º º - * - º Nºw GUIſ E TO HEALTH, ON PHE THEORY PURSUED - - - - ºr º NATIox of INDIANs: wº - prºcºrrows For pººr wº - THE - - - - º - - MEDIGINAL Roots, HERBS & EARK's *. - | - - º º - - - out cºustº º - FOR THE various pºse as as - * . . - incibºrºro tº - - - - H tº M. A. N. ** * * - - PUBLISHED BY THE CHEROKEE NATION] - 1932 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - effectual cure for life. ºut losing a joint NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH. --- - 1. For the King's Evil. The King’s Evil may be cured by a plant called King's Evil Weed. It grows in wild shady land, under almost all kinds ºf timber, and in the form of a plantain, but the leaves are smaller. and are spotted, green and white—a very beautiful plant. When it goes to seed, there comes up one stalk in the middle of the plant, six or eight inches high, and bears the seed on the top of the stalk in a small round bud. Take this root and branch, pound it soft, apply it to the tumour for a poultice or salve, and let the patient drink a tea made of the same for constant drink. If the ºumour is broken, simmer the root and leaf in sweet oil and mut- ton tallow ; strain it off, and add to it beeswax and rosin until hard enough for salve. Wash the sore with liquor made of the herb, boiled, and apply the salve, and it will not fail of a cure. 2. The best remedy for Rattles in Children. Take blood root, powder it, give the patient a small teaspoon- ſºl at a dose; if the first does not break the bladder in half an hour, repeat again three times. This has not been known to fail ºilº. gºing 3. Valuable remedy for the Biliozs Colie. Take of West India rum one gill, of West India molasses dº. of hogs' lard one gill, and the urine of beast one gill; simmer well together. This composition will seldom fail of performing an 4. For a felon. Blue flag root and wild turnip root, a handful of each stewed in thalf a pint of hogs' lard-strain it off-add to it four spoonfuls ºf tar, and simmer them together. Apply this ointment to the felon till it breaks. Add beeswax and rosin to the ointment for a salve to dress it with after it is broken. This is as infallible cure with- 5. For the Salt Rheum. Take swamp sassafras bark, boil it in water very strong, take sºme of the water and wash the part affected; to the remainder of the water add hogs' lard, simmer it over a moderate fire tº the water is gone. Oint the part affected after washing, (conti- nued four days) never fails of a cure. 6. Salve for a Burn. Take wild avender, the green of elder bark, cammemile and parsley, and stew them in fresh butter, strain off, and add to it This cures the mºst inveterate old sores of the ºld. 7. The best Salve for Women's Sore ºrcasts even fººd. Take one pound of tobacco, one pound spikemard, half a rºund eswax, rosin and white diacaloº, equal parts. If a burn is ºf . long time standing, and discharges very much, take mutton shºt Hefore it is tried, pound it up with chalk to the consistence of salvº - cumfrey, and boil them in three quarts chamber ley till alºngs: dry; squeeze out the juice, add to it pitch and beeswax, an: simmer it over a moderate heat to the consistence of salve. Apply it to the part affected. 8. An Gintment to suffile Silf Joints and Shrunk Sincts. Take a pound hogs' lard, put into it a small handful of melotal (or melilot) green, stew it well together, strain it off, add to it one ounce rattle snake's grease, do. of olive oil, ten drops of dºl ſavender, mixed well together. Oint three times a day, and rub it in well with the hand. . 9. Valuable Cure for inveterate old Sore Legs. Take the bark of cavron wood or shrub maple, boil it very strong, take part of the liquor and boil it down to a salve, and wash the part affected every time it is dressed. Apply new salve twice a day. Make a tea of the same, and drink three times a day. 10. To Cure the Bite ºf a Rattle Snake. Take green hoarhound tops, pound them fine, press out the juice, let the patient drink a table spoonful of the jnice, moºn, noon and night, or three times in twenty-four hours; apply the pounded herbs to the bite, change the same twice a day. The patient may drink a spoonful of sweet olive oil. This seldom fails curing. - 11. Cure for the Itch, Take half a pound ºf hogs' lard, four ounces spirits turpentine. two ounces flour sulphur, and mix them together cold : apply it to the ancies, knees, wrists and elbows, and rub it on the palms ºf the hands if there be any raw spots; apply a little three nights, when going to bed. 12, ſhe red Cºre for Swellings in formation. Take linseed oil one pound, sweet oil or fresh butter half a pound, red lead one pound, boil them together, stir it boiling, then slack the heat, and add to it two pounds of beeswax, one pound ºf rosis, and stir them together till cold. - 13. Above’s Ośnºment. Take one pound of hogs' lard, one pound of mutton tallow, half a pound oil spike, and heat them over a moderate fire until uni- teel, then add as much beeswax and rosin as will make it to a salve—the renowned Foote's ointment. This cures all common sores where there is no inflammation. - 14. A certain sure for Corns on the feet cr toes. Take white pine turpentine, spread a plaster, apply it to the corn, let it stay on till it comes of itself. Repeat this three times. It never fails curing. 15. A cure for Warts on any ſtart of the body. Make a strong solution with corrosive sublimate, wet the wart three or four times a day. It never fails curing. - 16. An excellen: Jºnily Bilious Pill. This pill, made frequent use of, prevents all kinds of fewers— Take one pound sweet rind aloes, four ounces jalap, four ounces pulverized blood root, two ounces cloves, and two ouncessafiron, and beat them all to a fine powder; pill them with molasses—mix _ ca. º. i. . The common way of using them is tº - -- º 5 take every night one, the bigness of a pea, if you have abilious habit; but if you wish them to act as a physic, take four or five on going to bed. They give no pain in the operation. 17. For the ſooth Ache, if the tooth be hollow. Take gum opium, gum camphor, and spirits turpentine, equal parts, rub them in a mortar to a paste, diplint in the paste and put it in the hollow of the tooth every time after eating. Make use of this three or four days, and it will generally cure the tooth from ºver aching. 18. For the Biliozzº Gholic. Take the above mentioned bilious pill, add to it half the weight in calomel, give four or five pills and repeat the dose, and it is a certain cure for the bilious cholic. Or take mandrake roots dried and pulverized. A large teaspoonful is a dose. This must be speated several times. - 19. A sure cure for the Canker in the Mouth. Take oue pound of fresh butter, put it into an earthen vesseſ well glazed, set it on the fire, and let it boil; while boiling, add tº it four common green frogs, put them in alive, let them stew until the frogs are dry, then take them out, add to it a little camomile and parsley; when cold stir in a little burnt alum, pulverized, and if the fever is high, give a little rattlesnake's gall, dried in chalk. ºf his will cure the thost inveterate canker in the mouth, throat of stomach. 20. A lººdicine to care in ºrd Ucers. Take sassafras root bark two ounces, coltsfoot root two ounces, bloodroot one ounce, gum myrrh one ounce, winterbark one omnce, suckatrine aloes one ounce; steep them in two quarts of spirits, ºnd drink a small glass every morning, fasting. 21. For Cramſ, in the Słonnach, or any inzward fart. Take ten drops of the oil of lavender on sugar or in wine. Re- eat the dose once an hour if required. - 22, 4 Cure for the Flying Rheumatism. Take princes pine tops, horse radish roots, elecampane roots. prickly ash bark, bittersweet bark off the root, wild º, bark and mustard seed—a small handful of each; one gill of tar water into one pint of brandy, or the same proportion. Drink a small glass before eating, three times a day. 23. Valuable Remedy for Pºind Cholic in Women and Children. Take equal parts of ginseng and white root, half as much cala- musºr angelică seeds, dry them, pound them very fine, mix them together; a teaspoonful is a dose for a grown person; for children ºss, according to their age Repeat the dose once in half an hour if required. Very rare it ever fails. - 24. For a Hectic Cough. Take three yolks of hens' eggs, three spoonfuls of honey, and ºne of tar; beat them well together; add to them one gill of wine. Fake a teaspoonful three times a day, before eating. Or a syrup inade of barley, turnips, and elecampane; boil them in fair Water, three quarts to one pint of barley, one pound of turnips, ºur qunces of elecampane; boil it down to one pint; add to it dº ºund of honey or loaf sugar and half a pint of brandy. A table ºu 3 tºasnconful is a dose the Hay. º 6 spoonſiſ is a dose, three times a day. Ge wild liquorice half a pºund, brook liverwort half a pound, elecampane two ounces. solemon's seal four ounces, spikenard half a pound, gumfire four ounces, boiled in four quarts of water to one; add to it two pounds ºf honey and one pint of old spirits. Half a glass is a dose, before eáting. 25. For the Earisiſily, or St. Anthony's Fire. Make egg wine, rich and good for drinking; drink a part of it. and wash the affected with the other part. This is a valuable remedy. 26. For the Rhettºmatiºn in the Loins. The oil of sassafras, used internally and externally; ten drops on. iðaf sugar is a dose. Oint the part affected with the same. Re- heat it as often as needful. Or set over hemlock boughs, and drink poke berries in brandy for three weeks every day. Only seat three times. Or shower with cold water, and drink brandy all the time. Or drink brandy and bathe the part affected with salt and rum, hot as can be borne by a fire. Repeat it six days. 27. For the Quins.y. Bleed under the tongue in the first stage of it, and sweat the throat and neck with cardis, a thorny herb growing in gardens. "Boil it in milk and water, and sweat powerfully three or four times. This has not failed in one instance to cure. º, Remarkable filaster to ease the flain of ſe!ons, or frog felons, or any such tumour on the hands or feet, or c/sewhere. Get a pitch pine knot from an old log, the side next to or in the round; split the knot fine, boil out half a pound of pitch; take four oùnces of strong tobacco, boil it in water, strain out the to- bacco, boil the liquor until it is thick, then add the pitch to the liquor, simmer it over a moderate heat, stir it all the time till it forms a salve altogether. If the swelling be on the hand or finger, lay the plaster on the wrist; if on the foot or toe, lay the plaster ºn the ancle; or wherever it may be, lay it above the next joint. This will take out all the pain in a short time. Dress the sore- with any other salve that is best. This cure is infallible. 29. For the Pºzhisic. Take four ounces of hens' fat, and a seed bowl of skunk cabbage. that grows at the bottom of the leaves, close to the ground, cut it. fine, stew it in the fat till it is dry, then strain it off. A teaspoonfui is a dose to take three times a day. Make a syrup of white swamp honeysuckle blossoms and queen of the meadow roots, sweetened with honey; add to it a quart of syrup, and half a pint of brandy, 30. To cºre a ſºn. - Take clean linen 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 with- out any further trouble. - 31, Ercellent Remedy fºr the 48thina. Take spikemard root two ounces, sweet flag root two oances. ºlecºmpane root two ounces, common chalk two ounces; beat very fine in a mortar, add to it a pound of honey, and beat it well toge- 7. 62. Ercºlºrſ: Pill for the Hysterics. Tāke a quantity of white root, otherwise called Canada ºf: jºbºil it in fair water; when it is boiled very soft, strain out the 3roots, and boil the liquor to the consistence of a thick paste, so that it may be pilled. Let the patient take two or three pills at a dose when the disorder is coming on. 33. Care for Bleeding at the Stomach. - Take a pound of yellow dock root-dry it º pound it fine, boil it in a quart of sweet milk, strain it off, and drink a gill three times a day. Take also a pill of white pine turpentine every day to heal the vessels that leak. 34. For the Droftsy. Take half a pound of blue flag root, half a pound of elecampane root, boiled in two gallons of fair water to one quart, sweetened ywith one pint of molasses. Let the patient take half a gill three imes a day, before eating. - - 85. For the Canker Rash, White birch root pulverized very fine, given in small doses three or four times a day. Make a tea of the same for constant drink. For the fever give rattlesnake's gall, three grains at a time, 36. For any Hemorrhage of the Blood. Take a handful of blood weed—it grows in old fields, and is ºalled by some horse tail, or white top—is about waistor shoulder high, and has a very bushy top—when it is green, pound it, and press out the juice, and give the patient a table spoonful at a time, ance an hour until it stops—if it be dry, boil it strong, and give “tea very strºng, three or four spoonfuls at a time. 37. Cure for the Gravel in the Bladder or Kidneys. Make a strong tea of the herb called heart’s ease-drink plen- ty. Or take the root of Jacob's ladder, and make a very strong tea, and drink plenty. It is a most certain remedy. Jacob's lad- der is a vine that often grows in rich intervale soil, near a wood or bush that stands near grassland. It comes up with one stalk about breast high, then springs off into a number of branches co- wered with green leaves, and the fruit is a large bunch of black- berries—when ripe, the bunch hangs down under the leaves by a small stem. This is proved to be the best cure that has been ºund. - 88, Valuable Remedy for the Piles. If the piles are outward, make an ointment of camomile, sage, º and burdock, the leaves of each—simmer them in fresh atter, or hogs' lard and sweet oil. Annoint the parts with it, and drink tar water, half a gill three times a day. But if they are in. ward, or blind piles, drink tar water twice a day, and essence of fie every night going to bed, half a small glass. This effects a cure in about two months. 39. For the Tooth Ache, if the Tooth be hollow. Put into the hollow a piece of blue vitriol, as much as the hollow will contain. Repeat it for several days, and it will kill the mar- *ow. 40. For the contmon Canker in Children or Adalts. Take canker rºot, or cold water root, so called because ºsed - 8 with cºld water; wash the root, pound it, steep it in cºld water, wash the tumour with it, and drink of it. This root grows in rich stºl, in meadows, by fences, stumps, or log heaps. It comes up with a stalk from the ground, a yard or two high, and then branch- es out very large. Its leaf is like clover. The top of the root is yellow as gold, in a bunch, then branches out into many fibres, some like plantain. - - 41. For the Whooſing Cough. A syrup made of elecampane root and honey—four ounces of the root to half a pint of honey. Bake it in a well glazed earthen t, in an oven half hot. If the root be green, it needs no water: if dry, add half a pint of water. A teaspoonful of the syrup for a stºrall child, add a little if older, three times a day. 42. For Rickets in children—in the bonels. One ounce of rhubarb powdered in one ounce of enceviniris, put into one quart of wine or brandy. If the child is a year old, it may take a table spoonful at a time; if older, take more; half a gill for an adult. If any part of the body is affected with the disorder, bathe the part with brandy, and drink turkey root steeped in wine three or four times a day. 43. Sure Remedy for Women’s Sore Aſhfiles. When the infant stops sucking apply a plaster of balsam fir. It will care in three or four days 44. Cure for Itching Heels or Feet, or Ribbed Heels. Take any kind of tallow, and tallow the part affected with it, and rub it in by a hot fire at night on going to bed. Repeat it. three or four times, 45 Preservative against all sorts of Bilious Fevery. The fulness of bile is the cause of all sorts offevers, and jaundice. bilious colic, and cholera morbus. Physic often with blood rout and mandrake root mixed together, once a quarter, and make small beer with elder roots, spruce boughs, burdock roots, hops, white ash bark, sarsaparilla roots and spikenard. Make a bitter with unicorn roots and bark, of white wild roots and the yellow dust of hops. If a family will continue this method, they will never be troubled with fevers. 46. For Convulsion Fits. Take cenvulsion roots, make a tea of them and drink, or pow- der them and take the powder in small doses. Convulsion root grows in timber land, and comes up in July, with a bunch of white stalks about six or eight inches high, with a little knob on the top- it has no leaves. The top and root are for use. The root is a bunch of small fibres, very numerous, and full of little knobs º the size of mustard seed, and they grow just under the eaves. 47. For the Consumptiºn. Take half a bushel of barley malt, put it into a large tub, take six pails of water, make it boil, pour it on the malt, let it stand six hours, take half a bushel of white pine bark, one pound spikenarº | root, one pound Syria grass, boil them in the water that the malt is soaked in, half away, then put it into a keg, add yeast or emp- | tins to it, let it ferment, then bottle it up, and drink one pint a day. _ . . . . . . . _ 9 43. Fºr the Quinsy in the ſºdaſ. - Sweat the throat with spotted cardis boiled in milk and water, by holding a pot of it under the throat as hot as can be borne, and ſold some of it in the mouth, and when the swelling is gone down. wear a piece of black silk about the neck constantly, and it will grevent quinsy from coming again. 49. For Sºvellings that come of themselves. An ointment of alder tags and sugar of lead, simmered in hegº ºrd, and melilot and saffrºn, simmºred altogether. Strain off, an annoint the part affected—it will scatter the swelling if taken in time. Give the patient something to guard the stomach before ºnting. - 50. Excellent Poultice for old inveterate Sores. Scrape yellow carrots, wilt them on a pan or fire shovel, very soft. It takes out the inflammation and the swelling, and is an ex- cºllent poultice for a sore breast. - 51. Eaccellent Medicine for inward Hurts of Ulcers. Take elecampane, cumfrey, spikemard, motherwort, angelica, and ginseng roots, of each a pound, boughs of fir two pounds. tamomile one pound—put them into a still with a gallon of rum and two gallons of water–draw off six quarts, drink a small glass night and morning. 52. Another excellent Essence, good for all sorts of inward weak- mess, inward ſevers, coºghs, or flain in the side, ºtomach or breast. Take twenty pounds offir boughs, one pound of spikemard, foliº pounds of red clover, put them into a still with ten gallons of cider. draw of three gallons, drink half a gill night and morning. 53. Afor the Diabetes. Take a weather sheep’s bladder, put it into a glass bottle that will hold about a quart, fill it up with good Madeira wine, and le: it stand forty-eight hours, then drink three or four times a day, about half a gill at a time. A deer’s bladder is preferable. 54. For Stofftage of Water. Take a spoonful of honeybees, as much buds of currant bushes, steep them in hot water very strong, drink two spoonfuls at a. time every half hour. 55. For Sore Eyes. White vitrol, one tea spoonful, sugar of lead one do, gun pow- der two do. to one quart of fair water, mixed and shook well to. gether, six or eight times, Wash the eyes three times a day—an infallible cure. 56. For the Droſisy. Sassafras bark of the root one pound, prickly ash bark on: pound, spice wood bush half a pound, three ounces of garlics, four ºunces of parsley roots, four ounces of horse radish roots, foºt ounces of black birch bark–boil all in three gallons of mait beer. Drink a gill three times a day. 57. To stoft a Fever Sore from coming to a head,and carry it away. Sweat it with flannel cloths dipt in hot brine. The cloths must be changed as often as they are cold, for three hours, then washeſ. in brandy, and wrapt in Bannel, repeat it three or four times. 10 58. To Stoft Puking. Take gnon camphor, pound it, pour on boiling water, let tº ºtent drink a spoonful every ten minutes. It must be sweetened with loaf sugar. Or take a handful of green wheat or green grass, ſºund it, pour a little water on it, press out the juice, and let the patient drink a spoonful once in ten minutes. 59. For the ºock Jazº. When any person is taken with the lock jaw, give him five. -grains of Dover's pswders, then set him in a tub of hot water as ºot as he can bear it; batbe his head with camphorated spirits: jet him sit or stand in the water as long as he can bear it without fainting, and bleed him if possible. Repeat this three or four times; when out of the water put him in a warm bed, wrapped in flannel. 60. For the JWºmé Palsy. ... When a person is taken with the numb palsy, let blood freely ºf possible—give a table spoonful of flour of sulphur once an hours hathe the part affected with spirits of hartshorn—take one pound ºf roll brimstone—boil it in four quarts of water to one quart—let the patient drink a table spoonful once an hour. If applied early, it will carry it off. 264. To cure Pºgetable Poison, Running Ivy, or Poison Elder, gº any other. Take rosemary leaves or blossoms—make a tea of it to drink morn and night, like bohea tea or any other. Or take wild ºurnips, if green—pound them and press out the juice—if dry, boil them in fair water—wash the part affected with the clear liquor. Fake part of the liquor—add to it a little saffron and camphºr. and drink to cleanse the fluids and guard the stomach. 62. For the Shinevantosey that comes in the Breast. Take spikemard root, cumfrey root, yellow oak bark, and to: |acco–boil them in water, strong—take out some of the liquor to wash the tumor—add to the rest hog's lard or mutton tallow, heeswax and rosin–simmer it over a slow fire—stir it constantly until it is salve—apply it to the scre—physic with mandrake. fºots three or four times—bleed ºnce, 63. To cºrre Ingvard Ulcers. Sassafras root bark two ounces, coltsfoot root two ounces, blºodroot two ounces, gum myrrh one ounce, steeped in two quarts of spirits. Drink a small glass every morning. Live ºn simple diet as much as possible. For constant drink, make a been of barley malt one peck, spikenard root two pounds, cumfrey root ºne pound, burdock roots two pounds, black spruce boughs five ºpounds, angelica root one pound, fennel seed four ounces, for ten º of beer. Drink one quart a day. Let your exercise be -jiºht. - 64. For the Cºarrh in the Rºad. Take yellow dock root—split it and dry it in an oven-blood rºot and scoke root, four ounces of each, cinnamon one ounce. cloves half an ounce, pound them very fine, let the patient use it as snuff eight or ten times a day. Every night smoke a pipe full of ºrgamon, mixed with a little tobaccº, and sweat the head with - _ 11 hemlock, brandy and camphºr. Pour a little camphorated spirits and brandy into the bot liquor to sweat 65. For an Inflammation in the Head. Take red beets, pound them very fine, press out some of the ſuice, let the patient snuff some up into the head, and make a poultice of the beets, and lay it on the monid of the head. For the fever, use rattlesnake's gall, cream tartar, and head bitney- Bleed as often as once a day. Physic with deerweed root, or wil mandrake roots, with a little bloodroot. Keep strong drafts to the fººt. - 66. To take a Film from a Person's Eye. Take sugar of lead, make it very fine, take an oat straw, cut if short, so as to be hollow through, dip the end of the straw in. the powder, and blow a little of * into the film morning and night. After the film is almost consumed, apply to it a drop of hen's fat. once a day until it is well. 67, 7% cure a Breach or Burst on the Body. Take four or five snails that crawl about on old rotten wood– you may often find them under loose bark that is moist, or on olò ags or stumps. Collect a parcel of them, enough to cover the breach, lay them on a linen cloth, bind them on, and repeat it as ºften as the snails are dry. Let the patient drink turkey roots- cinnamon, cloves and maize, made in a tea, or steeped in wine, three or four times a day. This, well attended to, will perform a ºute. –63. To cure a Scirrious Jazp, or Sºpelled Face, or the Scurvy in the Mouth or Teeth. Take prince of pine and scurvy grass, boil them in water, adº to it rum and honey, hold it in the mouth as hot as it can be borne. and boil a large quantity of the herbs, and sweat the head over it. 69. Receiſit to make the best Turlington and Cholera Balsam. This balsam of life is a most excellent medicine in cholera. rºamp in the stomach, and consumptive complaints, and also few. weally females in all stages of life. For a fevery stomach let the patient take thirteen or fourteen drops in a small glass of wine in the morning, fasting. It strengthens the stomach and kills the fever. It is good for pain in the stomach or side, and nourishes weak lungs, and helps a small hooping cough. This balsam or life is made thus: gum benzon four ounces, gum storax callim- tee, three ounces, balsarn telue, one ounce, gum aloes sucatine, one and a half ounces, gum albanum one and a half ounces—gum myrrh one and a half ounces—root of angelica two ounces—tops ºf Johnswort 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 weeks in a moderate heat, shake them once a day, strain it of it is fit for use—and if the gums are not all dissolved, add a little more spirits to the same, Shake it and ſet it stand as before. | 70. For a Relaxation of the Gºt or Fºndament in Children. Break two or three hens' eggs, part the white from the yolk. take the yolks and pat them into a frying pan washed clean from gease, set them over a slow fºre, let them stand awhile, tº 12 ſum to it as will keep it from souring. Drink half a gill ongoing turn them over and squeeze them motil the oil comes out. Be rareful not to burn them. Collect the oil, anoint the gut when it is down, then boil an egg very hard, let it be whole, and whilst it is warm wrap it in a linen cloth, and bind it on the fundament after you have put up the gut. 71. For the Colºmon ºf hisic in Children. Take four ounces of sinical snake root, four ounces of spike- Hard, four oùnces of parsley root, liquorice stick two ounces— *oil them all together in four quarts of water—strain it off- sweeten with loaf sugar or honey, let the patient drink a small glass night and morning. 72. For a Shrºnk Sinesſ, or a Stiff Joint. Half an ounce of yellow besilicºm, half an ounce of green meli- ºbt, half an ounce of diſamber, a piece of blue vitriol as big as a chesnut, simmer them together in a salve or ointment, apply it to the part affected, and the joint above. Repeat it often and it will perform the cure. - 73. For the Rhettºmatism. Take a handful of prince of pine, a handful of horse radish roots, elecampatie roots, prickly ash bark, bittersweet root bark, wild cherry bark, mustard seed, and a pint of tar water put into two quarts of brandy. Drink a small glass every morning, noon and night, before eating, Bathe the part affected with salt anº rum, by a warm fire. - - 74. Remedy for Weakness in the Urine Pessels, fºr Children whº cannot hold their ºater. For those so troubled, take good red bark two ounces, one quart of wine, steep the bark in wine twenty-four hours, let tº patient drink a table spoonful, if two or three years old, if older, a little more at a time. Orred beech bark, taken off a green tree, dry it well, pulverise it fine, and use it the same way. 75, For the JYose Bleed. Take the common nettleroots, dry them, carry them in the gooket and chew them every day. Continue this three weeks. 76. To Cºre a Consumptive Cough or Pain in the ºrcast. Take a spoonful of common tar, three spoonfuls of honey, three yolks of hen's eggs, and a half pint of wine, beat the tar, eggs inn honey well together in a dish, with a knife or spoon. Bottle it up for use. A teaspoonful is a dose, morning, noon and night. before eating. Drink barley tea for constant drink. 77. Aror Weakly Obstructions in the Female Sez. Heart’s ease herb, spikenard roots with the pith out, a small part of blood root, turkey root, wild liquorice, a few roots of white pond lilies, a good parcel of female flowers, so called. It often rows by the sides of ponds, and has a leaf, and blossoms some §. cowships, but it grows single, one root or stalk by itself, and some smaller than the cowslip ; the leaves are green, and blos- som is yellow. This is one of the finest roots for the female use in the world. Use double the quantity of this, and equal parts of the others, make a syrup of them; boil them in fair water until the substance is out, strain it off, sweeten it with honey, add as much - - º toºed every night. This will strengthen the system, and throw off all obstructions. It is best for persons so complaining, to wear tº thick piece of flannel on the small of the back. 7s, ºr Children troubled with Worms. There are manythings helpful to children troubled with worms: The bark of witch hazel, or spotted alder-steep it in a pºwer vessel let it boil on a moderate heat, very strong. A child of a year old can take a table spoonful—if older, take more. according tº the age Let them take it four or five times a day for severº days. It is sure and safe. Or take sage-powder it fine, and miº it with honey. A teaspoonſul is a dose. Sweetened milk, with a little alum added to it, is very good to turn the worms. Flour sul: phur mixed with honey is very good for worms, Take a piece ºf steel, beat iſ very hot in a smith's fire, then lay on it a roll of brimstone, melt the steel, let it fall into water, it will be in round lumps—pound them very fine, mix the dust with molasses-let the child take haſ a teaspoonful night and morning, fasting. Wilſ. mandrake roots dried and powdered, mixed with honey-give a child of a year old as much ºf the powder as will lie on a sixpence: take it in the morning, fasting, three or four times successively. It a child is taken with fits by reason of worms, give as much pare- goric as the child can bear. It will turn the worms and ease the ºbild. To prevent children from having worms, let them eat anions raw or cooked, raw is best. Salt and water is good to turn worms, and give a dose or two of flour sulphur, mixed with molas- ses or honey, atter—brings of the worms without anything else. 79. A Cure for the Polyftºs. Two ounces of dried blood root, pound it fine, quarter of an aunce of calix cinnamon, two ounces of scoke root, snuff it up the nose, it will kill the polypus. Then pull it out with a pair of for- ceps, and use the snuff until it is cured. If the nose is so stopped that it cannot be snuffed up, boil the same and gurgle it in the throat and sweat the head with the hot liquor, till it withers so as to use the snuff. 80. For a Frog ander the Tongue. When the frog is first perceived, take weakley and hold it in the mouth as hot as can be borne, and if it is grown tough, touch it in three or four places with caustic until it is sore, then apply the ley. 81. For Childbed ºvers, - In childbed fevers take rattlesnake's gall, five grains malité, sweet balm tea once an hour until the ſever abates, and every time the fever rises continue the same. Keep the body loose. - 32. Cure for the Phthistº. Roast three egg shells brown—pulverize rather coarsely—mix with half a pint of molasses, and take a spoonful morning, noon and night. The cure is certain unless the disease is hereditary, descending from the parentº. 83. For the Dysentary. - Half an ounce of pomegrante bark, pulverized and steeped in a pint of wine, or good cider, and take a gill at a time before eating. 84. Waluable Rewedy for the Dysenſºry and Bloody Flººr. Take of white pine bark after the ross is off three pºts, of water *4. three pints, let it simmer down to one quart, strainit off, add half a pint of West India rum, half a pint of West India molasses—the whole composition for a grown person, half for a child. This remedy is simple, but may be depended on as effectual. lt will seldom ºf ever fail. 85. To destroy Worms ºn a safe and stºre way. Take a large teaspoonful of the rust of tin—mix it with a table spoonful of molasses. This is a valuable remedy. It may be given in sickness or health. --- PROPERTIES AND USES OF VEGFTABLES. ſwould wish to give the true nature of all serts of Vegetables tº I have mentioned in the foregoing work. Catniſ is a warm herb, of a diaforetic or sweating nature. Pennyroyal is much the same, only more powerful. It retaitis- a very powerful pungent oil. Shearmint is pungent and hot, but is of an astringent nature. Calumint is much the same, but not so strong. Hoarhound is very strengthening to the lungs, and is somewhat ºf * It is excellent in a cough, or stoppage in the sto- mach. - Everlasting, or Indian Posey, is a very balsamac herb—is very healing and cooling, and excellent in salves or ointments. Johnsºvort is much the same. - Pea Balm is a cooling and sweating herb, and is good in fevers- and inflammations. Camomile is a great restorative to the lungs, and promotes per- spiration; it is good in salves and ointments to take away swellings. May Weed is of a pectoral nature, and is good for a pain in the side. - Garden Coltsſoot is a great restorative to the lungs, and is good in syrups for coughs. - Melilot is good in salves and ointments for swellings and inflam- mations. It is mollifying and cooling. Sage is the greatest restorative to human nature of any herb that grows. Parsley is very cooling and softening. - Blood Root is a powerful puke or purge-steeped in spirits, it, º" for a puke—and boiled in air water, it serves as a ºurge. - º Wild Jenton is a strong purge boiled. Mandrake Roots are an excellent physic dried and pounded. Cumfrey and Shikºnard are so well known, that they need nº describing. Elecamhane is good in coughs, yet it is an astringent. Cranesúil, is an astringent, and excellent in cankers. - While Roos is of a physical nature, and is good to remove wº ment in the stomach or part of the bowels. - 15 Sºssafras Roos is good far the blood-Likewise Sarsapañº. §º Radish, Burdock Roots-Elder Roots-Hop Roots an ld Coltsfoot are a good pectoral. White Pond Lily Roots an Yellow Lily Roots the same. Winter's Bark—This is the product of one of the largest trees on Terra del Fuego. It is good in dropsy and in scurvy. --- - CONTENTS. 1 For the King's Evil. 2. Best remedy for Rattles in Children. 3. Valuable Remedy for the Bilious Colic, 4. For a felon. 5. For the Salt Rheum. 6. Salve for a Burn. 7. The best Salve for Women’s Sore Breasts-ever found. 8. An Ointment to suppple stiff Joints and shrunk Sinews. 9 An infallible cure for inveterate old Sore Legs. 10. To cure the bite of a Rattle Snake. 11. An infallible cure for the Itch. 12. A red Salve for swelling in Formation. 13. Foote’s Ointment. 14. A certain cure for Corns on the Feet or Toes. 15. A cure for Warts on any part of the body. 16 An excellent family bilious pill. 17. For the Tooth Ache, if the tooth be hollow, 18. For the bilious Colic. 19. A sure cure for the Canker in the Meuth. 20. A Medicine to cure inward Ulcers. 21. For the Cramp in the Stomach, or any inward part 22. Cure for the Flying Rheumatism. 23. An infallible remedy for Wind Colicin Women and Childºg. 24. For a hectic Cough. 25. For the Earisiply, or St. Anthony's Fire, 26. For the Rheumatism in the Loins. 27. For the Quinsy. 28. A remarkable Plaster to ease the pain of Felonsor Frog E or any such tumor on the hands or feet, or elsewhere. 29. For the Phthisic. 30. To cure a Wen. 31. An excellent remedy for the Asthma. An excellent Pill for the Hysteries. An infallible cure for bleeding at the Stomach, 34. For the Dropsy, 35 For the Canºer Rash. 36. For any Hemorrhage of the Blood. 37. A cure for the Gravel in the Bladder or K. 38. An infallible cure for the Piles. 39 For the Tooth Ach, if the tooth be hollow. 40. For the common Canker in Children or Adults. idneys. 1. For the Hºping Cong 2. For Rickets in Children—in the boweſs. & A sure Remedy for Women's Sore Nipples. 44. A cure for itching Heels or Feet, or Ribbed Heels 45. A preservative againstall kinds of Bilious Fevers 46. For Convulsion Pits, 47. For the Consumption. 48. For the Quins, in the throat. 49. For Swellings that come of themselves, 50. An excellent Poultice for old inveterate Sores. 51. An excellent Medicine for inward Hurts or Uicers. 53. Another excellent Essence, good for all sorts of inward Weak ness, inward Fevers, Coughs, or Pain in the Side, Stomach or Breast. 53. For the Diabetes. 34. For Stoppage of Water, 55. For Sore Eyes. 6. For the Drºpsy. 37. To stop a Fever Sorefrom coming to a head, and garry it away. 58. To stop Puking, 59. For the Lock Jaw. 66. For the Numb Palsy. 31. To cure vegetable Poison, running Ivy, or poison Elder, or any - other - - 62. For the Spinevantosey that comes in the breast, 63. To cure inward Ulcer . - 64. For a Catarrh in the Head 65. For an Inflammation in the Head 65. To take a ºf son’s Eye. - * Re 4 liºn from a pe. sons ye. - 37, ſocure a Breach or Bürst on the Body 68. To curea Scirrhaus Jaw, or a Swelled Face, or the sº the Mouth or Teeth. 69. A recipe to make the best Turlington and Chºlera Balsam zo. For a Relaxation of the fundament or ºut incºred. 71. For the commºn Phthisis in children. - - --- º " 72. For a Shrunk Sinew or a Stiff Joint. *3. For the Rheumatism. * A remedy for weakness in the Unite vessels for children that cannot hold their water, 5. For the Nose Bleed. G. To cure a Consumptive Cough, or Pain in the Breast ºz. For weakly obstructions in th Fºnalesex. .. - - - -- - 79. A care fºr the Polypus, 80 for a Gººglunder the nº $1 ºr childbed ºvers, 82. Cure fºr the Phthisick $3 For the Dysentery. 84, ºr Dysentery and Bloody Flux S㺠Todestrºy Woºms in Children, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - º -