSAFARR1LLA.
   138.  It is generally known, and is a good root
in decoction or in syrup, to cleanse the blood of
filthy humours, and is also  good in the  venereal
disease.

               MARSH PEA ROOT.
   139.  It grows in marshes, the vine and leaf re-
semble the garden pulse.  The root is rough  and
jointed, of a greenish colour, and has  a powerful
bitter taste,  and is used  for this purpose as a  bit-
ter.   It is good to create an appetite, and regulate
the digestive powers.

               BUTTERNUT TREE.
   !40.  The bark of the root of butternut, being 
          Nature's botanic garden.       107

boiled and the  decoction simmered away to the
consistency of a pill, makes a good physic for the
jaundice and billious complaints, although it  is  a
harsh and griping physic, yet answers a good pur-
pose ; and in some cases preferable to that which
is more mild.

               GROUND HEMLOCK.
   141. It is a powerful diuretic, and of course to
be used in dropsical cases, and is a very good  re-
medy in that case.   I have given a description of
the bush in another place.

              WITCH HAZLE BUSH.
   142. It blossoms about' the first of December,
and has a yellow blossom.  The twigs and blows
in decoction, are a wonderful cheering medicine,
and has very nearly the same properties of good
wine.

                Jacob's ladder.
   143. It grows often in rich intervale land, near
a wood or brush that stands near grass land.   It
comes up with one stalk about breast high single ;
then springs off into a number of branches cover-
ed with green oval leaves, and the  fruit is a  large 
 IOC      nature's botanic GARDEN.

                SWEET ELDER.
   137.  The  bark  of the sweet elder  operates
when taken moderately, as a cathartic, being both
diuretic and physical; and is good in dropsies com-
bined with  other diuretics.   The  bark  of the
root is most powerful, but should be boiled to de-
stroy  its emetic quality, which otherwise, it would
retain.

               SASSAFARRILLA.
   138.  It is generally known, and is a good root
in decoction or in  syrup, to  cleanse the  blood of
filthy  humours, and is also  good in the venereal
disease.

               MARSH PEA ROOT.
   139.  It grows in marshes, the vine and leaf re-
semble the garden pulse.  The sootis rough and
jointed,  of a greenish colour, and has  a powerful
bitter taste, and is used for this purpose  as a bit-
ter.   It is good to create an appetite, and regulate
the>fligestive powers.

               BUTTERNUT TREE.
   MO.  The bark of the root of butternut, being 
          NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.        107

boiled and the  decoction simmered away to the
consistency of a pill, makes a good physic for the
jaundice and billious complaints, although it is  a
harsh and griping physic, yet answers a good pur-
pose ; and in some cases preferable to that which
is more mild.

               GROUND HEMLOCK.
   141. It is a powerful diuretic, and of course to
be used in dropsical cases, and is a  very good re-
medy in that case.   I have given a description of
the bush in another place.

              WITCH HAZLE BUSH.
   142. It blossoms about'the first of December,
 and has a yellow blossom.   The twigs and  blows
 in decoction, are a wonderful cheering medicine,
 and has very nearly the same properties of good
 wine.
                Jacob's ladder.
    143.  It grows often in rich intervale land, near
 a wood or brush that stands near  grass land.  It
 comes up with one stalk about breast high single ;
 then springs off into a number of branches cover-
 ed with green oval leaves, and the fruit is a large 
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bunch of black berries, when ripe, the bunchhangs  "
down under the leaves by a small stem. This,says
Dr. Williams, is proved to be the best cure for the
gravel that has been found.  Make a strong decoc-
tion by steeping the root, and drink plentifully of
it, is a certain remedy.                          I

             BALSAM  OF FIR TREE.
   144.  The bark of this tree is in decoction, very
strengthening, and with this intention it may be
used  in weakness of the stomach.   The  bals.;in
is of  a  strengthening, opening  nature ; it is used
in coughs bruises, and  pains of the breast and sides,
It also is used in green wounds and old sores and
white swellings.  A plaster of the b:dsam applied
to the part affected with  the rheumatism, eases the
pain  in a very short time.

              SWAMP  EVENS ROOT.
   145.  It grows in swamps andwetmirey places,
the  leaves resemble the round turnip, the root is
of a reddish brown, jagged  and runs horizontally
along four or five inches  from the plant, and is
sometimes as big as the  little finger, and has a spi-
fv bitter taste. This  root is an  astringent, though.. 
          Nature's botanic garden.       109

rather of a diarrhcetic nature, and of cqurse may
be used in dropsical complaints, diarrhceas, &c.

                UPLAND EVENS.
   14G. It grows  in meadows and fields, on hill
land, and nearly  resombles the swamp evens.—-
The root is different,  and has a very spry taste.
Upon each branch of the herb you wil see a rough
burr, as big as a small rifle  bullet.  This root put
into good rum, and drank as  a bitter,  is  said to
cure the sick h rr.d ache. It is an astringent root).
and of course not to.be  used in fevers, but rather
in cold complaints of  the bowels, diarrhoea, &c

              HOPS, OR HOP VINE.
   147. Hops are of a diaphoretic or sweating na
ture, and for this purpose they may be used.
strong decoction of hops being drank freely, ope
the pores, causing a free perspiration ; and j
very  frequently throw off a fever.  The hot de-
coction being drank, just as  the cold shiver comes
on, will most assuredly break the fit, and throw off
the fever and ague.   The  principle thing neces-
sary in the beginning of fevers, is to promote a
free perspiration, and cleanse the bile  from the 
 110       NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.

 stomach.   I do not mean by taking pukes of calo-
 mel, nor bleeding every other day.
             st. Anthony's cross.
   148.  This little herb grows in  wood land, .and
rises up one single  st.dk, and branches  out  into
 two or three branches, with small, pale, gre*m,
 smooth leaves ; and looks  very much like  Solo-
 mon's seal, not more than ten or twel ve inches high.
 The root is composed of white strings, and tastes
-very much like the glue root.   The  root is good
in all complaints of the breast; and the root be-
 ing eaten, helps a consumptive cough.   It is good-
 put into wine as a cordial,  bracing, cooling, herd-
 ing and strengthening weak nerves.

              TIGEON berry root.
   !49. I should not recommend this  root to any
   ua internal medicine. It may be used ps draughts
tr^bn the feet ;  and the root laid up in mills, barns
 or houses, thi.t are infested with rats and mice, is
 a sure remedy ; for they soon fall  to gnawing and   3
 eating the root, which will soon  poison them to
 death.   This was communicated to me hy a gen-
 tlemm of truth and veracity, and so I  <j;ive it to
 the public.  The juice of the berries pressed out 
          nature's botanic garden.        Ill

and dried away in the sun, is said to cure a cancer.
I have never tried it.
       GREAT COHOSH J OR, SQUAW ROOT.
   150.  It gi ovvs in the youthern part of this state.
Pennsylvania and Virginia, and is a very powerful
slmml.iting root, opening the pores, forcing a free
perspiration, removing obstructions, causing a gen-
eral  action ; and of course, good in all rheuma-
tic complaints, dropsies, numbness, palsies, &lc.—
it being a powerful medicine, it should be given in
small pr.tions.   Th. plant not growing here I can
 not describe it.   It is cultivated in gardens in the
 eastern  part of this state, by the peoplj called
 Shidcers.
               HELEBORE root.
   151. It is known in  every country where n
grows, though some know it by the name of itch
root, and some call it sneeze wort.  It is a poison
root, and not fit to be taken  inwardly.   The dried
 and  pulverized root  makes a good snuff to  clear
 out pores of the head, and for  this it n.ay be used,
 it being'a good  physic for the head, to  open the
pores  and clear out the pulrified matter, which 
    112       nature's botanic GARDEN.

    ought to be discharged from the head.  A smaiif
    pinch is enough.

         CLIVERS, CLEVERS \ OR, GOOSE GRASS.

      152. It grows in moist swales, and rises up a
    slender jointed vine as rough asthe edge of a sickle,
    and very small leaves with white flowers, which
    stand thick all over the top of the vine.  The
    vines grow thick together,, so that they cannot ea-
£   sily be separated.  The herb is diuretic, and good
    in cases of dropsy, kidney complaints, and is used
    in  ointments.   It  helpeth kernels in the throat,
    and likewise all sorts of hard tumours and swell-
    ings.

                   CATTAIL FLAG.

      153. The root of this flag  being pounded and
    steeped in milk to the consistence of a poultice,
    and applied to any  ulcerated sore, or inflamed
    tumour upon the legs or elsewhere, doth wonder-
    fully draw out the inflammatiou, and prepare them
 ■ j  jfor healing.          .

           WHITE OAK TREE  BARK AND BUDS,.

      L54. The inner bark of the white oak pound-. 
          NATURE'S BOTANIC GARDEN.       113

cd and  boiled with oats ;nd applied, as a poul-
tice, to  any wound, cut or sore, is a very good
remedy.  The leaves  or  buds taken in decoc-
tion, are said to be a sovereign remedy in women's
weaknesses, or in any hemorrhoidal flux or flour
albus.

                 BEECH TREE.

   T55.  The water found  in decayed beeches, in
hollows, will cure both man and boast, of any
scurf, scab or running sore.   The leaves in poul-
tice or  ointment, are very good to  apply to hot
swellings.

     HEMLOCK TREE, BOUGHS, BARK AND GUM.

   156. The  inner bark of the hemlock tree of
the root, drank in decoction, is an excellent guard
against any fever; and is a very healthy drink in
case of coldness of the bowels, diarrhoeas, &c.—r
The boughs, in decoction, are perhaps preferable
to any thing known  for sweating, in case of ob-
structed persp- ation or catching cold.   The pa-
tient is  in no danger of catching cold while  ♦'
have the  scent of hemlock upon  them.
                     J2 
114
NATURE'S BOTANTC GARDEN.
 gum is*good, being put in wine or spirits, as a cor-
 dial, and will strengthen weak stomachs exceed-
 ingly.

                  WHITE PINE.

   157.  The inner bark of the whfte pine boiled
 in milk, is good in all  fluxes and soreness of the
 stomach ; and combined with ox balm or hard
 root and birch twigs and boiled strong with the
 same quantity of molasses added  thereto, and
 drank, is an exceeding sure remedy for the dys-
 entery.
   The bows with other tonics, is good in syrups,
 in complaints of the breast.   The gum is good in
 ointments and salves, and mixed  with  the yolk
 of an egg, makes a good superating plaster to draw
 any tumor 10 a head, that it may  break and dis-
 charge.

           PITCH  PINE BOWS AND GUM.

"?-* 158. The bows of pitch pine, in syrup, are
 good in weak, debilitated cases, and  a very great
   engtbener of the  system.
   The gum, tar  or pitch, or whatever it may be 
          NATURES BOTANIC GARDEN,      115.     j
called, is exceedingly good in all cases of the lungs
or breast.
   It is said tar water has cured a deep consump-
tion. 
 
          INDIAN CLOVE ROOT.

  Some know it by the name of upland even root,.
This is a noble medicine for the sick head ache.—
To prepare the medicine, you must take one pound
of the  root newly dug, jam it up, the one h;;if,.
that is, half a  pound, and put the  s;.me into two
quarts of rum ; drink three glasses  a tUy, say t"c
hours before breakfast, two hours  before dir.ner,
and two hours before supper ; so continuing until.
the whole pound is used, and it  very selthm fails.
of effecting a cure.
  Note.—The dry root will do just as well, but
Ought to be weighed while green :  that is. a pcund
to a gallon of spirits.  Of the dry rooi, it will
take less weight.
The wonderful effects of the decoction or juice of the
  Smooth Plantai n root, comb, nedzviih c. a rifled beef
  firine.  Say aboill iwopims be f brine, and one
  of plantain,, boiled together.
  About two  years  since, I was called upon to 
118              APPENDIX.

vi-iil  :iMr. Wilfjim Hill, of thi town of Norwich, *
comvy of Cue.)  ngo.   1 found the men in a most
shaek'. i^ -*itu=i -wn; eo/erjd with a s.mI ,:;id scurf
from ileal to foot, wiih i s body how.nl together,
wringing and twisting, o;-.easio:rjd by the iteiiin^
and s ini'tiu^ of th2 skin.*  Upon inquiry, I found
tho man had been in a similar situation for twenty-
three year-  ; and that he had employe.1, first and
last, fifteen  different physicians, but all to no pur-
pose.  In  wo months from that time I vis.tjdthe
man, and he was nearly well.

               Recipe asfj'lozcs.
   T. k^ a potion of Indian phytic once  a week;
take three limes a day what whl lie on the point
of a pen knife, of Indian mercury,  (lobelia) and
wash, twice a day with the plantain water and beef,':
brine, the body all over.
   Take  of the  bark  of dogmnchymose, (Indian  ?
tobacco, or some know  it by  the  name of dog
wood) and of cancc  maple, or some s  y Canada
rnaple or black maple, i is all the same, (by differ-
ei;„ nam >s)  a handful  of each  put into pure cold

   * T.'ie i-cnrvy le >ro;y.   As ui"*h the leprosy as the cli-  l
mate would admit.                               ^ 
APPENDIX.
119
water, an<* steeped therein.  Use this for constant.
drink.
                Indian Cloves.
   A choice medicine for rheumatic complaints.—
Recipe as follows :—Take half a gill of Indian
doves and two tea spoons full of red pepper seed,
pound them well together, put them into one qui.rt
of good cider brandy, (rum, wine or w hi:-key will
do, though not so good,) shake them well together,
then let them >tand twelve hours, and it is fit for
use.  A dose is one table spoon full three  or four
times a day, if the patient can befir it ; if not, tnke
less.   If  the dose is too warm, it may be reduced
a little with water.  But  previous to taking such
powerful, stimulating astringents, the patient must
t. ke a potion of Indian physic, (three pills a com-
mon  dose,) and so in proportion, less or more as
the patient is hard or easy to operate Upon.
   ]ST0Tf:.—If the patient is troubled with co-tive-
ncss, that at going to bed, they should take a small
tea cup full of the decoction of elder blows ; or
of the root of beech  tree, twigs or leaves ; or of
blue violet  roots, or the root of burdock steeped.
 Hut, on the contrary, if  the patient be  trmbled
with  relax, the clove drink e  perhr.ps on^al U< 
WO             APPENDIX.
 any other  medicine, to check diarrhcias, fluxes
 and dysenteries.
   Note.—All general rules are subject to many
 exceptions, and so in certain quantities or potions
being given to the patient, at certain times.  Per-
haps the patient's stomach will not bear half the
quantity prescribed ; or it may require double the
dose.   This requires great attention  and care in
the nurse.   I have known a man that could not
bear but one pill of Indian physic ; while others,
even feeble women, would take four or five at a
dose, without receiving any injury.  One old lady
took nine, but the operation was pretty severe.
They were four  or  five days in operation, but
they wrought a great cure.

                Indian Cloves.
  They are nothing more or less, than the pod or
shell that incloses the seed of the prickly ash.—>
They have a remarkably pleasing aromatic smell,
nearly the same as the orange peel. These cloves
put into spirits, make a wonderfqf stimulating me»
dicine, and  are good against numbrie«s, palsies, le-
thergy, rheumatic complaints ; and in all  cases
where the  blood requires a quick circulation ; t« 
APPENDIX.
121
remove obstructions, and increase r.n action thro1
the system.
   Note.—A table spoon  full is to be taken four
times a day.
   Take one quart of turtle's oil, and one pint of
Indian cloves, well pounded ; let them simmer to-
gether for eight or ten days in some warm place,
stirring them once a day ; then strain the oil from
the cloves ; then take another pound of  clean
cloves  and pound them as above ; then put both
parcels together and jam them as fine as possi-
ble. Then put them into a strong b;;g, press them
between two flat stones, until you have got every
drop of oil poss'bly to be obtained ;  or you may
put a quart of cloves to a quart of oil, then strain
and press as above ;  but see that your cloves be
well pounded before straining and after.  But ei-
ther way, the oil strained or pressed must be  put
together.
   This oil to annoint the joints pained with  the
gout, rheumatism, numbness, palsied limbs,  sci-
atica or  hip rheumatism, is the most sovereign
remedy in the world,  and a most certain cure.

          A Recipe to cure blindness,
   Occasioned by  films covering the eyes, com- 
122            APPENDIX,
municated by a very pious old lady whereby she
did by the same, cure  a young man that had
been  blind for two months, which had baffled
the skill of the most eminent physicians in these
parts.—Recipe as follows :
  Take young thrifty winter-green, and stew it
down in fresh butter to an ointment.  The strong-
er your ointment the better. Then bottle for use.
Method of using as follows :
  Rub a little  of this oil under the eyes, and put
a small drop into the  eye.  Then take thejuice
of house leek,  put it into sk'immed milk, and wet
lin:n cloths with the same, and lay them on the
eyes.  This may be repeated three or four times
a day, and in  two or three  days it will destroy
the film, so that the patient will begin to discern
light.  Yet it is necessary that the patient should
be kept in a dark room, and admit the light gra-
dually as the patient can bear the same.  This
is a most  precious medicine, called Hart's oint.
ment.
   The most delicate lady in the town of Pres-
tion was  cured  of the jaundice, when she was
n< a:ly gone, and was thought past cure, by the
following medicine.
   Two quarts of chamber-lye  from a healthy 
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person, one hand full of stone soot, and one hand
full of egg shells pounded fine.   These three put
into a glass bottle, and set into a kettle of water
and boiled three hours. Then drink three glasses
a day until well.

       Recipe for making Indian Physic.

  First method —Take a quantity of mandrake
roots, boil them in pure w ter until the strength
is all out; then strain, settle, and boil  it  down
gently, until it is hard enough to make into pills.
This sort operates very powerfully, generally in
about seven hours after taken.
   Second method.—Get your quantity of man-
drake roots as above.  To half a bushel of roots,
add witch  hazle twigs, burdock leaves,  sweet
elder roots, dwarf elder roots and cloves, a hand
full of each ;  boiled, settled and  strained  as
above, and  brought to the consistency of pill-
ing.
   Third method.—Physic  for  dropsical com-
plaints.  Two  thirds mandrake root, one third
dwarf elder root, boiled and pilled as above.
   Remarks on  the three different  methods and
k:~'J of pills. 
U4            APPENDIX.
  The first kind produces a disagreeable sensa-
tion in the stomach, sickness and dizziness in the
head, and sometimes griping in the bowels ; but
very effectually cleanses the bile from  the sto-
mach, full as well as emetic tarter.   It produces
an action in the system, removes obstructions in
the liver, and eases pains in the head, sides and
ioints.
  The second  method is equally efficacious in
all the above complaints, and is more mild in its
ope»ation ; but very often will operate thirty-six
hours, and will very often throw off a fever.
  The third method is the best physic for the
dropsy that was ever  known.   It operates more
rapid'y than the second kind, in any other case
exeep the dropsy, which  requires more physic
on account of the torpid state of the vessels.
  After removing any complaint by physical op-
erators  and the fever is wholly subsided, then
the patient wants bracing up by cordial medicine,
Stimulating astringents ; such as colt's foot, white
snake root,  sanicle,  spignard, comfrey,  winter
green, prince's pine, nunk root, or consur.iption
root, or piu.ikum, which is the same herb hy dif-
ferent names; queen of the meadqw,St. Antho-
ny's cross, red clover, Indian clove root or evens3 
                APPENDIX,            125

nerve root, dragon's claw, Indian  cloves, polli-
podium, white oak buds and witch hazle twigs.
The  bark of the nanny berry bush and blows,
the decoction of pitch pine knots or boughs, and
snaiis, boiled in milk, are very strengthening and
good in consumptive complaints.
   Many of these things put into wine and sweet-
ened with loaf sugar, make an excellent cordial.
But many times it will be necessary to check
the astringent quality, by adding something  of
a physical nature; such as, yellow dock or pa-
tience, burdock roots  or blue violets, plantain",
beech tree leaves or  twigs, elder roots or berries
or blows, mandrake or blood root.   People that
are subject to inward feveis and costiveness, can-
not  bear cordials made wholly of astringents.
But those that are subject to diarrhoeas and flux-
es, want astringents more particularly. But great
care should be taken not to physic too much,
nor give too powerful  astringents.   Either way
injures the patient.   If there is too much heat,
give cooling medicine, which in general is phys-
ical.  If the system is too cold, give heating,
stimulating astringents.  The great a't  of cu-
ring, is to produce an equalibrium in the sys-
tem*
                    K3 
126            APPENDIX.
               To renexv the age.
   It is very seldom we  see  an aged person full
vof life and vigor, and moving with that  agility
 and sprightliness, that we do the youth.   The
 blood is more vitiated and cold, the nerves weak,
 and the vessels perform their  office  more lan-
 guidly  than in days of youth.   Therefore we
 conelude that it is contrary to nature, for an aged
 persji to feel young and sprightly like a youth.
 Yet the God of nature  has provided ways and
 moans to remedy  many of  the evils that befall
 us in this unfriendly  world.  From this I con-
 clude, the age may be  renewed in  feelings,  a
 number of years.   To effect this I will make use
 of vegetables apparantly as contrary to nature
 as it is for an aged person to have young blood
 in their veins.
    In the first place I will give physic  sufficient
 to cleanse  bile from the stomach, and produce
 a regular action through the system;  which  is
 always  a good step  towards health.   Then I
 shall make use of the following contraries.
    Fi s'l .those evergreens that brave the cle-
 mency  of the winter;  such as hemlock, pine'
 spruce, winter green, pi inee'.- pine, piunkum and 
APPENDIX.            127
pollipodum, <fec. Likewise the witch hazlc which
blossoms always about the first of December,
and keeps in blow chief of the winter, and the
white clover that bears seed at the root as well
as top,  'The iron root and top, which grows up
out of the  root of white or  black  oak.  This
vegetable  blossoms and bears seed in  pods si-
milar to tobacco.  The cancer or dragon's claw,
which has a straight stalk without any leaves,
seven or eight inches high.   The root looks like
a bunch of white worms, sometimes as big as a
man's fist.
   The little herb called rosa solis or sun dew,
 which will have the dew upon the leaves the hot-
 test day in the summer.'  A syrup made of these
 things, sweetened with  honey, kept in a  cool
 place to keep it from souring and drank ; of this,
 say from the 10th of  May, to the  ldth.of July.
 At the same time, live upon the  flesh  ef the
 fresh water turtle, and at the same time annoint
 the joints  with the oil of this animal, and drink
 no kind of snirits, but let his drink be molasses
 and water.
    Those people that  will take the trouble to try
 this, will  find  themselves relieved from a great 
128            APPENDIX.
many complaints, that aged people are subject
to ; and feel as though their age was renewed.
The author has  not tried the  whole of these
things together, but from what he has tried, he
has reason to believe he is correct.  A dec.oction
of hemlock drank, is a guard against fevers.—
(I mean the hemlock tree.)  White and pitch
pine are of a very strengthening nature ; winter
green a charming cordial; prince's pine the same;
piunkum or consumption  root, one of the  best
roots in the country for consumption ; pollipo-
dium, look at the description ;  witch hazle, won-
derfully sweetens the blood and  cheers the head
and heart; white clover, the same ; Iron  root, a
good guard against  fevers ; noble cancer doth
strengthen the nerves and  kills a  fever ; sun dew,
look at the description ; honey  gathered from
all medical plants.  The flesh of a turtle is good
for the consumption in the blood, and to strength-
en decayed nature.   The oil  is a sovereign re-
medy for the cramp in the stomach, and for the
rheumatism.   Molasses and water make  new
Mood 
APPENDIX.              129
A sure and effectual remedy of curing a fever soret
               or an ague s<,re.
  The difference in these two sores is considera*
able.   An ague sore effects the bone, and a fe-
ver .sore does not.   An aghe sore  conns by ta-
king a sudden cold by wading in the water, when
a person is in a state  of free peispiration.   A
fever sore comes  after a fever, and many times
by taking mercury.
  Ri.cipk.—Take  once  in a week, a potion of
Indian physic, steep the bark of dogmacamoos?
and cancer maple, of each a handful in pure
cold water, say three pints, and let this be the
constant drink.
  Note.—The bark is to be  scraped fine.
  Secondly.—Make a white lie and put as much
Salt therein as the lie will dissolve.   Once or more
in each week, the  sore must be washed with the
lie brine, aed all over as far as the  inflammati m
extends.   If the  inflammation  is  high, bathe
with  the lie cold, otherwise  bathe warm.  But
the grand  m. dicine is sweet water.   With this
the sore must be washe. i, at  least, morning and
evening, and a plaster spread on  tow or linnen
cloth,or very soft leather, with fever sore salve. 
130             APPENDIX.
  Note.—The plaster must not be bigger than
the sore, if the sere is not larger than half a pea.
  These things are to be observed  and attended
to without intermission, until the  sore  is well,
which will be longer or shorter, according to the
age of the sore.

               Recapitulation.
  Drink a cold  decoction of the  bark.  Take
Indian physic  once a week, and wash the sore'
with he brine once or twice a week.  Wash with
sweet water, mornng and evening, always put
on the plaster after washing with the sweet wa-
ter.
  Note.—If it is judged that the blood is dama-
ged by mercury; take a small pinch of Indian
mercury,(lobelia)powdered, put into a draught
of the bark, and drink of it, three  or four times
a day, for  two  or three weeks.

                An Ague Sore.
  It must be treated  in the same  manner, but
these are  mory dangerous  as they generally af-
fect the bone, and many times tear  the bone in
pieces, eating it full of holes like a honey-comb,
Many limbs have been taken off to save the pa« 
APPENDIX.
I'-A
tient's life.   This kind generally begins with
pains in the hips, knees a id ankles, attended by
swellings and inflammation, which with careful
attention may generally ,be removed as follows.
   Bathe the part with lie-brjhe for half an hour
at a time, sweat the patient smartly with beech
blocks, give  a smart portion of Indian physic
while in a state perspiration.  If this does  not
remove the pain  and swelling, kill a cat, rip  her
open, and apply  her to the pained part  as quick
as possible, this generally will succeed.   But if
by a faithful trial of these things it  sjiou! I  not
answer, clap on a superating plaister  and draw
it to a head as soon as possible, but continue  to
wash with  lie-brine above and below the place
 you expect  it will  come to a head.   When you
suppose there is considerable matter collected,
it must be  lanced and the matter  let out.   Cut
the orifice so large  that you can  pour  in pure
water down to the bottom of the sore.   Shak?
it about and let it run out, then put hi some more,
 and so on, it will soon destroy the nature of the
sore, and prepare it for healing.   This operation
 will  be painful in the beginning, but grows less
and less, as the fever subsides.   But it is ,o ne-
cessary, I feel fully justified in recommending it.. 
                                              1
    132            APPENDIX.

    After the sore is brought to this  situation, you
i   have nothing particular to attend to, different
    from a common fever sore; except there should ;t
    be scales of bone winch must come out.   In this
    case, apply the plaster of fever  sore  salve con-
    tinually, and not wash in the sore with the sweet
    water, but all around it.
      Note.—The  sore never will heal up, as long
    as there is scales of  the bone that ought to come
    out, and if it should, it would brake out again.
      Many times the  sores effect the joints, and *
    shrink the cords.   In this case we should  not at-' ..
    tempt to relax the cords, until the inflammation
    is subsided, and the  sore nearly well.  Shrunk
    cords are relaxed by making  use of  Coleman's
    oil, of which I shall give a description.
        Hie wonderful virtues of the Sne'et  Water.
      It will cure the head ache, by bathing the tern*  ]
    pies and head, and then combing the head in a
    very few  minutes.   It  will cure almost every
    kind of sore eyes, by bathing the temples, and
    over and under the eyes, and  by putting a little
    into the eye.  It will draw the fire out of a burn
    and cure the same, sooner and  better, than any
    other medicine that I ever saw tried. It will cure 
'APPENDIX.            .1SS
vi fresh wound sooner than any salve.  It wholly
prevents catching cold, in ariy wound, sore, scald,
or burn.  A broken skin, feet blistered and sore
by travelling; or any bruise that is inflamed, is
cured immediately by applying lint wet with this
water.   This is the  only certain  remedy for fe-
ver sores, perhaps there is in the world.   I have
cured with it, when they have been eighteen and
twelve years standing, and had baffled the skill
of the mos. eminent physicians.   I cured  my
brot :er of a pleurisy, by bathing his side continu-
ally, and drying it in with a red hot shovel, in
•about four hours.   It will cure woman's swelled
 breasts, and prevent them from breaking.
   One Root Doctor informed'me,, that he had
 cu~ed a cancer by washing with sv.cvt \sater.   It
 is equally good for the brute creation, "as we 1' as
 man.   It  will cure a horse's back that is called
 with the sad die, pole evil  and fistulas, and is as
 good a tidii.^ for a cow's ba^ that is swelled and
 inflamed, as I know of.   For any creature that
 is altered and catches cold, it is a precious reme-
 dy, and  is  good for any infle rmttion whatever.
 The excelling of this water appears  in: ties,'"that
 whatever  is wet in this water, who! v  prevents 
13 i             APPENDIX

the taking cold in the part; and prevents and
destroys proud flesh, to all intents and purposes.

                King of Oils.
  A precious oil. or ointment for sprains or lame-
ness in the joints of man or beast.  It is very ef-
ficacious in rheumatic complaints, palsies and
numbness.
            *■
                Coleman's Oil.
  It is good to relax  shrunk cords, and likewise
to put into deep wounds and sores ; to cleans*'
them from the bottom, and is good for the lock
jaw.
        BeckcVs Strengthening Plaster.
  It is excellent to strengthen the back and ease
pain.  It is good to apply to thehip in case of scia-
tica, or hip rheumatism, or even to the side, breast
or shoulders for the  same, and likewise in cases
of sprain or broken bones.   Spread upon leath-
er, jnd applied to the pained part, it has  a very
pleasing effect.
   Note.—The plaster should be worn as  long us
it will stay on. 
APPENDIX.             I3u
               Rheumatic Oil,
  Is very efficacious in rheumatic complaints to
annoint the  pained joint, and  has many times
proved effectual in removing the complaint.
           The Oil of Summer Savery.
  I think the Apothecaries call it araganam,it is
the prettiest  thing to ease the tooth ache, that I
ever saw.  Wet lint in  this oil and put it into the
hollow, pained tooth,  and the effect is instanta-
neous.

            The  Oil of Peppermint.
   It is excellent to touch upon the cheek, about
an inch below the eyes; to cleanse the eye, and
strengthen the sight.  It will steam into the eyes
remarkably,  but the oil must not be put into the
eye by any means.

                 Oil of Vitriol.
   Take as much  lint as you can put into the hol-
low pained toot; dip it into the oil and apply it
to the hollow, and it will kill the marrow and th?
pain,  in a very few minutes. 
136             APPENDIX.

Sii:i}:'e method of curing the Fever and Ague, by
                 D. Ballard.
  Let the patient, Justus the fit is coming on, put
his legs, up to tiie knees in a tub of hot water,
as hot as can be home, and at  the same time,
drink down cold  water as fa^t as possible.   The
patient  will soon begin to  puke.   Arter puking
smartly, tro to bed, and the sweat will  come out
wonderfully;  and the patient will  be wholly
cured.   Afterwards strengthen with cordial.

A certain cure fur the Canker of Cue mouth and sto-
                   mach.
  ]T;d.ea streng decoction  of the blue chobc
rofit, sweetened wit': honey, and wash the mouth
and swallow a little wat«r frequently.

         Another for canker in childre^.
  Take of the bark of sweet  brier, nanny berry
bar!  . hyssop and sage, equal quantities; st;vp
them in wate< until very strong; then sweeu-n
with  honey, and it is fit for use.   Let tne patient
ta! .3  a table s, non full at a time once in half at*
hour.  11.*^ ii an infallible remedy. 
APPENDIX.             137
          JVew cure for Consumption.
  Let the patient go through a couise#»saUiva-
tion, with lobelia, blood root, mandrake  root,
equal parts, dried afid pulverized, a table spoon
full put into a pint of good rum.   Let the pa-
tient take a tea spoon  full at a time, three times
a day,  two hours before eating; or take as much'
as the stomach will bear without puking, for nine
days.  Then take the bark of nanny berry bush
steeped in cold water  for constant drink.

   A certain remedy for Worm fits in children.
  Give the patient so  troubled, one  tea spoon
full of the spirits of turpentine at a time, when
the fit is coming on, and it is a certain remedy
and cure.

                  Pleurisy.
   Take  a hand full of treacle root, pound it and
put the same  into a gill of rum, and let this in-
fuse one half  hour.   Then let the patient drink
this all at once, and apply the pounded root to
the side  exactly where the  pain lies.  Repeat
this two or three times, which is an excellent re-
medy. 
133             APPENDIX.
For obstructions rf the terms of tcomen ly caldjug
      m*.            cold.
  Take a handful of sassafras root end old rustv
iron, pat into «vat r and boiled ; then strain it oft",
sweeten it a little ai (I  add a I.tfie spirits ;  then
drink moderately of this, until the obstruction is
removed.   IIdi  a gill once in four hours i- suf-
ficient.

                 RhcviiUttism.
  Steep a black  wasp pe.-t in cold water or ci-
der, u"t 1 the strength is out.  (live the patient
one gill for eveiyhour, for two ar three hou .-..
Then give bell blows physic or some other kind
of physic.

            Clarified Juirc ofII:rbs.
  The way to prepare your juice is as f Hows ;
Gather your herbs when  p etty dry, pound them
well in a mortar, p;i"ss out the juice  uud strain
it though a cloth that will takeout the sediment.
Then bod and s'.im off all the filth that  rises.
When this is done your juiee is clarified. When
cold, pni  it into  a glass  or earthan vessel we 1
glazed, and caver thejuice an  inch thick with 
             .  APPENDIX.

oil, and the oil will swim on the top.  When you
wish to make use of any, turn up your  vessel
and eour off.   If perchance you poUr off any
oil, von may skim of the same with  a spoon.—
In th's  way you may preserve your clarified
juice for some time.

               Miking Syrups.
       i
   Syrups are made three ways : Py infusion,that
is, the  flowers of  herbs ;  put in an earthan ves-
sel that you can eover,ar:d to three pints of spring
water,  and one pound of flowers.  Let this stand
over a slow fire  twelve hours.  Then stain it
out, and to every pint of this, add two pounds of
sugar; which, only melted  over the fire and
skimmed, will produce you the syrup you desire.
Secondly, syrups are made by decoction. (That
is the boiling any herb in water.)  Take as m -
nv herbs or mots  s your  recipe prescribes.—
IMake  them clean, and ir.te that those that are
more hard  ami  d<v, will want mure boiling f!«fcu
tlu.se  that  are  soft and  juicy.  A hand f ill.of
roots or herl.s is enough for a pint of water, and
so in proportion.
   Having  boikd out all the strength of your
 lurks, strain them through a woolen cloth : but 
\40             APPENDIX.

note you are not to boil till half the water is eva-
porated, and not to strain till the d.-coction is
nearly cold.  To this decoction, add  to every
pint,  one pound of sugar,  and then  hang it
over the fire, and boil and skim until no more
rises, and again strain if you please.  Then add
a little gin to keep it  from souring, and  your
syrup is complete.
   Syrup made by juice, is the best and purest.
Gather your herbs, pound them in  a  mortar,
 ooil until one fourth is consumed, and then add
sugar as above.   Then boil again, taking off all
the  scum as before, then  add spirits  and your
syrup is  fit for use.
   Keep your syrup, either  in glasses or stone
pots, and cover them over with a paper, for you
must not cork or stop them tight.
   Decoctions are made for present^use,  and are
the boiling of any herb or herbs, root or  bark, so
that you get the strength.   Your recipe will give
vou directions what herb or root to make use of,
and what quantity will  be necessary for such a
disorder, and how long to continue the same.

                     Oils.
   The way of making  them  is  this.   Having 
APPENDIX.             ut
  bruised year herbs or flowers you would make
  your oil of; put them into an earthan pot, and
  to two  or three hands full of them, [ ut a pint of
  oil of olives; cover the  pot with paper, and set
  them in the sun for about a  foitnight or less, if
  the sun shines very hot; then, having warmed
  it well  by the fire, press out the heib in a press,
  and  add as many more  he; bs, being bruised as
  before.  Set them in  the  sun,  and  so on until
  you get your oil strong enough.   At last, boil
  both herbs together, until tie juice is all  evapo-
  rated and the herb crisped.   Then strain off all
  while hot, and keep it in a stone or earthan ves-
\  sel for  use.
                  Electuaries.
     Electuaries  are  nothing  more than herb;;,
  roots and seeds heat into powder an ! sifted thro'
  a very fine cloth. This powder is mixed with ho-
  ney : but your honey must be clarified by boiling
  and skimming,  untd it is pure.   Then, t» one.
  ounce of your powder, add three ounces of cla-
  rified honey ; then  mix them well together and
  put it into stone or earthan vessels for use.
                  Muking P;!l:<
    The way of making pills is simple and-easy ; 
Uz             APPENDIX.

for with the help of a mortar and pestle you are
to beat fine wdiatever you mould wish to make
into pifls.  Whether it be gums, roots, or what-
ever, and  sifted through a fine sieve; then add
syrup,  gum of jelly, or whatever is  nrcssary to
make your powder into pills.  Work this and the
powder well together, and it is fit for pilling.—
Some make  use of castile soap.
  N. B.—That those peopie that have a small
still, can prepare many of their herbs by destil.
ling  them to great advantage,  by keeping their
distilled water.  And by saving  the oil may
make several  essences of great virtue in medi-
c> ne, 
    POOR HAK'S pmrsiciAre,

                 PART  II.

 SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED,

  1. New and often repeated colds, will often brin»
on a fit or paroxism of the Asthma ;  with some
these fits are more periodical than with others,
but it is always attended with a cough, and diffi-
culty of breathing,  and  a  tightness about the
breast; the patient g^ts but little good sleep.
                Bilious ChoJic.
  2.  When this  complaint is attended with an
ma'animation, it Is almost presumption to admin-
ister any kind of hot physic.  This complaint id
sometimes attended with vomiting, sometimes the
patient imagines his bowels are  drawing towards
his back bone, and at others, he fancies they are
tied in knots.  If the bowels are so inflamed as to
be perceptible upon the external parts of the pa-
tient, the case is dangerous.
                  Cancers.
  3.  The symptoms of a Cancer in its first stagf 
  14!   SYMPTOMS OF DISS.\CES DESCRIBED.

  are so trifling, that people are apt to neglect thona,
  too long, especially those cf the worst  kind.  1
  la ve seen, says Mr.  Steward, in places I have
  travelled through, some with their  eyes eat out,
  others with all the fi\-h eat off their arms,  some
  with all one srde of their heed eat off, others with .
  their breasts eat off,  so that one in i id it see the
  motion of their vitals!  Reader,  these were once
  thought to be trifling cases, until it was  too late
  for hern to get relief.  Th -se Cancers mostcer-
  t: in!}' might have been taken out, and the pntient
  cur  d, had  they been attended to seasonably.
    Those Cancerous tumours which form or h?<rin
  in a woman's  bre st, are most commonly perceiv-
- oil by an examination with the finger-; sometimes
  I hey lie so deep that the  patient knows nothing j
  a'out it until it begins to pain her; those p:uns are
  Ihjfct at first; as they begin to increase, there will  '
  b • a hotdarting, sheeting, stinging and painful sen- |j
  s tion ; as this tumour  increases, the sh; pe, col-
  o\;i,and pain will increase until they ulcerate, and
  the p:.tier.t will feel cold and shivering by turns.
  By Shis time the Cancer puts on an alarming :.p-
  p'.rrcnce, this ;.hirras the patii nt, r.r.d no wonder, 4
  for often at thi* stage of the Cancer,  they  mak<!
  rapid progress in the destruction of the patient. 
      ■SYMPTOVS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.   145

                  Dropsy.
  4. The Dropsy is a collection of watery fluid or
humoujl, which distinguish themselves four ways,
viz: The breast, the head, the  belly, and  the
fourth is a collection of water under the skin.—
Any collection of water below  the  head, com-
monly becomes a general Dropsy before death.

               Stone or Gravel.
 5. The Stone or Gravel is a disease seated in the
urinary vessels, composed of cemented particles
of diet.  This is one of the most distressing com-
plaints mankind ever experience.
   It is generally brought on by a previous hurt,
wound, or fall, which causes a leak in the kidneys,
This complaint occasions a heat of  the urine, a
pain in the penis, and orifice of the  body, some
times an obstruction of the water, at other times
a retention thereof. The urine is very full of san-
dy sediment.

                  Jaundice.
   G.  There are two kinds of Jaundice, one of
which is when the bile or gall on the liver is too
large, by  being  obstructed  perhaps  with  gall 
 146   SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.

Stones', the other kind of Jaundice is an involun-
tary discharge of the gall  or bile.  From  these
two cases a great variety  of different disorders
originate ; therefore, the first case should <be re-
moved as quick as  possible.  In the first kind
where an obstruction is formed, the digestion fails,
the appetite is poor, a general debility or weak-
ness is felt through the whole system, all the pow-
ers of nature move languidly, and a consumption
in the blood  is begun.  In this case a shock is  ne-
cessary, either by going  into the cold bath a few
times, or by electricity, or  a gentle  puke, and
sometimes riding on horseback, or in  a carriage
will answer  the purpose, I should  prefer the last
method in case  of a slender constitution.   How-
ever, as soon as the patient feels relieved by  ex-
ercise, aud the blood seems to flash through  the
system mart pleasantly,  then it  is necssary  to
take a gentle portion of vegetable physic, and then
have  recourse to the recipes to perfect a cure.
  In the second case, when the  bile .flow*;  too
much into the stomach or below  it, a potion  of
vegetable physic is necessary to cleanse  the bile
from the stomach; too much bjle,  also spoils the
digestion.   I know fhe  common method of prac
titioners, is to give apqke in such cases, but in my 
       SYMFT0M3 OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.   147

opinion it is not proper, for this reason, because in
throwing the bile  from the stomach by emetics,'
not only what is retained in the stomach is thrown
up, but a j.arge quantity is emitted from the gall, by
pressure and irritation made by puking, so thatthe
gall may require a considerable length of time to
fill again ; and during this time of filling there is a
lack of this fluid in the  stomach, which.is always
necessary to form a good digestion; administering
pukes in all bilious complaints, is, in my opinion,
Very imprudent ; some  have taken a puke in the
morning, feeling a little unwell, and have laid in the
cold arms of death in the evening; some, by strain-
ing to puke, have  so far exhausted themselves as
not to be able to survive but a few months ; ami
women drawing near their time, have precipitated
themselves into eternity by taking pukes, where-
 as proper physic will carry off the bile as well or
 better than a puke without any of those danger-
 ous  consequences ;  but in women's cases, very
 mild and gentle physic must be given and that in
 small doses, and no more given than is absolutely
 necessary.

                  King's Evil.
   7.  The Kind's Evil, is what some people call 
148    SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.

the scrofula.   This disease  usually affects the
glands of the neck and face.  It is often seated io
the breasts of women, and it often puts on the ap-
pearance of a caqcer.

               Scurvy Leprosy*
   o. The Scurvey Leprosy appears to be a skin
complaint  only, although by some it is called tho
scorbutic  or scurvy.  I conclude that there is a
great difference between the land scurvy, and
the Leprosy.   The Leprosy may be known from
Salt Rheum, although  it resembles this disorder
in this country more  than  any other skin com-
plaint.  It generally  begins with small watery
pimple9 and it spreads into a sort of scale or bran.
It is  attended with intense itching, and sometimes,
forms ulcer sores.  fThis watery fluid or humour
must all be drawn out on the skin and then killed
with outward applications.

            Rheumatic Complaints.
   9.  The symptoms of the Chronic Rheumatism
 ore hardly percieveable  at first, yet the patient
will be complaining by turns of pain,  sometime?
in one part of the body and sometimes in  another,
sometimes in the arms, and then in the legs, soro.^- 
SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.   149
times in  the  knees and then  in the shoulders*
heck or head, then in the stomach, as the patient
will express himself, these pains are felt in a va-
riety of ways, sometimes the patient complains
as if arrows were running through  the  marrow
of his  loins, and sometimes  it will stiffen a limb
or joint, so that the person cannot suffer a sudden
movement of the limb, without complaihing.  Af-
ter all these  painful sensations of the'body, the
complaint tiikes its seat in the. joints, and upon the
ligaments and muscles that cover the joints.  In
some patients, the joints will grow large, soft and
sore ;  but in others, there will be sudden con-
traction or shrinking of  the cords.

                 Salt Rheum.,
   10.  The Salt Rheum is askm complaint, and
may be said with propriety, to be a constitutional
or hereditary taint; and which appears confined
chiefly to the female sex.   It attacks the female
at any period of life.
          Ulcers, their cause and origin,
   11. As there are a variety >of ulcers and sores,,
it will be difficult to point  out all the different
symptoms which attend ulcers.  Th's. is a diffr
                     M 3 
150    SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCftllir.I.
 culty that seven eighths of mankind meet with.—>
 If we could form a proper judgment of what they
 are, as soon as they are formed in the flesh,.we
 should be in a ready way to cure them.
   The first cause of ulcers and sores to be ta-
 ken notice of, in  children  and young people, is a
 bad state of the  blood, with which they were  born
 into the world.   Ulcers, however, may be in con-
 sequence of hurts, bruises and wounds.  They
 are often the effects of a bad and sudden cold, es-
 pecially  in young women.  Sometimes it  is  in
 consequence of bad colds and wrong treatment in
 child-bed sickness.  Old people are subject to ul-
 cers, who have  ruinedtheir blood by heats, colds
 and hard drinking. Venereal complaints or disea-
 ses are another  powerful cause of ulcers^
  Symptoms,-*-I, says  Doct. Steward, observed in
 the case of cancers, that sores would degenerate
 into ulcers, and  ulcers into cancers.   I  here fur
 tber remark, that new wounds a< d sores ought not
 to be neglected till they become old.   Some ul-
 cers, at their first appearance, are nothing more
 than a pimple,  which will, in a short time, begin
to: eat, waste and eopsume the flesh.   1, says Mr.
 S., have had patients, afflicted with ulcers, brongh I
 *:o me one hundred and thirty miles, and enn man 
         -.YMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.   151

   who had eighteen ulcer sores between his knee
   and ankle.  This leg was four inches larger than
   the othsr.  I  cured it by fomenting the limb three
v   nights successively, which  took  the swelling en-
   tirely out of his leg, and prepared it for a second
   implication. Afterwards I applied my easiest can-
   cer plaster, which killed the nature of the sores,
   and set them a running.  Then the cure  all pla6-
   ter and precious ointment cured the wound.
     Another kind of ulcer has the appearance of a
   bile at first.   These are sometimes a year and a
   half  coming, before  they will ulcerate them-
   selves.  They are generally  painful, and  when
   they break or are opened, they  make rapid pro-
   gr-'-s, if not properly handled.   Ulcers  of this
   kind, when they form in the groin, commonly dis-
   charge copiously, and the discharge is of a can
   kerous nature.  Some imagine that the sores can*-
   rot  be healed  sound  with safety; but  I never
   found any difficulty in curing them, and I presume
   there is none, if they are rightly attended to.
     The first and best application, is my verdigris
   and vitriol plaster.
     The second I make use of,  is a poultice of cat*
  iail flag root, pounded and prepared in skim milk.
   srrvl this poultice will take  out the inflammation 
 ib2    SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DlCSCRIBEC.

 Then apply the simple le.iden plaster, which will
 cure the ulcer, and prepare it for healing ;  unless
 some of the veins should be eat off.  If there is
 put a few grains of the corosive sublimate into
 warm water, and inject it into  the  pipe  ; then
 ♦yringe  with a liquid application, made of the bark
 of bitter-sweet root, sweet apple tree root and gar-
 den sage ; after which, apply the cure all plaster
 and it will  heal up the ulcer, and prevent  prow
 or fottgoUs flesh from rising.  There is no cancer
 cancerous tumor or scroffulous swelling, that ough
to be opened with a caustic, but what this applicf^
 tion will open :  neither is there any kind of ulcer
 but what these plasters will kill.

        Vertigo, or swimming of the head.
  13. This is a complaint but not a disease, and is>
 the effects of diseases, a giddiness, dizziness and
 swimming  of the head.   It is  sometimes owing
 to a loaded stomach; sometimes to too much weight
 of blood for the strength of the nerves, and some-
 times it  is for the want of blood.   The first case
 of this  complaint may be removed by  cleansing
 the 6tomach  with proper  physic ; the second by
 letting blood  ; the third by making blood,  and by
 making  uae of the restorative medicine. 
       SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.    15?-

       Honey Combs or Ant Bed Sores.
  13. The symptoms pre such, that many peo-
ple take  them to be rose  cancers,  and  the}
make rapid progress when they begim  Previ-
ous to their breaking out, the patjent experiences
pains, similar to the  rheumatic, and when  they
present themselves,  they resemble the fungous
part of the rose cancer,  they are spungy, and will
bleed at the slightest touch ; and these sores may
be killed by the application of the cancer plaster.
Latterly  I  have  found  an easier cure for  these
sores, which is, the royal vegetable caustic ; and
it may  be found late in  the fall season, under a
bed of wild turnips.   They are a small turnip.
which extract all their  powers from Ihe old tur-
nips.   When these are dried and pulverized, they
make the easiest caustic that was ever applied to
flesh.  These powders  will kill all honey-comb
sores, and all proud, false or fungus flesh, in any
sore whatever.   I have killed all the fungus part
of  a rose  cancer, with these  powders.  These
sores must be taken all  out before a trial is  raade
to heal. 
^54    SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DE3CRIBED.

    Another method of treating a Fever Sorf,,-
   14.  When the first symptoms of these sores are
J>erceived, they ought to be scattered.   If they
are notsattered till a swelling and inflammation,
let the patient apply a poultice made of cat-tail
flag  root, pounded fine  in  a mortar, and put in
skim milk.   Prepare your poultice with this on
the fir'\ and wrap the  limb or part affected all up
with   bese poultices three times a day, until it is
ripe and fit to open, or  break itself.  This sore
must have a quick and sudden  discharge.   Con-
tinue the poultice twenty four hours^; then add a
few  grains  of the corosive sublimate to a little
 w.irm Water, and syringe out the sore twice a day.
 Care  must be used in regard to this application,
 and  continue it no longer than while the sore is
 cleansed.   Then you must inject a liquid appli-
 cation, made of the bark of the following roots.
 Sweet apple tree,  bitter sweet, witch hobble or
 witch popple, but some call it  moose bush, shoe-
 make and garden sage.  Boil them powerfully, and
 strain out the liquor, and  to half a pint of this
 preparation, half an ounce of gum myrrh made
 fine.  Let this application be syringed in twice a
 dav, until the wound is completely healed, 
SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.    155
  If there is a chance for the application of plas-      1
ters, apply a simple :eaden plaster, as long as you
would wish to keep it running, or at least as long
as you syringe in the first application.   After this
use  the cure all plaster, and precious ointment.
In all cases of this" kind, through  the whole ope-
ration, care must be taken to prevent a contrac-
tion of the  limbs.   To prevent this, let the limb
be annointed twice a day with the frog ointment..
This will prevent both the fever and the contrac-
tion of the neryes.  If  this mode of treatment
was strictly attended to  in  handling fever  sores,
there would not be so many old fever sores badly
healed.   In some of these cases I have made use
of  the nerve  ointment, to prevent contraction of
the nerves  after the sores were healed-   Then
apply my cure all  strengthening plaster, to com-
plete the cure.

               Catarrh in the head.
    15. The symptoms of this complaint,  are  a
■dryness  of  the wax in the ears, with a degree of
deafness ; a hollow sound of the voice ; a dizzi-
 ness in the head when  sitting up  at a  late hour of
 night; a dull heavy pain across the fore head ; a
eu'M-'-n drooping from  the head into the mouth and 
Lo6    SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.

throat, of a cold disagreeable matter;  difficulty
of breathing through the nose ; a thin watery fluid
from the eyes and nose ; a peculiar kind of indo-
lence felt over the whole body, pulse frequent, and
Cough and hoarseness filially succeed.

         Dr. Steward's Catarrh Smiff.
   16.  Recipe.—Take  white pine touch  wood,
hlood root, of the root of the  wandering milk-
weed, or dysentery root, well dried ; pound and
sift them finely  through gauze,  keep them sepa-
rate, and then make use of them as snuff.   This
is said to be a good remedy for the  catarrh.
     More remarks upon the Cholera Morbus.
   17. When the bile so exceeds in  quantity the
acrimonious matter, as  to irritate  the bowels •
and stomach, the following symptoms  will  take
plaCe.  The stomach will  eject it both ways, up-
wards and downwards, of green, yellow and black-
ish matter, and the patient complains of a pain
at the pit  of the stomach, and a griping in the
bowels.
   This complaint must be humored according to
the first symptoms.  If the patient is first  taken
^yith puking, it must be promoted for this purpose. 
        SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBE!)   15?

  Give the patient a gentle puke; after the puke
.  has operated, give him a strong decoction made
  of the Queen of the Meadow root.  This will
  turn his sickness, and prepare the stomach and
  bowels for a purge.  Then give him a potion of
  German pills, but if this should'not relieve him,
  give a potion of the powdered physic, and if a
  Cever threatens, give a cooling syrup.  After the
  eause appears to be removed, check and brace
  up the bowels, with the same kind of root as di-
  rected in the cure for the dysentery.  The In-
  dian name weaker, by the English, slippery root,
  quick Up, and none so pretty, but by the Ame-
  ricans, dysentery root.   The herb grows five or
  six feet  high ;  the blossom is nearly the colour
  of peach blows, set thick on every side, making
  a beautiful appearance.   The root creeps along
  under the ground  like sassaparilla root, is very
  slippery when chewed, with  a  little sharpness
  like pepper.

                   The Piles.
    18. When this disease is caused by the gravel,
  and when the gravel is cured, this complaint is
  cured also;  but if a bloody discharge follow, it
  mo« commonly proceeds from what is called the 
258   STMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.

hemorrhoidial reffels.  This  is what is termed!
the bleeding piles, but there is no danger in stop-
ping this opperation of the piles.   An  injection
made of the stiptic for the nose bleed,  will cure
them, but the patient must take two or three po-
tions of the German pills.  Whilst upon the use
of these pills, use  an injection of the frog oint-
ment.   Sometimes the  piles have  beeu  cured
with a syrup  made of Queen of the  Meadow
root, Arch Angel weed, and a fire weed, called
moon weed.

                The  Cankerash.
   19.  This disease is called, by some, the throat
ail, or ulcerated sore  throat.  It may with pro-
priety be called so, if it continues until  it forms
sores and breaks.
   The  greatest danger in this complaint, is its
seating in the head or throat.   To prevent this,
let the  patients head and throat be repeatedly
bathed with vinegar and salt.   Give a  potion of
cooling physic in the first stage of this complaint.
After this, physic will be improper, until the com-
plaint appears to be settled below the  stomach.
Then physic with the imperial physjfc.  Follow
 the first physic with a strong decoction  of the 
      SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.   15$

Queen of the Meadow root.   To this syrup, add
the root  of the  marsh rosemary, mountain flax
root, birth root or Benjamin root.   Make these
roots fine, and steep them strong in the above
svrup ; administer this medicine as hot aud as of-
ten as the patient can bear.   Vinegar and salt
-are an excellent medicine to be taken iiiternallj.
for this complaint.

             How to cure Deafness.
   20. Take a large  onion, bore ten  holes tw».
thirds through it, with a double ten gimblet; fill
the holes full of rattle snake's grease ;  roast the
onion upon a fire  shovel, until the grease begins
to run out through the onion ; then squeeze out
the oil and juice, and preserve them together.;—
Drop one, two or three drops at once, into the
ear.
           An infallible cure for corns.
   21.  Take simple blood root, pound and make
■a poultice of it in its own juice.  Apply this poul-
tice until  the corn will  peal  off.    This root
ought to be used eariy in the spring, or late in
ihe fall. 
160    SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.

             Symptoms of Worms.
  22. The symptoms are starting in sleep, puk-
ing,  rubbing  the  nose  in  consequence  of its
itching, a sighing or suffocating manner of brea-
thing, pain in the  sides, hickups, sour breath,
flushing  of the  cheeks, lying much upon  the
belly, swelling of the partition of the  nose  and
upper lip, paleness round  the mouth and nose,
,and the upper lip drawn upwards.
                    t
              Whitlow  or Felon.
  23. This disorder is a fever, locally determin-
ed to the membrane  or skin  which covers the
bones of the fingers.  It usually commences by
a pain resembling the pricking of a thistle or a
briar, but soon comes to be very painful.

          Of puking, to stop the same.
   24.  In fevers, excessive  vomiting might be
diecked by  putting  a  spoonful of deer's horn,
burned and powdered, into a pint of water, and
boiling it a few minutes, and a spoonful might be
taken  every  five minutes, or oftener, in excessive
 puking.
   The effects of emetic tartar may be checked^ 
      SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.     L&l

by drinking, frequently, large draughts of milk,
warm from the cow.   The juice of worm wood
is used with success;  parched corn powdered,
and  small  quantities of it, is very good to stop
puking ; essence of pepper-mint, and essence of
tanzy, &c. are remedies in this disease; chicken
broth, in small quantities; burned cork pulverized
and steeped in brandy ; burned hoofs of a hog
pulverized  and steeped in water, gives relief.—
Sometimes two or three kernels of spice will re-
lieve ; sometimes a tea-cup full of tea as hot as
can  be  borne, sage, winter  green, saffron, salt,
vinegar and water.   The three last taken freely,
are an excellen remedy in the first stau.e of the
dysente; y, as well as to stop puking.

   For relaxation of the fundament in children.
   25. Break two or  three hen's egg's, part the
white from the yolk ; take the yolk's  and put
them into  a clean frying pan washed clean from
grease ; set them over a slow fire, let them stand
a while ; then turn them over and squeeze them
until the oil comes out, and be careful not to burn
them ; collect the oil and annoint the part when
it is down; then boil an egg hard, let it be whole,
Ttid whilst it is warm, wrap it in a linen cloth,
                     N3 
162    SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.

and bind it on the fundament.   After you have
put up the part that was down, let this be worn
"Until cold.

     Inflammation of the intestines or bowels.
   26.  Symptoms.—A  fixed  pain,  sometimes
spreading over the belly; at others times, fixed
about the navel, fever, costiveness, and vomit*
mg»

          Inflammation of the Liver.
   27. Symptoms.—A pungent pain in the right
side, shooting up to the shoulder ;  a cough, for
the most part dry ;  tention of the right side over
the liver; hard dry gums, vomiting, Aveakness, dif-
ficulty  of breathing, costiveness, hickups, and 3
hard, full, quick pulse.

            Obstructions of the Liver.
   28.  The  symptoms  are a dull heavy sensa-
tion and tension of the right side, a little or no
fever, difficulty  of lying upon the left side, yel-
low eyes and costiveness.

          Inflammation of the Kidnies.
   ^,  The  symptoms are, fever and pain about 
      SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.    lCC

the parts, a numbness of the thigh and leg, on
the same side, vomiting, cholic  pains, costive-
ness, redness of the urine, and a small discharge
of it at a time.

                Consumption,
  SO.  The symptoms are, cough, pain about the
breast, spitting of nauseous matter at all times of
the day, which is sometimes streaked with blood ;
a high fever which comes on at noon, frequently
with shivering, and most always  with coldness ,
which remits in the afternoon to renew its  vio-
lence at night, and towards morning  with a co-
pious  sweat.  The pulse quick, and generally
weak, though  at first they may be a  little hard,
The fever is always kindled by taking too much
food.
       Immoderate flowing of the Menses.
   31. The symptoms are, head  ache, giddiness
 and difficulty  of breathing, shuddering pains in
 the back, and feverishness.  The  feet are  cold
 and swelled, especially in  the evening, palpita-
 tion of the heart, fainting, fearfulness, &c. arc
 not uncommon. 
 ItH   SYMPTOMS Of DISEASES DESCRIV htij

                  Hystcricks.
   ■ >2.  The symptoms are strange and disagree-
able.   Something is generally felt in the bowels,
which  is succeeded by the sensation of a  ball,
rising up until it gets fixed in the throat   With,
this, the patient  is wreathed about to  and fro,i
by convulsions which  cease after some minutes,
to return again.   In  the  intervals the patient
lies in  a sleepy state, at other times comes to her-
self and talks.  In this way, they frequently con-
tinue some time.

                Typhus Fever.
   ;»3.  The symptoms are, generally languor and
lassitude, dejection of mind, loss of appetite, al-
ternate chillness and flushing dullness and con-
fusion  of thought in  a  few days ; giddiness in
the head, with pains over the whole  body, nau-
sea and vomiting, respiration, short and anxious,
frequent, weak and often, intermittent  pulse.—
At first, the tongue is moist, and covered with a
whitish mucus, but afterwards dry and brown.—
There is little thirst, the  urine pale, low mutter-
ing delirium, arising from the torpid state of the
seneorium.  As  these advance, the fever and 
      SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.    165

 pulse are rising several degrees above their stan-
 dard, the tongue dry and brown or morbidly red,
 delirium now arises from a determination of the
 blood to the head, indicated by the suffused red-
 ness of the eyes.   The flushed countenance, the
 throbbing of the temporal arteries, scanty, high
 coloured foeted urine, and sometimes a disposi-
i tion to  immoderate perspiration, diarrhoea, cold
 extremities, convulsions and  death.

     Intermittent Fever, Ague and Fever, 4*c

   84. The symptoms are, languor and debility,
 yawning and streatching, an aversion to action,
 the face becomes pale,  the skin over the whole
 body appears constricted, as  if cold had been ap-
 plied ;  the sensibility is  greatly  impaired, the
 pulse small, quick and  irregular, and the  per-
 spiration snort.  At  length the patient feels a
 sensation of cold, first arising  in the back, then
 diffusing it elf over different parts of the body,
 which terminate in a universal shaking with cold.
 After a longer or shorter continuance of shak-
 ing, the heat ef the body returns, at first by tran-
 sient flushes, but soon transfuses itself over the
 whole system, like a dry and  burning heat.  Thf 
166   SYMPTOMS OF DISEASES DESCRIBED.

skin, before pale, is rmw swollen tense and red,
with an  unusual tenderness, and  can scarcely
bear a touch of the finsrer. 
POOH. MAR'S FHTSXCIAXf.
                 PART HI.


          CURES MADE  EASY.

                 DROPSY.

   1. Give a pretty smart potion of Indian physic,
perhaps three pills, if the patient can bear it.—
Then take two pounds of the roots of dwarf el-
der, if green, but if dry, eight ounces.   Boil this
in three gallons of water, down to a quart; then
strain out  the liquor, and when about as warm as
new milk, it is fit for use.  When the operation
of the pills is over, let the patient drink this off
as soon as he can.  It generally brings off the
water to an incredible degree.
   When the water is all evacuated, let the pa-
tient take  one or two pills of the dropsy physic,
every other evening, for  ten or twelve  niirhts.—
After this, cordial will be necessary : but great 
      l68           CURES MADE EASY.

      care should be taken to guard against a costive
      state.  Likewise, a relax should be checked by-
      gentle astringents.  Either of these might prove
      injurious  to  the patient, and avoid,  if possible,
j      taking cold ; for this may  throw them into the
k     hectic.  To prevent taking cold, wash the feet,"
      hands and temples, frequently,  in a decoction of
      hemlock boughs.
        A'.other.—Sassafras  bark, of  the  root, one
      pound, prickly ash bark, one pound, spice wood
      bush, one half pound, three ounces of garlic,
      four ounces of parsly root, four ounces of horse
      raddish root, and four ounces of black birch bark
      root.  Boil all in three gallons of small beer, and
      drink a gill three tines a day.
        Another.—Make a strong deletion of dwarf
      elder or white oak bark.  To this decoction, add
      a quantity of  gin, and take half a pint of the de-
      coction every hour, until it has the effect of cau-
      sing a free discharge of the urine.   After this,
      make a decoction of white oak bark, juniper ber-
      ries, the leaves of artichokes, and burdock seed;
      and to this, add an equal  quantity  of gin, and
      take a glass six times a day.  After this, stimu-
      lating medicine wili be necessary.   If the ps»- 
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tient is weak through disease, all salt and dry
provisions should be avoided.
   Another.—Take  the  bark  of Indian arrow
bush, pour boiling hot water to the bark, and let
it steep therein  until strong, and drink of this
decoction until well.  This also cures all cases of
bloating.   This being a physical bark, should be
taken sufficiently to  have a smart opperation;
and afterwards, in small doses in order to physic
 the blood.
   This bush  is  a  native of Ohio, Indiana and
 other southern states, and bears a red  berry
 when ripe, generally three in a bunch, like the
 barbary.
   Another.—Mix half an ounce of amber with a
 quart of wine vinegar, heat a brick (not red hot)
 and put it into a tub, pour the vinegar upon it,
 and hold the part swollen over the smoke, cover-
 ing  the tub close, to keep in the smoke.  The
 water will come out inwardly, and the patient be
 cured.
   Or cover the whole belly with a large new-
 sponge dipped in strong  lime water, and then
 squeezed out.   This bound on, often cures, < veu
 \vi:ho-it anv sensible evacuation of water.  One
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was cured by taking a  drachm  of nitre every
morning in a little ale.
  Tar water, drank  twice a day, has cured nia-
nv.  So has an infusion of juniper berries roast-
ed and made into a liquor like coffee.  Or take
senna, cream of tarter and jallop, half an ounce
of each, mix them, and lake  a drachm every
morning in broth.   It generally cures in twenty
days.   Doct. Ward says it seldom fails, either in
the watery or windy dropsy.   Or drink  freely of
a decoction made of the tops of  oak houghs.—
This cured an inveterate dropsy in only fifteen
days.

              CONSUMPTION.
   2. The way  to discover when this complaint
is seated, is to  take  urine from the patient in a
clear  glass tumbler, set  it where the sun shines
hot, let it stand six or seven hours, then observe,
if there  arises a frothy matter upon  the  fop,
the complaint is upon  the lungs ; but if  there
settles a dark sediment at the bottom of the glass,
then the liver is affected.  When this is the case
the patient may be  cured, the  other case is ex-
tremely difficult.
   To cure.—Take half a bushel of barley malt, 
-f.rfl.ES MADE EASY.
in
put into a large tub, take six pails of water, make
it b^n1, pour it on the malt, let it stand six hours,
then drain the water from  the malt, take half a
bushel of white  pine bark, one pound of spig-
nard root, one pound of sanicle root and top,
one pound of gention root, one pound of piunk-
um roots and tops, boil the  water  half awaj-.
then put it  into a new keg, add yeast and emp-
tyings to it, and  one  pound of h<>ney, let it fo-
ment, and then  bottle it up.   Drink one pint a
dav, and less or more as the patient can bear.
  This beer is good in all cases of weakness,
where the absorbent vessels perform their office
too languidly.       '.V:iv,*,fi      :
              COLD BATHING.
  8. Cold bathing has cured many a deep con-
sumption.   Or take, morning and evening, a tea
r.poon full of  white rosin,  powdered  and mixed
with honey.  This cured  one in less than one
month,  who was very near death.  Or drink
three times a day two spoons full of the jukfCof
water cresses.  This has cured a deep consump-
tion.
   Another.—Take pitch  pine  tops, boxiwoou
fcark, black elder bark, wild cinnamon, or can: 
Cfmzs MADE EASY.
 berry bush bark, (the bark of the root is the best)
 sumake roots,  sassaparilla roots, and prince of
 pine, of each a large handful.   Boil them in two
 pails of pure water, until it is reduced to one
 gallon.   Drink  of this a glass full three times a
 day.
   Another.—Take  of good wine, three quarts,
 three pounds of honey, and three pounds of sale
 sugar.  Then provide a stone jar, large enough
 to contain all these put together, with the addi-
 tion of the whole liver, lights and heart of a calf
just killed.   Then gather the flowers of dande-
 lion, red clover."elder blows, boneset, vervine, vi-
 olets, and all kinds of medical flowers that you
 can find, may be added.   Then make a cover to
 the jar, stop it tight with rye paste, set the jar
 in a kettle of hot water, and let it boil gently for
 thirty-six hours, without intermission.    Then
 take the jar out, and when cool, open and pour
 out the liquor, then  bottle and  cork it, and it is
 fit for use.   Let the patient begin with one tea
 spoon full, and so  inciease as the stomach will
 bear.  This is said  to be the best medicine ever
 known for all kinds of consumption.
,   Another.—In  some cases, when the fever runs
 high, it will he necessary to reduce it by letting 
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173
Wood.  Also, to make use of gentle purges, such
as the bark  of sweet  elder in decoction, or the
root of the yellow ash, &c.
   After this, take dogmachymose bark, (Indian
tobacco or whistle wood, it is one bush known by
different names,) sweet elder bark and cammo-
mile, of each four ounces ; nettle roots and cc-
lendine, of each a pound ; gill go by the ground,
two pounds ; and white ash bark, two ounces.—
Boil the whole in two pails of water half an hour,
strain off the decoction, and then boil it down
to  two quarts.   To this, add an equal quantity
of gin, and four ounces of maple sugar.   Three
fourths of a glas3 should  by taken six times a
a da}'.
            CHOLERA MORBUS.
    4. The symptoms are, violent vomiting, purg-
 ing of matter  of a  yellow or green colour, high
 fever, intense pain, pulse >vcak and  quick, great
 thirst, eves languid, and  stools slimy or mixed
 with blood ; the patient draws up his feet, and is
 <:\ an uneasy position.
    dire..—Chicken broth should be given in small
 quantities, or a new  cork burned to a Coal, and
 uubr-rizcd.  Steep  this in brandy, and  give a
                     Q2 
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CtBKS MADE EA'-V.
few drops of this frequently, until the puking is
stopped.  A strong  decoction  of bitter herbs
should be often applied to the bowels.  Clisters
of flax-seed  tea should be injected, or starch
dissolved would answer.   An infusion of black
briar  root, in cold water, might be  used for a
drink, and weak lie might also be given.
  Another to stoppukiiig.-^Take gum camphor,
pound it, pour on boiling water, and sweeten it
with loaf sugar.   Let the patient drink a spoon
full ever, ten minutes; or, take a handful of green
wheat or green grass, pound  it, pour a little wa-
ter  upon it, press out the juice, and let the pa-
tient drink a spoon full once'in ten minutes ; or,
let  the patient chew and swallow two or three
kernels of spice.

               DYSENTERY.
  5. The symptoms of this disease are, frequent
discharges by stool, of a slimy or bloody matter.
While the contents of the bowels are retained,
a violent griping and frequent urging to go to
stool, heat thirst, &c.
  Cure.—Half a pint of sale molasses, one pint
of good rum, half a  pint  of  vinegar, and drink
$!■' this freHy every half hour; or, take the root 
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of ox balm, (some know it by the name of toad
root or hard root,) white pine bark  and  black
birch  bark, each a  handful.  Boil these in two
quarts of water, half an hour; then strain out
the liquor and boil it down to one gill; then add
one gill  of sale molasses, and let the patient
take a table  spoon  full of this at a time, until
well;  or, make a decoction of dysentery root,
(The  Indians call it  weaker, the English slip-
pery root, but it is generally known by the name
of dysentery  root.)  In this  manner, take out
the inside of the root which  is a kind of  pith ;
steep  the other in water upon the co-ds, (but it
must  not boil) till it becomes like starch.   Take
a table spoon full once an hour, for h;df a day.
It ought to.be put in Malaga wine  in some deli.
cate cases; or, drink vinegar, and salt and water
is extremely good.

      A CANCER IN THE  BREAST.
  6. Make a poultice of yellow dock  root, the
bark  of bitter-sweet root  and garden carrots;
scrape them fine and simmer them three  hours
in fresh  butter, and apply this poultice.  You
may  annoint with ointment for a hard tumour.
This ointment cannot be made too strong. 
l7<5           CURES MADE EASY.
  Whilst the patient is  making use of this ex-
ternal application, he must make a syrup of the
following vegetables.  Take four ounces of the
bark of bitter-sweet root, four ounces of the out-,
side bark of yellow dock root, six ounces of red
clover  root, six  ounces of garden carrots, four
ounces  of red clover heads gathered when full
pf honey, and one pound of sassapariila roots.—
This compound  is for two quarts of syrup. You
must sweeten this'with sale molasses,  and drink
as the constitution will bear.  At the same time^
let the patient wear a root of the blue vervine
at the  pit of the stomach, which may be hung
by a ribbon around the neck^ and once a day,
wet the tumour or cancer, with a decoction made
of the green leaves of garden hemlock, that is,
eicuta, and proceed in this way until you are en-
tirely well,
  Another.—A cancer in the breast, of thirteen
years standing,  was cured, by frequently apply-
ing red poppy water, plantain and rose water,
mixed with honey of roses.   Afterwards the wa-
fer alone effected oi cure.
   Another.—Use the cold bath.  This, says Mr.
Wesley, has cured  many.  It cured Mr:;. Bates
of Leicestershire,of a  cancer in her hrc-.st, a 
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consumption, a sciatica and  rheumatism, which
she had  been troubled with for nearly twenty
years.   She bathed for a  month daily, and drank
only water.
  Another.—A bleeding cancer has been cured by
drinking, twice a day, a gill of the juice of clivers
or goose grease, and covering the wounds with the
bruised leaves.
  Another bleeding cancer was cured by the fol-
lowing recipe.  Take half a pint of small beer,
and when it boils, dissolve an ounce  and a half 9f
bees wax ; ihen put in an ounce of hog's lard, and
boil them together.  When it is cold* pour the
beer from it, aud  apply it, spread  upon white
leather, and renew it evtry other d*y.   It brings
out great  blotches, which must  be  washed with
salphrunella dissolved in warn  water.   Purges
should be added every third or fourth day.

     CANCENRS IN OTHER PARTS.
  7. Apply red onions bruised, or make a plaster
of rock allum, vinegar  and honey,  equal quanti-
ties, with wheat flour, and change it  every twelve
hours.   It often cures in three or four days.  A
cancer under the eye  was cured, by drinking a.
quart of  tar water daily, washing the same wits' 
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it, and then applying a plaster of tar and  mutton
suet melted together.   It was well in two month-,
though of twenty years standing,   Bruised tren-
cle root, worn as a plaster, will commonly cure a
cancer in  a few days.  So will a small piepc af
rennet moistened and laid upon the tumor.

       A CANCER IN THE  MOUTH.
   8. Boil a few leaves of succory  plantain  and
rue, with a spoon full  of honey, for a quarter ef
an hour.   Gargle the mouth with this often, in an
hour, or with vinegar and hopey, wherein one
ounce of rockallum is boiled.

             HOSE  CANCER.
   9. Take one bushel of tobacco stalks, put them
into a kettle over the fire, burn .them to ashes, and
leach the ashes with urine.  To this, add a quart
of white lie made of the ashes of red ash.  Boil
them both to the consistency of  a plaster, and ap-
ply it to the part which is affected seven  times a
day.
   The syrup for a cancer in the breast might be
used in this case; pr, take one  pound of the top
#nd  root of the noble liver wort, one pound of
dogroachy bark, two pounds of sassaparilla roots, 
CU&SS MADE EASY.
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s heel firm, the tops and roots, four pounds;  put
the whole into two pails of water, boil the com-
position half an hour over a brisk fire, strain off
the decoction and boil it down to three pints, and
add an equal quantity of gin, and take a glass t'.ire''
times a day.

       DEAFNESS  AND DIZZINESS.
   10.  Peal a clove of Garlic, dip it in honey, and
put it into the ear, with a littlo black wool.   Lie
with that ear uppermost, and put the same  intc
the other ear the next night.  Do this, if necee.
sary, for eight or ten nights.

                 DIABETES.
   11.  Drink wine boiled in ginger, as much en;?
 as often  as your strength will bear.  Let your
 drink be milk and water, and all milk meats arc
good.
   Drink three or four times a day, a quarter of
a pint of allum po&et, putting three drachms of
 [hem to  four pints of milk, and it seldom fails ir
 cure in eight or ten days.
   Another.—Into two quarts of brandy, you may
 put four ounces of spruce gum, and to an adult a
 glass may be given, three times  a day.  Blue v. 
180           CURES MADE HASY.
•Jets, the roots dried and powdered may be given
in doses of half a tea spoon full, three or four
times a day.
  In this disorder, all  such food or drink as act
as diuretic, should he carefully avoided.

           GRAVEL OR STONE.
   12. Take  lobelia, violets, cammomile and rib
wort, of each a handful.   To this, add one pint of
white lie, and boil the composition ten or twelve
minutes j  then  strain  off the decoction, and add
one pint of Holland gin.   Take as much as the
stomach will bear, six times a day.   At the same
time, take a glass of the juice of onion tops every
night.
  Another.—Take two pounds of hard root, call-
ed ox balm ; two-pounds of Queen of the meadow,
called by the Indians, Sofia ; two pounds of gensen
root, with the roots washed clean and cut them fine.
Then boil them half a day with clear water, in a
tight covered pot.  You must not skim, strain, or
suffer it to boil  over, nor let it remain in an iron
vessel over night.
   This compound is for two quarts.  When this
syrup is settled, drain it off, and add a pint of Hol-
r,;r.«' gin, and half a potMid of loaf  sugar.  Take 
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this syrup as hot as it can be drank, as much, and
as often  as  the  constitution will admit, until the
gravel or stone is dissolved.  This will be found
a stone dissolving application, and should it cut or
dissolve the stone or gravel so fast as to clog the
neck of the bladder, as is often the case, the pa-
tent must take a diuretic syrup.
   Another.—Make a strong tea of the herb call-
ed heart's ease,  and drink plentifully of this tea ;
or take  the  root of Jacob's ladder, and make a
very strong tea, drink plentifully of it, and it is a
most certain remedy.  This has proved to be the
best cure that I  have found.
   Another.—Infuse one ounce of wild parsley
seed in a pint of white  wine, for  twelve days.—
 Drink a glass before breakfast, fasting, for three
months, an \ breakfast for three months on agri-
 mony tea.  It entirely cured me, says Mr. Wesley,
 twenty ye.^rs ago, nor have I had the least syrap-
 toms of it since.
   Another.—Pour hot water to a good  handful of
 gravel weed, and as soon as the strength is drawn
 out, give tb.* patient one gill; and in half an hour
 give another, and so on till it begins to operate.
 Then once in two  hours, and as the gravel begine
 to come away, in three  hours ; then once in six, 
182           CURES MADE EASY.
and so continue until well.  This I consider the
most sovereign remedy, that has ever been found
out.

                KING'S EVIL.
   13.  The king's evil may be cured with a plant
called king's evil weed.  It grows in the form of
aplant-nn, but the leaves are smaller and spotted,
green and white.  It is a  very beautiful plant,
and grows  in wild  shady land, under  almost all
kinds of timber.  When it goes to seed, there
comes up one stalk in the middle of the plant, six
or eight inches  high,  and bears the seed on the
top of the stalk, in a small round bud.
   Cure.—Take  this, root and branch,  pound it
soft, apply it to the tumour for a poultice or salve,
and let the patient drink a tea  made of the same,
for a constant drink.  If the tumor is broken open,
simmer the roo&ind leaf in sweet oil and mutton
tallow ; then strain it off, and add to it, bees wax
and  rosin, until  hard  enough  for salve.  Wash
the sore with the liquor made of the boiled herb,
and apply the salve,  and it will not fail to effect a
'cure.
   Another.—Make a decoction of lobelia,^by put-
ting a tea spoon full of the powdered herb into a 
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gill of water ; boil it six or eight minutes, and take
as much as the stomach will bear, every hour for
eight days.   Then apply  a  poultice to the part
affected, made by thickning in Indian meal, a de-
coction  of cicuta.    At the same time, make  a
syrup of noble liver wort and sweet fern, and drink
freely of the same.  If there is an open sore,
after applying the above poultice a few  days, a
salve made  by  putting a  handful  of cicuta  and
henbane, into a half pound of hog's lard, and sim-
mering it over a gentle  fire half an hour,  may be
applied  to the part three times aday ; or thejuice
of wood sorrel dried away to  the  consistency of
salve, and applied as above.
   Another.—Take  as  much  cream of tartar as
will  lie on a six pence, every morning and eve-
ning ; or drink, for six weeks, half a pint of strong
decoction of Devil's bit; or set a quart of honey
by the fire to melt.   When it is cold, strew into it
a pound end a half of quick  lime beat very fine,
and sifted through a hair  sieve.   Stir  this about
until it boil  up, of itself, into a hard lump ; beat
it when  cold very fine,  and sift it as before. Take
of this,  as much as will lie on a shilling, in a glass
of water every morning, fasting, an hour before
breakfast; at four in the afiernoon, and at goinp ' 
184           CURES MADE EASY.
bed ; or make a leaf of dried burdock into a pint
of tea, and take half a pint twice a day, for  four
months.  I have known this cure hundreds, say?
Mr. Wesley.
  Another.—King's evil root grows in swamps and
has a long leaf resembling deer's ears ;  is a low
plant, spreads out its leaves  similar to plantain,
and generally grows with, cow-slips, and  makes an
excellent green.
  Take  this root washed clean, jam it fine, and
put the same into cold water; say a handful of
roots to a pint of wafer, and let them infuse twelve
hours.  Then apply the  root to the tumor, and
drink the water.   Change the  root and «pply  a
new one once in twelve hours.   If you proceed
in this manner, it will never fail of effecting  a
cure.
              RHEUMATISM.
   14.  When the  patient is first attacked with this
complaint, make a lie brine, and bathe  the parts
affected until the  pain is removed.  It should be
applied as hot as can be borne, and by this meth-
od a general action is produced.  If the fever
runs high, the bath may be  cool ; but if numb-
ness and cold affect the  parts, the bath must be 
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hot.   Then give a potion of Indian physic, three
pills generally to an adult, and so in proportion
as the age of the patient may require.  If this
does not remove the complaint, take as much lo«
belia, pulverized, as will lie on the point of a pen-
knife, three times a day, for  nine days.   This
will  produce  a  gentle  salivation  through the
system, open obstructions, produce a general ac-
tion, and cure the patient.
  To prevent a relapse, make a syrup of burdock
roots, nettle roots, andQueen of the Meadow root,
of each a handful; then boil them in one  pail
full  of water, down to one quart; then strain,
and  when cold, add one pint of good ruin and
two gills of sale molasses.  Drink a glass mor-
ning  and  evening, about two hours before eat-
ing.
  Another.—Mix gum guaiacum in powder, with
honey or trecle ; take two or three tea spoons
full, (or as much as you can bear without purg-
ing,) twice or thrice a day.  This, says Wesley,
is  the best medicine  I have  met with, for the
chronic rheumatism.
  Another.—Dissolve one ounce of gum guaia-
cum, in three ounces of spirits of wine.   Take
sixty or eighty drops on loaf sugar, two or thj#*^
                    P3 
J86          CURES MADE EAST.
    times a day; or mix flour of sulpher with honey
    in equal quantities.  Take three tea spoons full
    at night, two in the morning, and one afterward,
    morning and evening.  It seldom fails of curing
    in a few days.
      Steep black  wasp nests in cold water until the
    strength is out.  Give the patient one gi 1 every
    hour, for three hours ; then give a potion of bell
    blow or Culver's physic.
      Burn the bark of white  ash to ashes, put one
    gill of these ashes to one quart of whiskey, and
    take a glass of this three times a day :  or steep
    Queen of the  Meadow root in  new milk  until
    strong, and drink three glasses a day.  This Is
    good for the flying rheumatism, and is thought,
    by  some, to be  a sure  remedy.  But the great
    and  sovereign remedy for all  rheumatic com-
    plaints, is to go into  the cold bath  three morn-
    ings and miss three, until you are completely
    cured.
      Let the patients, at the first appearance of the
    morning, strip off the shirt, wrap themselves in
    a blanket and plunge into the water ; then come
    out immediately, put their blanket around them,
    retire directly  to bed, sleep one hour, and  they
*?IP,*iU feel wonderfully refreshed. 
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            BILIOUS CHOLIC.
   15. Give a  spoon full of sweet oil each hour,
for this has cured one who was thought to be at
the point of death.
   In case the complaint is obstinate and will net
yield to mollifying and gentle m< dicine, give an
injection of strong tobacco,  steeped with  flax
seed, and I never  knew  it fail.  This method
must be resorted to, before the strength of the
patient is too far exhausted.   Spectators may be
surprised at the effect the opperation will have
on the patient for a moment, but  I have never
known it do harm,and will relieve when all other
means fail.
   Another.—Get fresh horse dung before it falls
to the ground, put it  into boiling water, let it
steep two  or three  minutes, settle and strain off
the liquor, sweeten it with sale molasses, and let
the patient drink this as warm as he can bear.—
It generally relieves at once, and is a choice me-
dicine  for  the Bilious  Cholic.   It is an  Indian
medicine.
   N. B. A fine lady was cured by  this when all
pther means failed. 
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               BILIOUS PILLS.
    1G.  These pill made use of prevent all kinds
  of fevers.   Take one pound of sweet rind aloes,
  four ounces of jallop, four Ounces pulverized
  blood  root, two ounces of cloves and two ounces
  of saffron.   Beat them all to a fine powder, pill
  them with molasses, and mix them well in a mor-
  tar.
    The common  way of using them, is to take
  one pill every night the bigness of a pea, if you
  have a bilious habit; but if you wisn to  physic,
  take four or five at going to bed.  They give no
  pain in the  operation.

           BILIOUS COMPLAINTS.
    17>  Take the  green leaves of tobacco, boil
  them  in pure water until very strong.  To one
  quart  of this liquor, add three gills of rum, and
  three gills of sale molasses ; then bottle it up, and
  take as much of this as the  stomach will bear,
  twice  a day*  This wholly prevents  the bilious
  cholic
                   ASTHMA.
'*£• 18. Putthree tea spoons full of pulver'zed t<v 
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189
belia into a quart of rum, a d use it for a bitter
morning and  night.  Half a gill  will be suffi-
cient at once.
  Another.—Take two ounces of spignard root.
two ounces of sweet flagg root, two ounces ele-
campane, and two ounces of common chalk.—
Beat them fine in a mortar, and add a pound of
honey, beat well together.  A tea spoon full is a.
dose, three times a day.
  Another.—Take lobelia, blood root, the roots
of blue violets and of ova, of each a tea spoon
full when  pul  erized.   Boil them fifteen minutes
in six  gills  of water.  Strain out  the powders,
and add to the decoction, an eqi.al quantity of
good ruin, and take six times a day, sufficient to
nauciate or make sick at  the stomach, but not
puke.
   After taking the above, make a syrup of gar-
den celendine, dogmachy bark, hog  brake, and
white  Solomon's seal root,  Make a syrup of
this by boiling a handful of each in  twelve quarts
of water down to one ; then add spirits and ho-
ney, and  it is fit  for use.   Take two  glasses a
day, fasting ; that is, two hours before breakfast
pr supper.
   Another.—Beat saffron blows fine, and take 
190           CURES MADE EASY.
 eight or ten grains every night; or drink a pint
 of new milk, morning and evening.   This,says
 Mr. Wesley, has cured an inveterate asthma.—
 Or take from three  o five grains of ipecacuanha
 every day, or from five to ten grains every other
 evening.   Do this, if necessary, for a month or
 six wee'-s.  In a violent fit, take a scruple, in-
 stantly.  In any asthma, thejjest drink is apple
 water ; that is, boiling water poured on sliced ap-
 ples.
  The food should be light and  easy of digestion.
 Ripe fruit baked or boiled is proper, but  strong
 beer or ale, is hurtful, and the patient should take
 but very little su;»per.
   All disorders of the breast are much relieved
 by keeping the feet warm, and promoting a free
 perspiration.   Exercise  is also of great  impor-
 tance.  The patient should take as much every
 day, as his stomach will bear.  Issues are lound
 to be of great service.

             SPITTING BLOOD.
  19. Take two spoons full of nettles every morn-
ing, and a  large tea cup full of the decoction of
 nettles at night, for a week ; or three spoonsful
 nf sage juice in a little honey.  This  presently 
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stops either spitting or vomiting blood; or half
a tea spoon full  of Barbadoes Jar, or a lump of
sugar at night.  It most commonly effects a cure
at once.
  Another.—Take a pound of yellow dock root,
dry it thoroughly, pound it fine, boil it in a quart
of sweet milk, strain it off, and drink a gill three
times a day.  Take also a pill of white pine tur-
pentine every day, to heal the vessels that leak;
or poOnd balm of gilead buds with brown sugar,
to that degree that you can make them into pills.
Take four or five of these at going to bed, and
it wonderfully helps the soreness in the stom-
ach.

              TYPHUS FEVER.
   20.  When the fever discovers itself, take the
top of lobelia, steep it and drink small doses of
it.   A glass three or  four times a day, when the
fever is rising;  and  diy the  tops of the same
very dry, grind it to a fine powder, add to it the
.same quantity of red beech bark pulverized very
fine, and the same  quantity of rattle snake's
gall mixed well together.  One grain is a dose.
Give the patient a dose every half hour, when
the fever is rising, until he gets in a full sweat, 
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 and so continue until the fever is broken. Then
 let the patient drink a  bitter  made of unicorn
 root, and the bark of white  wood Toot in wine or
 brands'.   AVhen the fever is mostly gone, physic
 off with Indian physic.   Two or three pills  are
 a dose :  or give small potions of blood  root and
 mandrake pulverized,  in powder.   Half a  tea
 spoon full is a dose, or less or more, as the  pa-
 tient can bear without puking.

                   FEVERS.
   21. Another method of treating all kinds of Fe-
 oers, the Small Pox and Putrid Fevers excepted.
 Sweating  in the beginning of a fever, 1 never
 knew to do harm ; but nine times out  of ten, it
 will throw the  fever off.
   For this purpose boil hemlock boughs in a four
 pail  kettle,  until the strength is out.   Then, if
 the patient is able to sit up, let him set  over  the
•*steam covered  with a blanket, putting  in  hot
 irons as the water cools, until there is  a general
 pe-'spiration produced.  Half  an hour, in gene-
 ral, will be as long as the  patient can bear  the
 steam.  Then let  him retire  to bed, cover  up
 warm, and take a smart [.otion of Indian physic.
 1 hree pills are enough for  an  adult.   If the p* 
              Ct'RfcS MADE EASY'.          19^

tient is not able to sit over the steam, provide
eighteen beech blocks, eight inches long and
about three inches through.   Boil these blocks
in hemlock bough water, until they are heated
through.  Then take out one half of the blocks,
wrap them in cloths, and apply them to the pa-
tient in bed, to every pained  part.  As these
grow cool, take them away and supply their pla-
ces with the other nine from the boiling kettle;
and so proceed, until there is a general and free
perspiration produced ; always  remembering to
give the patient something to guard against faint-
ness, and  brace up  the  stomach.   Then give
physic  as above  directed.   This method will
produce an increased action, it  is true, but it will
be a general  action, and a general action is al-
 ways conducive to health, let objectors say what
they will.  The author  has proved this  method
for a number of years, both in  his own family,
and others, and has never known it to do harm,
but has broke and thrown off many a fever. For
the truth of this, many a witness may be produ-
 ced.   A  smart potion of the  vegetable or In-
 dian physic,  has, more than once, thrown  off a
 fever without sweating;  and as to the common
 method of giving pukes, and letting Wood, ex- 
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cept in some cases, I must confess I cannot ap-
prove of it; and as to the frequent use of calo-
mel, I must likewise dissent; for it does not pro-
duce the  effect intended ;  it kills the action of
the bowels, and needs perhaps twenty potions of
other physic to drive it off. This, I think, no hon-
est physician wdldeny.

               FEVER SORE.
   22. Take the bark of shrub maple, caveron
wood, Canada  maple  or  cancer maple, it is all
the same, by different names.   Boil the bark in
fair water, wash the wound  h  't, and syringe the
same.  Take a-parcel of t;.  hark and a handful
of blue fl;jg root, boil them ' -rung, strai.i it off,
boil it d nvn to the con^isicicy of a salve  <dd to
it a little bees wax and honey, mix i' ^ell t.  -'h-
er while it h warm, and  rq:nly  it f,." s;J.\ >  't
must be applied two  days  , then for •>:.<; '
drink tar  water, and wash and syringe the i-ere
with tar  water, and so continue.  Tar water is
made thus.—Put half a gallon onar  into  *■-.»'■ oe
vessel, (stone is the best) pour on \>h'  c<  r.dl m
of water, let it stand four or five days ; then "i(
a piece of flannel cloth upon the water to take 
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off the oil, which would be hurtful to the sore.
Then it is fit for use.
   N. B.—The  above mentionad bush grows in
swale and swampy land, and  on the banks of
brooks or rivulets, and  is never found very far
from water.   It bears a  leaf,  and keys or seed
like maple.
   Another method  of cure.—Firstly,  wash the
affected with a suds made of castile soap ; then
wash  the sore with sweet water, that is mineral
water ;  then, at evening, make a bat of  clean
tow, and wet it well in the sweet water ; then
put this upon the sore, bind it on, and wear it till
morning. Then have a salve prepared, made in
the following manner.
   Two pounds of hog's lard, three fourths of a
pound of rosin, six ounces of bees wax, and one
ounce  of the  oil of spike.   Simmer the  fust
three together ; then put in the oil of spike, and
as it grows cool, stir it well together, and is fit for
use.
   Make a plaster of thin deer's leather or sheep
skin, no bigger than the sore, if the sore is not
bigger than a pea;  and as  the sore heals, the
plaster must be diminished.   Put the bat of tow
aside, wash  the sore with the  sweet water, and 
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round about as far as the inflammation extends;
then lay on the  salve plaster, and so continue
until well.  This is a most certain cure for fever
or ague sores.   Ague sores generally affect the
bone.  In the process of the cure, small scales
of bone will  be taken out, and sometimes the
bone will be eat like a honey comb.  In such
eases, the patient should endeavor to make the
sweet water penetrate to the bottom of tfie affec-
ted part.

                MERCURY.
  23. The diseases arising from the bad use of
Mercury, put on different appearances, and the
■symptoms are various.
   In  the first place, there is generally a distress-
ing soreness of the mouth and throat, and an in-
creased discharge of saliva.   After this, weak-
ness of the joints, back and stomach, pains in dif-
ferent parts of the body, and chronic complaints
of almost every kind.
   To cure and cleanse the blood from the bad
effects of this morbiffic materials, lobelia is su-
perior perhaps, to any other medicine.  It should
be given in small doses, frequently repeated, and
continued for some considerable length of time, 
CURES MADE LAi'Y.
19"?
It will  restore an  equalibrium of action  in the
system, and produce a regular excitement.  As
much as will lie on the point of a pen knife, of
the pulverized herb, must be taken three times a
day, for eight days.  Then make  a drink by
steeping the bark of dogmachy and cancer ma-
ple in  cold water.   The  bark must be scraped
fine  from the  bush, and renewed  as often as
the strength is out.  A two quart vessel  full, is
enough to prepare at once.  A handful of each
of these barks is enough for two quarts of water.
Let  the patient drink of this, and continue for a
month  or more.   In  beginning to make use
of the  above de-cribed  mediciue, let the pa-
tient take a potion of Indian  physic, or vegeta-
ble pills.  Some exceptions to this, in case of fe-
males in certain periods of life.
   Note.—This physic is  opening and drawing.
This caution may be suflicient, and in two weeks
take another; then in four the third.  I think this
will  be  suflicient  in all ordinary  cases.   This
method wonderfully sweetens and  cleanses the
blood, not only from Mercury, but from all other
tumors.  It removes pains from the side, hip and
joints, and should be attended to, in all cases of
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fever and ague sores, king's evil, scurvy leprosy,
liver complaints, &c.

              TOOTHACHE.
  24. Cure.—Take one dram of corrosive sub-
limate, put it into a half ounce of spirits of tur-
pentine ; and after standing one  week, cut  a
straw or quill sharp, and with the same, put this
into the hollow of the tooth ; covering the tooth
at the same time, with lint   This is better than
the turnkeys.
  Another.—Put into  the hollow of the  tooth,
a piece  of blue vitirol : s big as the hollow will
contain. Repeat this for several days, and it will
kill the marrow ; or, wet a lint with thejuice of
the stalks of angelica, put it  into the hollow, and
it will ease the pain.   A decoction of lobelia fre-
quently taken into the mouth and guggled about,
particularly  on  the  pained side, and a small
quantity into the stomach so as to nauciate, is a
sovereign remedy.
   Tooth ache, from catching cold, may be cured
by sweating the head,thoroughly, over hemlock
bow steam, for two or three evenings.  An ague
hi the face, and pain  in one side of the head and
 temple, may be cured by bathing the part with 
CURES MADE EASY.          19'y
lye brine, two or three times, as hot as may be
borne ; or bathe the head with  sweet water, and
this also cures the head ache that comes by heat
and fatigue.
   The sweet water will cure any inflammation
whatever.  Lie brine will effect the same cure.

     TO PREVENT MORTIFICATION.
   25. Take a handful of the  root of  blue flag,
boil it in pure water until the strength is out.
then strain out the liquor and  boil down to the
quantity wanted; then add one sixth part of good
sharp vinegar, and stir in wheat bran until it
conies to  the consistency of a  poultice.  Apply
this to the part, change the poultice as often as
once in an hour, in case of mortification.   This
poultice hath done wonders.   This  also  cures
sprains or bruises, and the  recipe is worth  more
than gold.
   Another.—Bathe the body or limb that is be-
ginning, or in danger of mortification, with the
white lie brine continually ; wetting a  cloth and
laying  on the  body  or part affected, changing
often.  If the fever is high apply it cold, if cold
and numbness succeed, apply it hot. This meth 
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 od will almost bring the dead to life.  Having u
 knowledge of this, is  better than a golden treas-
 sure.
   The author was called upon to  visit a young
"man who was struck with such a degree of in-
 flammation, that  he had entirely lost the use of
 his limbs.  He was more helpless than  an in-
 fant, for  he could not move hand or foot, while
 a  hot  steam issued from his joints, similar to a
 boiling pot. But  by the application of the white
 lie brine  to his body and  limbs, by bathing and
 rubbing rontinually; in three hours, he was able
 to i aise his hand to his head, move his feet, and
 finally to walk, with one each side of him.  In
 this situation he went to  his bed, and took a po-
 tion of vegetable pills.   The  next day he was
 able to walk about, and in three or four days was
 well.
   A number of years  since, the author had a lit-
 tle son sick with the inflammation in the bowels,
 and continued along for two months.   The Phy-
 sician  tried his skill  without  effect, the child
 grew  weaker until  nature  was exhausted, and
 the taper of life was almost extinguished.  Ob-
 serving his bowels at  this critical  period, there
 appeared a black spot nearly an inch wide, and 
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201
perhaps two or three inches long, which evident
ly was mortification began.   But by instantly
applying  a poultice, made of flour and honey,
and yeast, to  the part, the colour changed, the
mortification  was checked, the child  recover-
ed  and got well.  1 hope my readers will not
neglect this little book.

                 WORMS.
   26.  There are  three  kinds which I shall no-
tice.   The first is the long tape worm, very full
of joints.   The  second  is the long round worm.
The third is called the pin worm.
   The tape worm may be killed in the  follow-
ing manner.   Give the  patient a puke, and fol-
low the puke with a smart  potion of imperial
physic ; and  then give the patient the following
dose.  Take two ounces of blue flag root, pound
it fine, and add half a  pint of the highest proof
French brandy.  Let the patient drink the whole
of this in two hours, and give imperial physic to
bring  the  worm  away.    This a most  certain
 cure.
   Another.—Mix a table spoon full of Norway
tar in  a pint of small beer, and take it  soon as
vou can in the morning, fasting.  This brought 
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 away a tape worm thirty six  feet long.  Or take
 from two to five grains of gamboge, made into
 a pill.  Drink after it a little weak green tea,
 and likewise, when it  >egins to operate, until
 it is evacuated.

          ROUND LONG WORM.
  27.  Take the  bark  of witch hazle scraped
 down towards the root, steep it in a pewter ves-
 self, not let it boil, steep it on a moderate heat,
 very strong.  A child of a year old can take a
 table spoon full, if older, take more.  Let them
 take it four or five times a  day, it is sure and
 safe : or give dried and powdered false tongu«
 of a colt, either in powder, in sugar or in herb
 drink.   This is also a royal medicine for fits in
 children :  or give Indian hemp root.  It is a no-
ta'le worm medicine.
  .Y B—The worms must  be physicked off in
every case after -medicine  is given : or give a
tea  spoon full of pulverized tobacco seed.
  Another simple way.—-Make a child go to bed
 without its supper, and in the  morning, at eight
or nine o'clock, give the child  as much new milk
well sweetened, as it will drink or  eat with  a
spoon.  The worms will eat  so much that they ' 
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will be almost as torpid as a stick of wood.   In
three quarters of an hour, give a smart potion of
quick physic ; and this will bring them away at a
great rate : or dissolve an ounce of hepatic aloes
in a strong decoction of rue, and take a tea spoon
full or two in a morning, fasting.  It destroys both
round and pin worms ; or take two tea spoons full
of worm seed mixed with molasses, foT six morn-
ings.

                PIN WORM.
   $8.  Steep a spoon full of tobacco seed in a gill
of rum for twelve  hours, and let the patient drink
the whole of it if  he  can bear it; otherwise, one
half in the morning, and the other at night, fast-
ing ; and this never fails : or  give an injection of
strong tobaccojuice, which kills them, and a po-
tion of vegetable physic, which brings them away ;
or drink plenty of metheglin ; or let the patient
eat freely of the burned part of stewed pump-
kin.  That which adheres to  the bottom of the
kettle  where it  is stewed.  This is a very good
remedy.  Children  that eat plenty of  leeks in
the spring of the year, will not be troubled wit£
Worms. 
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           WHITE SWELLING.
  29. A remarkable cure for  White Swellings
about the joints.—Take one quart of sharp riiie-
gar, and set it in a vessel upon the embers until it*
is boiling hot; add to this six cents  worth of su-
gar of lead, and stir this until the lead is dissolv*
ed ; then, for one half hour, bathe the part affect-
ed, as hot as can be born.  Then with a long ban-
dage dipped or wet with the vinegar, commence
winding the part particularly affected as hard  as
the patient can bear, and keep winding until you
get six or eight inches  below the joint; then pin
the bandage light, and continually wet the sore as
it dries.  A hot steam will soon begin to rise from
thejoint, and  so  continue wetting and tightening
the bandage, until it is  all reduced and the patient
cured.
   A gentleman living in the County of Madison,
having a white swelling about the joint of his knee<
swelled to an enormous size, applied to  many
different physicians, who  all informed him that
 he must either loose bis limb or his life.  Not be-
ing content to part with either of them, had finally
 concluded they  «hould both go together,  rathef
 ihan suffer amputation. But a gentleman not pro* 
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fessing any skill in surgery or physic, unsolicited,
undertook the cure, and by continued persever-
ance with die bath and bandage, the infirm man in
three days was able to walk, and shortly was en-
tirely well.
  The author had the satisfaction of hearing this
account from the patient himself, then  sound and
well

               SWELLINGS.
  30.  Cure for Swellings that come of themselves.
—Make an ointment of alder tags, sugar of lead,
meliot and saffron, simmered together  in hog's
lard.   When the strength is out,  strain and an-
noint the parts affected ; it will scatter  the swell-
ing if taken  in time.   Give the patient something
to guard the stomach before annointing.

       POULTICE FOR OLD SORES.
  31.  Scrape yellow carrots, with them on a pan
or fire shovel, until very soft; apply it to the sore
and it takes out the inflammation.   It i< an excel-
lent poultice for sore breasts ; and perhaps there
is nothing better that can be applied to the eyes
that are sore and inflamed.
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      INWARD HURTS OR, ULCERS. .  ,
  32.  Take  elecampane, comfrey, spikenard,
master wort, angelica and ginseng root, of each a
pound ; boughs of fir, two pounds ;  cammomile,
one pound.  Put them into a still with a gallon of ;
rum, and two gallons of water.  Draw off  six
quarts, drink a small gLss at night, and one in the
morning.

               AN ESSENCE.
  33. This is an  excellent essence, and good  for ,
all sorts of inward weakness, inward fevers, pain
in the side, stomach or breast, coughs &c.—Take
twenty pounds of fir boughs, One pound of spig-
nard, and four pounds of red clover.  Put them
into a still with ten gallons of cider ; then draw off
three gallons, and drink  half a glass night and
morning.

         STOPPAGE OF WATER.
  34. T;.ke a spoon full of honey bees, a* much :
Buds of current bushes, steep them in hot water
very streng, and drink two spoons full at a time,
ev-.ry half hour.  This is a most excellent, reme-'
4y. 
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  Note.—The distilled water of the fir boughs,
spikenard, Sjc. is called the essence of fir.

                THE PILES.

  35.  If the Piles are outward, make an ointment
of cammomile, sage,  parsley  and burdock, the
leaves of each.  Simmer them in  fresh butter or
hog's lard and oil.   Annoint with it, and drink tar
water, half  a gill three times a day.   But if they
are inward or blind piles, drink tar water twice a
day, and the essence of fir every night on going to
bed, half a small  glass.  This effects a cure in
 about two  months.   For the outward  piles, an-
 noint the parts with the salt rheum ointment, it is
 a certain cure.
   Look to the page where the ointment  is descri-
 bed ; or a tobacco leaf steeped in water twenty
 four  hours, and applied to the part; or a poul-
 tice of boiled brook lime, seldom fails  to cure;
 or bruised onion skinned or roasted in ashes, per*
 fectiy cures the dry  piles ; or apply varnish, it
 will  perfectly  cure both the blind and bleeding
 piles.       /•» 
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              INWARD PILES.
   36. Swallow a pill of pitch, fasting.  One pill
generally cures the bleeding piles.

            BLEEDING PILES.
   37. Lightly boil thejuice of nettles with  a lit-
tle sugar, and take two ounces.   It seldom needs
repeating.                  .*

 AGUE FEVER ; OR, FEVER  AND AGUE.
   38. Go into the cold bath just before the cold
fit comes on ;  or just before the cold fit comes on,
let the patient put his feet into a tub filled with wa-
ter as hot as can be borne, up to the  knees ; and
as the cold shivers come on, drink down cold wa-
ter as fast as possible. The heat from below, and
the cold from above will meet in the stomach, and
fall at variance, a sickness at the stomach will suc-
ceed, and the patient will puke at no small  rate.
After about an hour, let the patient retire to bed
and sweat.  This  method will generally -ucceed,
and seldom fails of breaking the  fits and  throw-
ing off the fever.   And now vvhjgMWpamg to be
done, is to cleanse the blood and st^rngthen up the
patient. 

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              iURES MADE EASY.          .209

            FEVER AND AGUE.
   39. This is an Indian cure.—Into one pint of
 vinegar, put three hen's eggs, and let them  steep
 therein until the shell is all dissolved, leaving the
 eggs whole, then take out the eggs and it is fit for
 use.
   Take half a gill of this vinegar in the morn-
 ing, artd also at ten o'clock, and  continue this for
 several days.   I never new  it  fail of effecting a
 cure.

      FEVER AND AGUE  IN INDIANA.
   40. Cure.—Take two heaping tea spoons full
 of rheubarb, two of cinnamon bark pulverized,
 and two of sulpher.   Mix them well together,
 divide it into six equal  parts.  Take one of these
 parts in sale molasses,  in the morning ; and in the
 evening take another, and so continue.   It is said
 to be a certain cure.

       ANOTHER SIMPLE METHOD.
   41. Take a handful of hops, boil them in a pint
. of water, and drink of this decoction jut before
 the cold fit comes  on.   It wil  surely stop the fit
 for this time,  if not entirely throw it off.   Pro*
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ceed in this way  a few times, and it will  effect a
cure.
  Note.—The decoction must be drank as hot as
can be borne.
   If the fits should not subside after  trying the
above methods, the patient may take two  syrups,
one to be taken before the cold fit and the other
after.  For the syrup before the cold  fit.—Take
colt's foot, snake root, genseng root, cohosh  root,
tanzy, hysop and worm-wood.   That to be taken
after the cold fit.—Take cold wort or  cool wort,
maiden hair, chicken grass, or chicken claws as it is
called by some, and the small bull rush, called
wire grass.  Boil  these and m:ike your  syrup ;
then add to themsp rits find mob sses,  and it is fit
for use.
                  FELO Y.
  42. Blue  flag  roots and March turnip  roots, a
handful  of each, stewed in half a pint of hog's
lard.  Strain it off,  add four spoons  full  of tar,
simmer  them together, and apply  this  to  the fel-
on  until it breaks.  Add bees wax and  rosin to
the ointment for  a  salve, to dress it with  after it
is broken.  This is an infallible cure without los-
ing the joint. 
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    Another.—Make thin mortar of lime and soap,
 take a thimble that has a top to it, fill the* thimble
 with the mortar, and place it directly  over the
 part which is affected, bind  it on with a cloth so
 as perfectly to exclude the air, and renew it every
 two hours for ten days. After this, take the green
 bark of bitter sweet and elder bark, boil them in
 milk and  water, thicken  the decoction  with In-
 dian meal, and apply it to the part every four
 hours, for the space of twenty four hours.  After
 this, it may be healed with almost any mild oint-
• ment.
    Let any person catch a bur nose mole, and hold
 it iu their hand until it is dead, and I believe they
 will never  have  a  felon on that  hand :  or  let
 them hold the finger of any  person that hath  a
 felon coming, within the  hand in which  the mole
 died, is most certain to  prevent its coming any
 further. This I have tried a number of times, n.d
 it seldom has failed.
    When the felon first begins to  be  painful, wind
 the finger above the pained part  with a strong
 thread  of woollen yarn, so as almost to stop the
 circulation  of the blood, and wear it about one
 hour.   This is a most certain remedy for a feV-
 on. 
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                   A WEN.
  43, Dr. Rivere says, I cured a wen as big as a
large  fist, thus.  I made an instrument of hard  \
wood, like the stone on which the painters grind  i
their colours  on  marble.  With  this I  rubbed it
half an hour, twice a day.   Then 1 laid on a su-  I
perating plaster very hot, which 1 kept on four or  \
five days, and the wen superated  and was  open-  1
ed.  Afterwards all the substance of it  turned to A
matter, and was evacuated.   Thus I have cured ,-
many since.
  Another method.—Wrap leaves of sorrel in a
wet paper, and roast them in the embers.  Mix it
with finely sifted ashes into a poultice, and apply
this warm, daily  ; or make a soap of liver oil and
white lie; into this  soap, put the roots of cow
lilies, as long as the soap will eat them up.  With
this soap, frequently annoint the wen until it is
cured.  This ointment is excellent to remove a J
callous.                                      ^
                                              i
   Take clean rags and burn them on a pewter
dish, and gather the oil on the pewter with lint.
Cover the wen with it twice a day, continue it for
some time, and the wen will  drop out without any
further trouble. 
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               SALT RHEUM.         ^f_

   44.  Firstly, cleanse the blood by making a de-
coction of dogmachy bark, sweet fern, and ground
hemlock, (not cicuta.)   Add one pint of gin to a
quart  of this decoction, and take a glass  three
times  a day.  After  taking this one week, make
an  ointment by simmering six common frogs in
one pound of hog's lard or fresh butter, two hours.
With this ointment frequently annoint the p..rt af-
fected.
   Another.—Take blue flag root, river willow,
the bark of the root, and skunk  cabbage root,
boiled  in pure water very strong.  Strain and add
hog's lard, and continue boiling until the water is
all evaporated, and when cold it is fit for use.  An-
noint the parts affected, twice a day, until well.—
It also  cures the piles.
  Steep  the root of cockawash jammed up in cold
water,  six or eight hours ; then wash the parts
affected,  with the decoction three or four times a
day, and  drink two glasses a day of this steeped
in another vessel for that purpose.   It is a certain
cure. 
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    i         MOUTH CANKER.
  45. Take one pound of fresh butter, put it into
an earthan vessel well glazed, set it on the fire,
and  let it boil.   When boiling, add to it four
green  frogs, put them in alive, let them stew un-
til the frogs are dry, t;>kethem out, and  add a lit-
cammomile and parsley.   When cold, stir in a lit-
tle burnt allum pulverized.   Annoint the mouth
with this ointment, and let the patient swallow a
few drops frequently.
  Note.—March turnip and molasses, cure can-
ker in the mouth.
  This will cure the  most  inveterate canker  in
the mouth, throat or stomach : or make a strong
decoction <>f the pounded root of blue cohosh, and
sweeten it with honey.  Wash the mouth with this
frequently,  and swalJo\v half a  tea spoon full
each time of washing.  This it  a very sure re»
medy.
                  Q&INSY.
   46. Draw in as hot  as you can bear  for ten or
 twelve minutes together, the fumes of red rose
 leaves or cammomile flowers, boiled in water or 
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                                         T
vinegar,  or give  a decoction of  bruised  hemp
seed.
  This speedily cures the sore throat, peripnue-
mony, and inflammation of the uvula, or pallate
of the mouth ; or give the patient one pint of
strong syrup, made of the root of Queen of the
Meadow ; then a potion of vegetable physic, also
make a poultice for the outside of the throat, with
the comb of a hornets nest, and prepare this poul-
tice with rum on the coals, and apply them warm
once in half an hour.
  One botanic physician says, all  that is  necessa-
ry in this complaint, is to give enough lobelia at
at first, to puke ;  then in small doses, just to nau-
ciate. the  stomach a little: or sweat  the  throat
with spotted cardis, boiled in milk and water, by
holding a pot of it under the throat as hut as may
be  borne, and hold some of it in the mouth.—■
Wear a  piece of black silk about the neck, and
the quinsy will not return.
  Note.—Wear a string around the neck, that has
been tied around a dried toad's neck, and it cures
the quinsy or scatters it away. 
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    -''•'■'•'*/"ST. ANTHONY'S FIRE.
   47. Make egg  wine rich and good for drink-
 ing.  Drink part of it, and wash  the part com-
' plaining with the other part.  It is said to be in-
 fallible.
   Or take a glass of tar water in bed every hour,
 washing the part affected with the same ; or take
 a decoction of elder leaves as a sweat, applying
 to the pait a cloth, dipped in lime water; or
 drink freely of a decoction made of elder blows,
 bathing the part affected with the same.   This
 is a sovereign remedy ; or take two or three gen-
 tle purges.
   No a«ute fever can bear repeated purges bet-
 ter than this, especially, when it affects the head.
 In the mean time, boil one handful of sage, two
 hands full of elder leaves or bark, and one ounce
 of allum to two quarts of blacksmith's forge wa-
 ter, to a pint, and wash with this  every night.—
 Dressing the inflammation with greasy ointment,
 salve, &c. is very improper.  In  Scotland, the
 common people cover the part  with a linen
 cloth, covered with oat meal. 
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            HOOPING COUGH.
   48. A syrup made of elecampane and honey,
four ounces of the root to half a pint of honey.
Bake it in a well glazed earthan pot, in an oven
half hot; if the root is green, it needs no water ;
if dry, add half a pint of water.   A tea spoon-
full  for a child, and so according to age, three
times a  day ;  or  make a  decoction of lobelia,
shumake berries and hysop, boiled and sweeten-
ed with honey ; and firstly, taken so as to ope-
rate gently as a puke ;  afterwards, in small and
nauciating doses, frequently repeated, is an ex-
cellent remedy.  Common leeks cut and pound-
ed  fine, and put with equal quantities of sweet
oil, is a good remedy for blisters, warm bathing,
gentle purges, &c.

           CONVULSION FITS.
  49. Take convulsion roots, fit root or ova, it is
all the same by different names ;  make a tea of
them and drink, or powder them  and take it in
small doses.
  Convulsion root grows in timbered land, and
comes up in July.  It comes up with a bunch of
white stalky about six or eight inches high, with 
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a little knot on the top and has no leaves.  The
top and root are for use.   The root is a bunch
of small fibres very numerous, and full of little
Jtnots about the size of a mustard seed.
  The dried false tongue  of a colt, pulverized
and given in small doses, or steeped and the de-
coction given, is an excellent remedy : or beech
drops for the same, has cured many ; or scrape
fine  the outside  of the barrel of a goose quill,
about the  quantity of a charge of gun-powder,
and the same quantity of gun-powder, is a dose
for a child seven years of age.  Take  of this
every  other morning until the fits subside.  At
the same time, drink a decoction made of tag
elder bark, steeped in cold water, three  or four
times a day.
             SORE NIPPLES.
   50.  When the infant stops sucking, apply a
plaster of the balsam of fir, and it will  cure in
three or four days.

            ITCHING HEELS.
   51. Take any kind of tallow and rub the part
affected with it; rub it in by a l^fire at night go- 
CURES MADE EASY.
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ing to bed, and repeat it three or four times.  A
Certain cure.

               SORE  EYES.
   52. White vitirol one tea spoon full, sugar of
lead the same quantity, gun powder the same, to
one  quart of water, mixed and shook  well to-
gether six or eight  times, and wash the eyes
three times a day.  This  is an infallible  reme-
dy.
   In old cases of this complaint, it is usually ne-
cessary to cleanse the system of humors, &c —
For this purpose a decoction of dogmacky bark
and cat's foot, or gill  go by  the ground  made
strong, might frequently be drank.  After this,
make a decoction of lobelia in spring water, strain
off the decoction through a very fine cloth, and
wash the eyes often.

           BLOOD SHOT EYES.
   53. Apply boiled hysop as a poultice.  This
has a wonderful efficacy.

             CLOUDED EYES.
   54. Take a drachm of powdered Bethony ev-
ery morning. 
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               DULL SIGHT.
   55. Drop in three  drops of the juice of rot-
 ten apples often ;  or steep the bag wherein the
musk of a skunk is contained, in  half a gill of
water.   Dip a soft rag in the water rfnd gently
daub the eyes two or three times a day.

           FILMS ON THE EYE.
   56. Mix the juice of ground Ivy, that is, gill
go by the ground, with  a little honey, and two
or three grains of rock salt.  Drop it morning
and evening.

          HUMORS IN THE EYES.
   57'. Apply a few drops of refined sugar, mel-
ted in Brandy, to  the eye ; or boil  a handful of
bramble brier leaves with a little allum, in one
quart of spring water to a pint.  Drop this fre-
quently into the eye.  This also cures cankerg
or any sores.

            INFLAMED EYES.
  58.  Apply, as a poultice, boiled roasted or rot-
ten apples, warm; or roasted carrots, with i he
pith taken out, and this will hardly fail; or worm- 
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wood tops, with the yolk of an egg.   This is a
fine remedy.
  Another.—Stamp and strain ground ivy, ce-
lendine and daisies, an equal quantity.   Add a
little rose water and loaf sugar, and drop  a drop
br two at a time in the eye, and it takes away.all
manner of inflammation, smarting, itching, spots,
webs, or any other disorder.

               EYE WATER.
   59.  This  is  an  eye water  used by Stephen
Fox when he  was sixty years of age and could
hardly see by  the help of spectacles, but  hereby
in some time he recovered  his  eye sight, and
could read the smallest print without spectacles,
until above eighty.
   Take six ounces of rectified spirits of wine,
dissolve one drachm of camphor in it, and add
two small hands full of  dried elder flowers.  In
twenty-four hours it  is infused, and  is ready for
use.
   Take a  little  in  a tea spoon, dip your fin-
ger in it and bathe your forehead over your eyes,
and each temple with it, several times morning
and evening,and twice more in the day constant-
ly.  In the mean time, dip a soft rag in  dead
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small beer and new milk, warm ;  daub each eye
a dozen times gently, morning and evening.—
This eye water,  if you have  the tooth ache or
swelled face, rub it well on the part, and it will
take away the pain.   It  will cure any bruise, if
used  immediately, and will cure  any inflamma-
tion in the eyes.

             FROZEN LIMBS.
  60. Plunge them into  cold water  until  the
frost is out, and then  annoint  them with  goose
grease.

            UVULA RELAXED.
  61. Bruise the veins of a  cabbage leaf, and
lay  it  hot, on the crown of the head.  Repeat
it if necessary, in two hours.  I  never knew it
fail.

             BLOODY FLUX.
  62. Take  a puke of mullen leaves pounded,
add to them  a little  water on the leaves, press
out  the juice, clarify it by scalding it over  the
fire; then add to it a quart of brandy, sweeten
it with loaf sugar, and let the patient drink a
table spoonful every hour.  Or take blood weed
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called horse tail, cammomile and comfrey roots,
boiled together, sweetened with honey, and drink
often of it.   Or take sweet  flag root, boiled in
milk and  water, and sweetened with honey.—
Drink  often of this medicine, taking a gill at a
time.
   Drink often of a tea made of white pine bark,
spikenard and everlasting.

               NUMB PALSY.
   63. Give a table spoonful of flower of sulphur
once ah hour, bathe the part with a strong de-
coction of nettle roots as hot as may be borne,
take one pound of roll brimstone, boil it in four
quarts  of  water to one quart, and let the patient
drink a table spoonful once an hour.   If applied
early, it will carry it off.  Or use the cold bath,
rubbing and sweating.   Or shred white onions,
and bake them in an earthan pan until they are
soft.  Spread a thick plaster of this, and apply
it to the benumbed part, all over the side if ne-
cessary.
   I have  known, says Mr. Wesley, this to cure
a person of seventy-five years old: or boil white
and red sage, a handful  of erch, in a  quart ^ 
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224          CURES MADE EAST.

white wine, then strain and bottle it.  Take u
small glass morning and evening.
  0^7-This medicine helps all manner of disor-
ders.
                                            I
         PALSY OF  THE HANDS.

  64. Wash them often in a decoction of sage,
as hot as you can bear; or boil nettle roots until
the decoction is as strong as lie, and bathe  the
hands frequently in this.  I know of nothing bet-
ter; -or two or three spoonsful of mustard seed
in a quart of water, and wash often in this as hot
as may  be.

     PALPITATION OF  THE HEART.
  65. Take the saw dust made from a pitch pine
knot, the tops of blue vervine and agrimony, of
each a  handful, pulverize the herbs, and  put
them into  two  quarts of wine, let them infuse
twelve hours, and it is fit for use.  Take a small
glass three times a day, and it seldom fails.  Or
take  a decoction  of mother  wort  every eve-
ning.

                CATARRH.
  66. The best method I ever found out, was to 
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  make a snuff,by drying the root of helehore, and
  after being pulverized, add one third of the bark
  of the root of sassafras made fine. Take a small
  pinch of this  a few times, until the pores of the
  head are open, and the putrid matter discharged.
  Let the patient, at the same time, drink a decoc-
  tion made of hemlock boughs, bathing the tem-
  ples with the same, and it will prevent catching
  cold.  Afterwards take Maccaba Snuff, scented
  with the oil of rosemary, (not rose water.)  It
  is a fine remedy for the head ache. 1 have been
< a living witness these  eighteen years.  Or you
  may scent your snuff with colt's foot, snake root,
  pulverized : it makes an excellent physic for the
  head.
    Another.—A snuff made of ground ivy, must
  be taken for six weeks.  Also four ounces of bit-
  ter  sweet roots, one  pound of  celendine,one
  pound of dogmackemose bark and one pound of
  ground  ivy.   Boil  them  in one  pailful and a
  half of  water, down to one quart;  add to this
  decoction  the same quantity of gin, and  tako
  four glasses a day.
    In bad cases, take lobelia frequently, in small
  doses,and smoke the nostrils  with  dogmackv
  bark, dried and set on fire while the head is heW 
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over it.  Sweating in the first stages of the dis-
ease is useful.
  Another.-*-Take the root of yellow dock, split
and dry it in an oven, blood root, and pigeon ber-
ry root, four ounces of each, one ounce of ciona-  I
mon, half an  ounce of cloves, pound them very
fine, and let the patient take a pinch of this snuff
eight or nine times a day, and every night smoke a
pipe full of cinnamon bark mixed with a little to-
bacco, and sweat the head with a decoctioD made
of  hemlock  boughs., brandy  and  camphor.  It
seldom fails.

                 JAUNDICE.
  67.  Steep a handful of the top aod root of gar-'
den celendine, in  a  pint  of new milk.  Let the
patient drink as muck as the stomach will bear.
It seldom needs  repeating, especially in children
under twelve years of age.  People of adult age
might take purges of vegetable physic, or of lo-
belia, or of the bark of the key ash in decoction.
These might firstly be taken,  and in bad cases re-  <
peated.   Blood root might also be taken in very
small doses—what will lie on the point of a pen
knife-might be taken three times a day.  Or take
 ^alf a pint of strong decoction of nettles, or bur- 
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dock leaves, or boil three ounces of  burdock
root in two quarts of water to  three pints, and
drink a tea cup full every morning.  Or make a
strong decoetion of  horse raddish, sassaparilla
roots, burdock roots and seeds,  reel cherry barkr
and prickly ash bark.  To this decoction, put an
equal quantity of rum and take it upon an empty
stomach, a glass three times a day.   This is an
excellent remedy for bilious complaints,

               CANKERASH.
   68. To one quart  of good brandy, put one ta-
ble spoonful of powdered blood root.  Drop three
or four drops of this into spirits, and give the pa-
tient a tabic spoonful once an horn. until the fe-
ver subsides, and give a spoonful of clear spirits
betwixt doses.   Perhaps this is the surest reme-
dy that was ever known.  Forty little suffers were
saved in one  neighborhood,  by this medicine,
when every other had  failed.
   In  slight cases of this  disease,  the  following
composition is usually sufficient.
   One ounce of blood  root, half a pint of good
vinegar, and  (w ounces of  honey.   Mix  the
whole together, and take a tea spoonful every
 half hour*  I'1 severe  ca<=rs a  potior* of verefa.- 
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ble physic in powder, or boiled lobelia mu?t be
given to clear the stomach and bowels, and after-  ]
wards the above composition.   The mouth must
be washed frequently  with sage  tea  sweetened
with honey.   Weak lie should also be drank.

                LOCKJAW.
  69. Feed the patient with French brandy, and
it seldom fails.  When any person is taken with
the lockjaw, give him five grains of Dover's pow-
ders, then sit him in a tub of water as hot as he
can bear, bathe his head with camphorated spirits,
let him sit or stand  in the water as long as he can
bear it w ithout fainting, and bleed him if possi-
ble.  Repeat this three or four times, and when
out of the water, put him in a warm bed wrapped
in warm flannel.

      INFLAMMATION IN THE HEAD.
   70. Take  red beets, pound  them  very fine,
press out some of the juice, let the patient snuff
some of the juice  up into the  head, and make a
poultice of beets and lay it on the head, for the
fever.  Use rattlesnake's gall preserved in chalk
and cream tartar and head bethofty.   Bleed as
often as once a day, physic with mandrake root, 
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and keep strong drafts en the feet.  Or bathe the
temples frequentlj wuh white lie brine, in addi-
tion to the above.

            FILM OF THE EYE.
   71.  Take sugar of lead, make it as fine as pos-
sible, take an oat straw, dip the end  of the straw
into the powder, and blow a little of the sugar of
lead into the film, morning and evening.   After
the film is  almost consumed, apply to it a drop of
hen's fat once a day, until the film is entirely re-
moved.

                 A BREACH.
   72. Take snails that crawl about on old rottea
wood, and you may often find them on old logs or
stumps.  Collect a parcel of them, take enough
of them to cover the breach, put them on a linen
cloth, bind them on, and repeat it as often as the
snails are dry.  For a  child, boil a spoonful of
egg shells  dried in an oven, and powdered in a
pint of milk, and feed  the child constantly, with
bread boiled in this.
   For an adult take agrimony the herb, Solomon's
seal and straw berry roots, wash tht in well, stamp
and boil two hours in two quarts of white  wine.
                    T 
230           CURES MADE EASY.

in a vessel close stopped, and drink a large glase
of this every morning, and an hour after dinner.
It most generally effects a cure in about a fort-
nights                       •

                  SCIATICA.
  73-  It is cured by a purge being taken a few
hours after it begins.   Or use cold  bathing and
sweating, together with the flesh brush twice a
day.   Or boil nettles until soft, let them  foment
with the liquor, and then apply the  herbs  as a
poultice.  I have known this, says Wesley, cure
a Sciatica of forty fiveyears standing.   Or apply
nettles bruised in a mortar, or apply a mud made
of powdered pi,t coal and warm water.
   This frequently cures sores, weakness of limbs
and most disorders of the legs, swelling and stiff-
ness of the joints.

                  SCURVY.
   74. Take tar water, morning and evening, for
:hree months ;  or three spoonsful of nettle juice
every morning, or decoction of  burdock.  Boil
three ounces of the dried root in two quarts of
water, to two pints.   Take half a pint daily,  un-
less it purges too mufcb, if so take less.   Or take 
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« cup full of the juice of goose gra$s, called cli-
vers, in the morning fasting.  It  is a most excel-
lent remedy.

          VEGETABLE POISON.
   75.  To cure Vegetable Poison, Running Ivy, or
Poison Elder.—Take rosemery leaves or  blos-
soms, make a tea of them to drink morning and
night, the same as above, or any other.  Or take
wild turnips,  if green, pound them and press out
the juice ; if dry, boil them in fair water, and
wa^h the part affected with the clear liquor.—
Take part of it, add to it a little saffron and cam-
phor,  and drink to cleanse the fluids  and guard
the stomach.

             INWARD ULCERS.
   76.  Two ounces of the bark of sassafras root,
two ounces of colt's foot root, two ounces of blood
root, one ounce of gum myrrh, once ounce of
winter bark, and one ounce of sucatrine aloes,
steeped in two  quarts of spirits.  Drink a small
glass every  morning, and live on simple diet.—
For constant  driuk, make a beer of barley malt
one  peck, spikenard roots two  pounds, comfrey
loots  one  pound, burdock  root  two pounds. 
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*    spruce boughs, five pounds, angelica, one pound,
v    %nnel seed, four ounces, for  ten gallons of beer.
     Drink one qu*rt a day, let your exercise be light,
i     and food easy of digestion.

                  HEARTBURNING.
       77. Drink a pint of cold water, or drink slowly
     a decoction of caminoaiile flowers, ir eat four or
»     j.               ...
    • nve oysters, or  chew rive or s;v p..po :r corns a
     little, then swallow them ; or ehu-.v few, A or p;»rs-
5«    ley, and swallow the juic-j.   So.ned:u.w a  vomit
     is necessary.

                      HICKUPS.
       78. Swallow a mouthful of w'o;, stopping f h *
     mouth and ears ;  ortake any  t'nn^thet w-.   n 'x*  ^
     you sneeze ; or threa drops of cin-nno-i.oi!  m  a
     lump of sugar ;  or dash cold  w.uer suudirny oh
     the patient's head.

                    HOARSENESS.
*      79. Rub the soles of th> feet bjfore the !h \
     with Garlic and hog's lard, well beaten  tog,; uer
     over night.   The hoarseness will be gone m ;he
.     morning.   Or take a pint of cold water at g«ai;^
     jo bed, or dry nettle root in an oven. Then pow- 
              CURES MADE EASY.          233

ier them finely, and mix them with an  equal
quantity of treacle,  (molasses.)  Take  a  tea
spoonful of this twice a day, or boil a handful of
wheat bran in a quart of water ; then strain and
sweeten it with honey, and  take a sup of it fre-
quently.

           BITE OF A MAD DOG.
  80. Plunge  into cold water, daily, for twenty
^ays.  This has cured even after the hydropho-
bia had began.  Or mix a pound of salt with a
quart of water, and squeeze, bathe and wash the
wound for an hour.  Then bind some salt upon
it for twelve hours.
  N. B.—The author of this recipe was bit six
times by mad dogs, and  always cured himself by
these means.
  This recipe may be of more value to some one
than all the riches of the Indies.

                 A SPRAIN.
  81. Boil bran in wine vinegar to a poultice, ap
ply it warm, and renew it once in twelve hours.
Or take a  handful of blue flag root, boil out the*
strength, then  take out the roots and stir in wheat
bran, to the consistency  of a poultice.   Add a 
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httle sharp vinegar, and apply it to the part com
plaining, and change it once in  four hours until
well.   This will also stop mortification, and draw
the inflammation from any wound, sore or swel-
ling-
   Note.—Adding vinegar to the poultice pre-
vents its dratving a blister.
   Another.—Mix a little turpentine with flour and
the yolk of an egg, and apply it as a plaster.—
This  will cure in all desperate  cases.   Weak-
ness remaining after a sprain, is  cured  by fo-
menting the part daily with beef brine.

                   STINGS.
   82. For the sting of a bee, apply honey ;  for
the sting of nettles, rub the part with nettle jui«e;
hor the  sting  of a wasp, rub the part with the
bruised leaves  of horse leek, water cresses or
rue;  for a sting in the eye, apply cardus  bruised
with  the white of an egg, and renew it if it gets
 dry.

         PAIN IN THE STOMACH.
   83. Cure for pain in  the stomach from  bad di-
gestion.—Take fasting, or in the fit, half a pint
 •f camtHomile tea, for five or six mo rnings ;  or 
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drink thejuice of half a  large lemon, immedi-
ately after dinner, every day.

                  CHOLERIC.
   84. Take half a pint of decoction  of ground
ivy, with a tea spoonful of the powder of it, five
or six. mornings.

              NIGHT SWEATS.
   85.  Drink a decoction  made by steeping the
iron  root* pulverized.   This  is a  most certain
oure.
                T^X)TH ACHE.
   86. To prevent this, wash the mouth with cold
water every  morning, and  rinse  it after every
meal: or rub the the teeth often with tobacco
ashes.

   t Iron root generally grows  under white or black oak
tree-, and cl£ig> f*st to  : he  root of the oak, something
like tuugous; tud resembles those great warts you have
seen upon cattle.   The outside is blackish, and the in-
side resembles saw-du!«t.   Tne stalk grows  eight or nine
incites liign, has no leaves, only scales.   Upon the top is
a ro.i:iJ |">d, resembling the seed poi of tobacco, full of
seed similar to tobacco seed. 
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                 THORNS.
  87. Method of drawing out thorns, epliniers and
bones.—Apply to the part, nettle roots pounded
with salt.

                 ULCERS.
  88. To cure thrush, or little white ulcers in the
mouth.—Mix thejuice of celendine with honey,
to the thickness of cream, and infuse in it a little
powdered saffron.  Let this  simmer a while,
then skim it and apply it with a feather.  At the
same time, give eight or ten, prams of rhcubarb
to a grown person.
  Another.—Take an ounce of clarified honey,'
skim off the dross, put in a drachm of rock al-
lum well powdered, and stir them well together.
Let the child's mouth be rubbed well with this,
five or six times a day, with  a bit of rag tied
upon the end of  a  stick.   And even though it
be  the thorough  thrush, it will cure  it in a few
day.-.,

                BALDNESS.
  89. Rub the part morning and  evening with
»j>d onions until it is red, and rub it  afterward* 
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with honey.   Or wash it with a decoction of box
wood bark.

         POLYPUS IN THE NOSE.
   90. Powder a lump of allum, and snuff it up
frequently.  Then dissolve  powdered allum in
bruidy, dip lint therein, and apply it at goiug to
bed.

             WATERY BRASH.
   91. The patient that is troubled with the wa-
tery brash, continually  drules from the mouth
a cankerous fluid, that very often makes a raw
sore wherever it flows.   Give two or three small
potions of lobelia, so as to nauciate the stomach
a little.  Then make a decoction of blue cohosh
root sweetened with honey,and give two or three
spoonsful  in a day.  Then take the bals an or
bay tiee, the bark of the root  of shumake and
black berry twigs.  Jam them up and put them
into cold water, and drink of it constantly every
day.

     COMPLAINTS OF THE BREAST.
  92. Drink,  every morning, rum and molasses
frith an eg§ broke into  it.  One glass  of rum 
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and molasses, with the addition of an egg, is a
dose.

                  A WEN.
   93.  Unslacked lime, beaten into powder and
mixed with soap, taketh away a wen. being an-
nointed therewith.

                   WARTS.
   94.  If you annoint warts with elder berries, it
will cure them.   Or rub them  with a piece of
fresh beef, and  the  beef being buried  in  the
ground, the warts will consume away as the beef
rots.

                EYE  WATER.
   95. Take  half an ounce of white vitirol, aud
 the same weight of  loaf sugar;  boil them in
 a pint of spring water, strain and  bottle for  use. I
 Bathe  the temples under and over the  eyes,.
 and put a little in the eye two  or three times
 a day.  If it is  too strong, it may be weakened
 by adding a little water, as occasion may require.
 This is said  to  cure old inveterate  sore eyes of
 long standing that no other medicine would ef-
 fect, communicated by an aged lady  who had 
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been afflicted.  I hope my friends will make a
trial of this simple, cheap and very easy meth-
od.

                  CRAMPS.
   96. Take cramp root, or iron root, as it is call-
ed by some ; steep it in water or put it into bran-
dy, or drink of it either in the fit, or at other
times, and it will wholly prevent the cramp.  It
is likewise an excellent remedy for night sweats.
Ox balm, toad root yellow or arch angel, known
by different names, are a  notable remedy for
 night sweats.  Or the root pounded and steep-
 ed strong with white pine bark, and the bark of
 black birch boiled down to a small quantity :
 after straining, add one half sale molasses, and
 being drank, is a notable remedy for the dysen-
 tery.

                DYSENTERY.
   97. Take a pint of good rum or whiskey, and
 add half or two thirds the quantity of the berries
 gathered from the spotted alder when ripe, and
 in a few hours it  is fit for use.  Drink often of
 this, and it will effect a cure  in a very  short,
 time-. 
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   This alder grows in swamps and marshes, and
 bears a red berry when ripe, and is known by the
 names of spotted alder and black or ild berried
 alder.  A strong decoction of the bark destroy-
 eth worms in children or adults,  being drank
 freely.

               FEVER SORE.
   98.  Boil the tops and roots of clover, in one
 pailful of water down to two quarts.   Then puf,
 a  spoonful of strong ashes, or in  a   desperate
 case, you may put a spoonful to a quart of this
 decoction.  Let all boil together till the strength
 is out, then strain out the liquor, and when cool
it is fit for use.
   Let the patient make use of  this for constant
drink, and wash the sores with the same.  This
has cured in a most distressed case, when all oth-
er means had failed.

           HIP RHEUMATISM.
  99. First give a  potion of vegetable pills, and
 -ftcr  the operation, boil  a peck of the roots of
stinging nettles, until the  strength is out and the
decoction as strong as lie; bathe the hip before
 'he fire for half or tlwree  quarters of a hour.~- 
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Then jam the boiled roots to a poultice, apply it
to the hip, repair to bed, and in the morning lay
it aside.   Then  take two thirds lobelia and one
third mandrake root, pulverized, take as much as
will lie on the point of a pen knife, three times
a day, for nine days.  The exact quantity  of
this powder I cannot determine, but the patient
should take enough  to nauciate  the stomach a
little, yet not so  as to puke.  Some will bear
more, and others less.  This will produce a kind
of sallivation through the whole system, produce
a general action, open obstructions, and cleanse
the blood from those vicious humours, genera-
ted'by heats and colds, and tend directly to  re-
move the cause, from which this painful and dis-
tressed disorder originated.  I have known this
effect a cure, when the professional  gentlemen
had pronounced it mcurable. My countrymen
are at liberty to make the trial for themselves,
and I  think they will be  amply paid for  their
trouble.
  Note.—After the patient  has passed through
the above prescriptions, he may prepare some
good strengthening bitters, made of the roots of
gention,piunkum, colt's foot, snake root and san- 
£42           CURES MADE EASY.

'ick, Or snake root, put into rum or wliiskey, and
take a glass morning and evening.

                  FEVER.
   100. Drink constantly a decoction made ofhop
blbws, until it produces a copious sweat.   This,
in case of the  typhus fever, is a most sure re-
medy, communicated  by a  pious old lady, who
had seen the happy effects ii had upon her son,
who had been grievously attacked by the typhus
fever.
   This also will thrdw off the fever  and ague, if   ,
drank just before the cold fit ,comes en.  Repeat
this  a few times, and yout complaint will leave
you.   This is said to be a most sure remedy, yet
it may not effect a cure in all cases, nor in all
countries { but I think the experiment well worth
trying.                   •

        HERMORHAGE OF BLOOD.
   101. Take  a handful of blood weed,  which
grows in old fields, called by some  horsetail or
white top, mare's tail, whipeywog, colt's  tail,
pride and fire  weeds.  It grows about waist or
shoulder high, one stalk from the bottom* nnd has
r> very busby top.  When it is green, pound its 
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243
press out the juice, and give the patient a table
spoonful at  a time, once an hour, until it stops.—
If it be dry, boil it strong and  give the tea very
strong, three or four spoonsful at a time.

         CANKER IN THE MOUTH.
   102. Take thejuice of plaintain and rose wa-'
ter mixed,  and with  it, frequently  wash your
mouth.

             BITE OF A SNAKE.
   103. Take green hoar hound tops, pound them
fine, press  out the juice, and let the patient dri-:k
a table spoonful of the juice, morn,  noon and
night.  Or three times in twenty-four hours, ap-
ply the powdered herbs  to the bite, and change
the same twice a day.  The patient may drink a,
spoonful of sweet oil  of olives.  This never faihi
curing.

              ITCH OINTMENT.
   104. Take half a  pound of hog's lard, four
ounaes spirits of turpentine, two ounces of flour
of sulphur, and mix them together cold.  Apply
it to the ancles, knees, wrists and elbows, and rub
ft in the palms of the hands. If there be any.jav? 
 344           CURES MADE EASY.

 places, apply a little there, at night when goin
 to bed.

                 PHTHISIC.
   105. Take four ounces of hen's fat and a seed
 bowl of skunk cabbage that grows at the bottom
rof the leaves close to the ground, cut it fine, stew
 it in the fat till it is dry, and strain it off.  A tea *
 spoonful is a dose to take three times a day.—
 Make  a syrup of white swamp  honey-suckle
 blossoms and Queen of the Meadow root, sweet- .
 ened with honey.   Add to it a quart of syrup and
 half a pint of brandy.   Drink three glasses  a
 day.

          PILLS FOR HYSTERICKS.
   106.  Take a quantity  of white root, boil it in
 fair  water.  When  it is boiled very soft, strain
 out the roots, and boil down the liquor to the con-
 sistency of a thick paste, so that it may be pilled.
 Let the patient take  two or  three pills at a dose
 when the disorder is coming on.

         VENEREAL COMPLAINTS.
   107. Take a peck of black ash bark, boil it in
 a pailful  of water down to a quart, sweetened 
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w?th molasses, and add to it a pint of rum. Drink
half a pint at  a time, morn,and night.' Or take
gambouge and gum aloes, equal parts, and make
a pill as big as a pea.  Pill it in molasses, and give
two pills at a time.   Continue to takd the pills
one week, every nigln.  Or when the complaint
is first taken, within ten or twelve days, make of
equal parts of pill coche and calomel, and pill it
with molasses.  Begin with one pill the first night,  ''■
the next two,  next three, and so on, every night  -
adding one pill until it operates as physic.  Then
take them every night, one less, until you run out
to one.  This is a certain cure if the  complaint
be not of too long standing.

            FEMALE WEAKNESS.
   108  Knot  grass tops and roots,  yarrow tops  ::
and roots, plantain  tops and roots, hemp tops,  (
blood weed, called also pride or fire weed—of
each one pound.   Boil them in six quarts of wa-
ter, down to three quarts ; strain it off, add to it
a pint of rum, and  two  pounds of loaf sugar.
Drink a small glass morning, noon and night?
fasting, or before eating. 
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         TURLINGTON'S BALSAM.
   109. Those that are so disposed,  and feel
themselves able, may make this balsam of life, it
being a most excellent medicine in consumptive
complaints, and  also for weakly females in  all
stages of life   For a fevery stomach, let the pa-
tient take thirteen, or fourteen drops in a small
glass  of  wine,  in the morning, fasting.  It is
good for pains in the stomach, or side, and nour-
ishes weak lungs,  and helps a cough.
   This balsam of life is made thus :—gum ben-
zoin  four  ounces, gum storax calliinitta three
ounces, balsom tolu one ounce, gum aloes suca-
trine one ounce and a half, gum alibanum one
ounce and a half, gum myrrh  one ounce  and a
half, root of angelica two ounces, tops of John's
wort two ounces.   Pound all these together, put
them into three pints of rectified spirits of wine
in a glass bottle, let them  stand  in the spirits
four v.eeksin a moderate heat, shake them once
a day, then strain it off, tis fit for use, and if the
gums are not all dissolved add a little more spir-
 ts to  the  same, shake it and let it stum! as be-
fore. 
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                OBSTRUCTIONS.
    110. Cure for weakly obstructions in the Female
  sex.—Take heart's ease the top, spikenard roots,
  a little blood root, a few roots of white pond li-
  lies, a good  parcel of female flowew  so called.
  It often grows by the sides of ponds, it has a leaf
  and  blossom  some like  cowslips—but it grows
  single one root or stalk by itself, and some smal-
  ler than the cowslip, the  leaves  are green  and
  the blossoms yellow.
    This is one of the finest of  roots for the fe-
  male use in the world.  Take double the quanti-
  ty of this and equal parts of the others, ma.e a
  syrup of them, boil them in fair water-until all
  the substance is out, strain it off, swe ten it with
  honey, add  as much rum to it as will keep  it
  from  souring.   Drink half  a gill going to  bed
  every  night.  This will  strengthen the system
  and throw off all obstructions.

                BLOOYD URI  >'E.
     111. Take, twice  a day, a pint of  the decoc-
   tion of agrimony, or of decoct on of yarrow. 
248          CURES MABE EAST               '

                  SWEAT.
   112.  For a cold  and fever.—Take a pint of
milk set it by the fire until it boils  then put in *>
one table spoonful of west india molasses stur it
quick and when turned to curd and settled,  let
the patient drink it all and cover up and sweat,   i

                 THRUSH.
   113.  For the  Thrush in  the mauih.-^-MnkQ a i
strong decoction of blue cohosh, sweeten with ho-
ney and wash the mouth; a tea spoonful is enough;
then let  the patient swallow' the  same quantity.
Repeat this till well.
              WORM FEVER
   114.  Boil a handful of  rue and wormwoAd in
water, foment the belly  with the  decoction, and
apply the boiled herbs as a poultice.  Repeat this
night and morning.
   Note.—The addition of  speermint and tansy, ^
and bod them in spirits, and  apply them as above,
would be preferable.
   Physic is always necessary in cases of such ap-
plication.   But here discretion must be used, if
ihe child be young  and feeble,  perhaps  water 
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would be best, and of course gentle physic given
afterwards.   Castor oil is the best and most safe
physic for young  children.  Parents would do
well to keep a bottle of this oil always by them.
The cost is trifling to what it is to have it dealt
out to them  by the  Apothecaries in potions.—
Nine or ten potions dealt in this way would cost
as much as pernaps a whole bottle wouhl, and m
a bottle you would have as  mucn as forty or buy
potions.

                    AGUE.
   115.  Put an  ounce of pulverized  five finger
 roots, into a quart of white wine or clarified cur-
 rant wine, and drink a glass or two just before the
 cold fit comes  on, and it is said  to cure a:i ague
 in a few days.   The roots being boiled in milk
 and drank,  helpeth ail manner of fluxes in either
 sex.
                 SORE LEGS.
    116.  Wash them in brandy twice a  day, and
 apply elder leaves,  and change them as often as
 you wash.   This wiil dry up all the sores and
 cure them, though they are like a honey  comb.—
 8utthe blood must be cleansed by  drinking the 
230           GURES MADE EASY.

water wherein the barks have been steeped, as
directed in case of fever sore ; and two or three
potions of vegetable physic taken in the course
of a month,

                 CANCER.
   117. Make a plaister of rock  allum, vinegar
and honey, equal quantities with that of flour.—
Change it every day, and it often cures in three or
four days, says Mr. Wesley.

            JOINT NEWLY SET.
   118. Mullenseed being bruised, boiled in wine
and applied to  the  joint newly set, removes the
pain and swelling.

                   CHOLIC.
   119-  This is cured by giving lobelia in small
closes, until the patient pukes.   But in bad cases,
make a  decoction of butternut bark, and take a
bufficiency to operate as a cathartic.  Or pulver-
ize three  of the seeds of skunk cabbage balls,
steep them in one giU of water until the strength
is out, let the patient drink it all at once as hot as
may be borne, and it commonly cures at once.—
 ftr steep the s,eeds of master wort, and being draofc 
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hot, relieves in a few minutes. Parsnip seed steep-
ed, is a good remedy.
   In the last stages of the Bilious Cholic, blue vi-
olets, in decoction, are said to be an excellent re-
medy.  A tea spoon full of the root in sweet oil,
might be taken every half hour, until you are re-
Jtieved.

                    FELON.
   121. Boil out  half a pound  of pitch from a
pitch pine knot, take four ounces strong tobacco,
boil it in water till the strength is boited out, and
after straining it boil it down till thick; then add
the pitch, and simmer it over a slow fire, stirring
jt all the time, till it form a salve altogether.  If
the swelling be  on the hand or finger, lay the
plaister on the wrist, if on the  foot  or toe, lay it
on the ancle, or wherever it may be lay the plais-
ter above the joint, this will take out the pain in
 a short time.   Dress  the sore with any good
 salve.   This is an infallible cure.
               OBSTRUCTION.
    122.  To open obstructions of the Liver, dijicul-
 ty of breathing <S*c—Take ohe pound of the bark
 bf the root, top and leaves of bittersweet, pound 
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them, put them in a pot with three pints of wine,
let them infuse over a gentle fire twelve hours.— ;
Then strain it outand you have an excellent drink,
to open obstructions of the liver, and difficulty of
breathing and inwird bruises.  It helps the yel-
low and black jaundice, and  is excellent for wo-
men just put to bed.  It purges the body gently.
Drink a gl«s morning and evening.

                  PTIXS.
  123. Take the juice of worm-wood, tansy and
a little fine salt.  Put  these  into strong vinegar,
and bathe the pained part.  Make an ointment of
bitter-sweet to annoint the limb.

              WEAKNESS.
  124. Take  spignard, piunkum, scabious, sani-
cle  and self-heal, a handful  of each;  boil them
in six quarts of water down to one, strain off, and
when cold, add one pint of rum and sweeten with
f ale sugnr, and take a glass twice a day.   It is a
sovereign remedy  for all inward wounds, ulcers
and weakness of the lungs, &.c.

              SCiLD H^AD.
   125. Take  the ashes of the bark of the whit* 
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asn tree^ made into alje, and the head washed
therewith, presently cureth.
   Mallows juice boiled in oil, and (he head an-
nointed: therewith, is a good  remedy.  If it  is
caused  by the itch, wear a cap steeped moilia
which brimstone has been boiled.

                 ELM BARK.
   126.  Boil the bark of the root of elm, skim
 oil' the oil,  and anDOiot the head that is bald, and
 it will cause the hail1 to grow.   The bark ground
 with brine  until it  becomes a poultice, and ap-
 plied, giveth great ease to  the gout.  Bathe the
 head with a decoction of dwarf elder, and it will
 colour the hair black.
      HERBS GOOD IN CONSUMPTION.
    127.  Burdock root in syrup, in decoction, or m
  wine ; the juice  of hoarhound in milk, or with
  honey ;  juniper  berries, ten or twelve eaten in
  uie morning, fasting;  piunkum, steeped in cold
  water, in spirits, or in wine, an excellent reme-
  dy ; gension in syrup, in wine, or the powdered
  root in molasses ;  St. Anthony's cross, steeped in
  cold water ;  sanicle in syrup, in wine, or decoc-
  >ion ; nerve root in wine, in spirits, or in powder 
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 with honey; hound's tongue or smooth leaf steep-
ed in cold water ;  lobelia in powder in very small
potions, taken three times a day for thirty days;
blood root  in  powder, excellent for pulmonary
compkints ; meadow  plantain  in  syrup; three
spoonsful of sage juice taken, fasting, with a lit-
tle  honey, doth presently stay the spitting of
blood, of them that are in a consumption; great
Solomon's  seal root  in syrup,  sassaparilla root,
spikenard, noble liver wort, brook liver wort and
lung wort, all good in syrup ;  white pine mo•>,
pitch pine boughs, shumake roots, the bark of
the root of nanny berry bush in decoction or in .
syrup, the root and flowers of the wandering
golden rod steeped in cold water,  a notable re-  '
medy.   This has cured in the last  stage of con-
sumption.   Vervine and  agrimony are good in
all  complaints of the lungs,  and also, being put
[•)to wine, for a palpitation of the  heart.  Sca-
bious, dandalion roots and tops, are useful, and
so are blue violets.   Tar water drank for* Con
siderable length of time, hath cured a deep con-  .
pampti'Mi, and is also good for a cough and fe-
ver.  Take wood sorrel, a sufficient quantity to
yeunl, and get out a pint of juice.   Add to this 
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a pint  of rum, and four  ounces of loaf sugary
and ta^.e half a glass six times a day.

               HYSTERIC FITS.
   128. In the paroxism, or fit, give lobelia until'
it nauciates or makes sick at the stomacTh, and it
will relieve  the cramp.   Then  take two hands*--
ful of thoroughwort, boil in one pailful of wa-
ter, to one quart.  Add to  this decoction, an equal
quantity of gin, and take a  glass three times a
day, unless  it  should prove physical, then take
less.   Small doses of lobelia may be given, until
the symptoms abate.  To strengthen  the sys-
tem, take a handful of blue vervine tops, a hand*-
ful of the roots of blue  cohosh, and a  little So-
 lomon's seal root; cover  them in a kettle of wa-
 ter, boil the strength out,  boil down to one quart,
 add the same  quantity of rum, and take a gla»
 every four hours.
                DYSENTERY.
   129.  Take a small handful of each of the ibi-
 Iowing simples.   The  top  of the  herb  called
 horse tail, (or as the  Indians  say whipsewog,)
 the top of  checoberry or squaw berry.  It is a
 little vine that grows among  wintergreen, and 
256          CURES MADE EASY.

bears a red berry, and the leaf is not bigger than
the little finger nail, and rises but a little above
the ground, and the root of the  upland brake.
I cannot give the particular name, but  will en-
deavour to describe the plant.
  It sends up four or five stems or stalks from the
root, similar to the pollypod brake, though it
stands not upright, but leans away towards the
ground,  and the leaves grow on each side of the
stalk.  The leaf on one side of the stalk sets a
little above the one on the other side.   The leaf
is widest next to the stalk, with a little ear on the
upper side or edge of the leaf, it joins to the stalk
by a small stem, it tapers gradually from the stalk
to the end  of the leaf, hath a fine sickle  edge
around the leaf, is smooth on both sides, of a pa-
lish green, and not more than an inch and a half
long.  The  root is a bunch of pikes from  whence
old stalks have fallen off and decayed, and oth-
ers have arisen.
  These three, viz :  horsetail, checoberry and
brake root, boiled together; then add a little milk
and sweeten with honey or loaf sugar, and give
the patient less or more, as the age  of  the pa"
tient may require.  To an infant, a tea spoonful 
              CURES MADE EASY.          25T

once in ten minutes.   I believe this remedy hrfs
not failed.

              BITTERSWEET.
   130. Bitter sweet being bruised and tied about
 the neck, cures the vertigo, swiming or dizziness
 of the head.  The berries bruised and applied
 to a felon, sometimes very soon remove the dis=-
 order.
   A pound of the wood and leaves infused into
 three pints of wine, over a gentle fire for twelve
 hours.   When strained, it is an excellent remedy
 for obstructions of the liver and spleen, jaundice,
 dropsy, difficulty  of breathing, bruises, congeal-
 ed blood, &.c.
   The infusion is gently physical, and one half
 pint might be taken by an adult in the morn ng,
 or a gill  might be taken every morning and eve*
 ning.
   Bittersweet is also a useful remedy in the con :
 sumption, and also those fits  which  young chjd
 dren are subject to.
   Bittersweet grows on rich, moist, intervale
 lands, and by the side of rivers, and somewhat
 resembles the poison ivy.  The bark of the root 
258           OURES MADE EASY.

is as yellow as gold.  As bittersweet is generally
known, I shall give no further description ot it.

          RATTLE SNAKE BITE.
   131. Bruise and apply the herb^gnd leaves of
the herb called sow-thistle, and drink a decoe-
tion made of the same.
   Note.—There are two kinds of sow-thistle.
One kind is a little prickly ash, the other smooth,
and this is the one tobevsed in the bite of a rat-
tle snake.  It has  another quality.  The juice
applied, is good to cure all vegetable poison, ei-
ther in the hands or feet.  The decoction may
be used when the green herb cannot be procur-
ed,

         CHRONIC RHEUMATISM.
   132. Take six large red beets and a handful of
blood root, and half the quantity of mandrake
root.   Boil  them until the strength is all put.—
Squeeze out the roots, strain and boil down to
one pint.  Then add a tea spoonful of the spir-
its of  camphor to a table spoonful of the decoc-
 tion.   Bathe the part affected three times a day,
 before a hot fire.  Drink, at the same time, a de-
 coction made of Prince's pine and hard cider. 
•<-
              CURES MADE EASY.           269

  Note.—The chronic rheumatism is located in
some particular part, as the shoulder, knee, back,
or hip, although the pain may move about, yet
it will soon return, and many times with an addi-
tional force. 
 
POOB. KHAN'S PHTSSCmW*
                 PART IVV


  METHOD OF PREPARING MEDIC INK.

         COLEMAN S OINTMENT.

  1. Take one  pound  of good tobacco,  one
pound of fresh butter made from an heifer the
first calf, and the first time of her being milk-
ed,  one pound of white bath or birth root, c:.l!ed
Benjamin root,  four  ounces of turpentine, boil
the  tpbacco and birth-root till the strength  is all
out, squeeze and strain, and simmer it down, ad-
ding tne butter and turpentine, moderately un-
til it becomes an ointment, and when cool add
one ounce of the spirits of wine ; this ointment
will cure any cancer swellings, sores or stiff Johns
or  shrunk  cords, or women's sore  or swelled
breasts.   Give vegetable  physic to cleanse the
system, and produce a general action. 
 .62            PREPARATIONS.

         SALT RHEUM OINTMENT.         j
   2. Take blue flag root, river  willow the bark 1
of the root, and skunk cabbage roct, of each a \
good handful  boiled- in pure water, until very
strong, strain out the roots, and add h;df a pound
of hog's lard, boil  moderately until the watery
part is all evaporated, when cold tis fit for use.

         RHEUMA TiC  OINTMENT
   3. Bittersweet roots, princes  pine, shumake
Dark, yellow arch-angel,or ox balm, or toad root,
are all the same, and elder roots.   Boil the whole
until the strength  is all out, strain  the  liquor;.
put  in hog's lard, fry it down until the water is all
out, then tis fit for use.

           PRECIOUS OINTMENT.
                                             <
   ■?. Take salt butter, bees-wax, hogs fat, sweet*
 oil, honey,  mutton tallow, rosin ;  of each  one
 pound, molasses one gill, brown sugar two oun-
 ces, balsam of fur one ounce,  put all into an  iron
 kettle, set it on hard wood coals  separate from1
 the blaze,  stir it  until it  incorporates,  then in-
 crease your fire, and stir it until it separates. |
 When the dross hath done rising, and begins to' 
               PREPARATIONS.            263

settle, then try the dross on a clean board.  If
brittle like rosin, take it off;  and  when it is all
settled, drain off your ointment and tis fit for use.
         VEGETABLE OINTMENT.
   5. Take any  quantity of  the cups and blows
of a plant called Robbin's plaintaai; pound them
in a mortar put them into a stew pan, and cause
them to swim in fresh butter; simmer them half
a  day. This ointment must be squeezed through
a common cloth with the hand, and then secur-
ed lroin the air.
        GREEN FROG OINTMENT.
   6. July and  August are the best months  to
make  this ointment.  Catch green  frogs, stun
them,  put them into a  stew pan ;  add their own
weight of fresh butter, stew them on co;ds half a
day with coals on the lid oC tue pan, and be care-
ful not to burn it.   Put  tiiis ointment into gla^s
vessels.
            FOOT'S OINTMENT.
   7. Take one pound of hog's lard, one pound
or mutton tallow, half a pound of oil of spi're, and
heat them over a moderate fire, until tlay are
 united; then tdd a- much bees-v. ax and rosin as 
-264            PREPARATIONS.

will make it to a salve.   This is the renowned
Foot's ointment, and will cure all common sores,
where there is no inflamation.
        TO RELAX SHRUNK CORDS
   8. Take half a pound of hog's lard, put into it
a small handful of metolet, green, stew it well to*
gether, straih it off, add to it one ounce of rattle
snake's grease, one ounce of olive oil, and  ten
drops of oil of lavender, mix well "together, an-
oint three times a  day and rub it  in well with
the hand.  A precious ointment this.
       STRENGTHENING PLASTER.
 9. Take pitch boiled from pitch pine knots, one
pound : set it in a skillet or iron vessel upon the
coals, melt it down, and then add one gill of rum,
one gill of cider emtyens, let it simmer moderate-
ly until the water is all evaporated and the pitch
is  hard enough to make a plaister, which  will be
shortly after the water is gone : then take it off
and pour it into cold water, and as quick as it
can be handled take it out and begin pulling of
it, dipping of it into good rum or spirits constaut-
ly, and keep your  hands and the  plaister  wet
with it, and so continue until your roll is as white
as it will be. It will generally after you have  pu!- 
                PREPARATIONS.            26j

led a spell, begin to stick, to  your hands  so re-
markably, that you cannot pull it any  longer:
then tis fit for use.  I think this the b  st strength-
ening pla'ster that I h; ve any knowledge of. Af-
ter the patient hath worn this plaister a fjw days,
the place will begin  to  itch so intolerably that
they will be ready to tear it off;  but this should
not be done ; although it is very probable it will
draw little blisters around  the out edge* of the
plaister.  It should be worn  until it comes off
itself.
                   SYRUP.
   10.  How to make a Syrup good in all pulmona-
ry complaints.—Take a large handful of pitch
pine boughs, and the tops of blue vervine gention
root, piunkum  roots and tops, sanicle, or  black
snake root, queen of the. meadow root, and gol-
den seal roots and tops, and witch hazel twigs, of
each a handful: boil these until the strength is all
out, then strain and boil down to  three pints, and
when settled and cool add  spirits one pint, and
sale sugar enough to  make  it pleasant: take a
small glass three times a day, say two hours be-
fore breakfasting, two hours  before dinner, and
two hours after supper.    This syrup hath had
                     W 
26!
PREPARATIONS.
the most salutary effects  in  cases of weakness-
and debility, of any I have known, especially a-
mongst people of middle age.

                 CORDIAL.
  11. -^3 Cordial for the ;/«/,■ >itati"n cf the heart.—
Take saw dust from a pitch  pine knot, three ta-
ble spo.infills,  >ne .spo:niii;l of hh;. veivine tops
powdered, and the same  quantity of agrimony
to;'S pulverized ; mix these togeth* r.aud put in-
io two  quarts  of wine, It  t them infuse  twc.ty
four hoars ; shake tkciu three or i\>uv time  ; ti&
fit for Ur.C.

     BUCKETS FEVER SORE SALVE.
  12. Two pounds of hog's laid, twelve ounces ros-
in.six ounces becs-wai,oiie ounce <lf oil of spike :
simmer the first throe tocxl. * y: jiren put in oil of
f-pike; tis fit for  use.*

            LF.ADEN PLANTER.
   13.  Take half a pint of the green  olive oil,
f.dlnd  sweet vr], put into a new earthan \w.'g
that is well glazed, then add two ounces of 'die
he ;t castile soap, cut  fine and set on  the coals
  when  the soap and  oil is  incorporated, then add 
pr-.rrATV'.Tia'
2Gf
•re ounce and a half of red lead, and as  much
white lead ; sift these leads fine, and then  nmke
as much finer as you can, with a case knife upon
a smooth  board ; put  them in and be careful
that it dont run over : stir and temper  with the
oils and leads, until it comes to the consistency
of a plaister, and will adhere both to your finger
and a board, on which you must try it.
           CANCER PLAISTERS,
    14.  I lor: to prepare four kinds of cancer plais-
 ters.—First the mercurious, 2d the arsenl", 3d
 the  Vitriol, 4th the  verdigris.   The  comple-
 tion of the mercurious plaistt-r, is cheered by ad-
 ding to one  ounce of the s mpi*  h^u-n plais.er,
 from one d'.achm to eight, of the .orrosive subli-
 mate "f mercery.
    The completion of the se ondishi  l-.k- manr
 „er 5__add from one a ac'-m, 'o eigV of white ar-
 lo„:r,toone ounce of :h- leaden pi is'er.
    The completion of fh-  3d is  efi'-ct-d by ad-
  ding from one drachm to eight of whit.' vitriol, to
  one ounce of the leaden pi ist r.
    The completion of the 4th is effected by ad-
  ding, from  one drachm, toeig'-t cf verdigris, r*
  one ounce of the leaden  planter. 
288            PREPARATIONS.
  If one ounce of the leaden plaister, should not
be strong enough, add the second and third, and
so on to the eighth, as  the urgency  of  the case
may require.  Each one  of these;  ingredients
must be made fine before they re added
          CURE ALL PL IVTER.
  15. Take linse d oil and neats feet oil, of
each one gill, put the oil into a n,jw or  earthen
mug, boil it on coals un'il all th i water is boiled
out, then add one ounce aud a half of camphor
cut fine, then add as much of gum myrrh fine,
(be careful that it does not boil over,) 'hen add
o^e pound of rosin pounded fine.  When melted,
add two ounces of red lead, two ounces of white
lead, sii'trd and  made as fine as possible.   You
must boil these  ingredients and  tamper  them
w/th oils and leads, til! it adheres closely to your
fingers, or r.bu-.rd on which you must drop it in
order to cool rnd try.

           VEGETABLE SALVE.
   16.  7/''<«>  to  make black vegetable  salve for
wounds.—Take spikenard root, the bark of sweet
apple-tree tout,  the  bark of the root of witch
hopple, the bark of wicuppe root, called leather 
               PRErARATU Mr.           !(&'

fork or moose wood ; take equal quantities of the
bark, ;nd boil it down to a small quantify, then
add yellow pine turpentine, enough  to m ke it
into  the consistency  of a salve  when  boiled
down.  This is a neted salve for fresh  wounds,,
especially where .cords or nerves are cut off.  In
such  cases greasy  ointment never ought to be
applied.
            JAUNDICE PHYSIC.

   17. Take one pound of white ash hark, one
pound of white pine baik, clear of ross, one
pound of the baik butter root, one pound of black
cherry bark, one  pcmd  of g-een mandrake
roots, or half a pound when dried, boil  them al-
 togeher, one  whole day, then  strain  out tlie
bark and let it settle, all night; then drain it off,
 and boil it down to one pint, then add one pint
 •f good rum and half a pint of  molasses, (sale I
 mean) and it is fit  for use.
   Half an ounce  of  this physic is  enough for
 strong constitutions, and less for weaker ones.

             BALSAMIC PILL.
   18.  Take one  ounce of hemlock gum, one
  •unce of cum myrrh, one ounce 01 the bulsom of
                     W 2 
270            PREPARATIONS.

fir, half an ounce of gum camphor, half an ounce
of the  spirit-of  turpentine,  one of rosin, one
ounce of balm of gilead buds and two  ounces of
loaf sugar.  These must ail be pounded togeth-
er in an iron morter, with a crumb of bread, un-
til they come to the consistency of a pill.  Take
from one to four of these pills is  a dose,  accord-
ing to the age or constitution  of  the  patient.
These pills <ire  calculated  to  relieve  the com-
plaints of the breast and stomach.

             FEVER POWDER.
   19.  Take equal parts of  pulverized mandrake
root, blood root, and lobelia, mix  them together :
tin fit for use.  What will  lie  on the  point of a
pen-knife is a potion.  This powder taken for
any length of time, produces a kind of salivation,
and is extremely useful to remove pains  in the
side, opens obstructions  in general, cools the in-
flammation of  the liver, helps asthmas, coughs,
quinsies,  diarrhoeas, dropsies, gravel, and many
^fher diseases.

              SWEET WATER.
   20.  Take one ounce of  white vitriol, one
 ounce of green copperas and one charge of gun 
PREPARATION'S.            272
powder, pound thfse  well together  in a mortar,
put this compound into a stona, jug* or glass bot-
tle, and add one quart of waterfcold ; shake them
a few times and tis fit for use.

               KING OF OILS.
   21.  This noted oil is commonly known by the
name of Musson's oil, and made in the following
manner :—rock salt two ounces, green copperas
two ounces, white vitriol two ounces, linseed  oil
two ounces, sale molasses eight ounces.
   Boil these ingredients in a pint of chamber lie
over a slow fire, a quarter of an hour ; when al-
most cold, add to it one ounce of the oil of vitriol
 and four ounces  spirits of turpentine, and after
 being well shaken together, it is fit for use.
    This oil is good for rheumatism, lameness.
 sprains and local inflammation, either in man or
 beast: the part being annointed with the same
 and dried with a hot shovel. 
 
*~   .r"
                  PART  V.


              PRECAUTIONS.

   Particular cautions in regard to u-ang medi-
 cine safely, with many useful hints,  and demon*
 stations, in regard to age, times of  life, change
 of life in the feinaje sex, with further directions
 how to change, alter, enlarge  or diminish medi-
 cine as the state, condition, or constitution of the
 patient may require.
   First, in case of dropsy, attend to the use of
 medicine as soon as the symptoms  indicate the
 complaint to be dropsical, by using diuretics re-
 commended in the recipes. But the decoction of
 dwarf elder, I thiak the most efficacious.  After
 the evacuation of the water great care is neces-
 sary that the patient does not take  cold, the
I blood being viciated and bad, must be physicked
' * learned and made pure, before a healthful state 
.274            PRECAUTION'S.

cqn be  enjoyed.    The taking cold  while  the
blood is not cleansed from its impurities, the vi-
cious matter w ill most assuredly settle  upon the
lungs, aud a quick consumption succeed, and the
last state of that person be worse than the  first.
But do not despair, although the case may ap-
pear desperate, desperate cases have been cured,
by the simple means prescribed in the book, and
that too when apothecary drugs would h.rve no
effect.
   Another caution I think absolutely  lu-'cessary
to give to my readers ;  tli .t is,- not to listen to the
prescription of every one that comes in, although
their intentions may be good, yet it  would be
 very imprudent to follow them.  Do not fly from
one medicine to another too ha-tily; give the one
 you begin upon a fair trial, before you beghi up-
on a second, and so on.  The medicine r< -euuuacu-
 ded will not injure the patient, unless vou  have
 mistook the disorder, of which there will  be but
 little danger providing \ on pey attention to the
 symptoms.  Consumption is most dangerousand
 fat,.l, of any disorder with which the human fam-
 ily is afflicted, and is thought to be incurable, yet
 it hath and maybe cured, by a timely and careJ
 fuj attention to it in the early stages of the com* 
                 PRECAUTIONS'.             ^75

plaint.  It is brought on by obstructed perspira-
tion, or taking cold, especially by young women
betwixt the age  of twelve  and twenty years,
u hen a change of life takes place; this being the
most critical period of life, the greatest possible
care .should he t  ;ken to  remove all obstructions
that take place.   Sweating in the  case of tak-
ing cold,in this case should be attended to  with-
out delay, and that class of medicines said to re-
move obstructions must be given in small doses;
no: to force nature too fast, a little prudence, and
common sense wi 1 always be necessary.
,  Dyseut'iry commonly comes on the latter pari:
of summer or in  the fall  months.  Kind mother,
let not your children make too free with green
apples, red  raspberries; and too much use of th■■■-.•
black raspberries is not good.  Be careful to guard
against  a costive state.   Whenever  this  takes
place, change the diet to something that is light
fuid easy of digestion, aud something rather of a
relaxing nature.  But here a caution is necessa'y
les. a relax or diarhane shou'd t-dre place ;'if  so
it must be checked by very  gentle  astringents,
su  h as a miid decoction of black be*ry root, or
of chesnut  bark boiled in  milk.  Observe the
-vinptoms of dysentary; which upon the first no- 
276             PRECAUTIONS.

tice driflk alkalie, or embers put into water till it
make it very weak lie; drink frequently of this.
If the symptoms increase, make a pleasant drink
of vinegar, salt and water : drink a few times of
this.  This is a noble remedy, and will common-
ly throw off the complaint, if after all the disor-
der should progress, apply to the directions given
in the recipes.   The ox balm root, white pine
l»ark, and black birch bark or twigs made into a
a strong decoction, and the same quantity of sale*
molasses added, I can recommend from my own
experience.   But burnt brandy and  loaf sugar
hath perhaps saved thousands  when seasonably
taken.
  Fiistly, in cases where there is  an obstructed
perspiration, which is occasioned by taking cold,
whereby the effluvia or  vapour that continually
emits or is discharged from the body in a health-
ful state  is obstructed, conduces directly to bring
on a fever, or an increased action.   The increased
action, or circulation of the blood, by friction, or
irritation or rubbing of the particles  of blood
causes an increase of heat, or of  the  electrical
fire, (one of the four elements of  which the hu-
man system is composed) which tendeth directly
to destroy the ballencing powers of  nature and I 
PRECAUTIONS.             277
"brings on disorder and confusion throughout the
whole man,  For it is evident that the pores of
the body are possessd of two powers of  action,
namely the powers of attraction and repulsion.
The repulsive power sends off vivid and accrimo-
nious fluid, the emission of which, tends, tokeep the
blood in a state of parity, whereby it floweth soft
;;r.d smooth as oil, carrying the chyle or  sweet
juices'of the food into  every part, and  thereby
nourishes, strengthens and  invigorates the whole
system.                        .    ,
   The attractive power exhales, at the same time
that, it repels that accrimonious matter from the
blood, that  the  cool invigorating  and  cheering
breeze of air that floats around us, keeping a just
balance of air and fire, aad a proper warmth is
given to the watery fluid, as it floats through the
earthly vessels.
   But the moment the perspirable matter  is ob-
structed, the benevolent effects of repulsion and
attraction are defeated, and the whole elementary-
system disorganizedn and out of order, and that
most necessary fluid called the bile, or gall which
emits a certain portion into the stomach, whereby
digestion is formed, being overpowered  by too
much heat, immediately foment to that degree th»< 
278             PRECAUTIONS.

the digestive power ceases to act, and by the none
action  of the digestive powers,  the absorbant
vessels are deprived of the sweet and  oily juices
which they ought continually to be conveying to
the blood vessels, that every part of the body may
be supplied.
  Neither is this all the  mischief  that occurs by
reason of obstructed perspiration : for that vicious,
slimy and glutinous matter  that  floats in the
blood vessels will lodge here and there, forming
obstructions.  If it fall upon the lungs, an asthma
or consumption succeeds; if upon the joints, rheu-
matic pains follow, &c.  Thus I have given a short
and concise view of the dangerous consequences
attendant on our obstructed perspiration; it being
the fruitful source from  whence a multitude  of
disorders are generated.  And 1 am ready to be-
lieve that my readers will be canvinced of the re-
al necessity of attending to the first cause as soon
as possible, by forcing  free  perspiration,  that
the perspirable matter may fly off; and physic be
given  to cleanse the crudities  and offending bile
from the stomach, whereby the patient may enjoy
that heolthful state which is so desirable; which is
 the hearty wish and desire of the author. Ihad
 thoughts of laying by my pen, and writing  no 
PRECAUTIONS              27$
more at present, but as that cruel disease is now
prevailing, and many have been cured,  numbers
are sick, and several have died, of that distressed
complaint, called the dysentary,  I have thought
proper to give my readers a few of the methods
which have been effectual in removing the disor-
der.   Some  were cured by drinking  gingered
wine, others  were  cured by  drinking brandy
sling made with hot water, and made very sweet
with loaf sugar; one was cured by eating plenty-
fully of ripe black berries.
   Three or four  have been  cured by taking a
•mull portion of rheubarb and soda every other
day, and at the same time drank burnt brandy and
 loaf sugar, and applied to  the  bowels a wilted
burdock dipt in vinegar.  Several have been cur-
 ed at once,  by drinking a decoction  made  by
 steeping the top of the herb called  pride or fire
 weed, cow tail, horse tail, colt's  t il, and by ihe
 Indians c.dled whipsiwog, [Igive all these name6
 that every person may  know the herb  by one
 name or the other] and a little of the pulverized
 gum of tamenick, steeped  together* which  will
 soon stop the discharge of blood ; ;ind then  a de-
 coction made  of dysentary roof, hath soon perfect-
 ed  a cure.   Some hath been troubled with a stop- 
280
PRECAUTIONS.
page of the water durning the progress of the dis-
order, in that case it was found necessary to make
use of diuretics, such  as wood-rushes which are
jointed, wintergreen, pumpkin,  seeds, &c. being
steeped and drank hath given relief. Simple me-
dicine, has wrought the greatest cures. I have not
heard of apothecary drugs doing any good, espe-
cially amongst children.   It does appear evident
incases of  the present dysentary, that those fam-
ilies that have made the most free  use of black-
berries, not debarring their  childred at all from
them, have been the most exempt from the com-
plaint, although  strictly forbidden by the physi-
cians ; and I give it as my.opinion that they are an
excellent remedy, and guard against dysentary.
  The rickets may be known  by  the  head, or
brea«?t growing too large in proportion to the oth-
er parts of the body.   When you discover this,
be not afraid to dip your little child into cold water
three mornings, and miss three until you have
dipped it nine mornings.   Once a day, rub their
backs with brandy.  I have never known this do
the child any harm, but to the contrary, it will re-
move the complaint, and  make them  strong and
healthy.   Again, I would  admonish  the careful
mothers to strictly prohibit your daughters from 
PRECAUTIONS.             281
wearingboards, stays, or tight ligatures around
their bodies. It would be much better fortiVm not
to follow this pernicious fashion, than for you to
follow them to the grave.
            TO SUBSCRIBERS.
  It was with regret that the Author was under
the necessity of omitting an extract from Doctor
Morley, on the symptoms and cure of the Scro-
fulous or King's evil, promised in the preface.—
But the Author hopes  his kind patrons will ac-
cept of forty-five pages more than was promi* ^d
in the  prospectus, as an apology  for  the omis-
sion. 
 
OF THE
  ROOTS AND HERBS


RECOMMENDED IN  THIS WORK.
                                   rACE*
Garden Celendine                       23
Cinquefoil or Five Fingers                24
Comfrey                               25
Crow Foot                             25
Wake Robin or March Turnip             26
Dandelion                            ,  26
Dove's Foot or Crane's Bill               ~7
Elecampane                            ~8
Eye  Bright                             ~8
Featherfew                             2^
Fennel                                2^
Wintergreen
Artichoke
Hemp
Hysop
Juniper Bush
Hops
Horse Tail
John's-WoK 
284           CATALOGUE

Liver-Wort
Ma'dows
Mother-Wort
Speermint
Mullen
Mustard
Hoarhound
Catnip, Catmint or Nep
Nettles
White Oak
Oats
Onions
Parsley
Peach Tree
Penny-Royal
Plantain
Poplar Tree
Q leen of the Meadow*1
Garden R°w
Rupture-Wort
Rye
S ;ffron
Sige
Siioraon's Seal
Sarvicle or Black Snake Rocr*.
Scabious
Shepherd's Purse orToy-Wori
  *rrel
     1 Sorrel
     berries
      House'Leek
     CQO
     nard or Petimoral 
CATALOGUE.
Garden Tanzy
Lady's Thistle
Honey-Suckle
Violets
Whee.t
Worm Wood
Yarrow
Self-heal or sickle-Wort
Sow Thistle
Vervine or Varvine
Time
Marrigold
Sweet Margerom
Mouse Ear
Dwarf Elder
Mulberry Tree
Golflen Rod
Tamerack  Tree
Rosa Solis  or Sun Dew
Poppy
Pitlitory of the wall
D.ogmackemoose
Blue Cohosh
Blood Root
Yellow Dock
Piunkum or Nunk Root
Balm of Gilead
Cramp root or Iron Root
Ox Balm or Yellow Archangel
Female Root and Flowers
Blue Flag or Flower De Luce
Pride, Fire Weed, Horsetail, &c.
Saxifrage or Golden Seal 
586          CATALOGUE:

Hound's Tongue
Nervy Root
Dragon's Tooth
Lueawash
Osier or Dogacama
Garden Hemlock
Dysentery Root
Me.:dow Plantida
Beech Drops
Cohosh, Red an^1 White
W ndering Milk Weed or Indian
Gension ot Gention
Ginseng
Wtr Fern or Poly pod
B ick'- Horn Brake
liog Brake
Bone Set or Thorough-Wort*
Arch Angel or Dead Nettle
Knot or Door Grass
R utle Snake's Plantain
River Willow
Box  Wood
Wood Violets
P-mce's Pine
Mandrake Root
Luheha or Indian Tobacc©
White Root or Sink Root
Cowslips
Prickly A«h
  '■y  or White Ash
 encer A', pie orCaravon Woed
Gravel W,\.d
King's Evil Weed
* 
CATALOGUE,
28*i
Ssvamp Plantain or Deer's Ears             97
Spice Bush or Fever wood                gg
Nanny Berry Bush                      93
Larger Golden Thread                   99
Moon-Wort or Shin Leaf                100
L-tdies' Slipper or Bed Straw             100
Noble Liver-Wort                      10
Trencle Root                          10i
Cool or Cold Wort                     101
Chick Weed                           10
Fox Glove or Digitalus                  \
Indian Wormwood
Seneca Snake Root
Master-Wort
Arse Smart
Cuckold Weed
Skunk Cabbage                        h
Sweet Elder                           lo
Sssaparrilla                            10G
Marsh Pea Root                        106
Butternut Tree                        106
Ground Hemlock                       107
Witch-H izle Bush                     107
Jacob's Ladder                        107
Balsam of Fir Tree                     K-3
Swamp Evens Root                     l'ji?
Upl.md Evens                         1°9
Hop- or  Hop Vine                     109
St. Anthony's Cross                    *10
Pigeon Borry Root                     H°
Great Cohosh                         in
H IcboreRoot                         J'1
Clivers. Clevers or Goose Grass          lu 
288           CATALOGUE,

Cattail Flag
White Oak Tree, Bark and Buds
Beech Tree
Hemiock Tree
White Pine
Pitch Pine
           CURES MADE EASY. ,  ./

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  msurnption          .          '   ^ '
  old Bathing             *■      '   ''
  Iholera Morbus
 dysentery
 dancer in the BreasHI
Ce.ncers in other parts
Cancer in the Mouih               ',
Rose Cancer                   ,r'  ',
Deafness and Dizzine*?           -., . "
jOiabetcs                       ^ ./'
Gravel or Stone
King's  l~.il
Rheumatism
Bilious Cholic
Bilic is Pills
Bitious Complaint'
Asthma
Spotting Blood
Typhus Feves
F'vers
Fever Sor« 
CATALOGUE.
 Mercury
 Tooth Ache
 To prevent Mortification
 Worms
 Round Long Worm
 Pin Worm
 White Swelling
 Swellings
 Poultice for Old Sores
 Inward Hurts or Ulcers
 An Essence
 Stoppage of Water
 Piles       ' *
 Inward Piles
 Bleeding Piles
 Ague Fever,*>r Fever and Ague
 Fever and Ague
 Fever and Ague in Indiana
 Another Simple Method
 Felon
 Wen
 Salt Rheum
 Mouth Canker
 Quinsy
 jSt. Anthony's Fire
 /Hooping Cough
 j Convulsion Fits
 \Sore Nipples
 (' Itching Heels
  Sore Eyes
. Blood-Shot Eyes
 , Clouded Eyes
  Pull Eyes 
CATALOGUE.
Film on the Eye	220
Humors in the Eyes	220
Inflamed Eyes	220
Eye Water	221
Frozen Limbs	222
Uvula Relaxed	222
Bloody Flux	QnCf
Numb Palsy	223
Palsy of the Hands	224
Palpitation of the Hear;	224
Catarrh	224
Jaundice	226
Cankerash	v-22r
Lock .law	228
Inflammation of the Head	228
Film of the Eye	229
A Breach	»- 229
Sciatica	*. 230
Scurvy	230
Vegetable Poison	231
Inward Ulcers	231
Heart Burning	232
Hickups	232
Hoarseness	23?
Bite of a Mad Do-	23fe 233 2ll
Sprain Stings	
Vaui in the Sj.on.iacb	J.'M
Choleric	r?35
.n i*,ht Sweat*	235
Tooth Ache	235
Thome'	23-'
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CATALOGUE.
291
Baldness	236
Polypus in the Nose	237
Watery Brash	237
Complaints of the Breast	237
Wen	238
Warts	238
Eye Water	238
Cramps	239
Dysentery	239
Fever Sore	240
Hip Rheumatism	240
IWer	242
Heifa^prhage of Blood	242
Canker in the Mouth	243
Bite of a Snake	243
Itch Ointment	243
PhthisUl	244
Pills forj^Tystericks	244
Venereal Complaints	244
Female Weakness	245
Turlington's Balsam	246
Obstructions	24,7
Bloody Urine	247
Sweat	248
Thrush	248
Worm Fever	24S
Ague	249
Sore Legs	249
Cancer	250
Joint Newly Set	250
Cholic	250
Felon	251
Obstructions	25J
 
292        CATALOGUE
Pains	252
Weakness	252
Scald Head	252
Elm Bark	253
Herbs good in Consumption	253
Hysteric Fits	255
Dysentery	255
Bitter Sweet	257
Rattle Snake Bite	258
Chronic Rheumatism	2-5$
PREPARATIONS,
Caleman's Ointment	li^ $61
Salt Rheum Ointment	r 262
Rheumatic Ointment	T* 262
Precious Ointment	262
Vegetable Ointment	263
Green Frog Ointment	263
Foot's Ointment	263
To relax Shrunk Cords	264
Strengthening Plaister	264
Syrup	265
Cordial	2»S
£•? ket's Fever Sore Salve	2t:fl
Le-iden Plaister	2(
Cancer Plaisterj Cure All Plaister	2t
	it
Vet»et;ible Salve	26^
Jaundice Fhysie *	2*v
 
-v CATALOGUE. Balsamic Pill Fever Powder Sweet Water King of Oils	293 269 270 270 '271
ERRATA.	
  Page 42, No. 13, for Beech read Peach.
  Page 55, line 1, for herb read berry.
  Page 60, bottom line, for drop read drink.
  page 62, line 12, for May read June or July.
  l age 88, No., 67, for Alder read Elder.
  Pag4&6, last word, " immediately," should be omitted.
  Page 11$ line 3, tor seal read scale.
  Page 119, line 4 from bottom, for Beech read Peach:
  Page U^ine 5 from bottom, for Preston read Boston.
  Page^P Hne 8 from bottom, for Cloves read Clover.
  PaijMsSj^fc 13 from top, for Beech read Peach.
  PagMl31, Jc 8 from bottom, for pure read sweet.
        3qMh 10 from hottom, for cholic read cohosh.
  Page 13771»ne 1» for treacle read  trencle.
  Page 158, line^L read hemorrhoidal vessels.
  Page 171, lineSv-fopandjreaoor.
  Page Jfe3,  line 4,*Tead " (HHkening Indian meal into a
decoctionW &c.
  Page 19%.line 3jread "if it does not produce, He.
  Page 19vCne Ifctoji-opening and driving.
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