Pry Ph alee ANY “35 Ate aces 4 i ne : THE HUMAN SKELETON. THE REFORMED BOTANIC INDIAN PHYSICIAN: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO HEALTH. ~ SiC a eee BY DR. DANIEL SMITH. UTICA, NY cURTISS & WHITE, PRINTERS, 171 GENESEE STREET. 1855. RRHEACE ALL HAIL, HAIL. ee AND. GENTLEMEN : ~-Pausz for a moment and view the Corner Stone. of: the Primitive Medical Edifice which is already laid, and no Jonger suffer yourselves to be cut to pieces by the lancet or the two- edged sword of the poisonous mineral drugs, which. man’s “device has hatched up to pick your pockets and bear. you -to an ely pa for the Goa of Nature. in early oplied our ancient fathers ig powers aris- tu eit the Vegetable ig to ines all the maladies which they were afflicted with, when they broke Nature's unerring laws. He is the same now that He ever was, and has surrounded us with all necessary medical aid in the Veg- etable Kingdom, that He did our ancient fathers. Therefore, I say to you, by all the sacred ties that bind us together, and by all the sweets of life, and by the awful consequences of ~ delay, to fly, fly without delay, and take hold of the simple means provided for you by the God of Nature, and hang upon the horns of the altar, and be restored to health and rescued from an untimely grave, and be saved at last. The author of this work was born in the year 1790, in the then wilderness vicinity of Niagara Falls ; and being early initiated into the mode of treating diseases as practiced by the neighboring Aborigines, and afterwards becoming famil- iar with the a theories of the civilized plan, and : a 6 PREFACE. having a strong desire to do his fellow creatures good by im- to them the secrets of his own successful operations in the Vegetable line; and viewing the great destruction of human life by the usual dangerous mineral treatment of the Old School practice, and the vast amount of fraudulent patent medicines palmed off on the community, put up in syrups, -salves, pills, powders, and ointments, any one of which is said to cure all diseases ; and after a long series of years of assiduous study and observation, and successful practice, has thus induced him cheerfully to offer to the public a Boor For Everrgopy—the Reformed Botanic, and Indian Physi- cian—a complete guide to health—it being the last legacy that Dr. D. Surru has to give to his fellow man, hoping that ‘through the guidance of the All-Wise Creator of Heaven / and Earth, that it will be useful to his fellow mortals, and . rescuing thousands and tens of thousands | them from an vainly grave. GENERAL REMARKS. Man is the noblest work of God—the most complicated, compact and complete of all other machineries. He may be compared to the firmament that has planets of various mo- tions and divers magnitudes. And after the most powerful telescope has spent its powers and scanned all within its reach, yet there no doubt remains millions of twinkling stars that cannot be reached by the mortal eye or the most power- ful telescope, which may be of great magnitude and import- ance to hold the solar system together. So with Man, after the telescopic powers have been exhausted in scanning the frame work, the different organs, glands, muscles, tubes, heart, lungs, arteries, veins and blood vessels, water and air tubes, both exhalent and inhalent. But, alas, Man is but a flower, . exposed to all the bleak winds of adversity, therefore his physical as well as mental parts must be looked after, and in- asmuch as the author of this book abandons the use of all the poisonous mineral drugs, and almost all concentrated mineral treatment, and. discards the idea of bleeding, vomiting, cupping or blistering, it will be necessary to make a few leading remarks by way of explanation. “First, I shall endeavor to show from whence almost all dis- eases originate—from the stomach ; for it is the fountain of life to man, because it receives all food; both in a solid and liquid se form—and by it and the surrounding organs it is digested and decomposed, and prepared for the nourishment and sup- 8 ; GENERAL REMARKS, port of all other parts of the human body. Therefore, as the food passes the first and second stomachs into the bowels, — and whilst passing thousands and tens of thousands of lac- teals or capilliary blood-vessels, these draw from it all the vir- tues that is necessary to make blood and keep the physical man in motion. And when all the various parts of the human body act their parts properly, there is no disease about it, but when any of Nature's unerring laws are broken, disease ensues, and the penalty is sickness or death, unless it is by some means checked. Diseases almost invariably commence at the ‘stomach, and I therefore commence at the stomach, without a vomit. Yes, and why? Because the second stomach can not be reached by a vomit. With what, then? I say, nine- ty-nine cases out of a hundred, I give a cathartic, because pe ve if Bs the ‘proper order, the alimentary canal and all ; “Secondly. Immediately after the moving cause , has spent _its powers, the healing powers must be applied, both of which I prefer giving in a liquid form, in separate and various parts. First, I prefer the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic as the moving cause, then the Cordial and Health Bitters to nerve ‘and. give action and tone to the stomach, liver, and their surrounding organs, to enable them to properly digest and decompose the food received into the stomach, and then the Blood Purifier to act.on the blood and aid in purifying it and assist in opening the various and numerous blood-vessels, tubes, and pores of the body, and in such a way that the ‘blood becomes purified and flows through every channel de- signed for it. In this way, although Nature’s unerring laws are broken, all diseases will give away and the physical man GENERAL REMARKS, == 9 will become healed of whatsoever diseases he may be afflicted “with, unless the —_ nervous part of man is overcome by disease. The above is the platform on which I ground all of mY practice and success upon; although I vary my Physic, Cordials, Health Bitters and Blood Purifier, and all outward and inward applications, to meet.all complaints. For instance in cases of fevers or inflammatory complaints—I add cooling, soothing, neutralizing medicines; but on the other hand, in cases of colds, chills, agues and billious difficulties, caused by the non-action of the liver or overflow of | the gall, I give stimulating medicines of the above properties. Inasmuch as there is the moving cause and healing powers in either cooling or stimulating medicel powers, and the great point is to know the different diseases the patient is afflicted with in order to administer the proper kind of medicines. Although of costive and relaxative habits, either may be act- ed upon by a cathartic, if properly prepared, and proper medicine given to follow up the moving cause. If relaxative, I give stimulating, binding medicines ; if costive, cooling and relaxative medicines. In this way, by keeping the bowels easy and the blood pure and in proper order, health will con- tinue and disease flee away, until Nature’s unerring laws are . broken. It is not the quality of food that we eat or drink, but it is the quantity that is the most important. Therefore I say we must be temperate in all things—a small quantity of almost anything, either mineral, animal, or vegetable, may be received into the stomach without injury, if there is not power enough in it to nauseate the stomach and unhinge the nerves, and thereby overcome the laws of Nature. But I consider it best to keep a proper distance from that white heap of meal, for under it there lies an enemy, and we had | | ~ 10 GENERAL REMARKS, better never associate with a friend that will forsake us in the _ hour of danger. And be sure to learn out A. B. C. first, for there is not many mighty called, but God has chosen the weak things of this world to confound the wisdom of the wise. ; It appears, therefore, that the mental man is governed — ‘measureably by the physical man, and it is certain that the physical man is governed by the signs and flow of the blood, and that disease in case of bad colds on the part then ruled by the signs will be affected when the cold is taken—for in- stance, when the sign is in the head, and a cold is taken, it will settle in the head. So throughout the whole body, which causes so many different diseases of different names— hence, when we take cold in the head there is a pressure of the brain, which causes inflammation and pain in the head, or dropsy, or congestion of the brain. Just so when the cold is seated on the lungs or bronchial tubes, it will either cause inflammation or congestion of- the lungs, phthisic, or asthma, and many times sharp, acute pains and distress for - breath ; and when on the liver, it causes weariness and pains in the tide and back, sometimes fever and ague, jaun- dice, dumb ague, indigestion, loss of appetite, relaxativeness, many times ensues, When in the bowels and intestines, . bilious cholic and wind cholic, shooting pains, and many times inflammation, &¢. When on the thoracic, duct or great ar- tery, which runs up the spine through the trunk, pleurisy, “ eramp and acute pains in the left side. When on the kid- neys and bladder,“diabetes or gravel, with distressing pains in the small of the back and pains in the reetum. When on the pancreas or gall, or both, dropsical, dyspeptical and ner- vous complaints ensue, attended many times with lethargy, yd GENERAL REMARKS. ll drowsiness, and many times passion and fretfulness, loss of appetite, and pain in the pit of the stomach. When on the © first stomach, general debility, sour breath, derangement of the gastric juice and stomach, general closing of the absor- bent water vessels, sickness at the stomach, and many times vomiting. When on the muscles and tendons, inflammatory rheumatism, with sharp, acute pains in the joints and swelled joints. When on the peristum and bones, chronic and flying rheumatism and shooting pains. When on the glands and the felosis of the-skin, a dryness of the surface and skin, and sometimes salt-rheum or other forms of scrofula. In short, the derangement of the stomach and organs sur- rounding the stomach, creates more diseases than all others, for through them the food passes, and the blood is formed that gives life, health, growth and motion to the whole system. REMARKS ON PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. Tue following cut represents the stomach, which is shaped like a bag, and usually contains about two or three pints in an adult or full-grown person. It is capable of being con- tracted or extended, as the case may require. The letter ¢ is the tube-through which the food passes, called the cardiac orifice, The letter p shows the outward passage, which is called the pylorus or door-keeper, as it prevents the food from passing out until it is properly digested, and also pre- vents it from returning after it has been sent out. The stomach is situated on the left side of the body under the ribs, and has three coats or coverings. The stomach has also 14 PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. a fluid resembling that in the mouth, called the gastric juice, which mixes with the outside portion of the food, making it into a soft substance called chyme. All the water that we drink is taken up by the veins of the stomach, and is absorb- _ ed in about three minutes. It is for this reason that when a person has fasted, or has not taken food for some length of — time, he derives nourishment quicker from drinking than from eating, because the water is soon sent all over the body. If the nerves that lead from the stomach to the brain were - cut off, the sensations of hunger and thirst which we alt feel would be destroyed. After the chyme | has bee passes out of the stomach through. the pylo demun, or second stomach as it is sometimes ‘called, which is the upper_part of the intestines. As soon as one portion: “of the food is sent out of the stomach, another portion is form-. ed into chyme, and so on till all has been mixed with the gastric juice, which soon takes place, unless we have eaten — too much food, or that of an improper kind. The chyme, — which is prevented from returning to the stomach by a little valve in the pylorus, is now mixed with the bile that is secreted by the liver; which lies at the right side of the stomach, and a juice called the ao juice, which flows is Tt now travels along over the ee internal surface of the intestines, which are six times the - length of the body, but are folded in so compact a manner that they occupy but a — small space. As the chyle is passing, that part of it which will make good blood, or is fit for the growth and nourish- ment of the body, is taken up by thousands of little tubes, called lacteals (because the fluid is white,) also called capil- lary vessels (because the latin word capilla mearis a hair)— co PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. 15 _ and these tubes are as small as a hair. It travels along _ through “these tubes in the same manner that the particles of oil travel along through the little tubes in the wick of alamp_ till they unite in larger tubes. These terminate in glands, from which larger tubes or pipes collect and carry the ehyle from all parts into one common vessel, called the receptacle ‘or thoracic duct, which holds about a table-spoonful. From _this bag a large pipe proceeds, which runs up the back part of the chest and along | till it reaches the neck at the top of é the left shoulder. It is now poured into a large vein, called the subclavian vein, which carries the chyle, together with the old blood coming from the veins situated all over the body, to the heart, the great fountain of life. The blood now formed runs along, being of a dark color, but. which is not yet healthy, and flows to the lungs, Here the air we inhale or breathe in changes the dark color of the blood tored, as we see it when we prick our finger. Then it flows back to the heart, and by a contraction of the heart it is thrown into tubes, called arteries, with sufficient force and rapidity to carry it to all parts of the body. — “The blood contains the élainenté of all those substances which compose our body. It is the blood. that: makes our - bones, our skin, our-hair, and every limb; and it is the blood which makes us grow. So you see if we did not eat we ‘should not have any blood, and so of course we could not - grow. You may think it very strange that the red blood flowing like the water in a river, can make something as _ hard asa bone or flesh ; but when you cut your finger, or break a bone, the reason why, after several days or weeks, it - heals or becomes well, is, that the blood, in passing the place — cut, leaves a little something there, the next time it leaves 16 PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. again a little substance, when by-and-by it becomes flesh and skin. When a bone is broken, just the same process goes on, only the substance left is a little harder, tilla piece of © bone is formed. Should you hurt your finger-nail so that it peeled off, you would find that gradually a new nail would grow on, but if you should eat very sparingly for two or three months, you would not see this growth. - Different kinds of food make different quantities of chyle and different kinds of blood. Animal substances make more chyle than vegetable—hence, if we lived altogether on meat and animal food we should not require so much in quantity. When Nature does any thing, she is governed by regular rules and fixed laws, and is systematic in all her arrange- ments. She does one thing at a time, and is only” capable of doing a certain come: and.1 ection without inj uring 8 some or rious ant ee organs | in our whole ody. If this be affected, our whole bodies are affected. We may injure our arm and still beable _ to walk, to think, and talk. The same may be true with re- gard to a leg or foot, but if the stomach be sick, we can, neither walk, run, nor use our limbs, and sometimes can. not eyen think. It is always performing its duties faithfully, whether we are eating, sleeping, or walking. Man has only one stomach, but if we overload this organ it loses its power of producing the fluid which is necessary. I will next tell you of the bones, the skin, and the heart. Our bones are all joined together and make what is called the human skeleton. Our skeleton not only serves as a sup- port, but also enables us to perform all our motions. “In this . view we divide bones into two kinds—those which protect PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. _ a the body, and those which enable us to move. In the top of “the skeleton we see the bones of the head, called the cranium or skull. THE SKULL. . This is composed of eight small bones, all very nicely ~ fitted and dove-tailed together like the sides of a box. The place where the bones join are called sutures. In the little infant the bones are soft and do not unite until it is several months, and sometimes several years old. The‘human skull, being of an oval shape, it does not feel the force of blowsso much as it woyld if it had any other shape. As the child ‘ becomes older, the bones are firmer and stronger, and give more support. The skull contains the brain, which I may tell you about at some future time. It is very important that it should be guarded and well taken care of, as we find it is by its hard ~~ firm covering. 2 vy) ~ i8 PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. There are several bones which form. the face. The princi- pal ones are the jaw bones, and those around the organs of seeing, smelling, and tasting. ‘The teeth are nneen of Sesie. covered with a very hard substance called enamel. When this decays, or is: injured, the tooth is useless for strength. The first teeth gradually fall out within five or six years, and then the other set en- langeuaid Sbpcees, Salah us sheesh life if we only take eare of them. As we leave the’ teeth, the next principal, bone which we see is the back-bone, or spine. It is composed of twenty four pieces of bone; each of these pieces are called a verte- bre. These are joined by a soft elastic—which means, when any thing is bent or stretched, and the force which was used. was removed, returns to its first shape—substance called car- tilage, which enables us to bend our backs. These vertebrae are hollow, and contain the spinal nerve or marrow, and PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. — 19 serves as a pillar or column for the support of our bodies. They inerease in size from the neck down, The skull is united to the upper vertebre by means of a joint, called the hinge joint, to enable us to move the head upward and downward—and what is called the ball-and-socket joint. In all the joints, the ends of the bones which work together are tipped with gristle, that they may move easily. The spinal marrow passes through the spine, and if this be once broken, the limbs below would become numb and motionless, and life would soon-end. : There is an innumerable number of nerves passing from this spinal cord to the _ stomach, to the heart, the . liver, and to every partof © ~~ 4 the body. Joined to the | spine, 6, b, are twelve ribs on each side, seven of which are united to the sternum or breast-bone in front, that is composed of three small pieces of bone, which, although distinct at first, finally unite together, making one bone—these are called the true-ribs; then there are five which unite with the breast-bone by means of soft cartilages. “RIBS AND SPINE. 20 - PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. The collarbone and shoulder-blade are also wnited to the breast-bone, and serve their purpose, the one forming the neck, the other the shoulder. The ribs are very important dones, for they enclose all those organs which give us life — and sustain it, as the lungs, heart, &c. So important are they, that we should be careful not to draw ‘our clothing so tight around them that they will press upon these organs, for 4 ) the ribs are softer than the teeth, and have also that sub- — stance called ligament—the same as in different parts of the spine—at the end, and they yield to = Layee’ once them, ~~ which sometimes causes death. — We find a great many joints in ‘the body, ge in those situations where they are most needed. The arm is joined to the shoulder-blade in such a way that it can turn around ; at the elbow there i is a a hinge-joint, to move it upward aml en ’ eo mother at the wrist, also in all -seven bones in the hand and animal that has hands. The foot is dee cai constructed with its twenty-six little bones, connected: with little joints, so that we can move easily, If we look on the sole or bottom of the foot, we shall see that the middle of it appears as if arched or cut out. This en- walk ly and gracefully, to.run, skip, and ery motion we wish, But the bones and joint alone ¥ ‘Ov with a great many different muscles for this purpose, as well as to give wa oe proportion to the body. - ct id not enable us to move in all the vari- : ous directions we desire; therefore, Nature has provided us _ PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. 21 The following cut represents a man with the muscles which cover the bones, without the skin. The muscles are what we call lean meat, They cover the bones, cross- ing the joints, running along up the limbs, over the back, arms, and neck, and are particularly large and nu- merous where they are most needed, as in the back, hips, legs, &e., aad though so numerous, they never in- terfere with each other. Sometimes the action of a muscle is needed where, if it were placed, it would be _ quite inconvenient. As every joint in the fingers, hands, and feet, are moved by muscles, if the muscles had been placed in the palm or back of the hand, or in the feet, they would have beén very unsightly, and very clumsy in appearance. They are, however, situated in the arm, and act by long strings, called ten- dons, which pass to the joints. These tendons are all clasped down at the MUSCULAR MAN. wrist by a bracelet which Nature has prepared, under the skin, to keep them in their place. In the same manner the muscles which move the toes and feet are placed along the leg, and are all confined by a little band at the ankle. Where there is a muscle needed, there we find it, arranged in the most beautiful manner. Suppose instead of the joint # 22 PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. at the shoulder we had had the hinge-joint, like the one at the arm, then we could only havemoved our arm and shoulder — upward | and downward, which would be more inconvenient than it is now, when we can turn it in every direction. When we wish to raise our arm our minds speak to the muscles leading to the arm and tell them to contract, or shorten, and they instantly obey and the arm is raised. When we desire to put it down our minds. speak to Santer set of muscles, which expand, and the arm drops. ‘In no part of the system is the variety, quickness and ac- curacy of muscular motion so remarkable as when we move our tongue in speaking. Every word we speak, every syla- ble we utter, requires a distinct action of a muscle. We also move a great variety of muscles in our hands when we write or otherwise use them ; also in our feet when we walk; and whet at, and in every thing else that we do. You will t what is meant by the contraction and ex- pansion of muscles if you will take a piece of India rubber and stretch it—this will show the expansion; and when you remove your hand it will take its original ‘size and appear- ance—this will show the contraction ; but in our bodies there are two sets of muscles, one for utah and the other for expansion, as you will see in the cut of the arm, and also the manner in which they are joined to the arm. Our muscles — and shorten to move our bones. - PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. 3 The skeleton has two hundred and fifty-two bones, and five hundred and ninety-seven muscles—all are: formed from the — blood, and that is made from the food we eat. Nearly every thing is strengthened and improved by use, and weakened by disease. Hence you must take much exercise in the free, pure air of heaven; do not be fearful about running and jumping, so as to use all our muscles. There is a substance which surrounds the muscles, of a yellow color, called fat. It is this which nourishes us for a feng, time napaoemcisadeese sick, and do not take much food. : aie The skin consists of three coats or membranes, the first. i is called the cuticle or epidermis, and has little pores, , but no veins or blood-vessels._ This skin continued, makes our finger- nails which protects the ends of the fingers, as the cuticle does the skin. Immediately underneath the cuticle is an- other layer called the rete mucosum. There is more feeling in this layer than in the first, Spread over this skin is what ‘is called the coloring matter. It is a great mistake to sup- pose that because some have a black, and others white, and others red complexions, that the whole blood and skin are of ly _ difference bee the blackest person. who ever tat and the whites the surface of the second skin, which is either black, or white, or red. The third layer is called the vera cutis, or the true skin. Over this are little nervés, which run backwards.and ~ forwards in all directions, proceeding to the brain, and pro- duce all the pain or sensation we feel whens When the surgeon takes off a limb, it in cutting the bone—if the bone be in a healthy s we experience pain, but only when the third skin is cut; and it is for this — reason that it is called the true : 24 ‘PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. selves with a pin or needle, we draw blood, how slight soever the wound, because the two outer skins are so thin and deli- cate that the third feels the touch instantaneously, and the nerves of feeling being so numerous, pass off to the spinal marrow in the spine, and thence to the;,brain or mind, so that we feel every touch. There will frequently be white spots on the bodies of negroes, occasioned by a wound inthe — third skin, and the removal of some of the coloring matter on the second, which does not grow again. There are little ~ cells or pores-on the outer surface, which permits the sweats or perspiration to pass through ; and in this way many dis- eases which lurk about our bodies, are continually passing | off. This enables us to endure the very great heat of sum- mer ; for this constant perspiration produces a moisture which eotle the air. —_ eam isa a double organ, and hens in the middle of the ’ ¢ ‘ be PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. BS The letter a is the left ventricle; b, is the right ventricle ; ¢, ¢, f, is the great artery that proceeds from the left ventri- cle ; g, h, i, are arteries that proceed from the great artery; &, is the artery that goes from the right ventricle to the lungs ; l, 1, are branches of the artery going to the two sides of the lungs, which carry the blood there; m, m, the veins which bring the blood back from the lungs to the left side of the. heart ; n, is the right auricle ; » and p, are the ascending and descending veins, which meet and form the right auricle; p, _ represents the veins from the liver, spleen, and bowels ; $1 is - the left artery, one which nourishes the heart. The heart has four divisions—two to receive the blood after it is made from the food, called auricles, and two others, call- ed ventricles, to send it to the several stations where it is most needed. After the blood comes to the heart from the veins, it is necessary to send it to the lungs before it is fit for use. For this purpose there are muscles in the heart which con- tract and force it out to the lungs. Motion is of two kinds: voluntary and involuntary. That is voluntary which is per- formed by means of the bones, muscles, and tendons, and is _ influenced by the will or mind. Involuntary motion is that produced by organs not connected with the bones, but which possess muscular fibres ; as, for instance, the stomach, which is a hollow muscle and dieses its food without the knowl- - edge of the mind. The heart is also a hollow muscle, which contracts and expands to receive and send out the blood when. necessary. It is protected by a bag, called the per which is made of strong and rough materials. case holds a very little water—just enough to permit the heart to move easily and freely—and is placed between the lungs. The lungs fill all that cavity in the chest not occupied by the \ 26 PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. heart, and are composed of blood and air-vessels. They are so light they would float in the water, They are sometimes 3 called bellows, because they contain so much air. They ap- — pear Jike the branches of a tree, and extend each side of the — heart. When we take in a breath we inhale the air tochange — the color of, and to purify the blood. . ) Ss _ Air is all around ns, and though we can not see or handle 4 it, yet it has been divided into several gasses, called oxygen, — carbon, and nitrogen. When the air is thus divided, one — part of it will sustain life, and the others are very injurious. — The oxygen of the air unites with the dark blood in the lungs, — - and turns it to a red color, which then rushes back into the — heart. The muscles of the heart contract, and send it out — through the vessels, called arteries, to make skin, bone, flesh, ~ and very part of the body. It finally terminates in the , pillavies and vein, when itis changed into. a. darby red color. Tt is then unfit again for nourishment, as some of ~ the good qualities have been taken out in its circulation. — This dark blood then unites with the new blood formed from _ the chyle, is sent into the heart, thence to the lungs, and is purified by the air, then sent back with its color changed, — and proceeds as I have previously stated. It may be asked why the blood does not rush back again to the heart after it has entered the artery? Tt is because there are little valves _ or trap-doors that shut over the arteries when the blood has entered them. These move as easily &s a door closes on its hinges, and prevents the return of the blood.’ The arteries _ are larger than the veins, and lie deeper in the system, or more removed from the surface. They serye to carry the blood out of the heart, and to distribute the proper nourish- ment where it is required. The veins are more numerous PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. 27 and smaller in size than the arteries, and have valves in them somewhat like those in the arteries, and brings the blood to the heart. If we accidentally cut a vein there is not much “danger, but if an artery be severed and the ends are not im- mediately tied, death will be the result. By feeling the pulse — we find how rapidly the blood passes or circulates, and as the artery at the wrist is nearer the surface than any other, it can be — on with more certainty. : By palpitation of the heart, we mean that there is some - obstruction in the way, which makes the circulation irregu- lar. This palpitation is considered very dangerous, as our lives depend on the regular circulation of the blood. We ought not to breathe the same air the second time, for if ‘we do, it will not then contain sufficient oxygen to produce that — change necessary for good blood. In ree to have as pure air as possible, we should ventilate our rooms, especially those in which we sleep. When the blood is taken from the body, and exposed to the air, it becomes thick, or coagulates ; little yellowish particles of fluid arise, which are called the serum ; a thick substance i is left, which, when washed, loses its rat earanee, and becomes white ; this is called the fibrine of the blood. si . Consumption means that the lungs, liver, muscles, or other organs of the body, is consumed, or incapable of, in- haling a sufficient quantity of air to support life. This dis- ease is produced by exposure to the cold, wearing thin shoes in cold and damp weather, and by drawing the clothes so tightly around the ribs that they erowd in and destroy the- lungs. This might be prevented in a variety of cases ae proper care and attention. 28 _ PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. Secretion means a separation Of fluids. When it is used in physiology, it has reference to a certain process by which various substances are separated from the blood, without be- ing changed in their separation. Without secretion, there ~ would be no possible way for the different. parts of the body to be nourished. There are three kinds of organs for the purpose of secretion: First, the exhalent vessels ; second, the follicles ; third, the glands, The head, chest and stomach are all lined with a thin covering, which throws out a little fiuid, sufficiently to keep them moist and enable them to move easily. “ a ee The fat, of which I have heretofore spoken, is caused by exhalation, or is one form of secretion. It is first an oily, - greasy fluid, then becomes hard, and serves as a protection to the skin. T oints are lined easily. _nal exhalations are those which take place out of the body. — These are the sweats or perspiration that is continually pass- ing off, and a little mist of fluid which passes from the lungs. ° _ The second division of sectetory organs is called follicles. These are little bags found in the skin near the surface. They secrete an oily substance. When this does not pass through the pores of the skin, it appears like a little ridge or worm ; but if the pores be kept open by frequent bathing, _ this fiuid will pass off as soon as it is secreted. There are follicles in each ear to secrete the ear-wax, which will produce deafness if it be not removed. There is a little follicle at the PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. 29 root of each hair, and the difference between the moistness in the hair of different persons depends on the amount of liquid that the follicle secretes. Ad . The third division of secretory {organs is, called glands. These are situated in different parts of the body, and are of various sizes—some being quite small, 'others ,quite large, weighing several pounds—and contain arteries and veins to earry the blood to them and return it again. The substance: which the glands secrete differ very much in appearance from _ the blood, although they are formed from it.% The saliva is. formed by three pairs of glands, situated in the mouth. : THE GLANDS. ‘The gastric juice is a fluid that is secreted in the stomach, and very much resembles the saliva; yet it is more powerful in its operations, and of more importance to us in its use. During the process of digestion this fluid is poured on the food, and dissolves it into a soft mass, which is called chyme. It is nearly tasteless, and without odor, yet it has the quality of preventing fobs and will even remove it after it Bite PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. stomach for some time, but as soon as they are dead, the has commenced. Though the gastric juice possesses those remarkable solvent properties which enable it to dissolve even the hardest substances, yet it has no power to act on any — thing that has life. Consequently worms will live in the et nai aia gastric juice acts on them and dissolves them. The gastric ~ juice has sufficient power to eat holes through the coating of _ the stomach ; but this is the case on) been some time without food. ; The bile is secreted by the liver, which lies in the right side, just between the ribs, and is the largest gland in the — body. It has a brown, yellowish color, is very bitter and - thick, and assists in the formation of chyle. The bile should y when the person has | not be in the stomach ; and this would never be the case if 7 the stomach were always in a healthy state. When oily sub- stances are taken into the stomach, the gast elps to r mor e them, The pancreatic fluid flows from the ated behind the stomach. This organ secret fluid, of a yellow color, salt taste, the saliva. Its secretion is not i yet it assists in forming the chyle. The tears are secreted by the lachrymal gland, behind and at They have a salt taste, and are inodorous, Man has from three to three and a half pounds of brain, (but woman has but three and a quarter,) which can be laid in eight separate folds ; also twenty-four to th of blood, which passes through the heart once in every three ri ; Juice can not — pancreas, an organ situ- es a very little — the corner of the eyes, without odor, similar to % nereased during digestion, irty-two pounds — ar PHYSIOLOGY AND ANATOMY. 31 Man is the noblest work of God! But in what does his superiority consist? In his physical perfection—in his pos- sessing a greater number and variety of bodily organs and - functions, and those more perfect than the rest of waenres when guided by intellect. - NAMES OF ROOTS, PLANTS, HERBS, AND oe ‘i And their ‘Medicinal Uses. ASH BERRIES PRICKLEY, [Xanthoxylum rene _ —Has the qualities of the bark in a much greater de- gree, and are age esteemed for Serofula oe bog | matism, ALKANET ROOT, [Anchusa Tinton] Penply used Sak for coloring tinctures, ointments, &c. APPLETREE BARK, [Pyrus— Malus] —Usea in strength- ening Syrups for Debility, &c. AVEN’S ROOT, [Geum Rivale,]—Valuable in Debility, Dyspepsia’ Bleeding at the Lungs, Cholic, and Relax. ABSCESS ROOT, [Polemonium Reptans,]—Invaluable in Fevers, Pleurisy, Consumption, and Liver Affections. ASTHMA WEED, [Lobelia Inflata,]—In Asthma, Cholies, Spasms, and as an Emetic, it is very valuable. ANGELICA ROOT, [Angelica Atropurpurea,]—Excellent. in Wind Cholic, Flatulent Complaints, and Debility. ACONITE LEAVES, [Aconitum Napellus,]—Used in Rheu- matism, Neuraliga, Cancer and Cancerous Affections. ASTER RED-STALK, [Aster Puniceus,|—A popular reme- dy in Rheumatism, Head-ache, and Nervous Debility. ARCHANGEL, [Lycopus Europeus,]—A popular remedy in Fevers, Diarrhcea, Bowel Complaints, and Indigestion. ef Botanical names are included in brackets. 34 ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. ADDER’S VIOLET, [Goodyera Pubescens, ]}—Externally _ and internally—good for. Scrofulous Complaints and dis- eases of the Skin. 4 ALEHOOP, [Glechoma Hederacea,|—The infusion is used in Coughs and for Internal Ulcers. = ASH BARK, WHITE, [Fraxinus Acuminata,|—Good in Hemorrhage, Agues, and for the Rattle Snake’s Bite. ARBUTUS, TRAILLING, [Epigea Repens,|—Infuse _ an ounce in one quart of boiling water, drink freely, has _ often cured where the Catheter had to be used. a ASPEN QUAKING, [Populus Tremuloides,|—Excellent in Diarrheea, Debility, and Digestive Complaints. . £4 g ~ AGRIMONY, [Agrimonia Eupatoria,]|—Employed in Fe vers, Jaundice, Coughs, and Bowel Complaints. ene gee GREEN, alone Bareper} oct good ASPARAGUS ROOT, Hhapsiager 0 Officinals Useful in Diseases of the Breast, Heart, Kidneys, and Bladder. a APPLE PERU, [Datura Stramonium,]—Used in Bpilepey, Mania, Tic Doleroux, and Rheumatism. g AGUE WEED, [Eupatorium Perfoliatum,|—Of great ro in ‘Fevers—properties well known. 4 ARROW WEED, [Erigeron Canadense,]—The powder is isa strong styptic; the tea (cold) for Internal Bleeding. ALDER, STRIPED, [Hamamelis Virginica,]—~Bark and leaves good in Bowel Complaints, Internal Hemorrhage, _ and painful Tumors. . _ ANISE SEED, [Pimpinella Anisum,]—Good in Flatulent | Cholics, and to correct and flavor medicines, ROOTS, HERBS, AXD FLOWERS. _ 35 ASH, NAKED, [Aralia Nudicanlis,}—An excellent remedy in all Scrofulous, Venereal and Eruptive diseases. . AGUE GRASS, Or ROOT, [Aletris Farinosa,]—Cures Flatulent and Hysteric Cholic, Feyers, and Chronic Rheu- matism. ANGUSTURA BARK, [Galipea Officinalis,]—Efficacious in Bilious Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and Dyspepsia. ARCHAN GEL, PURPLE, [Lycopus Virginicus,]—In more general use than the green—properties equivalent. AMARANTH, SPLEEN, [Amaranthus Hyppochondriachus,] —Celebrated in Profuse parypiaers Bowel Com- plaints, and Piles. ASH BARK, PRICKLEY, [Xanthoxylti: Fraxineum,}— Useful in Fever and Ague, Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, &c. ALDER BARK, BLAOK, [Prinos ‘Verticillatus, ]}—Usefal in Fevers, Agues, Debility, Jaundice, Dropsy, é&c. _ ARNICA ROOT, [Arnica Montana, |—May be used in sim- ilar complaints as the flowers, _ANCHUSA ROOT, [Anchusa Tinetapin. kon Paap used - for Coloring Tinctures, Oils, Ointments, &c. _ ALOE, FALSE, (Aletris Farinosa,]|—Cures Flatulent and Hysteric Cholic, Fevers, and Chronic 1 eum : ARSE SMART, [Polygonum Punctatum,]—The A stopa Vomiting, and in fomentations reduces swellings. ANGELICA TREE, [Pyrus Americana,]—Used _in Bilions Complaints and for Clensing the Blood. ALDERBERRIES, BLACK, [Prinos_ V: 8} _ a good medicine for Worms in Children. Cee ARNICA. FLOWERS, [Arnica’ Montana,]—Rec in Low Fevers, Intermittents, Gout, — _ Rheu- matism ; tincture good for Fresh Wounds. 36 Ct ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. ASH BARK, MOUNTAIN, [Pyrus Americana, |—Useful in Bilious Complaints and for Clensing the Blood. ARROW ROOT, BERMUDA, [Maranta Arundinacea,|— Nutriment for the sick and convalescent. ALDER, RED or TAG, [Alnus Serrulata,]—The bark, tags, and leaves, are used for diseases of the Skin, Swellings, and Strains. ANGELICA SEEDS, [Angelica Atropurpurea,]—Used in Flatulent Cholic, an excellent carminative. - ALUM ROOT, [Hencheria Acerifolia,|—An external rem- dy in Hemorrhage, Sores, Wounds, d&c. ASH, BITTER, [Euonymous Atropurpurens,|—Extensively employed in Compounds for Atfections of the Lungs. ANGELICA, GARDEN, [Lycopus .Europeus,|—A popular . Sete Fcrers, bowel es. “fusion makes a pleasant Tonic Medicine. — " AOONITE ROOT, [Aconitum Napellus,}—Used in Rheu- ‘matism, Neuralgia, Cancer and Cancerous Affections.. BUCKWHEAT, WILD, [Apocynum Androsaemifolium,] —Used in Fevers, Liver Complaints, Rheumatism, and Dropsy. BOWMAN’S ROOT, ‘[Depirana Virion] —Usetl in Pleurisy, Bilious and Typus Fevers. BLACK ROOT, [Leptandria Virginica, J —Tnvalasble as a Cathartic, in violent Bilious and Typus Fevers, BAYBERRY LEAVES, [Myrica Cerifera,]—The infusion in ' Flooding from the Womb, Hysterical Complaints, &c. _BEES-NEST SEEDS, [Dauens Oneota] Given in Stran- gury, Calculus, Lumbrici, &e. é = ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. 37 a BUCHU LEAVES, [Diosma Crenata,]—Much extolled for Chronic Diseases of the Bladder. BUTTON SNAKE ROOT, [Liatris Spicata,]—The tea is a valuable medicine in Colic, Dropsy, Back-ache, dsc. BROWSE, [Gaultheria Procumbens,]—A favorite in Dropsy, _ Diarrhoea, and Obstructions. : BLOOD STAUNCH, [Erigeron Canadense,]—The powder is a strong Styptic, the tea cold for Internal Bleeding. BACK-ACHE BRAKE, [Aspidium Filixfenina,]—Good in Lumbago, and makes an excellent Syiup for Coughs. — _ BONESET, [Eupatorium Perfoliatum,]—Of great value in Fevers ; properties well known. BONESET, PURPLE HERB, [Eupatorium Purpureum.] BONESET, PURPLE ROOT, [Eupatorium Purpureum,]— Good in Gravel Stone, and_all Affections of the Kidneys. BIRD PEPPERS, [Capsicum Baccatum,]—Very serviceable in Fevers, Cholera, Palsy, Dyspepsia, dc. : BLACKBERRY ROOT, [Rubus Occidentalis,|—Much em- _ ployed in Diarrhoea, Cholera Infantum, and —— BELLADONA LEAVES, [Altropa mended in Disorders of Nervous System, &c. BALLOON PLANT, [Leontodon Madationpn} hs decoc- tion good in Jaundice, Dyspepsia, é&c. BUTTERNUT BARK, [Juglans. Cineria,]—In Cordial or — Extract a good Aperient and a gentle Cathartic for Worms. 5 BROOM, YELLOW, [Babtisia Tincioria,]—Esellené for Foul, Malignant and Syphilitic Uleers and Sores. BITTER GRASS, [Aletris Farinosa,]—Cures Flatulent and Hysteric er Feyers, and Chronic Rheumatism. . 38 ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. & - BORAGE, (Borago Officinalis,|—Used in Catarrhal Affee- ~ tions, Rheumatism, and Diseases of the Skin. BLUEBERRY, [Caulophyllum Thalictroides,|—Promotes Parturition, Menstruation, and Dropsical Discharges. BALM, INDIAN, [Trilium Purpureum,]|—Beneficial for Bloody Urine, Spitting of Blood, Coughs, and Hectic Fever. Used as snuff stops Bleeding at the Nose. | BETONY, WOOD, [Pedicularis Canadensis,|—The herb _ good for Head-ache, Hysteric and Nervous ‘Affections. BOG-MYRTLE, [Myrica-gale,]—A good memneds: sai the Piles, Stomachic Complaints, &c. BITTER BLOOM, [Sabbatia Angularis,]}—A me ee in Dys- pepsia, Fever and Ague, and Defective Digestion, BITTER CLOVER, [Sabbatia Angularis,J—A. remedy in ohana sat Fever and Ague, and Defective ig alg ! BLUNT-LEAF es Rumex Obtusifotus’}— Medical vir- tues similar to the Yellow Dock. BETONY, PAUL'S, [Lycopus Virginicus,]—In more gener- al use than Beth Root. Properties Equivalent. BUTTERFLY WEED, [Asclepias Tuberosa,}—Beneficial in Pleurisy, Colics, and all Flatulent Diseases. — BROOKLIME, [Veronica Beccabunga,|—A. eae of the Blood, and good in Scurvy, &e. . BALM, LEMON, [Melissa Officinalis,}—The infusion i is use- ful in Head-aches, Asthma, and Fever. BITTER HERB, [Chelone Glabra,|—Given in Fevers oi: Jaundice, and is a good Vermifuge. | BOXWOOD FLOWERS, [Cornus Florida,}=-A — rem- ‘ — for Fluor Albus, Dyspepsia, and Liver Complaints. oe é ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. -39 > BLUE FLAG, [Iris Versicolor,|—Employed in Colic, Pains, Flatulency, and Debility of the Stomach. __ : BETH ROOT, [Trilium Purpureum,]—Beneficial for Bloody Urine, Spitting of Blood, Coughs, &e. BLUE-BELLS, [Polemonium Reptans,]—Invaluable in Fe- . vers, Pleurisy, Consumption, and Liver Affections. BALM, MOUNTAIN, [Monarda Didyma] _ BALM, RED, [Monarda Didyma,]|—Equal to Chamomile in Intermittents and protracted illness. BITTER ROOT. [Apocynum isuidvcocsbiibslbinAT = tiped. 40 in Fevers, Liver Complaints, Rheumatism, and Dropsy. BURDOCK. SEEDS, [Arctium Lappa]—A good Diuretic for a of Kidneys, &, _ - 4 OW Br BOXWOOD BARK, [Conus Florida,|—In Devers, both le termittents and others, nearly equal to Quinine. 2 BOXBERRY HERB, [Gaultheria Procumbens,|—A favorite in Dropsy, Diarrhoea, and Obstructions. BLOOD ROOT, [Sanguinaria Canadensis,|—Useful in Pul- monary Affections, and Diseases of Chest and Liver. BEE’S NEST LEAVES, [Daucus Carota,]—Usefal i in Gravel Diseases of Bladder, and Suppressed Menses, BALM, SWEET,. -[Dracocephalum Canariensis, J—This herb is employed in Decays, Head-aches, &c. BIND WEED, [Convolvulus Panduratus,|—Useful in Coughs, Asthma, Debility, and Dropsy, BUCKBEAN, [Menyanthes Trifoliata,]—The infusion ea __in Scurvy, Herpetic Diseases, and Rheumatism. — BULLS FOOT, [Tussilago Farfara,]—Hsteemed i in Coughs, Asthma, and Consumption, “ BRINTON’S ROOT, [Leptandria Virgnion}—Uoet in -Pleurisy, Bilious and Typhus Fevers. PT eee ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. BLOOMSHELL FLOWER, [Chelone Glabra,J—Given in Fevers and Jaundice, and is a good Vermifuge. BIRD’S NEST, [Daucus Carrota,]—Given in Spree: Gravel, and Amenorrhea. BENI-BENI, [Sesamum Indicum.] 3 BENNE LEAVES, [Sesamum Indicum,]—Makes a Mucil- __age for Cholera Infantum, Catarrh, and Brey Dis- eases. BALM OF GILEAD BUDS, [Populus Balsamifera,]—The Tincture for Debilitated Habits, and Fresh Wounds. _ BALM OF GILEAD HERB, [Dracocephalum Canariensis,] ' —The infusion is good in Head-ache and Debility. BIRCH BARK, BLACK, [Betula Lenta.] _ BIRCH BARK, SWEET, [Betula Lenta,]—In decoction re- —— scumunineneth and tone to. the Lowmeln-aten: peeatery. BUCKHORN BRAKE, [Osmunda Regalis,]— Coughs, | — ‘and — -of Stomach mail - Bowels. BLESSED THISTLE, peiaitaulea Benedicta,]—Prescribed in Fever as a Corrector of the Bile. BELLWORT, [Uvularia Perfoliata,]—Useful in Wounds ~ and Sores, and for Inflamed Larynx and Gums. BALMONY, [Chelone Glabra,j—Given in Fevers and Jaundice, and is a good Vermifuge. BITTER-SWEET, Bark of the Root, [Celastrus Scandens] —Beneficial in Liver Complaints and Dropsical Affec- tions. BLAZING STAR ROOT, [Aletris Farinosa,]—Cures Flatu- lent and Bevieric Cholic, Fevers, «and Chronic Rhed- _matism, - ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. acs BLACK-SNAKE ROOT, [Macrotys Racemosa,]—Celebrated in Rheumatism, Dropsy, and Hysteria. BURDOCK ROOT, [Arctium Lappa,J—In strong decoction. for Diseases of the Kidneys and Obstructions. BURDOCK LEAVES, [Arctium Lappa,J—An excellent ox ternal application for Sprains, Bruises, and Gout. BALSAM PLANT, [Comptonia Asplenifolia,]—Valuable: in recess Cholera comms and Summer Com-- plaint.. BITTER-S WEET BERRIES, [Celastrus Ginisdinn Bene ficial in Liver Complaints, Scirrhus, and Dropsical Af BLACK CHERRY BARK, [Prunus Virginiana,]—Taken in Fevers, Agues, Dyspepsia, Jaundice, and Worms. BLACKBERRY, Bark of the Root, [Rubus Occidentalis,]— : A more efficient agent in the above diseases. = BALSAM, SWEET, [Gnaphaleum Polycephalum.] BALSAM, WHITE, [Gnaphaleum Polycephalum,J—Ex- tensively used in Conghs, Colds, Pains in the Chest, &c. BITTER SWEET, Herb, [Solanum Duleamara,]—Good for BECCABUNGA, [Veronica Beccabunga,]—An excellent Purifier of the Blood ; good in Scurvy. BANEBERRY, RED, bAotiee Rubra,]—Cleansing and strengthening ; good in Female Obstructions. BLACKBERRIED ELDER, [Sambucus Canadensis,]—The infusion is popular for Erysipelas, Fevers, Rheumatism, Gout, &e. BUCK THORN BERRIES, [Rhamnus Catharticus,]—Re- a in Dropsy, Rheumatism, and Gout, 42 ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. -BITTERWORM, {[Menyanthes Trifoliata,]—The infusion useful in Scurvy, Herpetic Diseases, and Rheumatism. BEECH LEAVES, [Fagus Ferriginea,|—In successful ase : for Cutaneous Diseases, Ulcers, and Dyspepsia. BANEBERRY, WHITE, [Actea Alba,]—Good in Colic, and has opening and stimulating qualities. * BUGLOS, DYER’S, [Anchusa Tinctoria,|—Principallyfused in Coloring Tinctures, Oils, Ointments, and Plasters. BUGLOS, COMMON, [Borago Officinalis,}—A remedy in - Catarrhal, Rheumatic and Cutaneous Diseases. -BEAKED VIOLET, [Viola Rostrata,]—Chiefly used for : Sore Throat. and Canker, as a gargle. BARBERRY BARK, {[Berberis Valgaris,}—Usnally «: com- bined with other tonics in Putrid Fevers and Dysentery. BUGBANE, [Macrotys Rarer adele in Rheu- matism, Dropsy, and Hysteria. BEECH DROPS, [Bpiphogus Virginiana,|—A remedy for Sore Mouth, Dysentery, and Cancerous Affections, BASIL, SWEET, [Ocymum Basilicum,]|—A remedy for Ex- eessive Vomiting. BED-STRAW, [Galium Aparine,]|—Good in Gravel, Dropsy, Fevers, Obstructions, and Eruptive Complaints. BITTERWORT, [Apocynum Canabinum,]—Found Bene- . ficial i in Rheumatism, Dropsy, and Asthmatic Cough. BEECH BARK, [Fagus Ferriginea,]|—The decoction is use- ful in Diabetes, and Incontinence of Urine.’ BUGLE, SWEET, [Lycopus Virginicus,|—A cure for Diar- rheea, Dysentery, and the first stages of Fevers. - BASIL, WILD, Cunila Mariana,]}—A pleasant medicine for ' _Head-ache, Colds, Fevers, Hysterics, &e. * — ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. 43 BEARBERRY, [Arbutus Uva-ursi,]}—Efficacious in Ulcera- tions of the Kidneys and Bladder. ; B&YBERRY BARK, [Myrica Cerifera,]—The infusion is - good in Dysentery, and all Excessive Evacuations. BUGLE, BITTER, [Lycopus Europeus,|—In not so general use as the Sweet Bugle; properties equivalent. BASSWOOD BARK, [Tilia Glabra,]|—Makes valuable - Poultices for Painful Swellings. BEAR’S WHORTLEBERRY, [Arbutus Uva-ursi,]—Effica- cious in Ulcerations of the Kidneys and Bladder. BALSAM BOUGHS, [Gnaphaleum Polycephalum,]—Good in Syrup for Purifying the Blood, BALSAM FLOWERS, [Gnaphaleam Polycepbalum, J—Bx- cellent in Female and Infantile cases. BALSAM FIR, GUM, [Gnaphaleum Pelgcephalum,}— . Good in Coughs Colds, and excellent in healing all kinds of Sores, and used in Healing Salves. COUGH ROOT, [Trillium Purpureum,]—Beneficial . for Bloody Urine, Spitting of Blood, Coughs, &e: CROWFOOT, [Geranium Maculatum,]—A remedy for Di- arrhoéa, Hemorrhage, and Fluor Albus. CLOWN WOUNDWORT, [Collinsiona Conadétada-= Couiaeted a ped remedy for the Tape Worm. _ FERN, MEADOW, BARK, [mead gala Lindh in De- . bility, and while recovering from Fevers. FLOWER-DE-LURE, [Tussilago farfara,|—Esteemed in. Coughs, Asthma, and Consumption, FROSTWORT, [Cistus ganadensis,]J—Of great value in Serofulous affections as a poultice and tea. FIVE-FINGER, [Potentilla canadensis, |—Beneficial in Fe- : vers with night sweats, and in allaying | ER cr a FEVER-CURE, [Lobelia inflata,|—An ips ged emetic. in Fevers, and good in Asthma. FLAG-ROOT, [Acorus calamus,]—Exeellent in Flatulence, Colic, and Wind in the Stomach. “FALSE ALDER, [Prinos verticillatus,]—Useful in “Fevers, Agues, Debility, Jaundice, Dropsy, &c. _ FLY: , [Solanum duleamara,|—Good _ for Cutaneous decent, Chronie Rheumatism, and Catarrh. ; ‘ i ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. 55° - FEVER ROOT, [Triosteum ceatteerts dild tema in Fevers, Agues, Pleuritis, dc. FEATHERFEW, [Crysanthemum parthenium, |—Serviceable. in Hysteric complaints, and to strengthen the Stomach. FIT-ROOT, [Monarda uniflora,|—Given in Epilepsy, and Convulsions of Ohildren. FOAL’S FOOT, (Tussilago farfara,|—Esteemed in simian Asthma, and Consumption. FEVER-BUSH BARK, [Laurus bonzoin,] —Extonsively used © _ in Intermittent Fevers. _ FEVER-BUSH LEAVES, [Laurus _ benzoin,|— good i in Inflammatory and other Fevers. a. FEVER-BUSH TWIGS, [Laurus benzoin,]J—An infusion o decoction useful in Low Fevers and as a Vermifuge. FROSTWEED, [Aster puniceus,|—A popular. remedy in Rheumatism, Head-ache, and Nervous Debility. FENNEL SEED, [Anethum fceniculum,]|—A good aromatic, useful in bitters, and a variety of compounds, —__ FLAX SEED, [Lini_usitatissimum,]—Employed in Catarrh, ‘Dysentery, Strangury, and Cataplasms. FEVER TWIG, [Solanum dulcamara,]—Good for Chine ous diseases, Chronic Rheumatism, and Catarrh. FOX-GLOVE, [Digitalis purpurea,}—For Dropsy in the , Chest this herb is very useful in infusion. FISHMOUTH, [Chelone glabra,]—Given in. Fevers. and | Jaundice, and is a good Vermifuge. . FERNBUSH, [Comptonia™: ‘asplenifolia,]—V aluable in Diar rheea, Cholera Infantum, and. Summer complaint. FLEABANE, [Erigeron canadense,J—The powder is a’ strong styptic ; the tea cold for Internal Bleeding. _. 56 _ _- ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. - FIELD-WEED, [Anthemis cotula,]—Employed in Fevers and Colds to produce perspiration. FOX-BERRY, [Arbutus uva-ursi,]—Efficacious in Ulcera- _ tions of the Kidneys and Bladder. FENUGREEK SEED, [Trigonella fenum graecum,]}—Em- ployed in Cataplasms, Ointments, &e. FLOWER-DE-LUCE, [Iris sambucini,]}—One of the best remedies known in Venereal affections, Dropsy, &c. FIRE- WEED, [Senelio hieracifolius,]—Employed in Hemor- rhage, Wounds, and diseases of the Skin. » FLEABANE, PHIL’A, [Erigeron philadelphicum,]—Puri- fies the Blood, promotes Expectoration, and is a good Diuretic. GREEN HELLEBORE, [Veratrum viride, —Useful i in Ca- tarrhs, Mania and Herpetic affections, — GOOSE FOOT, (Chenopdium anthelminticum,]—Extensive- ly used in expelling Worms in Children, GINSENG, [Panax quinquefolia,|—Strengthens the Nerves, improves the Appetite, and is good in Low Fevers. GINSENG, BLUE, [Canlophyllum thalictroides,|—Often prescribed in Croup, Colie, Cholera Morbus, and Epi- lepsy. , GAYFEATHER, [Liatris spicata,}—The tea is a valuable medicine in Colic, Dropsy, Back-ache, é&c, GARRENTOGEN, {[Panax quinquefolia,}—Strengthens Tae Nerves, improves the Appetite, and is good in Low Fevers. GOLDENSEAL, [Hydrastus’ canadensis.) An excellent Tonic, Corrector of Bile and Bilious habits. ; GUM PLANT, [Symphitum officinalis,}—Valuable in te entery, and diseases of the Bladder and Kidneys. ee " ROOTS, HERBS, AND, FLOWERS. 57 GINGER, AFRICAN, [Amomum zingiber.| GINGER, JAMAICA, |[Amomum zingiber.] GINGER, RACE, [Amomum zingiber,|—Given in Dyspep- sia, Flatulent diseases, Tonic compounds, &e. . GINGER, WILD, [Asarum canadense,]—Used with suegess, in Intermittent Fevers, and for Cephalic Snuffs, GARLICKS, [Allium sativum,]—Beneficial in Feeble Di- gestion, Chronic Catarrh, Asthma, Coughs, &c. GUAICUM CHIPS, [Guaicum officinale,]—Strengthens the Stomach, and purges an impure state of the blood. GENTIAN, [Gentiana lutea, ]—Dyspepsia, Gout, Hysteries and Diarrhoea are benefitted by its use. i GIPSY-WEED, [Lycopus virginicus, }—In. more sneral use . than Blue Ginseng ; properties equivalent, _ ° GROUND HOLLY, [Chimaphilla umbellata,]—A tea is used to Purify the Blood. _ GILL-GO-OVER-THE-GROUND, [Glechoma hederacea,J— The infusion is useful in Coughs and for Internal Ulcers. GOOSE GRASS, [Galium aparine, |—Good i in Geese Pewee: = Sy Fevers, Obstructions, and Eruptive complaints. GARGET, [Plytolacea decandria,]—Good in Rheumatism, for Cleansing the Blood, and Discussing Tumors. : GREAT MULLEIN, [Verbas cumthapsus, |—Recommended for Children’s Fits, Croup, and Asthma. GENTIAN, BLUE, [Gentian catesbei,]—The’ intone is _ used for Coughs, and for Internal Ulcers. GOLD-THREAD, [Coptis trifolia,]}—The powder or ti tincture restores the appetite and strength after Fevers. GRAVEL ROOT, {Eupatorium purpureum,}—Excellent in Strangury, and all Dropsical affections. ‘ - — 58 _ ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. GRAINS OF PARADISE, [Amomum grana_paradisi,}— Neéarly equal to Cayenne as a pure stimulant. ; GREEN-LEAF, [Chimaphilla umbellata,]—A tea is used to Purify the Blood. ee GOLDEN ROOT, [Prenanthes alba,]—Useful in Diarrhes, Dysentery, and Derangement of Bowels. GOLDEN ROD, SWEET, [Solidago odora,]|—This herb is good in Debility, Colds, and Gravelly complaints. = GRAVEL PLANT, [Epigea repens,|—The infusion excel- lent in Gravel and Kidney diseases. GRAPEFERN, [Botrychium fumarioides,]|—Useful in Con- sumption, Diarrhcea, and Cholera Infantum. a HEMLOCK, POISON, [Conium maculatum,]—Prescribed — as a narcotic, and in Scrofulous and Chronic complaints. HOPS, [Humulus lupulus,]—Used i in Jaundice, Indigestion, and as a substitute for Opium. _ HYSSOP, [Hyssopus officinalis,]—Used in Humoral Asth- ma, Coughs, and disorders of the Chest. HARDHACK LEAVES, [Spiraea tomentosa,]—Checks Diarrhea, and is an excellent outward ——, for Wounds, Sores, &e. HORSERADISH LEAVES, [Cochlearia armoracia,]—Em- ployed as draughts to produce counter-irritation. . HORSERADISH. “ROOT, [Cochlearia armoracia,] — In Chronic Rheumatism, Asthma, and Debility, these are beneficial. HENBANE, BLACK, [Hyoscyamus niger,]}—Administered as a Nareotie when Opium is ‘objectionable. : 'S-EASE [Polygonum persicaria,]—An excellent ay for Asthma, and good in Colds, Fevers, &c. ra ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. - 59 HAYMAIDS, [Glechoma hederacea, |—The iafusion i is used in Coughs, and for Internal Ulcers. HOARHOUND, [Marrubium vulgare,|—Beneficial in Asth- ma, Coughs, Jaundice, and Obstructions, HOARHOUND, WATER, [Lycopus europeus,]J—A cure for Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and first stages of Fevers. HEAL-ALL, [Prunella vulgaris,]—Used in Hemorrhage, Diarrhoea, and for.gargles in Sore Throat. 3 HELLEBORE, BLACK, [Helleborus niger,|}—Employed in _ Mania Melancholy, and as a cathartic in Dropsy. HELLEBORE, WHITE, [Veratrum viride,|—Useful in Ca- tarrhs, Mania and Herpetic affections. ; HORSEMINT, [Monarda punctata,}—Good in diseases: of | the Urinary Passages, Fevers, and Pleurisy. HIGH CRANBERRY BARK, [Viburnum oxycoccus,J— Very effectual in relaxing Cramps and Spasms of all kinds, HEMLOCK BARK, [Pinus canadensis,)—As aD ace and tonic generally used i in rae He ES HEMLOCK LEAVES, [Pinus ; a if ta flammatory Rheumatism, to Purify the. Blood, ae to cause perspiration. HEALING -HERB, [Symphitum officinalis, —For Dysen- tery, diseases of the Bladder, Kidneys, and Bowels. HOODWORT, [Scetellaria laterifolia,]}—Efficacious in St. Vitus’ been, Convulsions, and Lock-jaw. . HOLLYHOCK FLOWERS, [Althwa rosea,]—Useful in va- rious forms as a demulecent. _ HERCULES’ CLUB, [Pyrus americana,]—Useful i in Bilious complaints, and for Cleansing the Blood. _ Roots, ‘HERBS, AND FLOWERS. HORSE-GINSENG ROOT, [Triosteum perfoliatum peter ful in Fevers, Agues, Pleuritis, dc. .| HEALTH BITTERS, [Melissa officinalis,|—The infusion is useful in Head-aches, Asthma, and Fevers, HIGH ANGELICA, [Angelica atropurpurea,]—Excellent in Wind Colic, Flatulent complaints, and Debility. - HOLY THISTLE, [Centaurea benedicta,|—Prescribed in Fever and Ague, and corrector of Bile. 4 HORSE-FLY WEED, [Babtisia tinctoria,|—Excellent for Foul, Malignant and Syphillitic Uleers and Sores. HONEY-BLOOM ROOT, [Apocynum androsemifolium,|— _ Used in Fevers, Liver Complaints, Rheumatism, and Dropsy. HORSE-BALM ROOT, [Collinsonia . canadensis,|—Recom- _ mended i in decoction for Gravel. oo Be atice limonium, |—Beneficial in Gleet, Whites, Diarrhoea, Canker, and Sore Throat. INDIAN PAINT, [Hydrastus canadensis,)—An excellent - tonic and corrector of Bile and Bilious habits. IVY, GROUND, [Glechoma herderacea,]—The Infusion is ‘used in Coughs and for Internal Ulce: ICELAND MOSS, [Cetraria islandica,] Undoubtedly a val- uable medicine in Pulmonary complaints. . IPECAC, ‘WILD, {Piviosteuts ——— te ite in Fe- IPECAC, WHITE, ENidlopiad syriaca,|—Cures Dropsy, and good in Scrofulous and Rheumatic disorders, a naan [Apocynum androszemifolium,|—Used in evers, Liver complaints, Rheumatism, and Dropsy. INDIAN HEMP, WHITE, [Asclepias inearnata,]—Useful ‘in Suppression of Urine, Costiveness. and Worms. ~ ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. 61 INDIAN HEMP, BLACK, [Apocynum canabinum,|— Found. beneficial in curing Rheumatism, Dropsy, and Asthmatic Cough. INDIAN PHYSIC, [Apocynum androsemifolium,|—Used in Fevers, Liver complaints, Rheumatism, and Dropsy. ITCHWEED, [Veratrum viride,|—Useful in a Ma- nia and Herpetic affections. INDIGO, WILD, [Babtisia tinctoria,]—Excellent for Foul, Malignant and Syphilitie Ulcers and Sores. ICE-PLANT, [Senecio hieracifolius,|—Employed i in Hemorr- hage, Wounds, and diséases of the Skin. INDIAN PIPE, [Monarda unifiora,]|—Given in Epilepsy _ and Convulsions of Children. IRISH MOSS, [Chondrus crispus,]—Given i in Colds, Sa and Pulmonary affections. INDIAN ELM, [Ulmus fulva,|—Used in 1 Urinary and Bowel complaints, Scurvy and Inveterate Eruptions ; also as a diet in Fevers, and externally in Poultices. IPECACUANHA, [Cephzlis ipecacuanha.} IPECACUANHA, AM., [Euphorbia - ipecacuanha, |—Pre- peta in -Dropsy, Bilious Colic, and a variety of dis- INDIAN [AN TOBACCO, [Lobelia inflata, }—In je meg Ce Spasms, and as an Emetic, it is very valuable. INDIAN ARROW-WOOD, [Euonymous atropurpurea, |— Extensively employed in compounds for affections of she Li INDIGO BROOM, [Babtisia tinctoria,|—Excellent for Foul, . Malignant and Syphilitic Uleers and Sores. INDIAN TURNIP, [Arum triphyllum,J—Valuabie in 2 Vang, Paes Cramps, and Consumptive affections. eT ete Ee ae a ae 62 ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. IRON-WOOD BOUGHS, —The tea is good in all Scrofulous _ complaints. ; JOE-SPY, [Eupatorium perfoliatum jor great wane in Fevers ; properties well known. JALAP, [Ipomea Jalapa,J—Combined with Cream-tartar, an excellent Cathartic and Hydragogue. JALAP, AM., [Convolvulus panduratus,J—For Dropsical . affections and for Consumptive Coughs and Asthma. 3 JALAP, NORTHERN, [Phytolacea decandria,]—Good in Rheumatism, for Cleansing the Blood, and Discussing Tumors. JUNIPER-BERRIES, {Juniperus communis, |—In infusion * an excellent diuretic drink for the Dropsy. ~ : JACK-IN-THE-HEDGE, [Glechoma hederacea,]—The im- — fusion is used in Coughs and for Internal Ulcers. HIN'S-V ‘ORT, [Hypericum perforatum,]—Beneficial im a 2 scene of Urine, and Hysterical com- JAMESTOWN, or JIMSON WEED, [Datura stramonivi —Recommended in Asthma and Spasmodic diseases. — JACOB'S LADDER, [Similax peduncularis,|—The infusion - is good as a Diuretic and for Stone in the Bladder. JOB'S TEARS, [Coix lachryma,|—Seeds steeped in water is a good Diuretic, and for a Solvent for Stone. JEWEL WEED, [Impatiens pallida,|—Efficacious in sane dice, and Bilious affections. KNOB ROOT, {Collinsonia canadensis |]}-Recommended “A decoction for the Gravel. KIDNEY LIVER-LEAF, [Hepatica triloba,]—Celebrated in Bleeding at the Lungs, ‘Consumption, — and - Liver complaints. a > ROOT, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. 63 KNOT WEED, BITING, [Polygonum ° punetatum,|—The tea stops Vomiting, and in Fomentations reduces Swell- ings. Ss KNOT GRASS, [Polygonum avienlare,|—Severe cases of Lock-jaw and Spasms are cured by this article. KINNIKINNICK, [Arbutus uva-ursi,|—Efficacious in Ulee- rations of the Kidneys and Bladder. KING’S CLOVER, [Melilotus alba,]—Applied locally to. " Swellings and Inflamations. : -KUCUMA, OHIO, [Hydrastus canadensis,|—An excellent tonic and corrective of Bile and Bilious habits, LOUSEWORT, [Pedicularis canadensis,]|—The herb good - for Head-aches, Hysterics, and Nervous affections. LETTUCE, GARDEN, {[Lactuea sativa,]—Good in Chronic Rheumatism, Colig, Dtarrtrecey-msd Casnhs LETTUCE, WHITE, [Prenanthes alba,|—Useful in Diar- rhoea,.Dysentery, and Derangement of the Bowels. _ LETTUCE, WILD, [Lactuca elongata,]—Efficacious in Dropsies of long standing, and Herpetic affections, LABRADOR TEA, [Ledum heats tea aetal fe in Coughs and Eruptive affections. ~ LUNGWORT, [Variolaria faginea,]—May— be ond with _ benefit in Consumption, Coughs, and Defluxion of the Lungs. LIVERWORT, INDIAN, [Epigea repens,]—Infusion drank freely in Gravel, Strangury, &. LIFE-EVER-LASTING, [Gnaphaleum ocheabataaate=. Excellent in Quinsy, Weak Lungs, Contpsepbon; and Fluor Albus. LEOPARD’S BANE ROOT, [Arnica montana,|—May be used in similar complaints as the flowers. 64 -—-—SCROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. LADIES’ SLIPPER, [Cypripredium flavum,]—Beneficial in all Nervous diseases and Hysteric affections. LOGWOOD, [Hoematoxylon campeachiam,]—A dye stuff, the extract good in Dysentery. LUPULINE, [Humulus lupulus,|—Recommended in Dys- ~ pepsia, Wakefulness, Nervous Tremors, &c. LOVAGE SEED, [Ligusticum levisticum,]—An excellent ingredient in Carminative and Stomach complaints, . LOVAGE ROOT, [Ligusticum levisticum,]—Useful in Hys- terics, Nervous diseases, and in Flatulency. LOVAGE LEAVES, [Ligusticum levisticum,]—The infusion is émployed as a Carminative and Emmenagogue.. LADIES’ SORREL, [Oxalis corniculata,}—A tea is very good in Fevers and Inflammatory affections. LIVERWORT, [Hopatica irlloba,|—Celebrated in Bleeding at the Lungs, saree: Coughs, and Liver com-— ____ plaints, — LILY, GROUND, [Trillium genplinut, jBendicial for Bloody: Urine, Spitting of Blood, Coughs, Hectic Fe- ver; used as snuff stops Bleeding at the Nose. LILY, WHITE POND, [Nymphze adorata,|—Employ ed in Scrofulous Tumors, Gleet, Whites, &c. LILY, YELLOW POND, [Nuphar advena,]—Good in Pee- . torial complaints, and in treatment of Scrofulous Sores. LIQUORICE ROOT, Glyeyrrhiza glabra,}—An excellent medicine in Coughs, Asthma, Hoarsness, &. LAMB-KILL LEAVES, [Kalmia latifolia,|—Useful in Scald Head, Syphilis, and certain stages of Fever. LEOPARD’S BANE FLOWERS, [Arnica montana, }—Re- _ commended in Low Fevers, Intermittents, Gout, Drop- sy, and Rheumatism ; Tincture good for Fresh Wounds. | e ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. =: LIFE OF MAN, [Aralia ss . in Coughs, Golds, and Gout in the Stomach. LOBELIA HERB, [Lobelia inflate, -“jualities same as the seed, but not so powerful. ’ LOBELIA SEED, [Lobelia inflata,]}—In Asthma, Colics, Spasms, aud as an Emétie, it-is very valuable. — LIFE ROOT, (Senecio aureus,|—A certain remedy for Gravel, Pains in the Chest, and Melancholy. LIVER-LILY, [Iris versicolor,]—Employed in Colic Pains, Flatuleney, and Debility of the Stomach. LEATHERWOOD BARK, [Dirca palustris,|—Preseribed in Cutaneous Eruptions. LAVENDER FLOWERS, . Piatt ut spica,|—Adminis- tered in Flatulence, Fainting and Nervous affections, LINDEN FLOWERS, [Tilia glabra,|—A tea is useful in Head-ache, Epilepsy, and Spasmodic Cough, LARKSPUR SEED, [Delphinium consolidum,]—The. tinc- ture is given in Spasmodie Asthma and Dropsy. LIVE-FOR-EVER, [Gnaphaleum _ polycephalum,]—Exten- PB employed in pon oy Colds, ee in the Chest, LAVOSE LEAVES, iu. tevietioum,]-_"The infusion is employed as a carminative and emmenagogue, LAVOSE ROOT, [Liguoticum levisticum,]|—Useful in Hys- terics, Nervous diseases, and in Flatulency. LAVOSE SEED, [Ligusticum levisticwm,|—An excellent i in- dient | LAVENDER, SEA., rues nett in Gle at, — sis —“aats, Canker, and Sore Throat, = 66 ROOIS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. LOVE- LIES-BLEEDING, . _[ Amaranthus - Sapo: ~~ achus,]—Celebrated in profuse. Merwtntion, Bowel com- _ plaints, and Piles. LARGE PLANTAIN, [Plantago. acad aise in Poisons of all kinds, Erysipelas, and Salt Rheum. LIME TREE FLOWERS, [Tilia glabra,|——A tea is useful in Head-ache, Epilepsy, and Spasmodic Coughs. LEMON, GARDEN or WILD, [Podophylium peltatum,}— A substitute. for mercury in Venereal, Scrofulous, and all other diseases, _ LOCUST PLANT, [Cassia scavibenilies.i= _ MARJORUM, SWEET, [Origanum marjorana,]—The infu- sion is used to hasten a tardy eruption in Measles. : MARJORAM, WILD, [Origanum vulgare,|—The decoe- tion causes Perspiration, and relieves Obstructions in Menses. MARSH ROSEMARY, [Statice limonium,]—Beneficial in Gleet, Whites, Diarrhoea, Canker, and Sore Throat. MARSH TREFOIL, [Menyanthes trifoliata,]—The infusion is useful in Scurvy, Herpetic diseases, and Rheumatism. 42 ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. - MOUNTAIN BERRY, [Gaultheria procumbens,|—A favo- rite remedy in Dropsy, Diarrhea, and Obstructions. MOUNTAIN ASH BARK, [Pyrus americana,]—Cleanses ‘the Blood, and good in Bilious diseases. MOOSE WOOD, [Acer striatum,]—The decoction drank freely is an excellent Vermifuge. MOUNTAIN DITTANY, [Cunilla mariana,J—An agree- able remedy for Head-aches, Colds, and Hysteric affec- tions. _ NOAH’S ARK, [Cypripedium pubescens,]—Applicable to all cases of Nervous and Hysteric affections, NITSHADE, AM., [Phytolacea decandria,]—Good in Rheu- matism, for Cleansing the Blood, and Discussing Tumors, NIGHT SHADE, BITTER-SWEET, {Salanum dulcamara,] —Good for Cutaneous diseases, Chronic Rheumatism, and Catarrh. NIGHT SHADE, BLACK, [Salanum , ee) ’ for Cutaneous diseases, Chronic Rheumatism, and Ca- tarrh. NIGHT SHADE, BLACK CHERRY, [Atropa belladona,] —Recommended in disorders of the Nervous System, Mania, &. > NIGHT SHADE, DEADLY, eae belladona, |—Used in Nervous and Maniacal complaints, and Cancerous affections. NUTQUA-MEQUOT, [Senecio avrens,}~A. certain remedy for Gravel, Pains in the Chest, and Melancholy. NEST ROOT, {Monarda uniflora,|—Given in aay and Convulsions of Children. © . RUNNIN Ne i stam ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. 2 18 NANNY-BUSH, BARK, [Viburnum lentago,|—A com- _ plete substitute for Peruvian Bark, and said to be supe- rior: NETTLE FLOWERS, [Urtica dioica, |—Efficacious in Febrile and Ague complaints. NIGHTSHADE, FQITID, [Hyosciamus nies] Admins _ tered as a narcotic when opium is objectionable. NIGHTSHADE, GARDEN, [Solanum duleamara,}—Em- ployed in Scrofulous, Scirrhous and Liver complaints. NIGHTSHADE, WOODY, [Celastrus scandens,|—For Chronic Rheumatism, and for Catarrh and Eruptions. NOBLE LIVERWORT, [Hepatica triloba,]|—Celebrated in Bleeding at the Langs Consumption, Coughs, and Liver complaints. NERVE ROOT, WATER, [ Asclepias incarnata,)}—Usefal in Suppression of the Urine, Costiveness, and Worms. NARROW-LEAF DOOK, [Rumex crispus,|—Highly esti- mated in diseases of the Skin and Scrofulous disorders. ’ NINSIN, [Panax quinquefolia,]—Strengthens the nerves and improves the appetite. NONE-SO-PRETTY, [Gnaphaleum ciyeoshsiandExtemnst- ly and internally, good for Serofulous diseases. ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. 79 PLANTAIN, SPOTTED, [Goodyera pubescens, |—Exter- nally and internally, good for Serofulous diseases. PILEWORT, [Amaranthus hypochondriachus, |—Celebrated in Profuse Menstruation, Bowel complaints, and Piles. POKEBERRIES, [Phytolacca decandria,]—Of great service in Rheumatism and the treatment of Ulcers. PEPPERWORT, [Cunilla mariana,]—A pleasant medicine for Head-aches, Colds, Fevers, Hysteries, &e, PISTACHIO NUT LEAVES, [Hamamellis virginica,]— | Useful in Bowel complaints, ee and Dropsical Tumors. PISTACHIO NUT BARK, [Hamamellis virginia] —Use ful in Bowel a ie ical ‘Tumors. PUKEWEED HERB, [Lobelia inflata, Qualities: the same as the seed, but not so powerful. PUKEWEED SEED, [Lobelia inflata, |—In Asthma, Colic, Spasms, and as an Emetie, it is very valuable. PRIMROSE TREE, [Ginothera biennis,] Ben ployed in Infantile Eruptions and Tetter. POOL ROOT, [Eupatorium ageratoides,]—A : tonic, valuable in Tonic and Stomachic complaints. PEONY FLOWERS, [Pceonia officinalis, |—Used in oe and Hysterical complaints. PEONY ROOT, [Peeonia officinalis, }—Given in Ryley and various Nervous affections. POPPY CAPSULES, [Papaver somnniforcin =A syrup made of these is a fine anodyne for children. POPPY FLOWERS, [Papaver somniferum, |—Make a very good a — for painful Swellings. % 80 ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. POPPY LEAVES, [Papaver somniferum,]—Make a very good soothing poultice for painful Swellings. PUFF-BALL ROOT, [Leontodon taraxacum,]—A favorite remedy in diseases of the Liver, Gravel, and Constipa- tion. - PINE BARK, WHITE, [Pinus strobus,|—Useful in Rheu- matism, Consumption, and diseases of the Kidneys. PEPPER TURNIP, [Arum tryphyllum,]—Valuable in . Coughs, Colds, Cramps, and Consumptive affections. PIPSISEWAY, [{Chimaphilla umbellata,]—A tea is used to | Purify the Blood. PETUNK, [Epigea repens,]—Excellent in Gravel and Strangury. POPLAR BARK, [Populus siepnindoides)=-Rixaelinaed in Di- _ arrhoea, Debility, and Digestive complaints. PEPPERMINT, [Mentha piperita,]—Administered in Ner- vous affections of the Stomach, Flatulence, and to allay Vomiting. PINK ROOT, [Spigelia marilandica,]—An efficient remedy _ for Worms in Children. PEPPERIDGE BUSH BARK, [Berberis vulgaris, }—Usu- ally combined with other tonics in Putrid Fevers and Dysentery. PIPE-PLANT ROOT, [Monotropa aA in. Epilepsy and Convulsions of Children. PEPPER PODS, CAYENNE, [Capsicum snnaum,)—Mel y ica) qualities similar to the bird. PEPPER PODS, BIRD, [Capsicum baccssounic The . Species is the best of all the capsicums, and most pows erful. * ee oT ee ee ee ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. 81 PEPPER PODS, AM., [Capsicum annuum,|—Useful in Coldness of the System, Fever and Ague, Colies, &c. QUASSIA, [Quassia excelsor,|—Adapted to Dyspeptie cases _ and to debilitated Digestive Organs. ‘QUEEN’S ROOT, [Stillingia sylvatica,]|—Valuable in Yaws, _ Ulcers, Venereal complaints, and Leprosy. — QUEEN’S DELIGHT, [Stillingia sylvatica,]}—Valuable in Yaws, Ulcers, Venereal complaints, and Leprosy. QUEEN OF THE MEADOW, HERB, [Eupatorium purpureum, |—Excellent in Strangury, nad all eae! affections. QUEEN OF THE MEADOW, ROOT, [Eupatorium purpu- reum,]—Excellent in Strangury, and all Dropsical af- fections. RED ROOT, [Sanguinaria canadensis, ]—Useful i in Asthma, Liver and Chest diseases. RUE, [Ruta graveolens,]—Employed in Epilepsy, Hisar, Hiccup, and as a Stomachic. ROCK ROSE, [Cistus canadensis,|—Of great value in Scrofulous affections as a poultice and a tea. _ RACCOON-BERRY, [Podophyllum peltatum,]—The root is a substitute for mereury in Venereal and Scrofulous diseases. RAGWEED, [Ambrosia artemisifolia,|—Good for Worms in Children—recently much used. - ROSYBUSH, [Spireea tomentosa, |— Checks — and an excellent outward application for Wounds. — RHUBARB, WILD, [Convolvulus peellaner sr in _ Dropsical affections, and for Consumptive Coughs, &c. RHUBARB, AM.; [Rheum rhaponticum,]|—Given in Drop- sical affections, and for Consumptive Coughs, &e. es ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. RATILE ROOT, [Macrotys racemosa,]—The root is cele- , in Rheumatism, Dropsy, and Hysteria. ROMAN CHAMOMILE, [Anthemis nobilis,|—The herb is a good stomachic bitter for Digestion and Fevers. 2 RUM-CHERRY BARK, [Prunus Virginiana,]—Taken in” Fevers, Agues, Dyspepsia, Jaundice, and Worms. RHEUMATIC WEED, [Chimaphilla umbellata,J—An infu- sion is used to Purify the Blood. RED-BERRY, [Arbutus uva-ursi,]|—Efficacious in Ulcera-— tions of the Kidneys and Bladder. - a RICKET SHRUB, [Comptonia asplenifolia,|—Valuable in Diarrhoea, Summer Complaint, &e. : . _ ROSEMARY FLOWERS, [Rosemarinus officinalis,]-—The flowers and leaves are good in Nervous and Hysterical affections. _ ROSEMARY LEAVES, [Rosemarinus officinalis,]|—The -Jeaves and flowers are good in Nervous and Hysterical affections, : eee ROCK BRAKE, [Pteris atropurpurea,]—Good in Pulmo- nary diseases. . : RAGWORT, [Senecio aureus,]—A certain remedy for Gravel, Pains in the Chest, and Melancholy. _ RED ROD BARK, [Cornus seriacea,]—Excellent for Vom- iting in Pregnancy and diseased Uterus. - RICH WEED, [Macrotys racemosa,]—The root is used for Rheumatism, Dropsy, &c. - RASPBERRY, GROUND, [Hydrastus canadensis,|—An _ excellent tonic and corrective of Bile and Bilious habits. ROSE WILLOW, [Cornus sericea,]—An excellent remedy for Vomiting from Pregnancy and diseased Uterus. * ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. 83. ROCK FERN, [Adianthum pedatum,]|—Much esteemeg, in Coughs, Asthma, and disorders of the Chest. RED ELM, [Ulmus fulva,|—The bark is used in Poultices, and for Urinary diseases. RATTLE-SNAKE’S MASTER, [Pyrus americana,]—The bark Cleanses the Blood, and is good in Bilious diseases. ROSE PINK, [Sabbatia angularis,|—A popular remedy in Dyspepsia, Fever and Ague, and Defective Digestion. RATTLE WEED, [Macrotys racemosa,]—The root is excel- lent in Rheumatism, Dropsy, &c. RAPE, VIRG. BROOM, [Epiphegus virginiana,|—A reme- dy for Sore Mouth, Dysentery, and Cancerous affections. RATTLESNAKE ROOT, [Goodyera pubescens,]—Exter- nally and internally goof for Scrofulous diseases. ROSE, RED, [Rosa gallica, |—Exhibited in passive Hemorr- hage and Mucous discharges. ROCK PARSLEY LEAVES, [Apium petroselinum,]— Highly esteemed in Nephritic and Dropsical affections. ROCK PARSLEY ROOT, [Apium petroselinum, ]—Hig aly esteemed in Nephritic and Dropsical affections. _ ROCK PARSLEY SEED, [Apium petroselinum,]—An in- fusion in gin is good in Suppression in, Urine and Gravel. ROSE, DAMASK, [Rosa damascena,|—The rose water is distilled from this species. age? ROMAN WORMWOOD, [Ambrosia isifolia, times employed as an Anthelmintic. for Wo rn ee RASPBERRY, BLACK, Bark of the Root, [Rubus occi- dentalis,|—A more efficient sams than the black rasp- berry root. ” : 84 ROOTS, EEE R. Y LEAVES, {Rubus strigosus, |—A remedy for el complaints and Canker. RASPBERRY ROOT, “BLACK, [Rubus occidentalis,]— Much — in Diarrheea, Cholera Infantum, ie entery, &e. _ SOUR DOCK, [Rumux sapulicAigisy estimated in dis- eases of the Skin and Scrofulous disorders. SASSAFRAS BARK, {Laurus sassafras,|—Very good in Rheumatic complaints and Eruptive diseases. SASSAFRAS FLOWERS, [Laurus sassafras,]—Very good in Rheumatic complaints and Eruptive diseases. SPIGNET, [Aralia racemosa,]|—Good in Coughs, Colds, and Gout in the Stomach. SPIKENARD, [Aralia racemosa,|—Good in Coughs, Colds, and Gout in the Stomach. . SPIKENARD, SMALL, [Aralia nudicaulis,|—An excellent remedy in all Scrofulous, Venereal and Eruptive diseases. SPIKENARD, ROUGH, [Aralia hispida,]—Used in Colics, — Flatulent diseases, and Dropsy. SWEET GALE BURRS, [Myrica gale,}—Make a fine oint- ment for Itch, Poison, and*troublesome Humors. SWEET GALE HERB, [Myrica gale,|—A good remedy for - the Piles, Stomachic complaints, &e. _ SUCCORY, [Cichorium iniybus,]—Taken in decoction, and good in Jaundice and Visceral obstructions. SQUILL, [Scilla maritima,|—Very much employed in Drop- sical diseases and Kidney complaints: SOUR-BERRY BARK, [Berberis vulgaris,}—Usually com-— bined with other tonics in Putrid Fevers and Dysentery- . SAFFLOWER, [Carthamus tinctorius,|—Very- valuable in all Eruptive diseases, Small Pox, Measles, &e. _ ROQTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. 85 “SAFFRON, AM, [Carthamus tinctorius,]—Very valuable in all Eruptive diseases, Small Pox, “Measles, &c. ~ SCAMMONY, WILD, [Convolvulus panduratus,|—Given in Dropsical affections, and for pra ae and Asthma. SILVER-LEAF, [Gnaphaleum polycephalum,]—Extensively - employed in Coughs, Colds, pains in the Chest, &c. SORREL TREE, [Andromeda arborea,]|—A decoction used in Dropsical affections and Loss of Appetite. SORREL, WOOD, [Oxalis acetosella,]—A very strong de- coction or extract cures loa sewed asa plaster. , SORREL, SHEEP, [Rumex acchiieibns 3 agtasiele® in, Scurvy, Serofula, and various affections of the Skin. SNAKE-ROOT, WHITE, [Eupatorium ageratoides,J—A stimulating tonic, valuable in Ague and Stomachic com- plaints. : SNAKE-ROOT, BLACK, [Macrotys racemosa,]|—Very effi- cacious in Rheumatism, Dropsy, and Hysteria. . SNAKE-ROOT, HEART, [Asarum canadensis, j~ “Excellent in Measles and Cutaneous diseases. SNAKE-ROOT, VIRGINIA, [Aristolochia seepetein|—— Promotes Perspiration and strengthens the Stomach. SNAKE-ROOT, BUTTON, [Liatris spicata, ]—The tea val- uable in Colic, Dropsy, Back-ache, &e. STRAMONIUM SEED, [Datura sramonium,} —Highly commended in Asthma and Spasmodiec diseases. — SUTERBERRY, [Asclepias tuberosa,]—Beneficial in Pleu- _ Yisy, Colics, and all Flatulent disorders. — SWEET FENNEL SEED, [Anethum feeniculum,|—A good aromatic, ga in bitters and a variety of compounds. ’ 86 : ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. ; SQUAW . ROOT, [Macrotys racemosa, ay} Celebrated in “Rheumatism, Dropsy, and Hysteria. ee SPIKENARD TREE BARK, [Pyrus americana,|—Cleanses the Blood, and good in Bilious diseases. SOLOMON’S SEAL, SMALL, [Convallaria i Boiled in milk, excellent for Irritable Piles and Bowel _ diseases, SOLOMON’S SEAL, [Convallaria multifiora,]—Good in all : cases of Fluor Albus and Female Weakneés, ‘SKUNK CABBAGE ROOT, [Ictodes foetida,]—Good for Bleeding at the Lungs, Coughs, Asthma, and ‘Obstruct- ed Menses. SEGGRUM, [Hypericum ‘pelheston + laeaiicial in ae 7 rhea, Obstructions of Urine, and Hysterics. SHAMROCK, INDIAN, fTrilium_purpureum,]—Beneticial _ for Bloody Urine, Spitting of Blood, Coughs, and Hee- — _ tic Fevers ; used as snuff stops Bleeding at the Nose. SAINGLE, AM, [Heucheria acerifolia,}—An external rem- ~— edy in Hemorrhage, Sores, ‘Wounds and Uleers, _ SAINCLE ROOT, BLACK, [Sanicula marylandica,]—Of — great value in Fluor une Syphilis, Dysentery, and Fevers, SAIN ae : ROOT, WHITE, [Enupatorium apotatoides,] —A = ate 4 tonic, valuable i in Ague and Seeechic com- plaints, SCABIOUS, [Erigeron philedelphioum,}-— ‘Purifies the Blood, promotes Expectoration, and is a good Diuretic. SCABIOUS, SWEET, [Erigeron heterophyllum, |—Purifies the Blood, and equivalent to the above. SOAPWORT, [Soponaria _ officinalis,|—Given freely in _ strong decoction i in Jaundice and Liver complaint: 1 ; Ee ee ee ed, ene ee ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. 87 _ SPARROW-GRASS ROOT, [Asparagus éffieinatis,] Use: ful in diseases of the Breast, Heart, Kidneys and Bladder. 2 SORE-THROAT ROOT, [Caulophyllum thaliotroides,}— Promotes Parturition, MaRS; and Dropsical dis- . charges, SPICE-BUSH BARK, [Laurus behzoin, |—Upefal in all . kinds of Fevers and Inflammations to allay heat, SOW-BANK SEED, [Chenopdipm anthelminticum,]|—Ex- tensively used in Expelling Worms in Children. mS SNAKE-ROOT, CANADA, [Asarum canadense,]—Advan- : tageously used in Measles and Cutaneous pila ‘SHOT-BUSH BARK, [Pyrus americana,]—Cleanses the — Blood, and good in Bilious diseases. SIMPLER’S JOY, [Verbena hastata,]—A decoction i is good in Intermittents and Gravel. ‘ _ SELF-HEAL, [Prunella vulgaris,|—Used in Hemorrhage, Diarrhoea, and for gargles in Sore Throat. ‘ SCOKE ROOT, [Phytolacca decandria,]—Good in Rheuma- tism, for Cleansing the Blood, and and Discharging Tumors. SAGE, INDIAN, [Bupatorium pérfoliatum,]—Of great value . in Fevers; properties well known. | SASSAFRAS PITH, [Laurus sassafras,]—Infused in rose. water excellent for Inflamed Eyes. SCABISH, MEADOW, [Aster puniceus,J—A popular wit edy in Rheumatism, Head-aches, and Nervous debility. - SCABISH, [Gnothera pie gr! employed in Infantile Eruptions and Tetter, _ SAMPSON SNAKE-ROOT, [Gentiana catesbei,]—Excel- lent in Pneumonia, Dyspepsia, and General Debility. # 88 - ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. STINKING WEED, [Chenopdium entheloinsiensa,) ibe ~ tensively used in Expelling Worms in Children. SAFFRON, SPANISH, [Crocus sativus, }—Far superior to ' the American{Saffron in the same diseases. SARSAPARILLA, AM., [Avalia nudicaulis,]—An_ excel- Jent remedy in all Sewhdous, oe and Eruptive diseases. SARSAPARILLA, SPAN., [Smilax sacisipiatiic Lae ex- cellent remedy in all Scrofulous; Venereal and Eruptive - diseases. SARSAPARILLA, BRISTLY STEM, [Aralia hispida,]— Useful in Colics, Flatulent diseases, and Dropsy. _ SILK-WEED ROOT, [Asclepias syriaca,]}— Almost aoe in Drapsy and Urinary complaints. SENNA, AM., [Cassia marilandica,]—Qualities similar to the Alex., but not-so active. : ‘SENNA, ALEX, [Cassia auctifolia, &e.J—A valuable ca- thartic, operating mildly, yet effectually. _ SHIELD FERN, [Aspidium filixmas,]—Considered _ a good remedy for Tape Worm. SNAKE-LILY, [Iris versicolor, }—-Employed i in Colic Epos, Flatulence, and Debility of the Stomach. * ~ SWEET FLAG, or RUSH, [Acorusfcalamus,|—Excellent in : Flatulence, Colic, and Wind in the Stomach. SPICE-BUSH BERRIES, [Laurus benzoin,|—A salutary medicine in Dysentery and all Bowel complaints. SOUTHERN WOOD, [Artemesia abtrotanum,]—In powder “to open Olatrastivite of the Viscera. STRAWBERRY VINES, [Fragaria virginiana,|—The de- ~ eoetion in Diarrhea, Jaundice, and Fevers. ROOTS, HERES, AND FLOWERS, 89 STRAWBERRY LEAVES, [Fragaria virginiana,]—Em- ployed in Sore Throat, Swelled Gums, and Bowel com- plafats. ‘ SQUAW-WEED, [Senecio obovatus,}—— Useful in Salt Rheum, Tetter, and diseases of the Skin. SQUAW-VINE, [Mitchella repens,|--Highly recommended "in Dropsy, Diarrhoea, and Partirition. SPLEEN WORT, [Asplenium ancustifolium, |—Affords relief in Gravel and pain in the Urinary organs, SPURGE, IPECAC, [Euphorbia ipentenaston, clini in Dropsy, Bilious Colic, and a variety of diseases. — STINKWEED SEED, [Datura stramonium,] —Recommend ae ed in Asthma and Spasmodic diseases. = SWAMP ALDER, [Alnus serrulata,]—The bark, tags, and leaves are used ee! diseases of the Skin, Swellings, and _ Strains. STAGGERWORT, [Hypericum pertoratuens)-Bendliial 3 in Diarrhcea, Obstructions of Urine, and Hysteries, STAMMERWORT, [Hypericum perforatire,|—Beneficial in Diarrhcea, Obstructions of Urine, and Hysteric: ae SNAGREL ROOT, [Aristolochia serpentaria, }—Prtmmotes perspiration and strengthens the Stomach. SCURVY GRASS, [Cochlearia officinalis,]—Celebrated in Seurvy and Chronic Obstructions of the Viscera. SHOP FUMITORY, [Fumaria peeps is acd — . freely is good for Cutaneous diseases. Ss gece SIDE-SADDLE PLANT, [Sarracenia purpurea, }—Good ‘Nervous complaints to strengthen the system, SILVER- WEED, ROOT, [Asclepias sy, | cote for Dropsy 7 all Urinary diseases. 2 - 90 _ ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. SNAKE-HEAD, [Chelone_ glabra,]—Given in Fevers and : Jaundice—also for Worms in Children. STEEPLE BUSH, [Spirae tomentosa,]—Checks Diarrhea, and a good application for Wounds, Sores, &e. SWAMP SASSAFRAS, [Cornus ——— useful in Debility attended with Diarrhea. STORK’S BILL, | Geranium shdvelatons: }=-Batablished rem- edy for Diarrhoea, Hemorrhage, and Fluor Albus. _ 1 SPRUCE BARK, HEMLOCK, [Pinus canadensis,]—As an * _ astringent and tonic, generally used in compounds. SWEET ELM BARK, [Ulmus fulva,]—Used in Urinary and e Bowel complaints, Scurvy, and Inyterate Eruptions ; : also as a diet in Fevers, and externally in poultices. STONE ROOT, [Collinsonia oe es in _ decoction for the Gravel. SWEET BUSH, [Comptonia asplenifolia,]—Valuable in Di- _ arrhoea, Cholera Infantum, and Summer complaint. — — SUMACH LEAVES, [Rhus glabra,] Generally combined = with other agents in astringent compounds. STINK-WEED LEAVES, [Datura stramonium,]—Pre- — ~ seribed in Epilepsy, Mania, Tic Doloroux, and Rheu-~ matism. ——— WEED ROOT, [Datura enianiamy Preseeibed in Epilepsy, Mania, Tic Doloroux, and Rheumatism. SAUNDERS, RED, [Pterocarpus santalinus,}—Employed _ to impart color to various tinctures, &e. SUMMER-SAVORY, [Saturega hortensis,]}—The infusion i ivi2 good in Colds and slight Febrile attacks, wz STRAMONIUM ROOT, [Datura stremnoninn]—Virtoe same as the leaves. - ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. : 91 STRAMONIUM LEAVES, [Datura - sini sana ‘scribed in Epilepsy, Mania, Tie Doloroux, and Rheu- — matism. SWALLOW-WORT, ORANGE, [Asclepias tuberosa,|— _ The root is beneficial in Pleurisy, Colies, and all Flatu- lent disorders. . STAFF VINE, or TREE, ae soutien toes in Liver complaints and Dropsical affections ; the bark _ of the root is good in Inflammatory _ Rhoumatism to Purify the Blood. SPURRED RYE,’ [Acinula,]—Employed - some Bhye, . cians in difficult Parturition. : A SNAPPING HAZELNUT BARK, [Hamamelis vitgision,] ; —Useful in Bowel complaints, cee we — pain- ful Tumors. SNAPPING HAZELNUT LEAVES, [Hamamellis virgin- ica,|—Useful in, Bowel complaints, Hemorrhage, and __ painful Tumors. : SCULLCAP, [Scutellaria laterifolia,|—Remarkably _ effica- cious in St. Vitus’ Dance, Convulsions, and Lockjaw. SHEEP-BERRY BARK, [Viburnum lentago,]—A com- plete substitute for ——— bark, and said to be supe- * rior. SAVIN, [Juniperus communis, ]—Frequently used to restore Obstructed Menses and Secretions. — SHOP GENTIAN, [Gentiana lutea,]—Dyspepsia, Gout, and Hysterics, are benefitted by its use. SEA-THRIFT, [Statice limonium,]—Beneficial in Gleet, ‘Whites, Diarrhoea, Canker, and Sore Throat. SWEET CLOVER, [Melilotus alba,}—Applied locally els Swellings and Inflammations. — a 92 ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS, SUNFLOWER, WILD, [Helianthus divericatus,]—Invalu- _ able in Bilious Colics and similar complaints. SQUARE-STALK, [Monarda didyma,]—Equal to chamo- mile in Intermittents and protracted illness. - SPINDLE BUSH, or TREE, [Eyonymous atropurpures, |— . The bark is good in affections of the Lungs. _SNEEZEWORT, MOUNTAIN, [Arnica montana,]—Recom- mended in Low Fevers, Intermittents, Gout, Dropsy, : and Rheumatism. The tinetare is ide for Fresh Wounds. SPEARMINT, [Mentha viridis, |—Allays Nausea, and an ex- cellent remedy in Gravel and Suppressions, # SNAKE-ROOT, CORN, [Liatris spicata,|—The infusion ex- cellent in Colic, Back-ache, Dropsy, &e. # SLABRER ROOT, [Cypripedium flavam,]—Beneficial in all — _ Nervous diseases and Hysteric affections. ze SHAMROCK, WATER, [Menyanthes trifoliata,|—The in- _ So ‘useful in Scurvy, Herpetic diseases, Rheumatism, SAVE, [Pimpinella saxifraga,|—Used in Chronic Catarrhs, Asthma, Dropsy, &e. SCROFULA PLANT, [Scrophularia marilandica, ]—Deem- ed good for all kinds of Sores and Ulcers in man or cattle. SCROFULA WEED, [Goodyera te: ene and internally, good for Scrofulous diseases. SPEEDWELL, VIRGINIA, [Veronica officinalis ,J—Highly recommended in Dropsy, in Asthma, and for Coughs. SUMACH BARK, [Rhus glabra,j—The decoction used in Prolapsus Ani and Falling of the Womb. ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. 93 SUMACH BERRIES, [Rhus glabra,]—In infusion, a good gargle for Sore Throat and in Putrid Fevers. See =| re ae SWEAT ROOT, [Polemonium reptans,]—Invaluable in Fe- vers, Pleurisy, Consumption, and Liver complaints. SPOTTED THISTLE, [Centaurea benedicta,]—A good cor- rective of the Bile and used in Fevers. STILLINGIA, [Stillingia sylvatica,]—Valuable in Yaws, _. Ulcers, Venereal complaints, and Leprosy. SPLEENWORT BUSH, [Comptonia asplenifolia}—Valu- able in Diarrhea, Cholera Infantum, and Dysentery. SNAKE'S MILKWEED, [Apoeynum androsemifolium,]— The root is used in Herers Liver ee ae tism, and Dropsy. _ SNAKE-ROOT, RATTLE, fGoodyers pabeasead ]ttxter- nally and internally, good for Scrofulous diseases. STONE MINT, [Cunila mariana,|—A pleasant medicine for Head-aches, Colds, Fevers, Hysterics, &e. SPLIT ROCK ROOT, [Heucheria acerifolia, An external remedy in Hemorrhage, Sores, Wounds, and Ulcers. STARWORT, DROOPING, [Helonias dioica,|—Beneficial in affections of the Digestive organs. — SNAKE ROOT, SENECA, [Polygala seg a i Hig tered for the Hives, Croup, Fevers, and Dropsy. SNAKEWEED ROOT, [Aristolochia serpentaria,|—The in- fusion is good for the Stomach and promote Domi tion. SPOONWOOD LEAVES, [Kalmia latifolia, }—Useful in Scald Head, Syphilis, and certain stages of Fevers. SWEATING PLANT, [Eupatorium. perfoliatum, |—Proper- ties well known, useful in Fevers, &. . , ee 94 '. ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. _ SPOTTED PLANTAIN, [Goodyera pubescens, |—External- ly and internally, good for Scrofulous diseases. — SPRUCE LEAVES, HEMLOCK, [Pinus canadensis,]— Good in Inflammatory Rheumatism, to Purify the Blood, and to cause Perspiration. STICKWORT, [Agrimonia eupatoria,|—Employed in Fe- _ vers, Jaundice, Coughs, and Bowel complaints. SPOTTED CARDUS, [Centaurea benodicta,|Preseribed in Fever and as a corrector of Bile. STARWORT, MEALY, [Aletris farinosa,]—Cures Flatu- lent Colie, Fevers, and Chronic Rheumatism. The root is the part used. SPOTTED GERANIUM, [Geranium igual well- established remedy for “Diarrhcea, Hace and Fluor Albus. SUNFLOWER, GARDEN, [Helianthus annus] —Good i in Dysentery and Diarrhea. TREFOIL, [Hepatica triloba,]—For Bleeding at. the Lungs, Consumption, Coughs, and Liver complaints. THYME, [Thymus serphyllus,]}—Employed in Baths, Fo- mentations, and as a Condiment. THYME, ENGLISH, [Thymus vulgaris,|—Employed in sine acon and pan gamed gs ee impart ec : TAMARACK BARK [Pintis mierocarpa,]—Excellent in Obstructions of the Liver. © TILIA FLOWERS, [Tilia glabra,]—A tea is useful in Head- . aches, Epilepsy, and Spasmodic Coughs. . TURTLE-BLOOM, [Chelone glabra,]—Given in Fevers and Jaundice, and is a good Vermifuge. . “ tee ee ee. ee ee ee ee ee or Te EF ee ee eee ee Ty P| eee ee - dieiaatias E arat Dk ROOTS, HERBS, AND FLOWERS. 95 " . TOUCHWOOD, [Boletus igniarius,]|—Employed in the man- ufacture of Agaric for Hemorrhage and Issues. : _ TEA-BERRY PLANT, [Gaultheria procumbens,J—A do- mestic remedy in Dropsy, Diarrhea, and Disury. THROAT ROOT, [Geum rivale,]—Valuable in Debility, Bleeding at the Lungs, Colic, and Relax. TANZY, DOUBLE, [Tanacetum crispum,]—Makes a use-. ful tea in Fevers, Agues, Mysteries, Dropsy, é&c. TINKERWEED, [Triosteum perfoliatum,]—Useful in Fe- - vers, Agues, Pleuritis, &. TRUE LOVE ROOT, [Trilium purpureum,]—Beneficial for Bey Urine, Spitting of Blood, Coughs, and Hectic _ Used as snuff stops Bleeding at the Nose. TURNIP, WILD, [Arum = trypyullum,]—Valuable © in Coughs, Colds, Cramps, and Consumptive affections. TOUCH -ME-NOT, [Impatiens _Seiege Pires ee in Jaundice and Bilious affections. - ‘TUNHOOF, [Glechoma herderacea, |—The rae is we in Coughs and Internal Uleers). | THIMBLE-BERRY ROOT, [Rubus ccsidentsligg§ : RECIPES. - PLASTER FOR FELLONS. Take four ounces of strong tobacco, boil it in one quart of water one-half hour, then strain the liquor and put in one - pound of pitch boiled from old knots. Simmer them all to- gether over a slow fire till it forms a salye, If the swelling is on the hand or foot, lay it on the wrist or ankle, or above the next joint wherever the swelling is. This will take out all the pain very soon. Dress the sore with any other salve. — os FOR THE PHTHISIC. 2 Take four ounces of hen’s fat and one ball of skunk’s cab- bage, powdered fine, and stew them together till it is dry— . then strain and take a tea-spoonful three times a day. Or make a syrup of white swamp honey-suckle blossoms and queen of the meadow roots—add to one quart of the syrup one-half pound of honey and one-half pint of brandy. Take se —— three times a day. ne CURE FOR THE ASTHMA. Take two ounces each of spikenard root, sweet flag root, elecampane root, and common chalk—pulverize them all to- gether, and add to it one pound of honey or loaf sugar, beat it well together, and take one tea-spoonful three times a Loaf Or take linseed oil and sugar freely. . - FOR THE DROPSY. Take one-half pound of blue flag and one-half pound ele- eampane root, and boil them in one gallon of water to a quart, and strain and sweeten with one pint of molasses. Take one-half gill three = a day, =~ 4 ‘ RECIPES. BIE 163 A CURE AND PRESERVATIVE AGAINST BILIOUS FEVERS. The fullness of bile is the cause of all sorts of fevers, jaun- dice, bilious colic, and cholera morbus. Physic once in three. or four months with blood root and mandrake ; take one ta- ble-spoonful of the roots pulverized together, are and morn- ing till it operates. Make small beer with spruce boughs, elder, burdock, sarsaparilla and spikenard roots; with hops and white ash bark, and drink it freely. Make a bitter with — unicorn roots, bark of white wood roots, and the yellow-dust of hops—take a tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting. Or — take a eee of Health Bit Bitters three times a ee es. ee HOR CANKER-RASH. pain Oe eGi¥e one Fable ounce of spirits turpentine, sweet spirits of nitre, and oil of balsam, one ounce each, and cut them in one pint of alcohol. Put itin one quart of strong tea of the bark of high blackberry and horse 5 mint. Take a wine-glassful three times asada esses j a strong tea of benne leaves freely. ae , FOR DIABETES AND LIVER COMPLAINT, Take one-half pound of black cherry bark and steep in one quart of port wine forty-eight hours, then dissolve one- half ounce of alum in one gill of strong checkerberry tea, and cut one-fourth ounce of oil of anise in one gill of alco- hol. Put all together and shake them well. Take a wine- glassful three times aday. . FOR THE LIVER COMPLAINT. Make a strong tea of burdock, wormwood and dandelion and drink it freely. os GOUT. ~ Apply a leek poultice to the part affected. Its effects are worthy of notice. Garlics and anise seed is good. oe a ‘ scalded a little. 182 RECIPES. FOR ONE SEEMINGLY KILLED WITH LIGHTNING, DAMP OR SUFFOCATED. Plunge him immediately into cold water ; or blow strong- ly with a bellows down his throat. This may recover a per- son seemingly drowned. —_—_——— ‘FOR RAGING MADNESS. Apply a cloth of six thicknesses wet with the Pain Ex- tractor; or stand under a water fall or pour water on the head ; or let him eat nothing but apples for a month ; or eat nothing but bread and mail, and ride out often. TO DRAW BOILS TO A HEAD, AND DRAW OUT FELLONS. Make a poultice of ginger and flour, and lay it on; or roast onions and Jay them on as a poultice. Renew it every _ two hours. This will draw fellons to a head. FOR THE EAR-ACHE. Roast lean mutton and drop the juice in the ear, warm; or put the juice of roasted onions in hot as can be borne; or put in the sap of black ash; or put in a piece of salt. pork, Se FOR CATARRH. Use snuff of sassafras (bark of the root.) — TO PREVENT FITS. Steep one pound peony roots in one quart of water, and drink it freely when you feel symptons of a fit. ~ * RECIPES, — 183 FOR LEPROSY. Use the cold bath ; or wash in the sea often and long ; or wash the parts with the juice of mountain mint; or take one-half gill of the Indian Physic every night for six days, and bathe with bath linament and warm water, equal parts, morning and evening, and annoint with the camphorated oil. Follow up this process three months and it will effect a cure. Take the Indian Physic every other week, and after an ope- ration take one tea-spoonful of the Health Bitters three times a day, and diet light a few days. Or mix one ounce of poma- tum, one drachm of sulphur, one-half ounce of s z boil them in one gill of sweet oil, and annoint the « ffected part three times a day. Wash with castile soap. Or add one pint of juice of house leek and one-half pint of unripe lemons, grapes or crab-apples,put them in one and a half pints of drink largely for twenty-four hours onee an hour. Or drink one-half pint of celery whey morning and evening. This has cured in a desperate case. Or drink morning and eve- ning a ‘strong elm bark tea es one month. GOUT AND RHEUMATISM. Take puff ball root and pulverized salmony, each one scru- ple. Mix it with balsam Peru and make sixteen pills. Take one at night and one in the morning. —_——— “QUINSY._ . nag a: Sweat with thorne herb boiled in milk and water. Take penneroyal tea and sweat three or four times powerfully. 184 RECIPES, “FOR RHEUMATISM. Use the cold bath, with rubbing and sweating; or rub in warm ‘molasses, and apply to the parts a brown paper wet with it—it has cured in twelve hours; or drink largely of warm water in bed; or tar water morning and evening; or steep six or eight aie of garlic in one-half pint of white wine, and take one table-spoonful lying down. It sweats and ° frequently cures at once. Or mix equal parts of sulphur and — honey together, and take three tea-spoonfuls at night and two in the morning, and afterwards one in the morning and eve- ning till cured. Or live on new milk whey and white bread for fourteen days. This has cured a desperate case. Or pound the green stalks of English rheubarb in May, with an _ equal quantity of lump sugar, and take a tea-spoonful three or four times a day. el eid FOR SALT RHEU™. - * Take swamp sassafras bark and make a strong tea of it, and wash the parts affected with it three days—then add mutton tallow and simmer it over a slow fire till the water is gone. Annoint the parts afflicted, after washing, four or five “days, and take a gill of tl Reformed Botanic and Indian , Physic during the time, _ FEVER SORES. Put on a poultice of stewed pumpkin as warm as can be borne. Repeat it once in two or three hours till cured. It will bring out the loose bones. Or bathe the sore in the wa- ter where a blacksmith cools his iron. Have it warm. 4 RECIPES. 186. FOR HYDROPHOBIA. Take two ounces pulverized scull-cap, divide it into seven powders, and give one every three hours. Bleeding is said to cure. Draw one anda half pounds blood, and in six hours draw eight ounces more. Give cold water freely. Or take two ounces rye dough, two ounces old hog’s lard, mix them together, and spread them on white leather and lay on the wound. Follow it up two or three days. Or bruise six. ounces rue, six ounces garlics, four ounces molasses and four ounces pulverized pewter. Boil slow in two quarts of ale to three pints, and bottle and cork it tight. Give nine spoon- fuls, a little warm, seven mornings successively. Give a dog: six spoonfuls nine days after the bite. Apply some of the ingredients to the part bitten. Or take one drachm brass. filings, two ounces brown burnt and pulverized white beatr © meal, in milk or in milk broth, and stir together. Given in two doses, one, hour apart. e a FOR SPRAINS. Take spirits Bia three gills, fourth-proof brandy three gills, chamber-lye, beef gall, neat’s-foot oil, each one- half gill—add one ounce fine salt, one ounce alum, two ounces vinegar, and simmer them altogepger. ~ Annoint the sprained parts with it, hot as can be borne, every three or four hours. Or take one-fourth ounce pulverized black pepper, one-half - ounce salt, one-fourth ounce ginger, and the white of three eggs. Spread it on a bat of scorched tow, and lay it on cold. Renew it every two or three Hours. sail . POLYPUS IN THE NOSE. Use , powdered blood root as snuff freely. - _ @ 186 RECIPES. CURE FOR CANCERS. Apply blood-suckers (called leeches) every two or three days till they drop off alive. This is to effect a cure. Make a broth of the tail of lizards, and drink a few times of it. This has cured inveterate cancers. ANOTHER. | Dissolve one drachm corrosive sublimate in one ounce of water, wash the tumor with it, scrape the tumor a little, and then put ona plaster made of water hemlock, Give a gill of weak tea, morning and evening, made of watér hemlock, or a strong tea of wintergreen, or evergreen, or winterberry- Drink it freely, and keep the cancer wet with it. FOR THE HEAD-ACHE, Put two ounces eamphor gum and two ounces ether in one @*"t of alcohol—then dissolve one ounce salt, one ounce salt- petre and one ounce alum in one pint of vinegar. Put all in one bottle, and shake them well together. Wet a cloth three or four thicknesses with it, and lay the cloth on the crown of the-head and keep it on. Also bathe the temples freely with it. dig Se Nee WEAK LIMBS. : “ake leather shavings and comfrey root, equal parts, steep them in fourth-proof brandy, and wash the limbs with it. HICCOUGH. . == Take five drops of the oil of amber in wintrge tea every ten minutes until they stop. 3 eae oe Be RECIPES, 187 STONE OR GRAVEL Take one and a half pounds of the roots of garden leek, simmer them over a slow fire, and keep them covered. Put them in one gallon of soft water, and simmer till reduced one-half. Take one-half pint three times a day, morning, noon and night, for ten or twelve days. Or take one gill of - horse-mint and one gill red onions, mix together, and take one table-spoonful morning and evening. If green mint can not be had, make a strong tea of dry. Or jam one-half pound of water-mellon seeds in one pint of gin—let it stand for one week, and take one-half wine-glassful two or three times a ys ee, Sate RECIPES, ee 213. FOR GRAVEL, KIDNEY DISEASES, AND SCALDING OF _ THE URINE, Take one-half pound of sarsapatilla roots, one-half pound of yellow dock roots, one-half pound of burdock roots, and steep them well in one gallon of soft water, strain and add to the syrup one pint of gin, one-fourth ounce oil of red cedar, one-half ounce oil of spearmint, both oils cut in alcohol. Take a table-spoonful three times a day, one-half hour before eat- ing. You may add to the syrup one ounce of gum guaicum cut in alcohol. It is s good i in all venereal diseases. ad Seni a “Make a syrup of teloments a aaialomes equal parts, sweeten with honey, and drink it freely. — SPIKENARD ROOTS AND BERRIES, Is used in all kinds of sores and ulcers, and is good in coughs and colds, and has a powerful effect on the to FOR SWELLED LEGS. Put on a black cat skin while warm, and bind it on close. Tt generally fetches down the swelling the first application. TO CURE WARTS. Make a poultice of raw carrots and t. Lay it on, and epee it till cured. se _ PLANTAIN, Will cure poison from vegetables and old sores. 214 RECIPES. — CURE FOR THE ASTHMA. Take the bag that holds the musk of a skunk and wind it up in the room where the patient lives. Rub it about the mouth and nose and smell of it often. If very bad, take two or three drops of the musk. This has effected great cures. ANOTHER, Take new-made linseed oil two ounces, loaf sugar two ounces, saltpetre one-half ounce, skunk cabbage balls or root one-fourth ounce, and pulverize. You may use molasses in- — stead of sugar. Mix all together, and give a tea-spoonful every hour till relieved. ~Also smoke paper well saturated with saltpetre. BUTTERNUT. Extract from the bark of fifteen or twenty drops. will BLACKBERRY ROOT. This root mixed with gold-thread and made into a strong ’ tea, is asure cure for canker in the mouth and stomach. Wash the mouth with it and take a table-spoonful inwardly daily will help in the gravel and dysentery, taken frequently. FOR THE DYSENTERY. Take equal parts Drown leaf, mallowil yarrow, pepper mint, sweet golden rod, and make a tea of them. Drink 4 wine-glassful once an sei Or white pine bark boiled in milk and water. Take a wine-glassful three times a day- a RECIPES. 215 FOR WEAKNESS IN THE WEB, OR DIABETES. Take ten drops of spirits turpentine and ten drops oil of anise on loaf sugar, as you go to bed. Oil of anise is good in diabetes or kidney complaints. Fifteen drops is a dose on sugar. Spirits of turpentine has been known to kill a tape — worm, 4 | _ AGUE IN THE PACE. ; : Take smart-weed and jam it well, wet it with. alcohol or cider vinegar, and bind it on the allieted pat You-ean boil it and — it on. —__— gh . re = Figs CRAMP RHEUMATIS®. . Take twenty-five drops spirits turpentine, twenty-five drops strong camphor made of brandy, on loaf sugar, every morn- ing for three or four weeks, and it will effect a cure. BLACK ALDER BARK, Will help digestion and jaundice ; the tops of it aise for. all kinds of of swellings as awash. Take one-half a tea- spoonful in molasses will drive and kill worms. FOR THE JAUNDICE. Steep equal parts of poplar bark, white ash bark, black cherry tree bark and walnut bark, say one pound each, in eight quarts water down to four quarts, strain and add four quarts cider. Take a wine-glassful three times a day, fast- ing. What I mean by fasting is before eating. ~ 216 / REOIPES, = DRINK FOR WEAK STOMACH. Boil barley in water, strain it, and then add one ounce of guisie to every quart of the barley water. Drink it at meals as you would beer or ale. Moh be oe PILLS FOR JAUNDICE. Take two ounces castile soap, one ounce rheubarb, one ounce aloes, one ounce pulverized mandrake root, one-half ounce gombo, one ounce anise seed, all pulverized together, and moistened with melted-loaf sugar, Pill and roll in mar and pulverized sugar. One to four is a dose.® : ia aS CATARRH SNUFF. Take one ounce wintergreen, one-fourth ounce camphor, one-fourth ounce nutmeg, and one-eighth ounce holly eee - sorrel, and pulverize them all together. EYE-WATER. Take one-eighth ounce white vitriol, one ounce loaf sugar and ten drops oil of rose, and put ina warm hard-boiled egg with the yolk out and let it drain, then bottle it tight, and- when used reduce it with rain-water or strong tea. — HEALING SALVE. Take one ounce honey, one ounce sweet oil, two ounces mutton tallow, four ounces beeswax, one ounce balsam firr gum, one ounce camphor gum, and steep them all eas to the thickness of a paste. re sn ee Ry ee EE SSPE 6 es SOS A i aS a REY ae Oe ae Ne Rae RECIPES. < 217 . CURE FOR CAN CERS. Take one ounce potash, two ounces plantain root, two ounces crow-foot, one ounce skoke root, or dry-down sorrel on pewter. Lay either on as a plaster. Tt will eat out the can- cer. Then make a salve of skoke berries and put it on. — # *TO CURE THRUSH. Mix one-half ounce camphor, one-half ounce oil of hem- lock, two ounces spirits of nitre, and one pint port wine. Give a tea-spoonful three — a ee and bathe the throat with the same. : ’ LINIMENT FOR RHEUMATISM AND SHOOTING PAINS. Take one quart of brandy, one ounce oil origanum, two ounces camphor gum, one ounce oil of hemlock, one ounce ~ gum myrrh, and one-fourth ounce African cayenne, Put them all together, and take one tea-spoonful in cold water three times a day, and bathe with the same morning and evening, or when you feel the pain. . rates (a $60: CURE CORNS, Mix ten grains of chloride, twelve grains of the tincture of iodine, one-half ounce tincture of iron, four drachms of anti- mony, and four grains of corosive sublimate. Put them all in one-half pint of alcohol. Wet the corn with it, and when killed, spread a plaster of turpentine and lay it on. e "TO CURE SPIDER CANCERS AND RING-WORMS. - Steep plug tobacco in spirits turpentine, and aunoint the afflicted part with it from time to time till cured. T 218 RECIPES. _BILIOUS PILIS. Take two ounces of white ash bark (bark of the root,) one of poplar (bark of the root,) one ounce mandrake root, one ounce spotted alder bark, one ounce butternut buds, and boil in two quarts soft water to a hard jelly. Add one-half ounce pulverized saltpetre. Pill it with flour and sugar. One to four pills as large as a pea is a dose. oe _ Take the white of two eggs and an equal part of rock salt, pulverized, and one-fourth ounce of wheat flour, mix them well together to a salve, then spread a plaster as large as 4 dollar on soft leather, shave the hair off the crown of the head, and lay it on ; | Tepeat it from time to time till it creates _ aktve TO CURE FEVER SORES. Take strained honey, balsam firr, white pine turpentine, salt butter and mutton tallow, equal parts, and rub or stir them together till they become a salve—then dress the wound with it once a day till cured. When you dress the wound. wash or clean it out with warm castile soap suds. FOR DEAFNESS, RHEUMATISM, AND SORE THROAT. Wear brown paper next to the skin made of flax or tow; wear it under flannel, on the head, and around the neck. Or ee eee smoke, and shut ones maces and nose for a moment or two. — _ RECIPES. | 219 FOR ERYSIPELAS. Take one or two oitnces of epsom salts and as much loaf sugar, and twelve grains of saltpetre to every ounce of salts, and dissolve them in water. Give as large a dose as the patient can bear, so as to operate briskly, every other night. Make a strong tea of burdock and sarsaparilla roots, and bal- _ sam boughs, equal parts, and drink freely of it. Wash with weak alum water, arid if swelled bad, wet cotton cloths with it and lay it on any Diet ini I sometimes dissolve ai salts i in am. _ FOR HOARSENESS, ” ee es Take eee ounces of epsom. salts, three ounces sj pe one drachm saltpetre, dissolve all together in one gill of hot water, and take one table-spoonful when you go to bed. Re- peat the dose every two hours till it operates briskly as a physic. Afterwards drink a tea made of burdock roots and balsam boughs, equal parts, and black cherry tree bark, one- fourth as much as either, and chew loaf sugar freely. MEDICINES THAT CREATE TUBULAR CONSUMPTION. Todine, calomel, morphene, opium, and lobelia. Also, coffee, tea, tobacco, thorn-apples, and night shade, creates dis- ease and death. SUMMER COMPLAINT. ee white of three eggs in one gill of vinegar, beat well together, and give a table-spoonful every hour. Tt may be sweetened with loaf sugar. 4 es 5 RECIPES. _FOR THE DROPSY. Simmer in two gallons of old cider forty-eight hours, one pound pulverized mustard seed, one pound parsley roots, one. pound lignum vite shavings, one pound horseradish roots, and take one tea-spoonful three times aday. Or drink strong bohea tea freely, and eat. the leaves for four or five days. It operates powerfully on the water. Or make a strong tea of the herbs or ripe dwarf elder berries, sweeten it with mo- lasses, and drink it freely for eight or.ten days, fasting—that is before eatirig. Or put two ounces poke root (pounded) and one-half ounce pulverized mustard seed in one pint pure gin, let it stand twenty-four hours, and take one-half wine- glassful morning and evening. _ ee SYRUP FOR DROPSY. Take one pound dwarf elder berries, or two pounds roots and leaves, one-half pound milk-weed roots, one pound bal- - sam boughs, and boil them in one and a half gallons of water - two hours. When cold, add one quart gin with one-fourth pound juniper berries mashed in it, and three pounds sugar. Shake it well together, and take one table-spoonful for a dose three times a au ee SYRUP FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, OR BLOOD PURIFIER. ‘Take two pounds of burdock roots, one and a half pounds sarsaparilla roots, (American preferred;) one-fourth pound parsley, boil all together two hours in two gallons of water, strain and add eight pounds sugar, two ounces saltpetre and two quarts of white wine with one-fourth pound juniper ber- ries. Shake well together, and take one t.sosunl for a, dose three times a day. # RECIPES. - Le FOR THE TAPE WORM. Take two gills of pumpkin seed oil, one gill India molasses, one gill strong sage tea, mix all together, and give one gill of the composition once in two hours ; wait two hours after giv- ing the last dose, then dissolve four ounces of epsom salts, and four ounces brown sugar in strong sage tea, and give one- fourth of this composition once in two hours with eight drops of the oil of anise and twenty drops of spirits turpentine with each quarter. If the worm should pass off the first, — second or third dose, stop and give one tea-spoonful of strong black cherry bark tea and cider, well sweetened with loaf sugar, one-half hour before eating, three times a day, for four or five weeks. Take sage tea seasoned with loaf sugar” freely. DISTINCTION BETWEEN CHOLERA AND DYSENTERY. Real cholera symptoms is a copious watery evacuation, colorless, painless and inodorous. It is a flowing away of the blood of the system, or of that which is blood nearly made. There is no more pain at any such time than when blood is” flowing from the arm, until the fainting or sinking stage arrives, which of course must be soon. It is as dangerous as the loss of gallons of blood. The case of one attack is hope- less ; therefore it is best to get medical aid before too late, LIVERWORT, + Is good in diseases of the liver, inflammation, jaundice, Ee chronic coughs, ringworms and running sores. Made into beer and drank freely, will reduce the heat of the liver and kidneys. It is — Se and cooling. J 222 RECIPES. JUNIPER BUSH. The berries are counter poisons; a resister of pestilence. _ Good in wounds made by serpents or any poisonous reptiles. A lye made of the ashes will cure the dropsy. They expel wind, strengthen the stomach and eyesight, and repress flux. Good for palsy and falling sickness. Eating eight or ten ber- ries every morning, fasting, are good for bad cough and short- ness of es and consumptive complaints. KNOT GRASS. The juice will stop bleeding at the nose or stomach. The powder of it taken inwardly is good for counteracting the bite of any venomous creature. It will expel worms, and is good in inflammation, canker, ulsers, broken joints and ruptures. - LADY'S SLIPPER, Is used instead ot valeriah: and in most cases preferable to opium. It promotes sleep and allays the headache. Take one tea-spoonful of the powder in warm water and sugar. INDIAN HEMP, in good for palpitation of the heart, and in old nervous com- plaints of women. Take a tea-spoonful in molasses, three times a day. Is a good substitute for opium. oe GUM ARABIC, Js good i in dysentery, hoarseness, whooping cough and sup- eesion of urine; mix with barley. Slippery amsenetia.: water sweetened with loaf sugar, strengthens the appetite. ~ REOIPES. 223 _GENTIAN, : Is good for gout, hysteria, serofula and. ape Take from ten to ide grains HORSERADISH, Gives appetite, strengthens the digestive orgaus, helps — hoarseness, and is good in rheumatic complaints. Is good in producing sien or aed of mucous from: he lungs; 28: colds and oe 3 HOPS, Are good in dysentery, nervous tremors, weakness and — tremors of inebriates; produce slumbers; help nervous irrita- tions. Also in after pains of women, ‘nd valuable in fomen- tations 2 HOARHOUN D, Strengthens the lungs, Good in coughs, aa ‘ie phlegm in the stomach. “FOR STOPPAGE OF URINE. Bathe the bowels with the Pain Extractor, and add ten drops of spirits turpentine to forty of the Pain Extractor, which makes it better. If bad, wet a cloth of three or four thicknesses with the above and lay it on the bowels, and give pumpkin seed tea freely. 994 RECIPES. TO CURE SORE HEADS. \ Stew four ounces of brook liverwort in four ounces of fresh butter, to a salve, and anoint the head with it; or take two ounces of the oil of wheat, one-eighth ounce oil of lavender cut in four ounces of alcohol, and anoint the head with it. This will cure almost any sore. You may add one-half ounce of camphor, one-half ounce of oil origanum, one-eighth ounce oil of hemlock, one-half ounce of allum, one-fourth ounce of sal nitre, one-fourth ounce of salt, dissolved in two ounces of strong vinegar and shake them all together. Makes an excel- lent linament fer burns, sprains, bruises, neuralgia pains or rheumatism. BILIOUS PILLS. Take one and one-half pounds of dandelion roots and tops, and boil wellin two quarts of water, strain and simmer down thick, and pill it with rye flower.. Take one'to three at night on going to bed, and if they do not operate, renew the dose in the morning. After they operate, take a little cordial be- fore eating, a few days. od FOR SALT RHEUM. ‘Take one ounce of Peruvian bark, two ounces of sulphur, in one-half pint molasses; and take three table-spoonfuls a day. Wash the afflicted parts with lime water, and anoint them with mutton tallow. ——— HEMLOCK = Is a powerful astringent, and is good to bathe with i in case of falling of the womb. “Weak joints and for bathing, add RECIPES, - 225 TO CURE VENEREAL DISEASES OF ALL KINDS. First, give a thorough portion of the Reformed Botanic — and Indian Physic. Physic frequently with it, then make a syrup of one-half pound of sarsaparilla roots, one-half pound ounces of raisins, four ounces of black cherry bark, four ounces of pulverized guaicum, two ounces of ozerian root, four ounces of parsley root, two ounces of whortleberry leaves, eight ounces soft water, boil them down in a covered vessel to two quarts, eight ounces of sweet spirits of nitre, four ounces of pulverized — gum arabic, eight ounces of loaf sugar, four ounces of cubebs, ~ four ounces of carbonate of soda, and shake them all well together; and after the physic operates, take a wine-glassful three times a day one-half hour before eating, diet light, and let your drink be barley coffee or cold water. If any invol- untary flow of semen, syringe the penis with a strong decoc- tion of sweet flag every evening on going to bed, and bathe all over one-quarter of an hour with a solution made of two _ounces of alum, one ounce of salt, one-half ounce of saltp one-half ounce of saleratus in two quarts of water; wipe off and bathe lightly with the Pain Extractor, and hen anoint - r with Camphorated Oil. _—- FOR LUNG COMPLAINTS. Take two ounces of honey, one ounce of balsam firr, one 4 ounce of white pine turpentine, one ounce of juniper berries, eut in one pint of Holland gin and shaken well together, Take a tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting. You may add one-half ounce of saltpetre, when the patient is dropsical - of burdock roots, one-half pound of sweet elder flowers, four _ of liquorice root, and put them in one and one-half gallons of strain while warm, then add eight ounces of balsam copaiva,. * ota Rae ei ia) Ga WN ame Sa Mab 226 : RECIPES. TO CURE FEVER AND AGUE. “Give one table spoonful of the juice of burdock leaves every fifteen minutes, when you feel the symptoms of the fit coming FOR SORE EYES. Make a strong tea of primrose leaves and the best green tea, equal parts, and wash the eyes with it. It seldom fails effecting a.cure. - FOR NFRVOUS DEBILITY, CONSUMPTION, OR RELAX. — Put one ounce of baberry bark, one ounce of white oak bark, one-fourth ounce of gum myrrh, pulverized, in one pint of good Holland gin. Take one tea-spoonful three times a “th fasting. - RHEUMATIC WASH. ‘Take one ounce of Cayenne pepper, two ounces of gum myrrh and steep well together, strain and put in one quart of best brandy; bathe the parts afflicted with it. In case of cholera, add one ounce of camphor gum, Take twenty-five drops every ten minutes, in cold water. a FOR INJECTIONS, Take one gill of warm water, one gill new milk, one-half ounce Epsom salts, one ounce loaf sugar, one-fourth ounce ~ lard, sweet oil or fresh butter; stir them all together and give _ them Ulood warm, in extreme cans, every fifteen minutes ue RECIPES. * 227 CURE FOR CHOLERA. Gaitasdeopten adenstevehil FOR CORNS. Put on dry cotton and keep it on till cured. RECIPES, 329 . FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG. Wash the wound immediately with warm vinegar and tepid water; dry it and then apply a few drops of muriatic acid, which will destroy the poison of the saliva or neutralize it, and the cure is effected. Physic the patient well every three days with the Indian Physic, and dress the wound twice’ a day with the Cancer Salve, and cleanse it when dressed with castle-soap suds. FOR RHEUM ATISM, Step one ounce of lobelia in one quart of strong cider vinegar and bathe the afflicted part with it oe te or three times a day. . < FOR BURNS. Wrap the patint immediately in dry cotton and keep it on three or four days without opening it: When opened, dress it with pumpkin seed oil, if it is to be had—if not, linseed or _ sweet oil constantly—keep it from the air with dry cotton. Or plunge the part affected in wheat flour, and keep it covered — from the air some minutes—then wrap it up in dry cotton. — s EVAN’S OR CHOCOLATE ROOT, Is good in consumptive cases and debility—it is better than Peruvian bark in the cure of dysentery, diarrhoea, wind colic, affections of the stomach, asthma, whites, and flooding. It is good in fevers after a proper evacuation, and it may be given till the fever is broken. Take one pint of the tea or six grains of the powder, and divide it into three equal parts, and mix it with honey. It is good for salt rheum and scald _ head by

» * ea icy 2 Te 236 RECIPES, SALVE FOR BURNS. Take wild lavender, (green,) elder bark, chamomile and parsley, equal parts, and stew them in mutton tallow—add to it beeswax, rosin and white daton, equal parts. If of long standing, pound mutton suet and chalk well together, dress the sore with it twice a day, and wash it with castile soap. FOR THE BITE OF A RATTLESNAKE, _ Pound green hoarhound and squeeze out the juice—take a table-spoonful three times a day, and put the pounded herb to the wound. Change it twice a day, and drink a spoonful of sweet oil every night when going to bed. - TO CURE MENSES, (OBSTRUCTED.) Make a strong tea of pennyroyal and put to one gill of the tea one tea-spoonful of pulverized black pepper, and take it aa you go to bed. Soak the feet in hot water tinctured well with salt and saleratus, before taking the tea. THORN-APPLE TEA, 7 May be used in cancers, sores, rheumatism, and asthma. _It makes a good ointment for the piles. Smoke the roots for the asthma. It has cured when all other remedies failed. SALVE TO GURE OLD SORE LEGS. Take the bark of shrub maple, boil it to a strong liquid, and wash with-it. Boilsome down to a salve and dress with it, Wash the sore with the liquid every time it is dressed. 7 e RECIPES. 237 FOR RHEUMATISM IN THE LOINS. _ Take ten drops of the oil of sassafras on loaf sugar three times a day, and bathe the parts with the oil in brandy. Or sweat with hemlock boughs, and bathe with brandy, salt, and ground hemlock oil, ten drops to one-half gill of brandy, for six nights successively. —_—— . » # SALVE FOR WOMAN’S SORE BREAST, OR ‘ANY SORE, Take tobacco and spikenard, equal parts, boil them in chamber-lye till almost dry, squeeze out the juice, and add to it pitch and beeswax—simmer it over a moderate fire till a salve, and apply it to the part afflicted. é GARDEN MUSTARD SEED, Is good in stomach pains. White mustard is good in dyspeptical complaints. A tea-spoonful will net as an emetic. It wil expel power from the stomach. : A LINIMENT. a ee Take one quart of alcohol, one ounce oil origanum, one ouncé camphor gum, one ounce Venice turpentine, one ounce ~ oil of spike, all cut and shook together. May be used for ™ sprains, bruises, and swellings of all kinds. REMARKS ON YARROW. A strong cea made of yarrow and wash the head with it often, will prevent the hair from dropping off. It is good as -asalve. The root, chewed, prevents the tooth-ache, and is good in diabetes diseases. 238 ee RECIPES, MULLIN, Mullin is useful in various complaints. When boiled in milk and drank, is good for looseness of the bowels and flux. A strong tea made of mullin and drank freely will help cramps, convulsions, fits, bursts, old coughs, and good for opening urinary passages and gravel. A tea of the seeds drank freely will cure colic of all kinds and gout. The leaves pounded and laid on a new-sprained joint will ease the pain and reduce the swelling. FEMALE ROOT AND FLOWER, Is good in all female difficultiés, or menses, obstructed. It is found plentifully in the State of Michigan. It has green leaves and yellow blossoms, and has three or four roots to a stem. YELLOW DOCK. Yellow dock is good in dropsical cases, and cleanses the blood. _ CRAMP ROOT. Cramp root made into a tea cures night atone aah it in : ee and it is good in fevers. FOR MENSES, (OBSTRUCTED.) ~ Take four ounces summer savory, one ounce pennyroyal, one ounce sage, one ounce spearmint, steep all in one quart water thoroughly, and take one-half wine-glassful three times ad day, one-half hour before eating. ee eh ee Me ee ee ee es ae Oe ee a i ae ee ley ee ae A ee ee RECIPES, 239 FOR FEVER AND AGUE, Take two ounces cloves, two ounces cream tartar, two ounces Peruvian bark, two ounces black cherry or dogwood bark, pulverize them all together, and put them in one quart best port wine. Cut one-fourth drachm African cayenne, one- half ounce gum myrrh, in alcohol, and add to it. Shake it well together, and take what thestomach can bear during the eS wall days. 3 FOR THE JAUNDICE. Take four ounces bayberry bark, four ounces black cherry bark, two ounces barberry bark, and boil them in one quart water toa pint. Strain and add one pint good cider. | Take two table-spoonfuls three times a day before eating. Keep the bowels easy with the Vegetable Physic. SORE MOUTH. Take four ounces low blackberry leaves and steep in one pint water—add one-half ounce borax, two ounces loaf sugar, and hold it in the mouth and gargle the throat with it. ~ Ca we TO TAKE OFF FRECKLES OR TAN. _ Take four ounces lemon juice, one drachm powdered borax, two drachms loaf sugar, and bottle and shake it together a few days. Bathe the afflicted part with it every morning. NIGHT SWEATS. "Give cold sage tea and sweet fern, canal. parts, fealy; or ; ox balm tea, Either will answer. 240 RECIPES. TO BREAK SWELLINGS AND STOP MORTIFICATION. o®pread a bat of tow on a pewter plate, then kill a chicken and let the blood fall on the tow; apply this three times to the swelling and it will break it and stop mortification, Or take good brandy and cold water, equal parts, bathe the -swelling with it three or four hours, and it will stop mortifica- tion. I tried it on myself. Or put on Hungary bryer leaves with whiting, in the form of a poultice, and renew it from time to time; this has stopped mortification when it affected the bone. : FOR WIND COLIC IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Take four ounces of ginseng, two ounces white Solomon's seal, one ounce calmus, dry and powder them fine, and mix them together. Give a grown person one tea-spoonful, and a child accordingly. FOR THE TOOTH-ACHE, IF THE TOOTH IS HOLLOW. Wet a cloth of three or four thicknesses with the Pain Ex- tractor and lay it on the side of the face where the aching is, and wet a wee lint with it and put it into the tooth as _ you go to bed, ee FOR THE RICKETS IN CHILDREN. Take one ounce of powdered rheubarb in one ounce of enceviniris, and put them in one quart of wine or brandy. Give a small child a table-spoonful, and an adult may take a gill three times a-day. If any part of the body is affected, _ bathe with brandy and drink turkey root a oe in wine, _ three or four times a day. 4 RECIPES. ; 241 FOR TUMORS IN THE BREAST. Take spikenard, comfrey roots, yellow oak bark and to- bacco leaves, boil them to a strong liquid in water, and wash the tumor with it. Add to some of the liquor, mutton tal- low, beeswax and rosin—simmer them to a salve, and dress the tumor with it once a day. Take a mandrake root physic as often as once in two weeks. A dose of the mandrake root pulverized is one spoonfal. = ; FOR NUMB PAISY. Bathe ‘the. benumbed part with hot salt and neki or the Pain Extractor; put the feet and legs in hot mustard water, and give camphor gum in hot water, eight or ten drops of the oil of anise, one tea-spoonful every ten or fifteen minutes ; keep them wrapped up warm over the tub of hot water, and give a table-spoonful of Slumbering Drops every three hours, with a little mutton soup soon after; rub the arms and legs ~ with flannel cloths, and give a gentle physic. I ed the Indian Physic. It seldom fails effecting a cure. it Z ae eer d FOR DROPSY. Take two ounces milkweed root, two ounces perc: aie two ounces burdock, two ounces juniper berries, all pounded or pulverized, put in one quart of good gin. Take a table- spoonful three times a day, fasting. TO MAKE THE TINCTURE OF LIFE. 5 Take six ounces rectified spirits of wine, one ounce origa- num, one ounce Hungary water, one-half ounce . spirits of lavender, and cut them all together. ¥ i css ina aM allel — “942 RECIPES. TO MAKE A POULTICE FOR SWELLINGS. Moisten rye bread with cold water, lay it on a cloth, and sprinkle it with black pepper and ginger. Moisten it with vinegar, and put on a laying of bread. Put on the pepper, ginger and vinegar and spread on the bread again, and Jay it on the swelling. SALMONTAG, Is good for inflammation, inwardly or outwardly. From one to three grains given inwardly, in one table-spoonful of cold water, is a dose, and dissolved in cold water and used outwardly. It neutralizes the gastric juice taken inwardly, and gives action to. the nerves when used outwardly. FOR DROPSY IN THE HEAD. Give large doses of the Indian Physic, and wet a cloth of three or four thicknesses with liniment profusely, lay it on the crown of the head, and bathe the temples frequently with it. After the physic operates, give the Slumbering Drops three or four times a day, fasting, and every three or four so give barley water freely. ——a DIABETES, Cut two weather's bladders fine and put them in one quart good wine, shake it together a few days, strain, and take a tea-spoonful three times a day, one-half hour before eating. You may add one-eighth ounce oil of anise eut in brandy. STIFF JOINTS. | ang Bathe with soft soap and vinegar frequently. ~ RECIPES. tse (248 Pe UNIVERSAL CURE-ALL, AND TO ‘RESTORE WEAK LIMBS. | _ Make an ointment of one-half ounce oil of lavender, three ounces sulphuric ether, one ounce alcohol, and two drachms Jaudanum—mix all together well, and anoint a weak limb with it and it will give it strength and vigor. By rubbing this composition on or around the part effected, will give Strength to any weak part. It will cure in the liver com- plaint, broken breasts, sore or weak eyes, Rub it around but not on the sore or the eye. Mix it with goose oil and then give a little physic, and it will help chilblains—and by giv- ing one or two tea-spoonfuls in a little sweetened tea, will cure pains in the side and stomach, It is good in almost all diseases. FOR BURNS. Take one ounce of balsam and two ounces of. sweet oil, mix well together, and apply it with a feather. Wet a cloth with it and lay it on. ss Wash the head and hair in cold evel abate ack i eee ning, and brush the hair and head till warm, FOR FEVER AND AGUE. Give two pills prepared for men at night, or physic well with the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic, and then give a teaspoonful of blood root in whiskey (say one ounce to a pint) every morning, fasting, till cured. Diet light, and drink what cold water you wish at all times. 244 RECIPES, TO PREVENT*THE HAIR FROM TURNING GREY. Take one-half ounce vinegar of conthorides, one ounce Eu de Cologne, and one ounce rosewater. Wet and comb the hair while wet with it. You may add one-half drachm oil of nutmeg and ten drops oil- of lavender. SCALD-HEAD. Physic well with the Indian Physic and wash the head with a strong tea made ‘of the root and herb of J ohn’s-wort and white pine bark, equal parts, twice a day. FOR DIABETES. Take four ounces spruce gum, two ounces tamarack gum, two ounces blue violet roots, pulverized, and one quart of brandy. Take a large tea-spoonful three times a day, fast- ing. ‘ ‘ FALLING OF THE WOMB. Drink a strong tea made of (equal parts) clary, sage, and red raspberry leaves—add one ounce each to a quart of wa- ter. Sweeten well with loaf sugar. Take a wine-glassful three times a day. eeeeneemel MENSES, (TOO MUCH.) Put one-half pound fire-weed tops in one pint good brandy, . and add one-half ounce alum, two ounces wickum tops or roots, one-fourth ounce saltpetre—shake well tapes, and take a — every two hours till cured. i S| thoxough portion. 7 RECIPES, 245 FOR PALPITATION OF THE HEART. ‘Take four ounces red beet roots, one ounce camphor gum, pulverized, and put in one-half pint brandy. Take one tea- spoonful every half hour till relieved. SYRUP FOR INWARD WOUNDS. _ Take two ounces John’s-wort and steep in one-half pint wine. Take one table-spoonful three times a day, fasting. ee JOHN'S- WORT SALVE, Take two ounces powdered John’s-wort iat put in four ounces-mutton tallow, one ounce balsam firr, and one-half . ounce saltpetre. Spread and dress with it twice a day. — FOR ERYSIPELAS. Physic often with the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic. Sweat the head with hemlock boughs, and wet cloths with strong alum water and lay on or bathe the afflicted part with it. Let the patient diet light, and. be. eareful and not take gold. LONDON TINCTURE OF LIFE. Take one pint alcohol, one-eighth ounce rectified lavender, one ounce oil origanum, one-fourth ounce oil of sassafras, > ounce red ee and shake well together. . eee = TO CURE FEVER AND AGUE, Disk hepaesteaiea when the Ati coming on take 0 = 9 oe ee ee ee ee a ee Cn = . ne —-_ 246 RECIPES. FOR THE PILES, Take mullin tops (in blossom), nettles, milkweed, and ap- ple Peru, equal parts, and boil well together—strain, and add _ to one pint one pound fresh butter. Simmer all to a salve, and anoint with it. Or boil four ounces dogwood bark, four ounces yarrow tops and roots, two ounces sweet elder bark, in one pint water—strain, and add one half pound hog’s lardy Simmer down to a salve, and anoint the afflicted Bet with it. TO STOP THE NOSE BLEEDING. Chew the leaves of smooth fireweed and swallow the juice. Wet a piece of lint with the decoction and put it up the nose. The green leaves pounded, or a cloth wet with the decoction or juice and laid on a wound, will stop the flow of blood. a TO CURE THE PILES. ‘Drink a strong tea made of fireweed, and pound the leaves and lay them on the afflicted part, will cure yi the _ The same will cure the dysentery. FOR SALT RHEUM. Soak pulverized cocosh root in ‘cold water, and mix Evan’s root with it, equal parts. Drink the water freely, and wash - the afflicted part with it, will effect a cure. WORMS. — Take two ounces gokden seal, two ounces butternut bade, add one-half ounce alum. ‘Give one ton spocedilverclg fei ~ RECIPES. ’ 247 : DYSENTERY. é Steep : four ounces dysentery root over a slow fire in one , pint water, strain, and mix in one ounee browned flour. Take one table-spoonful every two hours. It can Be mixed or put in one pint port wine, for weak, delicate a me taken as above, / MENSES, (00 MUCH OR TOO LITTLE.) — "Take four ounces of the roots of white cohosh, steep in one pint water, and put in one pint port wine, Take one table-spoonful every four hours, and in extreme cases take it every two hours. Use the red cohosh in the same way in cases of stoppage of the menses. — —_— _FOR BILIOUS COLIC. Take two ounces mullin seed, one ounce mandrake root, one-half ounce blood root, steep them altogether, strain, and — add two ounces epsom salts, one drachm saltpetre, two ounces sugar, and one-half gill good vinegar. Shake all together, and take one table-spoonful every hour for eight hours. If no relief, give an injection of tobacco tea and linseed oil. RHEUMATIC LINIMENT, Take one and a half pints alcohol, one ounce oil of spike, one ounce oil of hartshorn, one ounce camphor gum, one ounce oil of hemlock, one ounce oil origanum, one ounce camphor, shake them all together, and add one ounce alum, one ounce saltpetre, dissolved in vinegar. — Shake it Nye Benes gether and bathe with it. 248 REOIPES. - CONSUMPTIVE SYRUP. Take hyssop, balm, Evan’s root, lungwort, liverwort, and water cresses, eight ounces of each. Steep them in one gal- lon of WKter to two quarts, Add two quarts of brandy, two pounds honey, one pound raisins, two drachms ‘pulverized nutmeg, two drachms gum myrrh, two drachms mace, and two drachms cloves—steep it down to five pints, and bottle it. Take a wine-glassful three times a day, before eating. Or take one tea-spoonful of burdock leaf juice three times.a day, before eating ; or diet on carrots almost entirely—cook them as suits you best—for three months, os FOR THR ASTHMA. Take four ounces onions, four ounces honey, one pint water, one-half ounce saltpetre, steep and make into a syrup. Take one tea-spoonful three times a day. . Take one-eighth ounce oil of peppermint, one-fourth ounce ' oil of sassafras, one-half ounce spirits of layender, one-half pint alcohol, and one ounce of the Tincture of Life. Take one tea-spoonful for a dose. : TO EAT OUT PROUD FLESH. Put on pulverized ragon’s-tooth. Tt will destroy all sided: sores, TINCTURE OF LIFE. Take t two ounces of gum myrrh, one-eighth ounce African cayenne ‘one quart alcohol, and shake them all together. _ . used in fits, add one-cighth ounce oil of lavender. ne RECIPES, 249 TO KILL WORMS. Mash gunpowder fine and put it in molasses, and give one- half tea-spoonful to a child. If needed, repeat the dose. Or -give the child a small crust of bread, then give a tablggspoon- fal of ram pwith one-half drachm of alum. Or ary angle- table-spoonful at atime. Or steep elecampane roots in wine, . and give a table-spoonful morning and evening. Or give a _ tea-spoonful of runnet in molasses for several mornings, to both women and children. j FOR THE RHEUMATISM AND GENERAL DEBILITY. Put four cunces of garget root in one quart of good gin, shake it well together for twenty-four hours, and take a tea- spoonful night and morning, fasting, for ten or twelve days. Take a little of the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic. GRAVEL. “Take ‘four ounces hearts-ease and. two ounces of the roots of Jacob’s ladder, make into a strong tea and ‘drink freely of it till cured. FLUOR ALBUS, >» Rub two ounces Peruvian or white oak bark and one ounce quick lime together, and pour on thirty ounces lime water. Let it stand twelve hours and give one table-spoonful of the preparation morning and evening. Or make a strong tea of lady-mantle, and take one-half pint morning and evening. If the case is hard, give injections of thie same. 250 REOIPES. FOR INWARD WEAKNESS. Take one pound spikenard, one-half pound black cherry bark, one-half pound self-heal, one-fourth pound sarsaparilla, and bgjl in three quarts water, strong. Strain and add one pound loaf sugar and one-half pint alcohol. Take a wine glassful three times a day, fasting. BILIOUS COLIC. Give the Indian Physic or prepared salts freely, and give an injection of strong tobacco tea and linseed oil, with one drachm saltpetre dissolved in the liquor. Use the Pain Ex- tractor outwardly on the bowels. tere LOOK JAW. Give brandy, or Hot Drops, or Tincture of Life, or tincture of tehaies or the Pain Extractor. HEART-BURN, Chew a swallow the meats of two. or three ay ld stones, and it will effect an immediate cure. _ FOR FROSTBITTEN FEET OR BURNS: Bimasier the bark of elder or plantain leaves in the fat of a , _ dunghill fowl. Anoint the afflicted parts with the ointment, _ and warm it in by the fire. POULTICE FOR INFLAMMATION, Put on scraped or wilted carrots and rye meal, moistened with salt = vinegall - : eit De RECIPES. 251 FOR TYPHUS FEVER: : Shower with cold water even in the most deranged state. - After showering rub dry and put into a warm bed. Or take one and one-half ounce powdered saltpetre, and one and one- half ounce oil of vitriol mixed in a cup; place on a hot iron and put in nitre, and add one drachm or one-sixth part of the vitriol at a time; stir it with a pipe while mixing; shift the cup in different parts of the room to prevent contagion. TO COUNTERACT INWARD. POISON. Take one ounce ground mustard in one gill warnr water, and after it vomits give one gill of new milk and two table- spoonfuls of the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic every hour till it operates. Drink sweet milk freely and eat raw onions, and give a little Health Bitters. SALT RHEUM. Take four ounces cohosh root, four ounces frost weed, four , ounces Evan’s root, and boil in two quarts water. You may | add two ounces burdock seeds. Strain and drink it freely, and wash the afflicted part with the same. After bathing, — “rub on mutton tallow. —n STIFF JOINTS. Beat eggs and water well together, and bathe and wash the afflicted part every two or three hours till well. "SWIMMING OF THE HEAD. Put a poultice of powdered bittersweet root around the neck, ’ 252 RECIPES. ; | FELONS. : Boil pounded blue flag root in skim milk and thicken with Indian meal, and poultice thoroughly. Shift often till easy. _ Dress with the Cancer Salve. Or take one ounce salt, one _ ounce castile-soap, one ounce spirits turpentine, one ounce of : the yolk of an egg, one ounce mutton tallow, all melted and — stirred together till it forms a salve, and dress with this every ight hours for a few days. : ERYSIPELAS. Take one-half pound dwarf maple bark, four ounces witeh hazel bark, four ounces whistle wood bark, four ounces bur- dock roots and boil all together in two quarts water. Strait — and sweeten with molasses. Drink freely of it till cured. = BAD COUGH. Take equal parts of white maple, white ash, white oak moss, and make into a strong tea. Sweeten with honey and ' take a wine-glassful three times a day, and oftener if necessary PHYSIC FOR BILIOUS COLIC. _ ‘Take aloes, mace, myrrh, saffron, cloves, cinnamon, anise seed, Epsom salts, sunflower leaves, two ounces each; add one ounce saltpetre, pulverize all together, and take one tea spoonful every six hours till it operates. FROG FELON UNDER THE TONGUE. Hold weak lye in the mouth as hot as you can bear it, with some garlic, and continue using the-lye till well. _ RECIPES. “258 REMARKS oN SAGE. A decoction of sage taken freely helps in stoppage of urine | _ or gravel, and helps to dry up old sores. The juice of sage _ sweetened with honey, is good,in consumptive cases, A pill made of equal parts of sage seed, red pepper and spikenard root, and taken, say one or two morning and evening, will help pain in the head and joints, lethargy, and falling sick- ness. It may be used with wormwood and tansy, as a regu-— lator of female complaints. Sage juice, when dropped in the ~ ear, will’ help the memory and kill worms. Sage, plantain and rosemary steeped in water, and add a little alum and | _ sweetened with honey, is good for a sore mouth and all canker sores, a ie : - Ss = < FALLING SICKNESS, Take two ounces powdered seeds John’s-wort and put in _ one-half pint wine. Take one tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting. SOLOMON'S: SEAL The white Solomon’s seal, made into a alse, | is ooo for sores. A decoction of it is good for sprains or slip joints, or to dress broken bones. Wash and drink freely of it will take away blotches and freckles on the face. ‘SPIKENARD, Is good as a poultice for inflammations and swellings. Is made into a tea and taken for coughs, inflammations and consumption. Steeped in wine, is- useful in all complaints; externally or or fee : RECIPES. MENSES (TOO LITTLE OR STOPPED). Sweat thoroughly and afterwards give a little of the Re formed Botanic and Indian Physic; or a little of the Man- _-drake Physic, and after give some strengthening cordials or ‘Slumbering Drops; or yellow carrots, one-half pound i in one _quart water, boiled, and drink freely ; ; or take one ounce cham- omile, one ounce may-weed, one ounce smart-weed, two ounces hearts-ease, all steeped in one quart water, well sweetened and — - drank. freely, generally cures. 4 FEVER AND AGUE. “Take one-fourth ounce lobelia seeds or leaves pulverized, ~and put into one pint rum or brandy; add one-half pound lady’s slipper and steep them well together, and add one-half ounce pulverized blood root, one ounce pulverized black cherry bark, one ‘ounce ginger and one pint Hot Drops, all put and shook together. Give a tea-spoonful in hot water when the fit is coming on, and repeat | the dose every half hour till the patient vomits. Then give a gentle vegetable physic of the Mandrake Preparation and Health Bitters, one tea-spoonful three times a day before eating, till cured. “SPINAL COMPLAINTS. Bathe the spine with the Tincture of Life or Rheumatic Drops, freely. Ca SCURVY. Take four pounds nettle roots or leaves, four ounces bur- dock roots or leaves, boil well together in one pint water, and — one table-spoonful three times a day, before eating. RECIPES. 255 CAN CER PLASTER. Take one-half ounce potash wa four ounces turpentine; rub them together, spread a plaster, lay it on and keep it there till it comes off itself. Apply this plaster from time to - time till the cancer comes out. . After that heal the sore with any healing salye; soap salve is the best. Take a portion of the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic every eight days, and drink freely of the Blood Purifier for three months. ~ TO CURE GRAVEL _ Take one ounce ox-balm root, one ounce sassafras bark, of . the root, two ounces gravel root or weed, one ounce juniper berries, and put them in one quart good gin. Drink a wine- | glassful three times a day, fasting. oe ANOTHER. Steep gravel weed strong and drink freely of the tea, will dissolve the hard stone in the bladder. Or make a tea not the roots of Jacob’s ladder, ay drink freely. : MENSES (TOO MUCH). Steep one pound smooth fire-weed tops in one quart water, strong; strain and add one and one-half pint good French brandy, and bottle it tight. Give one half table-spoonful every hour till stopped. Used as a wash will stop a flow of blood in any form. WENS. Mix salt and yolk of an egg together till it forms a paste, and dress once in twelve hours till well. 256 RECIPES. AN EASY PHYSIC. Fill a pint cup with barberry bark, simmer it one hour, and _ take one-half gill of this every four hours till it operates. It does not distress the patient. Or add to the barberry, elder _ bark, flowers or berries, and burdock root. Steep them as - aboye. Strain, and put in one ounce epsom salts and one - drachm saltpetre. Take a wine-glassful as you go to bed, and one in the a if no operation. FOR RHEUMATISM, Boil beech bark tea down to a plaster, and lay it on the _ part affected ; or boil red pepper in strong vinegar, and bathe the part afflicted with it thoroughly every night at bed-time; or anoint the joints with black snake’s oil, before the fire, twenty minutes night and morning for a week. -_—_— SORE ‘MOUTH, THROAT, AND STOMACH. ‘Take one ounce sage, one ounce burnt alum, one ounce burnt or parched egg shells, two ounees loaf sugar, one ounce honey, one ounce bitter walnut meats, pulverize all together, and put in one quart water. Steep, strain, and bottle tight. Wash and gargle the throat, and swallow a little, two or Ape times a sae - re FOR INFLAMMATION IN WOUNDS. Simmer white swamp moss in vinegar and put it on the part affected, as a poultice—when cold renew. Continue this application for four or six hours, and bathe in the same for @ day or two. Or make a poultice of snake-weed and ae, ahd apply it as above described. ee - RECIPES. 2 eee - FOR NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE. Put on apple Peru leaves dipped in warm vinegar—at the same time bind a poultice of them on your feet. Continue these applications three hours. Or bathe the head with red_ pepper tea; or take one-half pint of hogweed and goosefoot tea. x FOR SUDDEN HOARSENESS. Make a strong tea of burdock we, and take a tea-spoon- _ ful every fifteen minutes. FOR THE JAUNDICE. _ am Boil one large carrot in two quarts of milk, and ease’ it your constant drink for one month ; or take the bark of the root of peach tree and black cherry tree bark, equal parts, steep in cider, and drink one-half pe? of it = times a day, fasting. FOR PAISIED LIMBS. — “Wash i in a strong tea of sage, mustard and nettle roots. FOR THE NOSE BLEED. Give a table-spoonful of pulverized egg shells three days running and skip three, for nine mornings. FOR THE LIVER COMPLAINT. 7 Eat dandelions, for herbs, and drink freely of s tea made of them; make ay of them and take throtigh the winter, 2 Sa et Se eS ae eee —— a50° be RECIPES, CURE FOR CANCERS. Cover the wound first with powdered borax, then take equal parts of borax and blue vitriol, pulverize together— “melt hog’s dard, beeswax and rosin, say six ounces, and stir in four ounces of the powdered borax and vitriol. Spread it on linen cloth and Jet it remain three days, and so continue till the cancer comes out. After it is out, dust in loaf sugar, pulverized, and wash out the wound with castile soap suds made of rain or snow water. Dress it with'a salve made of fresh butter, beeswax, elder bark and loaf sugar, all steeped together and strained. : CURE FOR BROKEN BREASTS. : ‘Take one-half pound mutton tallow, one-fourth pound beeswax, one-fourth pound rosin, melt all together, add one gill alcohol, and simmer over a slow fire till all‘is mixed. Spread a plaster on thin leather or cloth, with a hole for the nipple, and lay it on. : : ' FOR SORE EYES. Beat the white of six eggs in one-half pint of brandy, and let it'stand forty-eight hours—then strain it slowly and bot- tle it. Wash your eyes with it night and morning. FOR QUINSY, RATTLES, OR SORE THROAT. ° Take green frogs one pound, fresh butter one pound, bake them well, and strain the oil well—add one-half pound honey or snolnsace, and take one-half tea-spoonful every fifteen min- utes. Drink sage tea sweetened with loaf sugar and sweet cream. Bathe your throat with the oil, yr tae > 3 ; ; RECIPES. . 259 CURE FOR THE ASTHMA. Pulverize and dry skunk’s cabbage root, and take one-half tea-spoonful when going to bed; or steep the roots in water and take a wine-glassful—follow up taking it and it will cure ; or take one ounce camphor gum, one ounce firr bal- sam, four ounces honey, and put them in one pint alcohol, (95 per cent.) Shake them well together till dissolved, Take a vea-epooniae ae times a day. “Shake it well before taking. ~ FOR RHEUMATISM. . Take one-half bushel of white beech bark, ground, one- half bushel tamarack bark, one-half bushel balsam bark, put them all together, and boil them well. Strain and boilfit- down thick. Add one ounce spirits turpentine, boil it to a = and put it on the afflicted pari. oe FOR ‘THE AGUE GRAVEL. Take one-half pint of pas seeds, (shell them,) one- fourth ounce bath root, pulverize them fine, ‘and mix it with the white of an egg. Divide it into six pills, and give one every hour. - FOR THE LOCKJAW WHEN HURT. Make free use of the Health Bitters, or take camphor gum in hot water, or both, freely. Use spirits freely. FOR INFLAMED EYES: Scald mullin leaves in vinegar and lay on asa poultiee, Repeat it every three hours till cured. - = 260 . - RECIPES, TO CURE BURNS. Mix sifted Indian meal with milk and make a poultice of it. Make holes in the poultice and fill them with cat grease. Put a little on the face of the poultice and renew it a few times. a - re FOR DEAFNESS. ies: Take house leek juice and honey, equal parts, well baked in a vial corked up tight, with a hole in the ‘cork, and sur- rounded with bread. Drop two drops in the ear as you go - to bed. CANCER. : é Boil sweet oil in a new-tinned copper vessel twenty-four hours moderately, until it has the appearance of an ointment. Rub the part afflicted, and it will effect a cure in fifteen or twenty days. —F FOR THE BITE OF A DOG OR SERPENT. Take the yolk of an egg, one-half ounce honey and mix well together; grate over it dragons-root and mix in flour sufficient for a poultice. Apply it two or three times. ne COLIC. Make a strong tea of blue flag root and take a wine-glass- ful every hour till cured; or give fifteen drops oil of anise on sugar, every thirty minutes till relieved; or give one table- Spoonful camphor in brandy or rum, once in thirty minutes. RECIPES. 961 INTERMITTENT, CHILL, AND AGUE FEVER. Take eight ounces plantain roots and tops, four ounces — mountain mint or balm, and bojl in one quart water, strain and add one pint brandy. When you have the symptoms take a tea-spoonful, and repeat the dose every fifteen minutes till it vomits or breaks up the fever. Repeat the dose two or three successive days when the fit comes on, and it will effect a cure, Take a little of the Indian or Mandrake and Blood Root Physic. After that take a tea-spoonful of the Health Bitters three times a day. This course of medicine will break ‘up the fit in any climate. ——— VEGETABLE PHYSIC. Take four ounces mandrake, two ounces blood root, one ounce butternut buds, one ounce Epsonr salts, one-half drachm oil of anise, all pulverised and put in one pint India molasses. Take one tea-spoonful every hour. This physic acts power- fully on the liver. SPIN AL COMPLAINTS. Take one and one-half ounce powder burnt clam. sills one-half ounce sugar of milk, one-half ounce sulphur, pulver- ized together; put them in one-half pint wine. Take one tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting. “ TO COUNTERACT SALTPETRE WHEN TAKEN BY MISTAKE. Drink sweet milk freely and profusely. It will counteract camphene ‘or almost any inward poison. You may mix onion juice with it, which makes it better. 7 * £ 262 a RECIPES. FOR CORNS. Bind on cotton wet with spirits turpentine, for twelve or - fifteen days ; if not cured repeat it. Light a brimstone match ~ and let a few drops fall on the corn or wart, which will re move them with very little pain or trouble; or mix the juice of houseleek with balm or yeast that sticks to the barley, and . apply every six hours for eight or ten days, or till the corn is cured ; or dry down radish juice to a soft plaster and apply it, and renew it as often as it gets dry; or spread beer yeast on a Jinen cloth and renew it once a day for six or eight days, or until cured. at atten = ST. ANTHONY'S DANCE. “ Pulverize two ounces cranes-bill and put it into one pint Molasses. Take one table-spoonful morning and evening. _ Drink cider well tinctured with saltpetre, say one-fourth ounce to a quart. SCARLET FEVER. Take one-half ounce saffron and one-half ounce marigold flowers, steep in rum, sweeten well with loaf sugar, and give one tea-spoonful, warm, every two hours, three times. Then give, to a child, one tea-spoonful of the Indian Physic every hour till it operates freely. Then give one-half tea-spoonful of the Slumbering Drops before eating for two days; after. that give the Health Bitters as you did the Drops. Bathe with the Pain Extractor after you give the Physic. Reduce the Pain Extractor one-half with vinegar or water before bathing. Keep the patient comfortably warm. RECIPES, 263 TO OURE SHRUNKEN CORDS, CANCERS OR STIFF JOINTS. Take four ounces fresh butter from a heifer’s first milking, four ounces white beth root, one ounce bee’s-wax, one ounce turpentine and four ounces tobacco; boil the beth root and tobacco well together, strain and simmer it down thick; add the butter, turpentine and wax, and simmer to an ointment; add one and one-half ounce spirits of wine. Anoint the cancer, swelling, stiff joint, shrunken cords, or a woman's swelled breasts, SALVE FOR FRESH WOUNDS. es _ Take four ounces spikenard root, four ounces birth root, _ four ounces bark of the root of dog wood, four ounces moose wood, boiled in one quart water, well strained and simmered down; add one-half pound yellow pine ‘turpentine while warm, and stir together. Dress the wound with it twice a day. a _ THRUSH. Steep four ounces black currants in one pint water; strain and add four ounces loaf sugar, one-half drachm oil of hem- _ lock cut ‘in alcohol, and mix all together, Bathe the throat with the Pain Extractor, and gargle the throat with the syrup and swallow a little. After bathing three or four times, put on a strengthening plaster and wear it till well. STIFF JOINTS, SPRAINS OR BRUISES. Simmer one-half pound blossoms and buds of robin roe tain in one-half pound buttér; strain and bottle, and anoint the affected part with it. 264 RECIPES. THE WHITES. Take four ounces red hollyhock flowers, four ounces bitter- sweet, four ounces yarrow, four ounces wickum, four ounces Nicaragua shavings, four ounces black cherry bark, and boil well together in two quarts water; strain and add one pound loaf sugar, one-half pint fourth proof French brandy, one- half ounce alum, one-half ounce saltpetre, and bottle. Take one table-spoonful three times'a day, one-half" hour before eating. Keep the bowels easy by using the Indian Physic, and take some Wine Bitters or Slumbering Drops. BLIND PILES. Take one ounce balsam firr, one-half ounce balsam of life, two ounces fire-weed buds, one-half ounce balsam copavia, one ounce bitter walnut meats, and put in port wine, or drop- . ped on sugar. Take twenty drops every morning and eve- ning, fasting—and give injections of garget root tea, sweet oil, and one-eighth ounce sal nitre. FEMALE WEAKNESS. ‘Take two ounces knot grass root, three ounces plantain root, two ounces hemp tops, two ounces fire-weed tops, four ounces black cherry bark, two ounces burdock root, four ounces spignard, four ounces sarsaparilla, boil all in two quarts water, strain, and add one pound loaf sugar, one-half pint brandy, one-half ounce saltpetre. Take one table-spoon- ful three times a day. cua es ITCHING OR CRACKED*HEELS. Rub them with red onion juice till cured. ©” » RECIPES. 265 — DYSENTERY, _ Take four ounces white oak bark, four ounces white pine well rossed, six ounces small mullin leaves, and boil them all in two quarts new milk. Take out the bark and leaves and put inPsay one-half ounce pulverized alum. Give-one wine- glassful every two hours, and give an “injection of the same. Never fails to cure. od FOR WOMEN’S SORE NIPPLES. Chew slippery elm bark, rub the nipples with it, att lay it on. It will cure in three days. “ =" PAIN IN THE SIDE “Fry oat-meal i in salt and vinegar, and put it on asa poul- tice. * FOR SICK HEAD-ACHE. Take four ounces Evan’s root, boil in one quart water, strain, and add one drachm nitric acid and two ounces” loaf sugar. Take one large table-spoonful three times a day, fast- ing. KING’S. EVIL. ~ Make a strong tea of king’s evil roots and tops, and drink freely‘of it. Pound the roots and tops, and Jay them on the tumor from time to time till cured. POULTICE TO BRING SWELLINGS TO A HEAD, Moisten rye-meal and lay it on as a poultice. x : SCALD-HEAD. Wash with the lye of white ash bark ashes. Arioint with sweet cream and wash with castile soap suds. Cleanse’ thto blood well by taking the fdfim we en and keep the, ‘easy. —_— TO TAKE OFF FRECKLES. Boil four ounces oat-meal in one quart. strong vinegar, strain, and wash with the tea. URINARY OBSTRUCTIONS. Take four ounces boneset, four ounces quéen ofthe meadow, steep in one quart water, strain, and add one pound sugar. “Take one table-spoonful every four hours. You may add two ounces juniper berries, two ounces dwarf elder berries, we one 9 pat gin. ae CONSUMPTION OF THE BLOOD. i> Drink a strong tea of knot grass freely—sweeten with loat sugar. DEAFNESS AN D DIZZINESS. Dip: garlics in honey and put in the ear; stop the ear up with black wool. ? TO BREAK FEVERS. Soak one pound coolwort in one quart cold water, and drink of it freely. You may make a poultice of the roots and herbs, and laid on any sore, will draw out inflammation. ; RECIPES. 267 CHRONIO RHEUMATISM. Take three pounds red beets, three ounces blood root, one and a half ounces mandrake root, boil all well together, strain, : id boil down thick; then add one ‘ounce spirits of camphor, one ounce strong essence of hemlock, and bathe three times a day for six or eight days. Then steep or boil four ounces prickly ash bark, and four ounces princes’ pine, in one quart water to a pint, and add one pint good cider. Take a wine-glassful three times a day, one-half hour before — If costive, move the dowels: with the Indian ee or prepared salts. = ——s * VASES IN THE — Mix one-fourth ounce ‘pulverized wild es one ounce bitter walnut meats, pulverized, and two ounces honey. Steep them in one-half pint water, strain, and gargle the throut with it. If the throat is swelled, add one ounce black currants and steep with the rest.» tote ag TO STOP VOMITING. Take four ounces. strawberry leaves, one ounce pounded nutmeg, steep in one pint water, strain, and add one-half pound.Joaf sugar. Give one table-spoonful every hour till TO RAISE A MOISTURE ON THE SKIN. Steep one-eighth pound dried smartweed in one quart of water, strain, and add one pound sugar and one gill gin, Take one table-spoonful every two hours till it takes effect. ‘ 268 ; RECIPES. TO MAKE A BLOOD PURIFIER. Take two. ounces cow-slips, four ounces burdock roots, four ounces sarsaparilla roots, two ounces yellow dock, two ounces. spignard roots, two ounces wintergreen— steep all in one-half gallon water well, strain, and add two pounds loaf sugar-and one-half pint port wine. Take one table-spoonful three times a day. - FOR THE EBAR-ACHE, Pat sonated onion in the ear and fill it with black wuld CORDIAL FOR DUMB AGUE. . Pat four ounces Seneca snake-root in one pint water, boil and strain it, and add one pint port wine, one pound sugar, and one-eight ounce oil of wintergreen, cut in alcohol. Take. one tea-spoonful every two poe RING-WORMS. Take one ounce pounded night-shade, one-half drachm saltpetre, one-half ounce gunpowder, one ounce bitter walnut meats, pulverize all together, and lay it on as a poultice a few times, TO CURE CANKER SORES. Make a wash of gold-thread and bitter walnut meats; to Se 5S > ciictine saltpetre, SS was ee ap SR a AS aa cage ie CM Ne Eg ES eee cee a tye! Pee Re te ee Re ee Soe 3 She ee ee "TO KILL WORMS. _ far: Pound one-half pound green sage, one oammeis buds, one ounce sweet flag— steep in one pint. water, strain, _ and add one ounce alum and one-half pound loaf sugar. Give a tea-spoonful every hour for twelve hours, and then give a gentle physic. After the physic operates, give a tea- spoonful of the Health Bitters for = or eight*days. ~ 3 of TO CURE COLIC. . Make a: strong tea of — and: drink it t i cured. : es Fait Sas RHEUMATISM. Dissolve one ounce gum guaicum, two ounces honey, four ounces spirits of wine, all together. Take twelve drops on sugar two or three times a day, fasting. Drink a tea made of burdock seed, sweetened with honey, freely. Ifyou have , the flying peas series add opedoaret ounce gravel whee eis es Ee - Take one pound wood sorrel, one pound fresh butter, four ounces beeswax, two ounces balsam firr, simmer them all to- gether to a salve, and dress the affected part with it. —_————- FOR FEVER AND AGUE. Put one ounce dried, pulverized blood root in one pint of good brandy, and take a tea-spoonful when the fit is coming on—or take it three times a day, and it will cure, if followed up, before the ppnns is gone. 9 : heer 270 - _ ‘RECIPES. : TO TEST THE CONSUMPTION ON THE LIVER OR LUNGS. Put their urine in a clear glass bottle, hang it in a warm place, and if on the fights a white froth will rise—if on the liver, a dark substance will settle; and when they lift their hand it will hurt on the left side—if on the liver, it will hurt on the right side, ROSE CANCER, Take eight ounces tobacco ashes, twelve ounces yarrow, soak them two hours, strain, and add one quart white lye made of black ash bark. Boil them down thick, and anoint with it often. CANCER IN THE MOUTH, Boil two ounces plantain, two ounces rue, two ounces oney, one ounce alum, put all in one pint vinegar, and gar- gle with it. => DIABETES, Take two ounces ginger, two ounces anise seed, boil in one pint wine, and sweeten with loaf sugar. Take one table- spoonful every two hours. Or boil one-half ounce alum in one pint milk, and drink it. Or put one ounce spruce and one ounce tamarack gum in one pint brandy, and -= one table-spoonful three times a day. _— FOR EAR-ACHE, Diop one drop of pickerel oil in the ear; or broil a slice of fat salt pork and let two or three drops fall in the ear while hot, gives immediate relief. The ‘sap of black ash js good. _-RECIPES, f 271 FOR WEAK EYES. Take one gill strong old hyson tea made without boiling, one-half gill French brandy, strain in, bottle and cork tight ; apply this wash six or eight times a day as you please. Or boil chamomile flowers in sweet milk and wash the eyes sev- eral times a day, quite warm, till it cures. © Bi —— FOR THE ASTHMA. Take the bark of the root of choke-cherry tree, make a strong tea of it, sweeten with molasses, and add rum, so as to preserve it. Take one-half wine-glassful three times a ~ day, fasting. Or take one pint sweet oil, one pint molasses, one pint rum, and take a wine-glassful morning, noon and” night, fasting. FOR SORE BREASTS AND COUGH. ee Dissolve one pound white sugar candy and one-fourth pound garlic in three pints white wine vinegar, and simmer — it over a slow fire to one pint. Bathe the breast with it. For a cough, take one tea-spoonful at night as you retire, TO REDUCE A CANCER TUMOR. Lay on rennet moistened with vinegar. —s BLOATING. Drink freely of Indian hemp tea made of the bark. ——— ; FILM ON THE EYES. - Pat in new honey and burnt alum. _ 272 = RECIPES. - . CURE FOR CANCERS. Take one ounce muriatic acid, six grains chloruret of gold, and mix them well together, - Anoint the cancer often with it. Ifa tumor, spread a little on cotton or lint. If raw, re-. peat from time to time once a day till cured, or poultice with yellow dock root. Wash the cancer with a tea made of the. same, and drink the tea freely. Take a gentle Vegetable Physic every eight or ten days. FOR DROPSY. ~ Take four ounces horseradish, eight ounces rhustard, eight _ ounces lignum vite shavings, two ounces Indian hemp, four ounces milkweed root, four ounces dwarf elder berries or roots, two ounces juniper berries, two ounces balsam flowers, four ounces white pine bark—bruise all together, and put in two gallons cider ; simmer well. together, and take a wine- jlassful three times a day, fasting. Take a gentle Vegetable tysie to — the bowels Seas B: ALDNESS. Take four ounces pulverized lobelia, sak. ouneés brandy : * four ounces sweet. oil, put all in a bottle, and shake together for two or three days. Bathe the head with it twice a day. Before bathing, add one-half drachm_ oil of lavender, and strain it. \ ; ee ' TO CURE ALMOST ANY SORE, Boil pitch pine buds and leaves in milk, and bathe with it twice a day. Pound the buds and boughs and lay them < on the sore will cure when nothing else will. ee PC ae ee eo ee REOIPES. 273 FOR MORTIFICATION. Take one 6 pit yeast, two ounces pulverized slippery elm _ park, two ounces pulverized charcoal, one-eighth ounce salt- _ petre, and put on asa poultice. Shift it often. ~ AGUE IN THE FACE. Heat a green turf, wet it with salt and —— and ay it on. ee COLIC. Boil a balls in sweet milk, skim, and ‘cate: it to the bowels of the patient. . Cee -TO CURE BURNS. ‘Take spirits turpentine, olive oil, linseed oil, ae one ounce, shake well together, and dress with it. WOMEN’S SWELLED LIMBS. ‘Wilt burdock leaves, dip 1 them in hot chamber-lye, and lay : them on the affected part. ‘Shift often, and put drafts on the feet. STRANGURY. Take one-half pound dead honey bees, one-half ounce lo- belia, one ounce dwarf elder berries, boil well together, strain, sweeten it well with honey, and drink freely of it. FOR DYSENTERY. Boil the inside of cat-tail flag in sweet milk, and eat and drink the root’ and tea — 274 RECIPES. FOR. RHEUMATISM. Drink smart-weed tea freely, and poultice the diate with it, Boil it in rum and lay it below the pit of the stomach. Keep renewing it till the pain subsides. ANOTHER, Boil one pound garget berries in one quart aut rum, and take one-half gill every three hours. ; - FOR RHEUMATIC PAINS. Take one table-spoonful of gunpowder in one gill of sweet - milk as you go to bed. FOR DEAFNESS. Take green black ash sap and drop in the ear will gener- ally eure. It seldom fails are: 3 the ear-ache. a FOR CUTS, Take spleen-root and hog-tush brake root, ial parts, jam it up, and put on the wound in the form of a poultice. It - will take out the swelling and heal the wound. * TO TAKE OUT HUMORS FROM OLD SORES. Wet blue clay with rinegay. and put it on asa poultieny* a few times, _ (tee _ GOANCER, OR LEAK IN THE FLESH. Roast woodsorrel in wet paper, and lay it on as a poultice till it comes to a head, Drew duster ib epgead. eth Bat tain leaves. eee een a Cured Salve. ——— RECIPES. 275 Take two ounces black pepper, two ounces soot, eight ounces salt butter—steep all together, clean the head with castile soap suds, and anoint the head with the salve once a day till cured. Give a gentle physic every eight or ten days, such as the Reformed Botanic or mandrake. FOR CANKER. Make a tea of marsh rosemary roots, called by some thrift or sea lavender. Sweeten with honey or loaf sugar. “Wash the mouth, gargle the throat, and swallow a Mie. It is used with success. es ; se ~*~ _ ANOTHER. og _ Make a tea of sage, rose leaves and blue violets, putin a little abimi, and sweeten with honey. Wash the afflicted part owith it. TO STOP BLOOD. Make a strong. ten pl peppwendeberky wah the wound with its of turpentine: covered with flour, and bour 4 oa ate answer the purpose. ——_ FOR COUGHS. Take mountain ash bark and moose moss, and make a tea ‘ of them; take one-half nea night and matin’ few days. « FOR COLDS pom ae meg Make a strong tea of liverwort and drink it freely. ™ 276 2S RECIPES. FOR SORE EYES. Take white vitriol as big as a pea and twice the quantity | of loaf sugar; boil an egg; take out the yolk, then put the sugar and vitriol in place of the yolk, press them hard till the juice is out and apply it to the eye at night. Or boil one pint barley in two quarts water till it is soft, then take it ont, pound it, put it back again and put in as much turnips; boil them soft and strain, then wet a cloth of four or five thick- nesses and lay it on the eyes at night as you go to bed. This practice is good to take out inflammation and cure broken breasts. 2% FOR CORNS. Take four ounces copper filings, put them in one-half pint rain water and one-half pint vinegar ; let it stand eight days so as to turn thick, wet a cloth with it and bind it on for three _ or four days; shave the corn well before you lay on the cloth. TO PREVENT FITS. _ Palverize deer’s A fine and make a tea of it and it will prevent fits. —_—_—_——— FOR, CORNS, Shave the corns akin, and as you go to bed wet it well with spirits turpentine. In the morning, wet it with fasting spit- tle, and lay on a codfish skin. Follow up the same for three days. Then lay on a plaster made of beeswax and Burgundy pitch, equal paris, and one-eighth as much of mutton tallow as both, simmer together, and spread it on suet skin. * two hours, The same will cure inward or outward | SS, ee, Se ny ER ee en Re ee ee ee a oe ee ee ee RECIPES. _ 277 Take four ounces alum, four ounces vinegar, four ounces honey, and pulverize all together; add four ounces wheat flour, make a plaster of it, lay it on and change it once a day. — Or pulverize one ounce good gunpowder, the white of three eggs, beat them well together; put this on as a plaster, and keep it on till raw; then poultice it with rotten sour apples for a few days; then put on any good salve. Or take four ounces yellow dock root, two ounces bark of bittersweet, root, _ four ounces carrots, two ounces dogwood bark, scrape them __ fine and simmer all thoroughly in eight ounces fresh butter ; anointing the cancer or any hard tumor will cure .% Or : make a tea of four ounces red poppy leaves, four ounces plan- tain roots and tops, aid four ounces rose Jeaves ; simmer them in one quart soft water till strong; wash two or three times a day with it. : FOR DYSENTERY, _ Take bitter walnut meats pounded and steeped in cia sweeten well with loaf sugar, and take a tea-spoonful | every sores or salt rheum. - CURE FOR KING'S EVIL. Steep the leaves of a chestnut tree, wash the sore with the liquor, and bind on the leaves. FOR DYSENTERY OF LONG STANDING. Give ten drops of spirits turpentine on loaf sugar, two or three times a day. Give children less. ; Bf 278 RECIPES. FOR FELLONS. Take equal parts of soot, salt and the yolk of an egg, make a “poultice of it and put it on four or five times a day; and fora salve, simmer houseleek, chamomile, green elder and beeswax in sweet cream and lay” it on; or take pulverized dragon’s root and house leek, simmer and moisten with vine- gar; it will take fire out of a burn, prevent blistering and will cure corns by rubbing or binding on the juice; or soak the fellon in weak lye one liour, then simmer scabish leaves’ in hog’s lard and bind it on two or three times; or take but- ter, turpentine, og! and wheat flour, mix together and bind it on. TO TAKE FILM FROM THE EYES. Drop i in the juice of wild sullendine, called celendine, and ‘if too harsh reduce it with breast milk and loaf sugar. If not taken off, then take one-half ounce ‘alum, one ounce loaf sugar, one-eighth ounce saltpetre, one-eighth ounce salt, dis- solved i in equal parts of cider vinegar and alcohol, say oné- half gill each. It seldom fails, You may wash the eyes and temples with it, one drop at a time. Celendine juice simmered to an oil and dropped into the eye, has cured when de sight had failed for me years. TO CURE PAIN IN THE STOMACH, OR FOR BILIOUS COLIC. Steep two ounces pulverized bath root in soahell pint of warm water, and take one-half gill as hot as you can drink ; it. Continue taking it every two hours till cured. | = t has cured when everything else failed. oe ¢ RECIPRS. (279 eee CURE FOR oe OR SUMMER COM. “Siey summer complaint flowers in “water, and sweeten with loaf sugar. Drink freely of it. It seldom fails. This herb grows about two feet high, and has a pale blue flower and a narrow leaf, about two inches long. ANOTHER. Fat ploniitallts of figs ; ; or drink freely of the tea made. of Canada thistle roots; or drink a raw egg in cider or port Wine, well wihgiak with loaf sugar; or make a strong tea of iron bush leaves and tops, and drink- one-half wine-glass- ful every hour till cured; or steep spleen root in water (not. boil it) and take one-half wine-glassful every two hours—a child less; or steep tansy, horsemint and fever bush, equal parts, sweeten with molasses, and take as above one-half wine-glassful ; or boil milkweed roots in skim-milk, and take one gill every hour. ee - TO CURE FEVER AND AGUE. Take four ounces horsemint, four ounces mullin root, four ounces ginseng or stinkweed root, four ounces red pepper pods, boil them in two quarts water to one quart, sweeten with molasses, and take one gill as hot as you can bear every half hour for two hours. After the first day, take one gill three times a day, one-half hour beforeeating. CURE FOR KING'S EV. IL. Fry poke stalks and leaves in a pan till it becomes a liquid, and rub it on, or wet a cloth with the liquid and lay it on a - number of times. You must keep it in a bottle well corked. eS ee 280 RECIPES. FOR TOOTH-ACHE. Take white oak bark, white pine bark, and beech leaves that hang on all winter, equal parts, say one pound ; put in one gallon water, and boil to one quart. Hold it in your mouth as hot as you can bear it. Or take one-half gill of rum, one-half gill vinegar, add one-half ounce salt, and hold it in the mouth ten minutes—repeat the dose several times. Or make'a strong tea of moose wood bark, hold in the mouth, and it will cure the nerve and stop the tooth aching. Or make a poultice of roasted onions and salt,*equal_ parts, and bind it on the wrist. — _—— RHEUMATIC OINTMENT. Take one pint beef’s gall, one-half pint sweet oil, one ounce camphor gum, one-half ounce spirits turpentine, put them in a warm place, shake them together, and anoint the afflicted parts two or three times a day. od < CURE FOR THE JAUNDICE. Take white ash- {bark ‘of the root), poplar (bark of the root), wild black cherry tree bark, each two ounces—steep them strong in one quart water, and mix it with one-half cider. Take a wine-glassful, one-half hour before eating, three times a day. One quart is a dose for a creature, and it must be repeated till it physics thoroughly. FOR THE PHTHISIC, Wet brown paper in strong saltpetre water—when dry, smoke the paper and burn it profusely in the room. j RECIPES. 281 _ FOR RHEUMATISM. Take one pound smartweed and steep in one quart water, without boiling—add to it one quart sweet milk or good spirits, and take a wine glassful of it for nine mornings. ‘ ANOTHER. : '- Simmer one gill neat’s foot oil with two gills good brandy till they mix ; put in one beef’s gall and one gill spirits tur- pentine, and bathe with it once or twice a day. Take in- wardly brandy well tinctured with mustard—one table-spoon: . ‘ful, or more if you ean bear t twice a ee : g _FOR RATTLESNAKE BITE. eS Bind a ioketek above the elbow, or knee, ‘ica a take a live fowl and cut off a small piece of the flesh under the wing and apply the fresh wound to the bite. Hold it close _ till the fowl dies, and continue this operation till one survives the operation. The wound may then be healed with a draw- ing salve. But to physic the bowels and blood well with the | Indian Physic is the best, and a syrup of burdock roots, sar- > gapatilla, yellow dock and spignard, equal parts, with balsam boughs, (one-half as much’ in weight,) sweeten with sugar, ~ and to every quart add one-half ounce pulverized saltpetre. Drink one wine-glassful three times a day for a month, if you can bear it, Take physic every week. BLOODY URINE. Take two ounces agrimony, two ounces yarrow, two ounces — juniper berries, two ounces dwarf elder berries, steep in one pint water, strain, and add one-half ounce saltpetre and one- half pound loaf | gpa Drink freely of it. » | 282 - RECIPES, TO KILL THE TAPE WORM, OR ANY OTHER WORM. Take one ounce of the bark of the root of sweet fern, boil in one gill water, and add one ounce honey. Give one table- spoonful, and repeat the dose every two hours. Follow this up a few times and it will kill the tape worm. A strong tea made of sweet fern, well tinctured with good brandy, equal parts, and sweetened with loaf sugar, will destroy the tape. worm, if drank freely. After that, physic with the Indian _ Physic. SALT RHEUM WASH. Take two ounces blue flag (bark of the root), two ounces river willow, two ounces skunk cabbage root, two ounces cock ash root, two ounces Evan’s root, boil all together, strain, and add one-half pound mutton tallow, one ounce sugar of lead, one-half ounce soda, stir all together, and anoint with Sie elope & times a day. _ ~ ¢ : ——— ‘TO PRESERVE THE TEETH. “Take one-half ounce gum myrrh, one-half ounce Jessewit bark, one and a half ounces white oak bark, and steep in one pint rum or alcohol two days, Rub your teeth and gums with it. Either one of the barks in rum, Sen goath: or you may chew the bark. ~ — i HYSTERIC PILLS, Boil white root strong, and to one-half pint of the tea add one ounce asafvetida, boil down vee Give three or four as the fit is coming iat i RECIPES. 288 FOR THE PHTHISIC. Take two orfuces hen’s fat, two seed balls of skunk cab- _ bage cut fine, steep and strain. Take one tea-spoonful three times a day. Steep two ounces honey suckle blossoms, two ounces queen of the meadow roots, strain, and then add two ounces honey and one gill brandy. Take three glasses per day. ~ FOR ULCERATED SORES. Make a poultice of sassafras leaves and milk, and apply it to the sore two or three timesaday. Apply the leaves when the poultice is off. . ~ eee eS *. ~ FOR RICKETY AND WEAKLY CHILDREN. Fill a bottle with green hog brake, then put in what brandy it will hold, and when given reduce it one-half with water, sweeten with loaf sugar, and give a te times a day, after reduced, and more if the child can bear it. Wash the afflicted part, or the whole body if you ¢ 008e, with the above. , OINTMENT FOR SWELLINGS AND SORES. Take fresh butter, rosin, beeswax, and mutton tallow, each two ounces, honey two ounces, sweet oil two ounces, brown sugar two ounces, balsam firr two ounces, eastile soap one ounce, southern wood jelly one ounce—simmer all together, and anoint with it two or three times a day. It answers on man or beast. ~~ ~ — RECIPES. TO HEAL A BED SORE ON MAN OR BEAST. Wash the sore with a strong white oak bark tea, with a little saltpetre dissolved in it. Give one-half wine-glassful of spirits with one-half ‘tea-spoonful of ginger, inwardly, to pre- vent it striking to the stomach. ‘The spirits and ginger will prevent any disease from striking to the stomach. FOR INWARD FEMALE COMPLAINTS. Take one ounce of white cohosh roots, and pulverize in two quarts new rum and one pint molasses, Shake them to- gether and let them stand twenty-four hours. Take one-half wine-glassful three times a day, and if — to cold, at other times. AGUE. _ Take one-fourth pound black cohosh root, es pound wort roots, one dunce Mayweed, boil and strain— _ add one-half pound loaf sugar, one drachm cloves, one drachm blood root, and one pint beaney: Dose, one tea- — spoonful every three minutes. ee JOINTS NEWLY SET. Boil two ounces mullin seeds and two ounces plantain seeds in one piut urine, anoint the zont — it, and it will cure the pain. s SET P FOR THE TOOTH-ACHE. _ Wet lint with equal paris of oil of cloves and oil of laven- der, and lay it on the tooth affected. : RECIPES. 3 CANCER PLASTER. ° 2 Take two ounces alum, one ounce rock salt, two ounces sal soda, two ounces honey, one gil] strong vinegar—dissolve all together, and thicken with wheat apes Change the plaster every ee FOR DIABETES. Take two ounces ginger, two ounces anise seed, two ounces wintergreen, two ounces black cherry tree bark, steep all to- gether, strain, and add one-half ounce alum, one-half pint brandy, and one pound loaf sugar. Take a << three times a day. aa ‘aes SYRUP FOR ks IN TRAVAIL. Take four ounces of the flowers and leaves of mallows — steeped in one pint water, strain, and add one pound loaf: sugar, one pint port wine, and one-half ounce saltpetre, Take one large tea-spoonful three times a day. — CANCERS OR SWELLINGS, Take one pound tobacco, one pound white beet root, boil | well together, strain, simmer it down, and add one-half pound fresh butter made from the first milking, two ounces turpen- tine, and two ounces beeswax. When cooling, add one-half ounce spirits of wine. > ~ a) Sprinkle with pulverized blood root, and dress the sore with the cancer plaster. ‘ * ee en ee ee ee a ee 286 RECIPES. TO DRAW A BLISTER. Take mustard, ground fine, and wet with vinegar, will draw_a blister. Green rue will do the same. Crow-foot will also draw a blister. Potatoe flies gathered in our meee are better than Spanish flies. —— FOR A DOG BITE WHEN IN A TRAP. Boil Jobelia and lay it on a few times—it will effect an im- mediate cure, or take out the poison. —— FOR A COUGH, —_ Make a strong tea of hyssop and sweeten it with honey. Take a wine-glassful as you go to bed. The moss of rock _Maade into a tea and sweetened with honey, will cure. Or 4 tea made of walnut bark, sweetened, and taken as above, 1s good. Or make a tea of Indian posy, or 5 etic oe = and it will effect a cure. _ FOR BRUISES, Hold i in, or pour on, cold water two or three hours. Rub the wound with the hand if it will bear it, After the bruise and blood is out, lay on a plaster of beeswax, mutton tallow, and nd balsam firr, or balsam #95, nds era Tot woe a “WASH FOR FREEZES OR BURNS. - Take four pounds white oak bark, one pound white pine bark, one-half pound sassafras sprouts, put them in one gal- _ lon water, boil it well and strain—then boil it to one jill and wash the afflicted part with it, RECIPES. ; 27 FOR A MAD DOG OR SERPENT BITE. Take the yolk of an egg and honey, equal parts, and one- fourth ounce dragon’s root, pulverize and mix all with wheat — flour. Lay it on as a poultice two or three times. Or take water plantain roots, sprinkle one-half tea-spoonful on bread and butter mess it is pulverized, and eat it a few times. CURE FOR SORE EYES. Take one-fourth ounce alum, one-fourth ounce slices and put them in one pint good cider vinegar, well sweetened with loaf sugar. Shake them well together, and put one drop in each eye morning and evening. If there is a film on ‘the eye, put in a drop of the Pain Extractor. After that, follow up dropping in the above preparation, and wash the temples and eyes with it. Every few days give a little of the : Indian Physic. Ce ~ FOR DYSENTERY. 7 ; Take whiskey and wheat flour, equal parts, mix well to- gether, and take a table-spoonful once an hour for four or five hours. Seldom fails, = ~ TO PREVENT THE HAIR FROM FALLING OFF. Take one ounce beaver oil or marrow, one-fourth ounce myrrh, simmer in one gill good brandy, and anoint the head with if. eae FOR SORE THROAT. “Make a tea of succory and drink a tea-cupful as you go to bed ; also smoke a stalk of it as you go to bed. . 288 _~ RECIPES. TOOTH-ACHE. _ Wet lint with oil of cloves or wintergreen, apply it togthe tooth, and hold some Health Bitters and brandy, equal parts, INWARD ULCERS. Take one-half ounce blood root, one ounce sassafrasg(bark of the root), one ounce colt’s-foot root, four ounces white pine bark, one ounce aloes, one ounce gum Arabic—steep all in one quart brandy, and take two table-spoonfuls three times a ~ day, fasting, © FOR COUGHS. _ Steep one pound hemlock boughs with one pound Canada thistle root and one-eighth ounce lobelia, and sweeten well with honey or loaf sugar. Take a tea-spoonful three times a day; _ and less if it debilitates too much. It can be bottled, corked tight, and kept for years. _ : FOR DROPSY. Take one-half pound spice bush bark, one-half pound prickly ash bark, one-half pound dwarf elder roots, one-half — pound milkweed roots, one-half pound sassafras (bark of the root), one-half pound horseradish, two ounces garlic, four ounces parsley, two ounces blood root, two ounces mandrake root, one-half pound burdock—all boiled in two gallons of malt beer down to one gallon ; strain,'and add one quart gin with tWo ounces juniper, and sweeten well with India mo- lasses. Take a wine-glassful three times a day. RECIPES. : 289 ~ SALT-RHEUM. Take one pound cocash, one-half pound Evan’s root, one- half pound burdock root; one-fourth pound yellow dock, and boil in three quarts water. Drink freely of the tea and bathe with the same. Make a plaster of four ounces mutton tal- low, four ounces white pine turpentine, four ounces Burgundy pitch, one-half ounce burnt alum, and one-half ounce borax ; melt and simmer them all, and lay it on the affected part. Follow this up faithfully, and keep the bowels easy with the’ Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic. CAMP DISTEMPER. Take four ounces black cherry bark, four ounces rece bark, four ounces white wood bark, eight ounces poplar bark, boil in two quarts to one, and strain and sweeten; then add one ounce sal flitre, two ounces epsom salts, and take one table-spoonful every hour till it physics. Make a syrup of the tea, without the salts, and add to one quart of the syrup — one pint good brandy, sweeten well with loaf a. subein a a vineguaddl Di ee ee ee 2 a CORNS AND WARTS. Take two ounces scraped carrots, one-half ounce fine salt, * and lay on asa poultice. Repeat the poultice twice a day till cured. Or the ashes of willow bark and vinegar laid on will also cure either corns or warts. ~ . FOR CORNS. ae Pound blood root and lay on the corn as a poultice a few times, will — a cure. \ 290 RECIPES, CURE FOR CANCERS. Make a poultice of onions, sprinkle on pulverized blood ~ root and white precipitate to kill it, and jay. it on till the roots root and — Peru lonan: and keep it on till the cancer comes out; then heal it with soap salve. ANOTHER. - Pat four quarts of olive oil in a new pewter-lined copper vessel, and simmer it over a slow fire till it becomes an oint- ment—it may take twenty-four hours. Rub the afflicted part with the ointment constantly, and wet a cloth with it and lay it on. A cure is said to be made in fourteen days. ANOTHER, Put two ounces tobacco in one-half pint new rum, simmer them together, and lay them on as a poultice for five days; then en take ce one-fourth ounce pearlash with one spoonful of tur- entine, warm it a little, and add one-half spoonful of honey “aid one-half spoonful of fine chalk. Rub all together, and Jay it on as a plaster. Renew it every two days. e ‘ CURE FOR FEVERISH SWELLED LEGS. _ Take the bark of the root of basswood, simmer in sweet milk after they are pounded fine, and put on the sore. It will bring down the swelling. FOR BILIOUS. COLIc. Dry and pulverize milkweed root, and give a table-spoon- ful to the patient every two hours, This has cured when poysiin’s skill had failed. i OPT RM er yo a ee spoonful every hour. _ RECIPES. a CHOLERA MORBUS. Give the Indian Physic so as to effect a gentle evacuation —then give a syrup made of black cherry tree bark and port wine or cider; to each quart add one-half ounce pulverized nitre, cubital? ounce alum, one-half ounce camphor gum cut in alcohol, and sweeten well with loaf sugar. Take one tea-- eee THE DROPSY. | Take one ounce prickly ash bark, one ounce cinnamon, one: ounce cloves, one-fourth ounce African cayenne, and two quarts cider. Drink moderately till it physics. Then take one ounce sassafras, one ounce dog-wood, (bark of the root of both,) four ounces sarsaparilla, and two ounces dwarf el- der; boil them in two Spe water, sweeten, Bes: drink amie FOR OVERFLOW OF THE GALL. Make a strong tea of blue centaury (which bears a blue flower in September), and put it with three-eighths gin. Take one-half wine-glassful three times a day, one-half hour before eating. . TO CURE-FELLONS, Take one ounce Wild turnip, one ounce ‘blue flag root, pul- verize, boil in one-half pint water, strain, and add two ounces turpentine, two ounces mutton tallow, two ounces castile soap, and ‘two ounces hovey ; simmer them down to asalve, and ~ dress the afflicted part with it twice’a day till cured. - “\ nee i? RECIPES. FOR A BURST. Take four ounces bag onions, two ounces Solomon’s seal, comfrey, sarsaparilla, knot grass, shepherd sprouts, equal parts, boil all together, strain the liquor, and add one pint of molasses to a gallon. Take a gill three times a day, before eating. If the burst is long, boil the tea toa salve and lay it on the breach. Bind a piece of sheet lead over the plas- ter, so as to keep it up. — . ~ FOR BOUS. Take flour of sulphur and pulverized pewter, equal parts, and stir them together. Take one — (dry) as you goto bed. Cure for life. FOR COLD IN. THE BREAST. “Take equal parts mutton tallow, beeswax and saffron, (say _ two ounces each,) simmer together, si in one ounce of rum, and lay it on the breast, 7 TO KILL WORMS IN CHILDREN, Boil sage in milk, curdle it with alum, and give equal — - parts of the whey and the Reformed Botanic and Indian — Physic, one spoonful at a time, every two hours till it ope- rite, — TO SCATTER A FELLON, Take four ounces poke root, two ounces salt,. four ounces hog’s lard, four ounces sweet elder bark, one pint vinegar, all well together, and put on as a poultice, will scatter a fellon before it matterates, p RECIPES, 293. TO DRIVE OUT THE CANKER-RASH. ~ Steep red hollyhock flowers in vinegar, and sweeten it well _ with honey. Give the patient one tea-spoonful every hour,. and it will drive it out. To cure it, give one table-spoonful of the Indian Physic every two hours till it operates thorough-. ly. Afterwards, give a little cordial made of raspberry jelly,.. port wine and cherry bark tea, sweetened with loaf sugar. __ a SALVE FOR FEVER SORES. Take one pound hog’s lard, eight ounces rosin, eight ounces beeswax, four ounces castile soap, one-half ounce oil of spike, and simmer them well together ; or boil ten pounds red clover blossoms, well in rain water, say four gallons, strain, and boil down to asalve. Wash the sore with castile soap suds once every day, and dress the sore with the salve. Drink freely of a tea made of red clover roots and blossoms, Or poultice with blue flag roots boiled in skim-milk before it. breaks—put on three poultices a day till it breaks ; then take. four ounces bittersweet, four ounces sweet appletree bark, four ounces. sage, four ounces sumac bobs, and boil in one gallon water. Wash with these and dress with the cure-all plaster.. TO KILL THE TAPE WORM. Take one ounce bark of pomegranate, one ounce male fern, one ounce sage, four ounces loaf sugar, pulverize them all together and put in one pint brandy. Give a table-spoonful every hour, twelve hours in succession ; then give a cathartic of one ounce mandrake root, two ounces Epsom salts, four ounces sugar, momen ounce saltpetre. * DYSENTERY. ‘ Boil mullin leaves in new milk, take it freely, and it will effect a cure; or take one spoonful of the juice of black cherries every hour for five or six hours; or make a strong of blackberry brier root, and drink it freely. It seldom FOR THE JAUNDICE Take white ash (bark of the root), Indian roots and yel- low roots, equal parts, pulverize them, and put nine table- spoonfuls of the powder in one-half pint molasses. Take one table-spoonful three mornings and miss three, for nine mornings. _ ; ee ST. ANTHONY’S DANCE. Take one ounce cranes-bill root, two ounces fumitory, one- half ounce saltpetre, steep them all in one quart cider, and take a wine-glassful three times a day. ; —— ad TO CURE THE VENEREAL. ___ Steep two ounces summer savory in eight ounces fresh . butter and one ounce white pine buds, and use it as an oint- ment. Drink summer savory tea freely. > _ TO CURE THE ASTHMA. < . Take two ounces spikenard, two ounces eleeampane, two ue ounces sweet flag, one ounce saltpetre, one ounce seed of © smart weed, pulverize all and put them with one pound of honey. Take ont tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting. 4 7 RECIPES, 295 TO CURE A CANCER Take one pound scoke and dry in on pewter to a salve, then add one ounce blue vitriol pulverized, and mix well to- gether. For a healing salve, take two ounces smart weed, one pound white pine boughs, twelve pounds night shade,” one pound red clover, and boil them all in one gallon water, strain and boil to jelly; add four ounces mutton tallow,and one-half pint new rum. Spread it on a linen cloth. Prick _ the cancer with a needle and lay on the plaster. Dress with the salve every twelve hours. — MEASLES. ’ Put two ounces high nettle, two ounces sage and one-half ounce plantain seed in one quart water; add one-half ounce saltpetre and drink it freely. Pulverize the saltpetre. SALT RHEUM. Take eight ounces Evan’s root, eight ounces 8 root, boil them in two quarts water, strain, drink freely of it, and wash with-it. Sweeten what you drink, or drink Saratoga Spring water. Cleanse the blood well with the Indian Physic in all serofulous cases, CANCERS. Lay on a poultice of powdered turmeric root a few times till it can be taken out, then put on a poultice ‘of wood sorrel or sour apples a few times, and you can heal it with any good salve, or balsam firr. ‘Physic the patient three or four times thoroughly with the Botanic and Indian Physic, and give a little cordial or Slambering Drops. - 296 RECIPES. FOR RHEUMATISM. ~ Steep four ounces cocash roots in one quart brandy, let it stand forty-eight hours, and wash the afflicted part night and morning with it, and take one-half wine-glassful inwardly, ‘night and morning. A tea of the roots will cure colic, pain in the bowels, or stomach. When the rheumatism is settled in the joints, boil cedar boughs in brandy till the bark comes off, strain the liquor, boil it down to a salve, spread a plaster, and lay it on the joint. 2 ANOTHER, Put rusty iron in strong vinegar, let it stand one week, and rub the afflicted part with it when going to bed. ANOTHER, Boil four ounces logwood in three pints water to one pint, and then put it into. one quart rum, - Take a wine-glassful three times a day. ANOTHER, — : Pate one pint of pulverized garget root in one quart of St. Croix rum, and take a wine-glassful three times a day— morning, noon, and night. TO CURE DEAFNESS. _ Put in the ear black wool moistened with oil of cloves, or oil of cinnamon, or oil of lavender, and honey, dissolved in epirite of ammonia. ” RHEUMATISM. Boil one pound cocash root and four ounces burdock seed -in two quarts water, strain and add one pint brandy and two pounds sugar. Take one tea-spoonful three times a day. 4 RECIPES. 297 * DYSENTERY. Take one ounce white pine bark, one ounce birch bark, one ounce ox balm, one-half ounce poplar bark, one ounce firr Dark or boughs, two ounces black cherry bark, one ounce mouse-ear ; boil-all in three quarts water thoroughly, strain and boil down to one quart; add one gill French brandy, one-half ounce alum, one and one-half pounds loaf sugar, one-half ounce pulverized gum myrrh, one-half ounce salt- petre, one-fourth ounce oil of anise, one-fourth ounce oil of wintergreen cut in alcohol, oné gill black raspberry syrup, one gill port wine. Bottle it and shake them all —— Take _ . one anblespoontal every two hours till cured. —_— * AN ALL-HEALING SALVE. Take two ounces bark of the root of sweet elder, two ounces comfrey root, two ounces male fern, two ounces sweet apple- tree bark, of the root, two ounces balm of Gilead es eS them all together. ft OEE AB TO TAKE FILM FROM THE EYES. Take one-half ounce loaf sugar, one-fourth ounce alum, one-halé-ounce white hen dung, pulverize them together and blow it in with a quill two or three times, till the film is off;. or blow in strong tobacco spittle, then wash and put in the eye strong tea, made of rose leaves and green-tea, an equal quantity of each, sweeten with loaf sugar and wash the eyes clean with sweet milk every time you eperate on them. The tobacco spittle is used on brutes. 208 RECIPES. _TO MAKE A DRAFT FOR THE FEET TO CURE HYPOCHON- - DRIA. Take tar cand astern equal parts, and stir in. as much ginger as you can; spread it on a cloth and lay it on the bottom of the feet; keep it on as long as it will stick ; when it comes off repeat it if necessary. TO CURE RELAX. Take one-half drachm gum opium, one ounce gum myrrh, one ounce gum Arabic, one-half ounce gum camphor, one- eighth ounce oil of anise, pulverize all together and put them in one pint of good brandy. Give thirty drops 7 a dose for an adult every half hour. SWELLED THROAT on QUINSY. Make a poultice of burdock or csiieiain leaves, spread it with salt butter and sprinkle on ginger or black pepper; Jay it.on the throat, - Gargle the mouth and throat with strong black current tea well sweetened with honey, and swallow 2 little of it. You can use mullen leaves if burdock cannot be had. Give a gentle physic if the complaint is hard. CURE FOR THE ASTHMA OF LONG STANDING. _ Snakeweed, more properly ealled bastart—put two ounces “of the leaves into. ‘one quart of good Boston or St. Croix rum, steep-it thoroughly and sweeten well with India molasses. Take one-half wine-glassful of it half an hour before eating. Tt will do te it the second time in one quart rum. This eee’ kin red the asthma and coughs of twenty years 4 | drachm of the root pulverized has 8s much strength as half an ounce of the leaves. RECIPES, 299 CURE FOR HARD DRINKING. Take one pound wild black cherry tree bark, steep well in — one quart water, and add to it, when cold, one quart well worked cider; dissolve in your cider one-half ounce saltpetre and one-half ounce alum; cut one-fourth ounce anise oil and one-fourth ounce asiephier gum well in alcohol; mix them all thoroughly together and sweeten it well with brown sugar. Take one tea-spoonful three times a day half an hour before — eating. Follow up taking the above bitters and it will effect acure, It is also good for the health of sng person, ieaiesihies in hot weather. ; aeiniaceaeas * Puseg gsi meee TO PREVENT MORTIFICATION. Boil one ounce of hops in on wt of vinegar, thicken it with wheat or rye bran, and pour the afflicted part with it till cured. PAIN EXTRACTOR, NO. 2. Take one-half pint linseed oil, one-fourth saiiemlapis one-fourth ounce’ oil of hemlock, one-fourth ounce oil spike and one quart of alcohol; pulverize the saltpeter and shake them all together. Bathe or lay a cloth of three or four thicknesses wet with the above on the wound or afflicted part ; repeat whenever dry, Co HYSTERIC COLIC. ‘Take one ounce of sour apple tree bark from small limbs and put in a table-spoonful of boiling water, stir it and give it. This will effect a real cure. 300 RECIPES. TO CURE BREACHES. Break four or six.eggs in a fryingpan or spider over a slow fire, placing one edge of the vessel lower than the other off the fire, and pressing the egg with a flat iron till the oil runs sufficient, may be a spoonful, and anoint the place once a day for three or four days. CURE FOR CORNS. _ Shave down the corns, then chew white beans to a pulp, and rub the corn smartly with them for five or six minutes; thew more and bind them on the corns three or four times. Spiders’ webs wet in a. vinegar and bound on will also — corns. : i WIND COLIC. Pulverize dragon’s root and mix it with molasses. Take ~ one table-spoonfal at a time. Eesporion the dose according to the age of the person. : Saeed FOR INWARD WEAKNESS OR FEMALE COMPLAINTS. Take four ounces squaw root, four ounces valerian, four ounces white or red bath root, steep them well twenty-four hours, strain the liquor and put in one pint brandy. Take a wine-glassful morning and evening, fasting, seldom fails a cure. A Sennen FOR BLOATING. Drink a strong tea made of Indian hemp, sweetened with India molasses, and add forty drops oil of anise cut in alcohol, to every half a pint. Take a table-spoonful —- REOIPES. 301 “SALVE FOR SORES. Boil one pound cat foot in two quarts of water to a syrup, strain, then add one-fourth pound mutton tallow, one-half pound white pine turpentine, two ounces honey ; then boil it . down to a salve on a slow fire. Give a gentle physic of pre- pared salts, and give a cordial made of one-fourth pound black cherry tree bark, one-fourth pound dwarf elder, one- fourth pound yellow dock, one-fourth pound burdock, one- fourth pound sarsaparilla roots, steeped ail together in four quarts water’ down, to, two... Take, one. sseng oA yee Put one-half siti niet fied one-half pound bark and root of bittersweet and one-half pound skunk cabbage root into one-half gill balsam and one-half gill brandy, simmer down to a salve, then spread it on a cloth and lay it on over is night. Make a strong decoction of one-half pound aghitesoae ee t 308: - RECIPES. FOR SWELLED THROAT AND STOMACH. Take one ounce spirits nitre, one ounce pikery, one-fourth ounce white pine turpentine or spirits turpentine, one-fourth | ounce oil hemlock, one-fourth ounce camphor gum, one-fourth ounce alum, all cut in two gills of alcohol; shake them well “together and give a tea-spoonful every two hours, and baie 2 the throat with it. EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA. Take one pound sarsaparilla, two ounces guaiacum root, - pulverized, one dunce senna root, one ounce licorice root, ten drops oil of sassafras, ten drops oil of anise, cut in alcohol ; put them all in one pint of alcohol, then strain and warm it - and add one-fourth pound loaf sugar. Give half a tea-spoon- fal three times a ay, This is great for cleansing the blood. — CURE FOR CANKER. Take s dian willow, bark of the roots, and rattlesnake bite herbs or roots, equal parts, steep them together and give a ~ tea-spoonful every hour; if hard, every fifteen minutes. The first tea is good for any sore. If the patient cannot drink the tea, make a powder of it and give in molasses. One-quarter of a tea-spoonful of the powder is a dose. CURE FOR HARD DRINKING. Gather Roman -wormwood in the full of the moon, dry it in the shade and keep it from the air; make a tea of it and drink it freely. When you are faint, drink a little cold water- Take a spoonful of it when you first rise, continue drinking this bitter = it will subside all desire for ardent spirits. RECIPES. 303 CURE FOR THE MAW WORM. Take three ounces Epsom salts, three ounces brown sugar, one ounce sweet elderberry jelly, three ounces pink root pul- verized, two ounces sage, one-half ounce sweet flag root pul- verized, one-half ounce alum, one-half ounce saltpetre, one- fourth ounce white cedar buds pulverized ; put all in one-half pint port wine, with twenty-five drops oil of anise well cut in alcohol. Take one-half gill every two hours till you have a thorough operation as a physic. If given to children, it may be reduced with cider and sugar, and given in doses according to their age. After the worms pass, give a tea of black cherry tree bark, one-half cider well sweetened with India molasses, thorning and evening, half an hour before breekeat # and as you retire. CURE FOR A STRAIN OR BRUISE. _ Bake green frogs in an earthen vessel in. good brandy, spread them on a woolen oh and Jay them on warm. It cee eee See ae CURE FOR Tan t eg a ie Take large milkweed roots or tops, dwarf elder ae ae fops or berries, and balsam boughs, equal parts, and steep them in soft water; add to one gallon of the syrup two pounds loaf sugar, one quart good Holland gin well tinetured with juniper berries. Take one-half wine-glassful half an hour before eating, three times a day, and more if you can bear it. Soak the feet in hot water well tinctured with salt. T always recommend taking a thorough portion of the Re- formed Botanic and Indian Physic before taking the syrup. 304 RECIPES, FOR DROPSY. ~ Take cream of tartar, borax, ginger, gum myrrh, each one ounce, put in one pint of gin, and take one tea-spoonful three times a day. Or take one drachm powdered broom seed and put in one gill of wine. Take it in the morning for two or three days, fasting. Or take blue flag root and elecampane root, one-half pound of each, boil in one gallon’ water one hour, strain, add one pint molasses and one pint gin, well _tinetured with juniper berries. Take a wine-glassful three» times a day. Or steep the inside bark of sweet elder (say one-half pound) in one quart wine. Take a wine-glassful morning and evening. a. Se FOR a BLOOD. "Drink freely of white oak hosk tea for three or fais days. _ Or boil one-half pound yellow dock root in one quart of new milk. cseecvadenns gill three times 4 aay; and one ase se of - turpentine. rs = FOR BLOODY URINE. Dissolve one ounce of gum Arabic in one gill of water, and put in ten drops of the oil of vitriol, Take one tea- ppc twice a ier FOR WORMS, OR WEAK STOMACH. Take deer’s horn, pounded or made into a strong tea, mix _ with molasses or liquor, and take a tea-spoonful of the pow- Re ieee meres of the tea, three times pacers RECIPES. - 305- FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG OR SNAKE. Make a strong tea of lobelia and wash the bite or sting with it; apply the leaves as a poultice. Repeat it every - thirty minutes. Or apply bruised onions and fine salt. _ FOR CONSUMPTION. ss > Make a strong tea of vervine and boiled cider, sweeten well’ with loaf sugar, and take a wine-glassful one-half hour be- fore eating and at night. Use the blue vervine for women and the white vervine for men, This = ae all — of people, FOR INWARD FEVER. Take spleen root and hog’s tush root, four ounces each ; to one quart of the syrup add one-fourth ounce saltpetre, and take a wine-glassful one-half hour before breakfast and as- you retire. : * — re “Take loaf sugar, bk ce: si h i pee parts, mix them well’ together, and take a teaspoon when the cough is hard, ~ 2 FOR BILIOUS COMPLAINTS. Take one-half» pound dandelion (root and branch,) and one-half pound poplar (bark of the root)—boil it down thick, ~ strain, and add one-half molasses. Take a tea-spoonful three times a day; or take one pound black cherry tree bark, two ounces blood root, and steep in two quarts of good cider. Take a ——— three times a day, fasting. z, : e 306 s+ ge» RECIPES, POLYPUS IN THE NOSE. Take two ounces of blood root, one-half ounce cinnamon, one ounce cork root, one drachm borax, ten grains corosive - _ sublimate, and pulverize all together. Take four pinches (as snuff) a day. When it grows small, snuff a little beet root juice. It oftentimes blows out. Or take one ounce blood root, one-half ounce skunk cabbage, one-half ounce lobelia, | one-eighth drachm corosive sublimate, two ounces snake-root» three ounces slippery elm (bark of the root), and one ounce _ snuff, Take four pinches a day. ST. ANTHONY’S FIRE, Dissolve two eunces of saltpetre in one pint of strong bur- dock root tea—cut one drachm oil of anise in one-half gill of _ alcohol. and add to the tea. Give a iable-eroontal three Siem. 27. ; : " e » ; ; : FOR THE GOUT. _ Dissolve one ounce of camphor gum in one gill of alcohol, : _and add to it one gill of bgiling wales, Rub it on as hot as can be borne. 4 Bes _ FOR FEVER AND AGUE, : = Pat one-half pound culver’s root in one quart good rum, “a and take a ee three Vee a aay, if you can bear it. - "TO CURE, THE PILES. Pal one pound rough freweed, pounded and steeped in to an ointment, strain, and anoint the funda- = ; in the distilled water of vervine threo or four times a - RECIPES. 809 FOR SORE AND INFLAMED EYES. Take the juice of small houseleek, mix with one-half rain- water, sweeten with loaf sugar, and drop i in the eye two or three times a day. The houseleek is good for king’s evil, used as a poultice, The juice of honey suckle will take im film from the eyes. : TO CURE KING'S EVIL, BEG OMG, specie OR SCALD- Anoint with the oil of Wieit nid oot :é on aes, will cure when nothing else will. It can be got by pressing the wheat between two warm iron plates. A poultice of new x bread will cure king’s evil, if laid on as a poultice lowed u up a few days. 3 FALLING SICKNESS—EASY DELIVERY. Dry and pulverize four ounces mistletoe leaves and put in juniper, and give one table. — PAIN KILLER. Take one ounce gum camphor, one ounce gum myrrh, one ounce oil origanum, one ounce spirits turpentine, one pint al- cohol, well cut and shook together. Bathe the afflicted part with it freely and frequently. You may add one ounce oil of spike, one ounce spirits of nitre, one-half pint brandy, two ounces honey, and one ounce sweet oil.. It may be used for sprains on man or beast. 310 RECIPES. - THE DROPSY. Take four ounces mandrake root, two ounces dwarf elder, two ounces milkweed, two ounces juniper berries, steep in two quarts water, strain, and add one pound loaf sugar— scald it well together, and add one pint good Holland gin. Take one table-spoonful every hour till it operates thorough- ‘ly. Then boil one pound burdock roots, one-half pound sarsaparilla roots, one-half pound dwarf elder berries, one- half pound balsam boughs, one-half pound milkweed, one- half pound spignard, all in two gallons of soft water, thoroughly ; strain, and add one pound loaf sugar to every quart, scald, and add one quart of gin, well tinctured with juniper, to every gallon ; add one-eighth ounce sassafras oil eut in alcohol. Take one table-spoonful three times a day. After the physic operates, follow this up and it will cure. gr Ae : Take two ounces mandrake root, one ounce butternut buds, one ounce blood root, one ounce beef gall (dried), two ounces slippery elm bark, two ounces castile soap, all pulverized to- _ gether, and pill with rye flour and molasses, Take one pill _ every four hours. Take four ounces rosemary blossoms or leaves, four ounces wild turnip, four ounces sweet elder bark or blossoms, and two ounces saffron—boil down in one quart water, and wash the afflicted part with it. Add one-half ounce camphor gum, one-fourth ounce saltpetre, and drink one table-spoonful three times a day, fasting. RECIPES. _ 311 = PAIN IN THE STOMACH. Take one wine-glassful of strong chamomile tea and lemon Juice three times a day, fasting, for one week. It will also cure the heartburn. FOR THE ASTHMA. _ Take one ounce Peruvian bark, one-half ounce gum myrrh, one-half ounce black cohosh roots, one ounce logwood, one ounce saltpetre, one ounce mountain ash bark—all pulverized _and put in one quart good ri rum. Take one ——— morning and evening. FOR NUMBNESS. Take two ounces ginger root, four ounces’ ‘eraleads ie pulverized in one quart Holland gin, and take one-half wine- _ ~ glassful night and morning. Or steep four ounces sage in one quart brandy, and take as above prescribed. eee i SXEWATER ‘gum, igs ounce oeeae sweet Se pare pa | ounce rose flowers, one ounce good green tea—shake it well. together, bottle it, let it stand twenty-four hours, then strain, “~ and it is ready for use. Put two drops in each eye twice a day. etn jel nettles and. hom lock boughs ; shift it twice a day. . 312 RECIPES. SALVE FOR RHEUMATIC PAINS. ‘Take one-half pound hog’ s lard, four ounces rosin, two ounces beeswax, one-third ounce oil of spike, one-third ounce oil of meer, and bathe the ane part with it. -ROSE-WATER. Take one pound rose leaves, turn on one quart boiling wa- _ ter, and let.it stand twenty-four hours ; then —, add one pound loaf sugar, and bottle it tight. FOR BURNS. Hold it in cold water, or wet a cloth in cold water, and shift them every five minutes. till it stops smarting ; after- wards, dust well with wheat flour,, and-put; on a bat of raw cotton—o: sar wtiergsstiereeal ew TO KILL OR CURE A FELLON. Take one-fourth ounce slacked lime, one-half spoonful soft soaPy one-half oan vinegat, one-sight ounce sallt, thicken- pve oF A aD B06. Take one ounce pulverized copper, one ounce blood root, one ounce of the false tongue of a colt, four ounces of the aa r bone of a dog, all pelreasciagetieons eae one tea ey hour in sweet mill, 3 ee RECIPES. ee TO CURE THE BITE OF A RATTLESNAKE. Dissolve one-half ounce alum in water and drink it} pound thoroughwort leaves, wet with water, and lay on. Renew the application every wi and let the patient drink a little of the juice. _ VOLATILE LINIMENT. Take one pint sweet oil, one-half pint hartshorn, stile well together, and cork it” ght. Rub it on stiff necks or loins and sore throats. : \ es DELERIUM TREMENS, Give a table-spoonful of the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic every hour, and lay a cloth of four or five thicknesses wet with the Pain Extractor, on the head. Repeat giving — _ the Physic until it operates, and keep the cloth wet with the Pain Extractor on the head, Then give one tea-spoonful of the Health Bitters, pares eee for one month, 2 EF cg rm coy epee blood, and make it into twelve pills. Take two 0 pills morning ~ and night for three days. FOR BLEEDING AT THE LUNGS. Take three or four drops of the oil of golden aes morning and evening, on nom, FOR THE GRAVEL. Take twenty drops Harlem oil three times a day. BB 314 ae RECIPES. SALT RHEUM. Make a strong tea of the bark of the root of red or white elm, drink the tea freely, and wash the affected part with it; or take one ounce of blue flag root, steep it in one-half pint _ gin, and take a tea-spoonful three times a day—wash with the same; or take one ounce of the oil of tar and two drachms of the oil of checkerberty, mix together, and take from five to ahr drops morning and evening. = FOR NERVOUS AFFECTIONS AND SICK HEAD-ACHE. Drink freely of mullin seed tea; or take one tea-spoonful of powdered chareoal and one-half drachm nitric acid in one- half gill. of. tea, a ere FOR HUMORS IN ‘THE BLOOD. | Take equal parts of saffron and Seneca root, and make a tre ng tea of sacs ‘Take one gill _— atts evening. —_—_—_ FOR DEAFN ESS. Take ants’ eggs and onion juice, mix. together, let them = stand one hour, then strain, and put two drops i in the ear as : ee to > bed for Ahteo ¢ or four So _ FOR THE JAUNDICE, Take the white of four hen’s egys and beat them up in one-half pint cider. Take a table-spoonful morning and eve- ning. Or take two ounces black cherry tree bark, two ounces blood root and one ounce barberry (bark of the root.) Put them in one quart good betes and take a —— ae it. morning and — ~ RECIPES. 315 TO REDUCE SWELLINGS AND CALLOUS. Take one-half pint of alcohol, one-half ounce camphor gum, one-half ounce oil origanum, oné-half ounce camphene, one-half ounce oil of spike, and one-half ounce beef gall— put them in a bottle, cork it tight, and shake it well to- gether; then add one-half ounce alum dissolved in one-half. gill strong cider vinegar, shake all well together, and rub the swelling with it every three or four hours. Bathe it one-half hour before rubbing with. the composition in cold water, and _ it will reduce any eligi A matic. et \ Ses CRAMP IN THE STOMACH. _ Take five drops oil of lavender and a lump of mae. gum as large asea pea, shaved fine in hot water. Repeat | the een, twenty minutes till relieved. "4 ; CANCERS. FOR SALT RHEUM. . Dissolve one ounce refined pearlash in three gills water; aacixs one-fourth pound loaf sugar and one and : a aupl gills lime juice—put all together, and take one-half y twice a day. You may add one-half ounce of bitter, ‘walnut — meats, well pulverized, to the syrap, and rub on the afflicted part bitter walnut meat: juice. Take the physic frequently —it will purify the blood and cleanse the stomach. x 316 oe : RECIPES. : FOR THE BITE OF A RATTLESNAKE. _ Cut a gash in the wound as deep as the teeth, and imme- diately fill it with fine salt. Wash it with strong brine or plantain juice, moistened with a little water and squeezed out. Add to it as much salt as will melt. Keep it wet with the brine, and put a bandage tight above the wound above the knee or elbow. Rub the swelled part toward the wound as hard as can be borne. Continue washing till it stops run- ning. Give the patient sweet oil, saffron, or snake-root tea, to guard the stomach. Be careful not to get the matter on raw flesh. * ee . TO CURE THE ASTHMA. ~ Make a strong tea of skunk cabbage root, strain, and add to every pint one table-spoonful of garlic juice—sweeten well with honey, and take one table-spoonful three times a day, Or take two ounces spikenard ‘root, two ounces sweet flag root, two ounces elecampane ‘root, and two ounces chalk— pulverize them all together, and mix them with one pound honey. Take a tea-spoonful three timesaday. Or take two * ounces saltpetre, one ounce sulphur, one ounce cream tartar, _ one-half ounce magnetia, four ounces ball liquorice, dissolve : them i in one quart water, and take one table-spoonful three “times a day, fasting. Or take a table spoonful of white mus- ic ca or water, ne and evening.. * WHOOPING covGH. ; | Give flax seed tea freely, and give every two or three hours _ & table-spoonful of the Indian Physic and one-half eunaag, ‘fal of Cordial three times a day, before eating. — RECIPES. eC = - RHEUMATISM. Take one arachm gum guaiacum, one drachm rosin, one drachm soap, and one-half drachm oil of juniper—make all _ into thirty pills, and take one morning and evening. Or take one ounce gum guaiacum, one-half ounce gum myrrh, and one-half ounce ‘saltpetre—put i in one quart brandy, and take one table-spoonful in water three times a day. Or take one ounce saltpetre, one gill vinegar, and one gill new rum—sim- mer all together, wash the iad - ties it — and take ten drops of the oil of : CURE FOR YELLOW JAUNDICE,- Take one pound horseradish roots, prickly she bins black z cherry tree bark, four ounces each, and two ounces hops; put them all in two gallons cold cider, let it steep twenty-four hours, and take a ‘gill three times a day, before eating. FOR BRUISES. — 1 ard, ‘one. ‘poead saienpals, one P petit Enot gra ‘one pound shepherd sprouts—strain it off, and add one pint molasses to a gallon. Weta cloth of four or five thick- / nesses, lay it on, and repeat as it dries. _ - ; ws #7 (ee TO STOP MORTIFICATION. Boil dogmackimus leaves and ox balm well together, . and lay them on. It. seldom fails, and has stopped the disease when ev —— else failed. 318 : RECIPES. FOR A WEAK STOMACH. Boil eight quarts of green, or four of dried Indian root in one quart molasses till soft ; dry and eat it more or less every day. Put one pound of ripe spikenard berries in one quart of good whiskey, and take one-half wine-glassful three times a day, one-half hour before eating, TO PREVENT MORTIFICATION. Make a strong tea of spignard root, bathe well in it, and drink the tea freely. \ TO BREAK A FEVER. Take a gentle physic that will act on the blood and bow- els, and wash the patient with cold salt and water thoroughly. Put drafts to the feet, or bathe them well in hot water, well tinctured with salt. After bathing well in cold salt and water, go to bed and cover up warm. ke a sieong: tea of the bark of the root of sumac, high _ brier, and mullin root, equal parts ; drink freely of it for one week, and continue drinking till cured. — ——_, PILES. . “Take trumpweed, milkweed or ladies’ thistle, make into a tea, and take re or as an ointment eee a RECIPES. ; 319 - FOR THE QUINSY. Take oil of almonds and spirits of sal ammoniac, equal parts, and apply to the part afflicted. Or take a pint of new milk from a red cow and one gill of water, boiled in a new red earthen pot by the application of red hot rusty steel— wet a flannel cloth while hot and apply it to the throat. Or make a strong tea of black currant bark, leaves or berries— drink it freely, and rub the throat with it hot. It seldom fail, 2 Se eee ee cent PALSY. __ : Make a strong tea of southern wood boiled in a brass ket- tle, and rub the afflicted part with a woolen cloth dipped in the tea, as hot as you can bear it, Continue rubing ten or fifteen minutes a day for a a Go to bed immediately after bathing. CURE FOR CHOLERA. Take ouabalé ounce oil (garden) lavender, three ounces pe four ounces alcohol, ‘one-half ounce lauda- one-fourth ounce cayenne pepper, mix all together, and ates one half to two Veeapeonlany according to age, for S a dose. es -MENSES, (OBSTRUCTED.) Take one table-spoonful of the tincture of gum guaiacum in one-half gill of sweet milk at full moon; or take strong tea made of Seneca snake-root ; or take borax, saffron and myrth, each ten grains. 320 ee RECIPES. FOR. THE STING OF A BEE, OR ANY OTHER INSECT. Apply laudanum outwardly immediately ; ; or wash with ‘strong brine mixed with plantain juice; or hold on a cloth wet with eold water ; or pour cold water on for oe an hour ; or lay 0 on. pounded plantain leaves and roots. on = CHOLERA MORBUS. Make a strong tea of burdock roots, mullin leaves and el- der berries, and drink freely of it ; or one-half pint of sour cider—put in it a tea-spoonful of good hard wood ashes, let it settle, and take one table-spoonful every half hour. RHEUMATISM. et Take ‘in ee awect flag and blood root, ids four ounces, | and four§ounces prickly ash bark ; steep them in two quarts. brandy, and take one-half wine-glassful three times a day. ANOTHER. Take four ounces castile soap, two ounces camphor gum, one-half ounce oil fosemary, and three pints alcohol ; soak : wie.s0ap: three days in the alcohol, then add the other ingre- _ dients, and shake all together. Bathe the afflicted part with arene! PUTRID SORE THROAT sotake, one gill strong cider vinegar, one ounce salt, two ounces honey, one drachm red pepper, boil them all together ee n one-half pint strong sage tea, and. take. a tea-spoontul every two hours till cured. » Py RECIPES. 4 321 FOR UTERINE COMMOTION. Make a syrup of mother of thyme, chamomile, mother- wort, double tansy, catmint aA pennyroyal, ogee ie use it freely, 2 ‘ _ CURE FOR SWELLINGS. Pound waneed, red clover and ‘dragon’s root, well to-- gether, and mix. it with a little s sour cream. Spread a plastér and lay it on. Seldom ‘eile FOR WARTS. Wash the hands or warts in strong sal soda water two or es minutes ; let it dry co and repeat it for two days. TO DRAW A FELLON TO A HEAD. Boil flax seed in new milk and stir in Indian meal. Repeat this poultice as often as it ges cold, and it will draw it to a head. ae aie j : FOR A FELON WHEN ‘ULCERATED. Roast an onion till one ring comes off, and-bind itfon as hot as you can bear it; roast the remainder till another ring comes off, apply it, ion so on till the pain subsides, or till it breaks. You may hold your finger in skim milk and salt till it boils, . . FOR WARTS. - Rub them with the juice of wild celendine frequently, and ~ it will eure them. ~ : ~ 322° RECIPES. - FOR SCALDS. _ WetTinen or cotton cloths with the oil of pumpkin seeds; renew and apply the cloths thus wet every two hours. It has cured when everything else has failed. Or you may wet a cloth with India molasses; or you may wet cloths with the Pain Extractor, which will take out the fire and prevent blistering, _ Be - TO MAKE A STRENGTHENING PLASTER. - Take white pine turpentine, rosin and beeswax, equal parts, (say one ounce each,) one-half ounce mutton tallow and one- fourth ounce camphor gum—simmer them together. 2 FOR PILES. Make a tea of mullen tops. swhen in blossom and drink it freely, Wet a rag with the tea, ea. —— on polveréed healed oor for = phir ae: s5 aoe FOR INDIGESTION. s Take the inside skin of a pigeon, partridge or hen’s gizzard, Datevtive it and take a tea-spoonful. “It will stop a disentery. OR RATTLESNAKE'S BITE. satis of the j juice of hoarhound and plantain _ a3 soon as : possible, and renew the dose every hour. If the~ _ _ herbs are dry, moisten them with water. Lay on the ‘wound _pabaoo wet with rum. I -_ BLOODY URINE, dableapoosiel of the Reformed Botanic and In- dian Physic every four hours till it operates thoroughly, then take a tea-spoonful of the Cordial one-half hour before eating for two days. After that take the Health Bitters morning Se ie Bee FOR PAIN IN THE STOMACH OR SIDE. Take lovage, cohosh, spignard, horseradish, wakerobin, der, peony roots, caraway seeds, rue, wormwood, com- jomon’s seal roots and sweet apple tree bark; steep ces of each in two quarts West India rum, me take poonfu! ‘three times a day before eating. a, TO BREAK A FEVER. _ Steep one pound wild valerian roots in one quart of water, not boil it, and take one-half gill every hour; if not. aes Pi. OBS ORs aad it leak the. for. RECIPES. 331 SORE MOUTH SYRUP. Take one ounce sage, one ounce gold-thread, one ounce hyssop, and steep all together in one-half pint water; then strain, sweeten well with honey, and add epebalt:o ounce of eg alum. ‘TO MAKE CANKER SYRUP. 4 _ Take one pound of dried black currants, steep them well in two quarts water, then strain, and add two go loaf sugar and one ounce pulverized alum. gee Es COUGH SYRUP. pa pe Take one ounce lobelia seeds, one ounce sweet fing 6 four ounces black cherry tree bark, one-half lb. burdock roots, one-_ half ounce primrose flowers—boil them all together in two quarts water, then strain, and add one and a half pounds honey, and bottle it tight A use. Take. one fe pound poe chalk, one bane pound cream of tarter, one-fourth pound loaf sugar, one-half ounce mag- nesia, one-fourth ounce American rheubarb—all Pe « together. You can drop in the above twenty drops of the ~ oil of wintergreen. (eee VERVINE, Coin obstructions and cleanses the blood. It may be used in jaundice, dropsy, gout, worms, lung complaints and gravel. Mixed with hog’s lard cures the piles. 332 << RECIPES. TO FASTEN THE TEETH. Chew the roots of brook lime; or put one-half ounce of alum in one quart of spring water, let it stand one day, then strain it, and wash your mouth with it mornings; or pulver- ize alum and charcoal (equal parts) together, and rub the teeth and gums with it ; reanse them with water. oe er: LUNG COMPLAINT. ~ Take one pound black cherry tree bark and one ounce lo- belia, steep well in one quart water down to a pint, then _ strain, and add one pint well worked cider and one pounds © loaf sugar. Drink freely of it. = oil of hemlock, ‘and one-half ounce camphene ; then dissolve one-half ounce alum, one-fourth ounce saltpetre, and one-half ounce salt, in one gill vinegar. Mix all together and shake them well. AINT, HUNGRY, ONAWING STOMACH, ‘root, ¢ ion or spignard root, powder them together, and take a -ten-spoonful at a time, as Sy think proper. FOR THE PHTHISIC. “Tak teaspoonful of white oak aerons’ powdered in mo- laste, on going to bed. Follow it up and it will cure. ihe RECIPES. zs 333 . TO CUT THE FUR OFF THE TONGUE AND RAISE AN APPETITE. Take one pint of well worked cider, and add six ounces of loaf sugar, one-fourth ounce ginger, one drachm baberry bark (pulverized), one-fourth ounce black cherry bark (pul- verized), and take one tea-spoonful three times a day. In costive cases, leave out the baberry bark. If you cannot get good cider, you can form the ip of good cider vin- egar. es ee "VEGETABLE PHYSIC. _ Take four ounces ae ieee es one ounce blood ot, four ounces burdock root, four ounces sweet elder sol Bar . ounces dwarf elder root, one-half ounce cloves, and oneounce ~ ginger—boil well in two quarts water, strain, then boil down thick, and ee with 1 rye flour. Take one, two or three at a time. aes ee tie TRUE WAY TO MAKE ESSENCES. Take ninety-five per cent, alcohol of any Peis oil into one pint of the seme, deohol. If the oil does not mix well it will show that the alcohol is ‘not good. A FOR A, FEVER. Drink winter clover (called ig some squawberry) tea sel. SINEWS SHRUNK FROM A CUT. Rub it every morning with fasting spittle. 334 — Zs RECIPES. TO MAKE CURRANT, SWEET ELDER, BLACKBERRY, OR 3 ANY vie JELLY. ‘Squeeze out the juice of the green berries, and add one pound of sugar to one pound of the syrups 4 ‘then ‘simmer it down till it forms a — , cee 3 CAMPHORATED OIL. ‘Take one pint of sweet oil, goose oil or lard oil, add two ounces of pulverized camphor gum, and simmer them over a slow fire till all are mixed together. It is used for sprains, bruises, or any sores, LUNG SYRUP. half pound burdock root, one-half pound Amer- illa roots, one-fourth pound balsam boughs, steep the two quarts water down to one, strain, and add one pound loaf sugar. Take one tea or table-spoonful three times a day, before eating. This followed up will cure any ae or dg 22 ‘i ANOTHER. p one pound. of hemlock bark in one quart of waiter bly i. postion te aemaad well with loaf sugar, and FOR AGUE IN THE FACE, . Pound spikenard root fine and simmer in new sailie 28 in = eee few, and lay it on the afflicted part as a poultice. Or ice of oconeneaad with brandy, and = it RECIPES, 835 TO CURE FITS OF ANY KIND. Take — parts of barberry bark, high cranberry bark, and spotted alder, (generally called black alder,) and dry and powder them together. Take a tea-spoonful three times a day, fasting. Then take one pound gallow root, put in two’ quarts water, boil it down to a pint, strain it, and put one — pint sacigaiee and one pint milk into it. Take of this syrup — a win ul morning and evening, every other day. Take a tea-spoonful of spirits turpentine the day you do not take the other medicine. This never Seneigh ae FOR. SORE EYES. 2 a ee Take: two ounces. 1s sweet apple tree atk, two ounces 5 lad maple bark, two ounces tag alder bark, and two ounces spruce. buds, put them all together in one pint of rain water, and ‘simmer it down to one-half pint; then strain and bottle it, and add one-half drachm white vitriol and one-half drachm sulphate of zinc. Wash your eyes at night as you go to bed. This has cured the worst of sore eyes. — SMALL POX. Drink freely of bread coffee, and eat mulled butter milk; or let your whole diet be bread and butter milk, sweetened ; or bread and molasses, and drink milk and water; or milk and apples, and take a wine-glassful of the Reformed Botanic _ and Indian Physic once a week. . Take care to have pure cool air, but not too much, If they strike in and convulsions follow, drink a pint of cold water immediately. This in- stantly stops me convulsions and drives out the pox. ~ 836 . RECIPES. SORE THROAT. Take a pint of cold water lying down in bed; or apply a poultice of roasted figs to the throat; or a flannel sprinkled with spirits of hartshorn to the ‘hefoat, and rub Hungary water on top of the head; or drink a little rose water and syrup of mulberries ; or seat a little honey up the nose; or . take one tea-spoonful three times a day of bitter walnut meat jelly made with loaf sugar, and eat apples and drink the water. ome FOR A SORE MOUTH. . * Apply the white of an egg beat up with loaf sugar, or chew bitter walnut meats; or wash the mouth with the water — - they are steeped in—sweeten with sugar; or gargle with the juice of five-finger ; or boil together one pound of molasses a three eggs—-add.: one ounce of bole armo- aad 01 alum—boil one-quarter of an hoar, this =e sore part or an aching tooth. ee TO CURE THE PILES. Jam up dead nettles and set on them ; or drink a decoc- tion of mete asa fle ; TO MAKE BATH POWDERS : Taka two ounces fine salt, one-half ounce salaratus, one- » half ounce saltpetre, and pulverize all together. a STING OF Sag = 4 ; RECIPE, a : _FOR A COUGE. | Take two | ounces onions, two ounces anise seed, two ounces garlics, and honey or loaf sugar; boil the anise seed and garlics soft, and strain them through a cloth. Then add the honey, apd add one pint gin to a quart « of the syrup. Take one-half wine-glassful of-the syrup when you go to bed. Or steep yellow dock and burdock, equal. parts, say one pound, in one-half gallon water, add one pint gin, and sweeten it with molasses. Take one-half wine-glassful in the morning and at noon. Drink a tea made of red clover blows freely. z. mee "ANOTHER. ‘ Take one ounce dragon root, one-ounce flax seed ii ‘ounce new milk, and one ounce honey—mix all together, take one tea-spoonful every net 4f the cough is hard—if not, every two hours. — — SKIN ‘RUBBED OFF. a heal-all, (called woundwort.) [t seldom ere OF rs may bathe it with the Pain Extractor. eile ts, —_-_—"__ FOR A VENOMOU 3 STING. Apply a poultice of plantain and honey ; or take inwardly one drachm of black currant leaves, powdered—it is an ex- cellent counter poison ; or you may lay on a cloth wet with | cold salt and _ with a as ois dissolved in it. ; os FOR THE STING OF A BEE, Apply salt, saltpetre and honey, stirred together. - DD 338 RECIPRS. FOR RHEUMATISM. Drink the tea of garget root strong enough to physic you ; ‘or take a portion of the Indian Physic; or salts and oil of anise, (say twelve drops on sugar,) till you have a thorough ‘physic, then take wild black cherry tree bark, cider, and bur- dock roots, steep the bark and roots (one pound each) in two quarts water, strong; make the tea after steeped one-half_ cider, and take a wine-glassful three times a day, fasting. CURE FOR CANCERS. . a Apply nitric acid to the edges of the cancer with a gold ‘wire, and after several days, if the part becomes very much inflamed, subside a few days. Then apply the acid till the diseased part peals off. The cure is completed by a salve | made of equal parts of castile soap, beeswax, mutton tallow and turpentine, stunygred te together, and dress with it twice a . ia ee | SWELLED LEGS. Bathe every morning in cold water, and take a purge twice | a week ; or take wormwood, southern wood, rue, and honey, ~ equal parts, steep them together, and apply them hot as a FOR SICKNESS Ly ‘THE: MORNING. Eat nothing after six o’clock in the evening, take a tea- _ spoonful of Health Bitters as you go to bed, and one swallow : cold water as you rise in the morning—fifteen minutes half —— of Health ciesgaeed ; RECIPES, 339 WORMS. a6 8 Take bJue flag root boiled in milk, sweeten with loaf sugar, “<6 to a grown person give two table-spoonfuls—to a child worms. _ ANOTHER. Gises your medicine about the second quarter of the n moon. - Pour on to a piece of unslacked lime as big as a large hen’s egg, one quart of hot water, let it settle, then bottle the clear part, and give one-half wine al three times aday, It is good in gravel Si and is used as a a>. for foul ulcers, ae FOR WHOOPING COUGH. Bind a piece of muskrat skin around the neck for ties: or five nights. FOR DYSENTERY AND DIARRHGA. Eat figs plentifully; or drink freely of a. strong tea made of Canada. Speen sean wee Seem iatee i a crinkle = x SALT RHEUM OR ITCH. Take one-half pint spirits turpentine, one pound fresh butter, one-fourth pound Burgundy pitch, one ounce mutton tallow,-one ounce beeswax, and simmer them well together ; when cool, add one ounce pulverized red. precipitate. Rub the afflicted part when going to bed, and follow it up for a week, Or simmer hog’s lard and yellow dock together, anoint all over, and drink freely of a tea made of the dock root. . Repeat the dose every two hours. It sat to destroy ~ SES Ee SO aE es ae ey ee Ee — $40 - RECIPES: TO DISSOLVE STONE IN THE BLADDER. | Steep one pound golden-rod and four ounces honey”bees in two quarts water for two hours, strain and sweeten with four ounces honey, and take a wine-glassful every two hours; or make a strong tea of horsemint and red onions, equal parts, and take-a wine-glassful morning and evening, half an hour before eating. HUNGARY EVIL. Steep equal parts wormwood, hemlock boughs, peppermint, elder flowers and pennyroyal all together, and take half a wine-glassful morning and night. When a person has a cold, or ague in the face, steam with it. ae _ NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE, Take | one ounce white pine bark, one ounce hemlock, one ounce barberry (bark of the root), one-half ounce sassafras (bark of the root), one ounce black cherry tree bark, pulverize all together, put them in two quarts good French brandy, _ shake well together and let it stand two days. Take half a sake in the mee cman half an hour before FOR KIN @’S EVIL "ake one-half pint brandy, two ounces beef gall; tw two ounces spire turpentine, one ounce camphor gum, put them in a ani oapnediemeentan saanl Sor hee re ape it every two hours, aes TO CLEAN THE TEETH. _ Take bole Armenia, one pound, cream of tartar and gum Arabic, one ounce each, one ounce loaf sugar, oulverize all together and moisten with water; wash out the mouth with cold water, and apply the paste to the teeth and gumswitha.- brush, once or twice a day. Or rb the teeth with powdered | red £0 ted and. wash them Hike: water which has. = pena S aera ee eae Steep one ounce hops in one pint spirits, ‘apply’ a einer to~ the lips, suck in the steam and swallow it; put the hops on the outside of the throat as a poultice. Ov dey good brandy on a lump of loaf sugar, as much as it will absorb, and hold in the mouth till it dissolves; repeat it four or five times a day for three or four days. FOR OLD SORES. ‘Take one-half ¢ ounce ‘copperas, one-half ounce white vitriol, two ounces rock salt, three ounces mutton tallow, eight ounces molasses, one pint urine, two ounces balsam, one ounce spirits — turpentine, one ounce oil of tar; simmer them over a slow fire, and when cold, add one-half ounce oil of vitriol, stir well together and dress the sore with it. - FOR SORE LIPS. se ee Wash them with a tea thade of white oak atk; to every gill add one-fourth ounce saltpetre and one-fourth ounce alum, and anoint them with mutton tallow. - DD2 "42 RECIPES. — BONE OINTMENT. Take equal parts of wormwood, chamomile, St. John’s-wort,. henbane, nightshade, plantain, green tobacco and melilot, simmer them in hog’s lard or fresh butter, strain it and anoint the afflicted part with it two or three times a day; or equal parts mullen, chamomile, catmint, tansy, burdock, may-weed, pennyroyal, pepper, mint, assmart, yarrow, wormwood and indigo weed, simmer all together in fresh butter, strain, and use &s you do the first; or take wormwood, elder bark or elder buds and the white of hen dung, bruise and simmer them gently in hog’s lard, strain it for use and anoint the afflicted part three times a day, warming it in. | FOR HYSTERICS. Make a strong tea of motherwort, thoroughwort, and the bark of “poplar root, equal parts, sweeten it with molasses, and drink one gill of it when the fit is coming-on. FOR STIFFNESS IN JOINTS. Take white oak bark and sweet apple tree bark, each four ounces, boil them in one quart water (down thick), and put in one-half CBee: al. _Anoint the joints with it warm. Take a 5 fovapoonfa of gam spasienuen and a tea-spoonful of wine vinegar; apply it to the affected part. FOR STRAIN IN THE STOMACH, ~ ‘Take white pine turpentine, honey and sulphur, each four ounces, make into Pills, and take — every dey, fasting. © FOR THE TAPE WORM. Boil four ounces of the stems of pomegranate, four ounces sage and one-half ounce alum in one quart sweet milk ; cool, strain and add two ounces spirits turpentine, one pound sugar and one pint brandy; shake all well together, and take a wine-glassful every hour for fwelve hours; then take three spoonfuls of the Reformed Botanic and Indian Physic every hour till it operates. Or-give one gill fourth proof brandy” and one gill India molasses, and thirty minutes after give one gill of the Indian Physic, wait two hours and give one - more of the Indian ia a: and so on antil — : FOR THE JAUNDICE. Take stone soot (of the chimney), and poplar bark ashes, two ounces each, put them in one pint cider and take one-half wine-glassful for nine mornings, skipping every other three. FOR ULCERS Boil one pound walnut leaves in two quarts. tania wash the sore with it; and wet a cloth with the same and day it on. FOR BLEEDING AT THE STOMACH. Take a table-spoonful of chamomile tea ey ten minutes, until the bleeding stops. cee s FOR HOARSENESS. oe. os Make a strong tea of horteradish and yellow dock roots, sweetened with honey, and drink freely of it. ts wl RECIPES, 343 - ~ 344 - - RECIPES. FOR AN INJECTION. Take three gills of strong thoroughwort tea, one gill West India molasses. and two spoonfuls hog’s lard, blood warm ; put it in a large bladder, blow the bladder full of tobacco moke, put a quill or tube in the neck of the bladder, and force the smoke and tea up the rectum. Or put one gill - West. India molasses and one ounce fine. salt into a soluble vessel, simmer them together till it is candy, grease your hands with hog’s lard, make a stick of it and put it up the rectum. It will create pain, but it must be kept there five or ten minutes, . FOR STRAINS, WRENCHES, OR WEAKNESS INWARDLY. _ Make a strong tea of hog onion roots, strain, put in milk oak sugar, and drink it freely; or use buckhorn root tea in the same wears a soa mnie of the roots and bound on is FOR INDIGESTION OR DYSENTERY. ies a spoonful. of pulverized charcoal (of maple, birch or alder) in the “Morning, mix the coal with molasses; if the $ tive, make a tea of white oak bark aa the leaves of ring oss bush, Take half a wine glaetl three times a day. . = “ ~. FORA WHITLOW. = Bind on the skin of hog’s suet. two. or three times, If the whitlow — bind it on till well. =e — RECIPES, 345 TO MAKE BILIOUS PILLS. Take twelve ounces pulverized Turkey rhubarb, four ounces saltpetre, three ounces Epsom salts, twelve ounces castile soap, four ounces syrup of buckthorn, one-half ounce oil ‘of anise cut in alcohol, or eight ounces pulverized anise seed, eight ounces gum Arabic; mix them all well together, and if not moist enough soften with molasses, and make them into pills as big as a large pea; take one to four for a dose, and repeat _ ‘the dose every four hours till they-operate. Or take eight ounces pulverized gamboge, six ounces aloes, four ounces castile soap, four ounces anise seed pulverized, two ounces saltpetre, eight ounces Epsom salts, two ounces mandrake root, pulverize all together and moisten with rectified spirits of wine, el them as above, and take them i in the same way. A TO HEAL FRESH WOUNDS OR SPRAINS IN THE STOMACH. Pound wormwood leaves, moisten them with alcohol and Jay on sores, sprains, weak joints-or wrenches in the stomach. Steeped in spirits or water, is good to take inwardly. Use it freely for six or eight days, or longer if necessary, => eee —— z NERVE OINTMENT. Take equal parts of neat’s foot oil, spirits turpentine, brandy, oil of John’s-wort and beef’s gall, simmer them well together, anoint the afflicted part and bathe it in. FOR THE TOOTH-ACHE, Take the powder of wild celandine, put it on and in the tooth several times; it will cure the tooth, and cause it to drop out in a few days. 346 RECIPES, BLOOD PURIFIER. Take two pounds burdock roots, one-half pound yellow doek, one pound spikenard roots, one pound balsam boughs, two ounces hops, and two pounds sarsaparilla—boil all to- _ gether in three gallons of water for two hours, strain, and add to every gallon of the syrup eight pounds sugar, one pint brandy, and two ounces saltpetre. Take a table-spoonful aia lacics a — eating. : * COUGH POWDERS. “! rake one and a half pounds loaf sugar, one-fourth pound saltpetre, one-fourth pound alum, two ounces salt, one-half pound ginger, two ounces black pepper, one ounce wild tur- nip, and one ounce sweet flag—pulverize and mix them all together, and then add one-half ounce oil of anise. What will lie on the point of a knife is a dose. ‘Taken three times “se astin Sortie Scammell ‘CURE FOR HUMORS. Make a strong tea of meadow fern (called bog bush) and drink it freely with your meals, séldom fails, This bush gen- ob grows around water, and is known by its golden buds : * etl as : "ey Gael ie irisoxs Take one-half pound firr balsam bark, one-half ae white pine bark, one pound spignard root and one-fourth pound spruce gum, boil them thoroughly in one gallon water, strain, add. one pint molasses and one-half pint rum. Take a ul three times a day. mim $47 PAIN EXTRACTOR. Dissolve. two ounces aluro, two ounces salt, one ounce salte petre, in one quart vinegar ; then cut ‘two ounces camphor gum in one pint of alcohol, in a separate bottle ; _ then cut one ounce oil origanum, one ounce e, one-ha oil,of hemlock, in one pint of alcohol.” Put all in one bottle, shake well together, and it is fit for use. It is good on cattle adding -half ounce oil of spike. For head-ache, lay ‘on a cloth wet with this, of three or four thicknesses, on the crown of the head, and bathe the templ i in cases of bruises, sprains, head-ache, eatarrh, neuralgia pains, and for all outward pains and | “ HEALTH BITTERS. Take two pounds black cherry bark, one-half pound bal- sam boughs, boil them two hours in one and a half gallons of water, strain, and cool the tea; then add one gallon well worked cider, eight pounds sugar, 3 and cut one-half ounce oil of anise and one-fourth ounce camphor | in on = hol. Add, also, 4 : e well pulverized. Shake them all together, ane bottle it “og use. One to one and a half tea-spoonfuls is a dose. SLUMBERING DROPS, OR CORDIAL. Take one pint Health Bitters, one-half pint best port wine, “one-half pint raspberry wine, put all together, and add one tea-spoonful of strong essence of wintergreen and one tea- spoonful essence of anise. Take one to one and a half tea- spoonfuls as you go to bed. Yon may leave out the anise or wintergreen, as suits best. 348 RECIPES. REFORMED BOTANIC AND INDIAN PHYSIC. TO LAY A FOUNDATION FOR THE CURE OF ALL DISEASES, Take three ounces Epsom salts, three and a half ounces brown sugar, one-eighth ounce saltpetre, dissolve them well in one gill hot water, then add one-half wine-glassful of good cider vinegar, one-half ounce elderberry jelly, and cut twelve drops oil of anise in one tea-spoonful of aleoho]. Take one- fourth, fifth or sixth part, as the stomach can bear, on going to bed—and if it does not operate three or four times . thoroughly i in eight hours, take another dose, and repeat the same every two hours until it does operate three or four times thoroughly. After that, take a tea-spoonful of the Cordial one-half hour before eating, for a few days. : HEALTH BITTERS AND CORDIAL. _ ‘Fake one pound black cherry bark, one-half pound bur- dock roots, and. one-fourth pound sarsaparilla—boil them well in three quarts water to one and a half quarts; dissolve in three pints good’ cider, one ounce saltpetre, one ounce alum—cut one-fourth ounce camphor gum, one-fourth ounce oil of anise, in one pint fourth-proof brandy ; mix them all together, and then add four pounds loaf sugar. To make the Cordial, add one-third good ces wine. TO CURE VEGETABLE POISON. _ Rub the afflicted. part with spirits turpentine—rub lightly ; or jam wild celandine and rub it on; or white scabious, in the same manner; or wash with iron sweet fern freely. se B. Cold water can be drank freely .in all the medical ms of this work, and vomiting should be guarded t, when giving the Physic, by taking small doses of the Cordial, if — of vomiting appear. =, ‘RULES POR ary NG MEDICINE, APRA LID LAA SSD ADR ADA RAB APD PDPD DALAL Remarks on the Rules. of taking Medtitns, and the milioy ives in Mee of the neglect or non-attention to the rules laid down down Begeidisnont Physicians. — an has his wn mode and tata in treating diseases—“ome Blea , some vomit, § some blister, some cup, some sweat, some physic, some use leeches, little of all. But I, for one, standing alone'tike Elijah of ‘ against the four hundred Prophets of Baal—but, alas! my case is still worse than the Prophet of old. ‘T feel as if Thad to stand against four hundred thousand, as I differ in prac- tice from them all. I abandon the idea of bleeding, vomit- ing, cupping, leeching, or blistering. My mode of practice is, in almost all cases of importance—I give a cathartic in . quantities small or large, as the constitution or stomach of : r the cause i generally pr Indian "Physio, which can be > fel with sugar and water to suit any stomach, without altering the operation of it, if followed up properly from time to time. A wine-glassful is a dose for an adult. It can be reduced one hundred per cent. with sugar and water, and in some cases a tea-spoonful is enough. It can be given to an infant one month, or one hundred years old, without harm. I immediately, after the Physic operates three or four times, give a tea-spoonful of the Cordial to an adult, in common cases, and sometimes | from three to four drops, varying to meet all stomachs. This EE 350 . RULES FOR GIVING MEDICINE. preparation I generally give three times a day, a short time before eating, for two or three days ; after that I follow up_ the practice with Blood Purifier, root syrups and powders of various kinds, to meet the case, and many times outward bathings and baths, tepid and cold. Sometimes I use the Bath Liniment clear, sometimes in warm water, and at others — in hot water, combined with Bath Powders—say one ounce of Bath Powders to one Hable-speonfal: of Bath Liniment, in one gallon of hot water. — In chest difficulties I alle wet a cloth with Bath Lini- ment and warm water, equal parts, and lay it on, and have the petient sleep.with it on. Sometimes I use the Pain Ex- ‘tractor, clear, in the same manner. I many times follow up these applications with a strengthening plaster: varying my Indian Physic sometimes by mandrake roots, pulverized— say to a common dose four grains, and sometimes, in case of — fever and ague and chill fever, Tadd to a dose blood root, pulverized, two to four grains, which makes it still more pow- erful; but in female cases, where they are pregnant, it will “not do to add blood root or lobelia; although I add some times, in cases of inflammation of the lungs, one or two grains of lobelia, and in cases of inflammation of the bowels Tadd six or eight grains of smartweed powders, and in such eases: Rs leave out the blood root and lobelia. aver disease i is removed in any way, it is necessary ‘weir wmathiag es” heal the wound, of whatever kind it may be. TI generally give Cordial first, but it requires judg- ment and experience to give medicine with safety, and a proper knowledge of man—physically and mentally—to _know properly how to give medicine of any kind. There are failures of effecting cures, many times, in consequence of the arelessness of the patient, ¢ even if the. skill and medicine or- RULES FOR GIVING MEDICINE, 351 dered by the physician wagid effect a cure; and many times when the patient is seemingly well and not aware of his own weakness, will overdo or take cold, and thereby overdo all that has been done for him—and then the doctor is blamed and the patient discouraged—many times sinks down in des- ‘pair, and is thereby brought to an untimely grave. Others are too poor to follow up enough, even of proper medicine, to effect a cure, and therefore a cure is not effected, and still remain sick, There are a certain class of people that are_ too stingy and: niser- ~ hat they had rather be sick and even die, than let their money, go, even if they knew they would be cured if they took: the medicine that would effect a cure. They will try to bargain with the doctor to cure or no pay, and if they happen to fall in with any one foolish enough to make such a bargain with them, and they get the medi- — cine, and get cured or not, they will not pay. They will — want the doctor to wait three or six months, and they will . expose and try themselves, and if they ever fail or take cold, then the doctor has not curéd them, and will call him all to naught and swear they. wl not pay him 5 and if possible. will make a barg th some other doctor of the wil got. she meditina of hia and promise to pay. in a.short. time—but, alas, that short time never comes—sick or well the doctor is cheated out of his medicine, and the libertine can spend his money in the grog-shop, or at the theatre, and houses of ill fame, and at last they die poor wretches, whether they are poor or sick ; for if they are not born of. water and of the Spirit, they are of all men the most miser-_ able, There are others that have to work for a living and cannot spend time to be cured, as. it is necessary that the _ laws‘of Nature should be regarded. There are others that will wait till to-morrow or next week, when it is too late; ee a a ee ee ee eet eee 852 - RULES FOR GIVING MEDICINE. and although they are then willing to employ and pay the © doctor, there is many times no help for them. And there © are others that will indulge in tight lacing and dressing, and thin dressing, and every fashionable, sinful amusement, and — spend their money for toys and trinkets of no value to them, rather than employ a doctor when sick. There are others that are poor and plead so much honesty and promise so fair that the doctor will take unwearied pains and effect a cure; and sometimes their friends, or the church to which they be long, will offer to pay the doctor; but miserable wretches ~ they are—so proud, and poor, and dishonest, with all, that they will stop their friends or the church to which they be- long, from paying it. And if the church should raise funds to pay it, they will, if possible, get hold of it and whore or squander ft away, and if taken to due by the doctor after - they get well, will have the impudence to tell him that he agreed to board and doctor them and wait till they could pay og : him ; and also have their conscience so hell-hardened that they will tell him they had rather die than have his or her friends, or the society to which they belong, pay their doctor’s bill, and the doctor is cheated out of his pay and treated with contempt by them. There are others that move in the highest circles of life, and are looking to somebody that can dress well, and live in large houses, and ride in fine carriages, and show large college diplomas.. To them they will fly for relief when sick. The truth of the matter i is, the doctor em- ployed is a complete ignoramus, and knows little else but the use of quick-silver or quack-salver (from which the word quack doctor originated) —ipecac, tartar emetic, morphene, _ quinine, or some preparations of silver or iro, and is ignor- simple means provided for us by the God of Na- es, when we break Nature’s unerring laws, whieh arise from the — Kingdom, — } i co Ma ave Se a a ee ee ae RULES FOR GIVING MEDICINE. 858° The patient lingers out a miserable life of sickness, al- though he wallows in wealth.and affluence, and still continues - to support and patronize those quacks that. say they have spent their younger days in college, and perhaps in houses of ill fame, and indulged in all kinds of licentiousness, de- bauchery, profane swearing, and all kinds of sinful amuse- ments, even to robbing water-mellon yards of their fruits like: Stephen I hs, who, after indulging in all the vices that m could hatch up, was just fit to preach to the poor Pele-- “mites and rob them of their earnings. But he was at _ last detected and imprisoned, and after all, most miraculously — - escaping from prison, became the most. complicated -counter- feiter ever known. And in consequence of so many coun- terfeit doctors, many of the good class of — are carried to an untimely gerse= . You are therefore invited, one e and all, to forsake all those — foolish habits and shun those fraudulent patent medicines and counterfeit quack physicians, and study your own selves, both mentally and physically, and look into and inform your- logy, and bottany, and the medical use of the various “roots, plants and flowers which our Great Creator has surrounded us with for our relief or cure when sick, or ‘when we have broken Nature’s unerring laws. But the doctor, though he may be ever so skillful, is many times blamed in consequence of the neglect or carelessness of the patient. But it is certain that all those great, big-look- ing, ignorant doctors, will at last have to render a strict ac- count for their conduct here, and the innocent will at last be _ welcomed and filled good and faithful servants, and become rulers over many things, and have a seat at se — of the t I Am. was EE2 * ind 354 RULES FOR GIVING MEDICINE. In all my researches to investigate the fraudulent patent medicines, and the frauds and malpractice of the allopathy, homeopathy, botanic, Thompsonian, eclectic, galvanic, clair- voyant quacks and quack-salver doctors, I have at last dis- covered that most of all of the great Eye Doctors, so called, is practicing the greatest frauds on the commu- nity of any of all the other orders of doctors. It appears that he possesses the subtility of a serpent and the power of attraction of a load-stone in the form of a genius; and the strength of a three-fold .cord. He flatters his patients in the outset till he gets his spider-web around them, or his wan over them, so strong that he holds them in bond- age, many times for years, without the least shadow of re- lease, using nitrate of silver, caustics, ashes of the peth of sweet elder, hog’s lard, and many other poisonous drugs, in the eye, without cleansing the stomach and bowels, and puri- fying and healing the blood, which is of the utmost import- eal all diseases. And if one of his patients gets out ; ce and leaves him a few ‘days, and calls on some other physician, after being with him for months and years —from four to twenty times longer than necessary for any physicidn to cure them—he will send out some of his slaves and spy them out, leave all other business, matters not of how much importance, and follow slyly after them like a panther or wild cat, and will pounce upon them, even if it happens to bea poor orphan child—will gnash on them if he finds he cannot coax them, and if he can’t catch his prey _ who has escaped from bondage, he will pounce on the lady _ or gentleman, or any one that has helped the poor victim out _ 0fshis lion-like clutches, and if he cannot ovércome them by SS ry or guile without money or bribery, for it that ae = _ the eee shrines that the cbatsman RULES FOR GIVING MEDICINE. 355 made for the great goddess Diana of the Ephesians, he will then pounce upon them, and abuse and trample on them, and thereby show his cloven foot. _And of all the doctors that I ever was acquainted with, the great quack-salver or nitrate of silver eye doctors practice the greatest fraud and uses the most subtility and deception of any other doctors I ever knew. Therefore I say {to all that are well-wishers to. _ themselves, by all the sacred ties that bind us together, and by all the sweets of life, and by the awful consequences of delay, to fly, fly from the monsters, and take hold of the sim- ple means provided for you by the God of Natare, that will help your eyes, and in a few months heal them and _ be restored to health, and rescued from blindness, and be saved at last. For the eye is one of the most tender or- gans of any one of the human body, therefore it is best to keep at a proper distance from the quack-salver, nitrate of — silver, or any other silver eye doctors. “ REMARKS ON CONSUMPTION. — 4 “i remarks on ae causes at Coeur, e fet 20% strneted as to keep the i utd pie rere : = the lungs full scope and quantity of air, that the | Spann properly changed from veinous to arterial blood. ‘Thick feather-beds, bolsters and pollows are very injurious to health ; hard level beds of clean splints, husks or straw are the most — healthy. Dust in cars, stages, and work-shops of all kinds, is very injurious to the lungs and health. Second-hand clothing and boots sold i in our ——< cities. eat iepnomt % polbon, Act rvicnds and death ante the country. ‘Small _ pox and venereal diseases of all kinids cannot be well eradi- cated from them. The seeds of those diseases many times adhere even to paper money handled by diseased persons, so that it has been caught by the handling of it; and even sleep- ing in beds, or sitting on the seats of the privy, has many times caused such powerful vaccination as to lead to consumption. Cold taken with measles ought to be guarded against; and poisonous gases ought to be avoided. Frowy butter and lard 358 REMARKS ON CONSUMPTION. ought also to be avoided ; they, with all other damaged pro- visions, cause dyspeptical and bilious complaints with costive- ness, which sow the seeds of almost all diseases; we ought, therefore, to be careful that our food and drink should be of the purest kind. Throat diseases often produce consumption and catarrh, causing sore throat, and many times destroying the organs of speech. The fumes arising from India rubber, paint, mineral and vegetable drug manufactories and type foundries, and setting type, are attended with deleterious and bad effects on the lungs of any human being, and are powerful agents in shortening life. And the vast amount of adulterated liquors, mineral drugs and vegetable medicines handed out and improperly used, often and invariably cause premature death. Most of the candies sold, are more or less tinctured with poison. Adulterated flour, coffee, pepper, and spices of ot ee eel bread, cakes ai lies are more or less aiekaeas at tothe In short, it would be well for the rising generation and generations yet unborn, if there could be a thorough retrenchment and reform in all the habits of life in every respect, not only in manners, dress, living and habits _ of all kinds—not only in body, but in mind ;—for if we look with. uneclipsed eyes, we find that the heart of man is deceit- ; oe wicked. REFLECTIONS. A ae —_ : : e ene An Tue author of this work, after half a century of as iduous study upon the noblest work of God,—the being called man, — and of his noble parts, and the many and various. diseases he is afflicted with by reason of the fall and disobedience of - the noble pair which God created immediately after the crea- tion of the planetary system,—the author's mind is carried back to the time when this planet was a fluid, dark and — _ shapeless ‘mass of matter; but it did not remain so long. The first thing done by its Creator was to create light, which _ disrobed the darkness which the earth then was in; and soon the dry land appeared, covered with youthful vegetation sufficient to satisfy the wants of the various and numerous animals, quadrupeds and insects that were placed upon it, The fountain of water was replenished with the finny kind. The air teemed with the feathered tribes, and insects of all sizes, shapes and descriptions. But after all created things were formed, man was yet in chaos; but he was after created, the crowning work of the whole of God’s creation,—like the golden ball on the spire of a church. But as yet man was alone; and to make 4 helpmeet, called woman, man was throwit by his great Creator into a profound slumber,—not with opium, morphine, chloroform, psychology, mesmerism, any kind of isms which apostate man, the _ devil and his imps in human shape have hatched up to de- - covet the sleep was caused by the omnipotent power of God, that raised and brought man from the dust of the 360 ae REFLECTIONS. earth; and all created things still remain and will remain down to the latest ages of time, to be in existence for the ~ comfort, health and welfare of man, while in this probationary state. It appears that the disease called dyspepsia has for ages staggered and outrid the skill of all orders of physicians ; even the cold-water treatment. has failed of effecting a cure of _ that fatal disease, whose poisonous fangs strike at and corrupt the fountain of life—the stomach. But thank Heaven and ~ give God the glory, that awful disease has been and can be eared. Cleanse the fountain and the streani flowing from it will be pure, and that direful disease must give away. And the day is dawning over the entire world, when every phy- sician, if he please, may be master of it, and every lady and ~ gentleman, be their own physician; and will tedch their pos- — po deat seen an means alae ahetiod: shonin TREATISE SMALL BERR, AND UNINTOXICATING WINES. ALSO. S ON HUNTING, ore CATCHING GAME, mae PE A re eee MARKS OF A GOOD HORSE. See that he has good feet and Si a saat 6 his legs, and that his under jaw and teeth shut well together ; fine hair, bright hazle eyes, stands wide on the fore legs, straight knees, stiff dock, heavy main and tail, short back, full breast and stifle, round, close built, full in the loins, low built, short jointed, flat leg, good speed, large, fall, high, bowing neck, mild and gentle, are all marks of a good, horse; broke well makes them pleasant _ and puts on the polish. To detect the age, young horses petra ‘even tecth, Pom aout ie hard and ——— FOR RING-WORMS. Take tobacco ashes, wet with vinegar, apply it, and it TO DRIVE OUT WORMS FROM WOUNDS, AND KEEP _ THEM OUT. Steep elder bark i in fresh butter, put it on or in the wound, and it will —_— out, and keep them from weet in. 362 RECIPES, FOR HEAVES IN HORSES. Make a strong tea of balsam firr - boughs or bark and black cherry tree bark, soak your oats in it, and feed your horses with the oats for one week. Or take four ounces of opium, threé ounces sulphur, four ounces ginger and four ounces salt- petre, pulverize, moisten with molasses, and make it into pills as large as a robin’s egg. Give one pill, and in three days after give one more. After that, give one ounce a week for four or five weeks, or till gone, or the horse is cured. Or take one and a half pounds ginger for a horse, and give him one table-spoonful mixed with wheat bran, at night, and. one in the morning. It seldom fails, Or dissolve one-fourth - ounce asafcetida and put it in his provender a number of times, Or take hornet’s nests, comb and all, and pick it to pieces, and mix it with his provender ; immediately after give him some boiled potatoes. You may boil the nest. and mix it—the horse will eat it better. Or tie leaves of tobacco on _ the bits, and give. one and a half pounds ginger in the. ing manner: one table-spoonful at night and, one in Pr morning. Or mix one pound ginger, one-half pound sulphur, and two ounces pulverized saltpetre well together, and give _ two ounces in provender at night; give him cut straw and - ‘Tndian meal ; moisten his hay and see that it is not musty. WORMS IN HORSES. “weeks one quart of milk with honey, and give it to the horse; then powder one-half ounce aloes, and give it in a strong decoction of savine boughs: If they have not eaten through it will effect a cure. Give them a little tobacco cut _.... seein eatin’ and A peatent RECIPES. 363 TO MAKE HOGS GROW AND FAT WELL. Never wean your pigs till six. weeks or three months old ; feed them only twice a day, as nigh twelve hours apart as possible; give them their regular allowance, and no more than they will eat up clean; give a hog weighing 50 Ibs. two ounces sulphur in sweet milk and Indian meal fall and S keep them in summer in a grass ‘yard, well-rung, whete they can get water ; keep their pen clean, and in winter give them a warm pen and # clean, dry nest; never keep'more than four _inone pen. I have tried it for twenty-five years, and with great success. I have raised the weight of a hog one and a half to two and a half pounds a day for one —— ———— ase a CT ieee 2 te se 7 “Take tobaceo moistened” with vinegar, and lay on a few times, will care-them ;" “or tosh saad arene and my on a. ~ “Onrry them well in the fall; chop savine small and-mix it with fresh butter ; give them a small ball or two of it. Also sweetwort and black soap mixed together as a drink, destroys all sorts of worms in cattle or on them. ‘TO CURE THE BLIND STAGGERS. Split the skin from the top of the head to the eyes, rip up the skin, and put in fine salt; or pour cold water on the head every five minutes. ~ 364 RECIPES. FOR BOTTS IN HORSES. Take poplar and white ash bark, pulverize, and put them in their provender, one ounce at a time. Or boil one pound hemlock boughs in two quarts water, strain “it, and put it with one quart rye, one pint molasses, and one ounce alum ; boil them together, and give the horse as it is, or in proven- der.’ Or take one-half pint flax seed oil, one-half pint sweet “milk, one-half pint molasses, one ounce pulverized alum, one- half ounce pulverized saltpetre—put them all together, and give it toe the horse. Or take two ounces savine boughs, cut fine, and give it in the provender. Or give one pint of strong tea of dogwood. Or take one-half gill spirits turpentine, one-half pint rum, one-half pint milk, one-half pint molasses, one large charge of gunpowder, one-half ounce alum—all mixed together and given at once. This is to be done in ex- treme cases. Rub the horse’s breast and chops before you give the dons, with. spisia turpentiue. Take two ounces of md two ounces of dry hen dung, pulverized, and put in one > pint of spirits, or any kind of liquid. It gives imme- diate relief. Or give one quart of fresh blood, warm from a’ beef creature. If the horse is troubled with botts there will be bunches on the inside of the upper lip; rub them with salt till they bleed ; then give your horse potatoes and flax seed oil freely for a day or two. Or give two ounces of un- slacked lime in their water or feed night and morning regu- larly, for three or four days, Or take one-half pint of new milk, one-half pint molasses, two ounces common salt; one ounce copperas, one-half pint warm water, put all together, and give it all at once. Do this two or three times. ae mate FOR STAGGERS IN HORSES. Give one pint of rum mixed with one ounce of powder. : a GREEN HORSE OINTMENT. | Take one ounce rosin, one ounce beeswax, one-half pound hog’s lard, one ounce honey, one-half pound turpentine, and melt them all gently together; then add one ounce pulver- ized verdigreese, and simmer it slowly, but not boil ite. This ointment will heal all manner of chafes, bruises or sores, if rubbed on every day, and made to penetrate to the bottom.. Tt will draw out splinters, nails, thorns, and gravel. It will . keep flies and. maggots from sores. Copperas water is good to wash vith before you use the green ointment, To make the copperas water, take one-half pound copper: four ou unces- “salt, two ounces honey, one ounce rosemary, boil all in t two. quarts water, and add, when boiling, one ounce alum. fa it in a glass bottle, ee LEN This water will cure_ any sore. - FOR HORN AIL IN CATTLE Bore th : horns, underneath and put a table-spoonful of tur- FOR A FRESH STRAIN. Take one pint of white wine and one pound of fresh but- ter, simmer together, thicken with wheat or rye bran, and put it on as hot as possible. _ ORACK IN A HORSE'S HOOF. Bore a hole at the upper end of the crack with a gimblet. FF2 * 366 _ RECIPES. FOR BLOOD OR WIND SPAVIN IN THE GAMBREL JOINT. Open the swelled part carefully and squeeze out the blood ; simmer one ounce of alum in one pint of chamber-lye— syringe out the blood well with it, and bathe it outwardly (hot) with it, You may have to use the syringe two or three times. Or take one-half pint of tanner’s oil and one gill of spirits turpentine, and shake them well together when you *use it. Bathe with this once a day till the bunch is gone. — Then make a strong tea of white oak bark and alum wash, (one ounce alum to a pint.) Wash the wound with“it twice a day, and anoint it with Bony 1 grease or mutton tallow and sweet cream.- FOR CATTLE THAT CANNOT MAKE WATER. ‘Take one pound of cardus and steep it in white wine over night, strain it, and give to your beast. It will force urine and i increase the appetite. Or take one-fourth pound anise seed, one-fourth pound cumin seed, one-fourth pound parsley seed, one-half pound pumpkin seed, two ounces dwarf elder berries, steep them all together in two quarts _— and give a pint of it every twelve hours. FOR THE THROAT DISTEMPER IN HORSES. Take devil’s-bit or wild turnip one spoonful, made fine, and mix it-with wheat bran. Give this dose wepeeredly to horses, It has never been known to fail. _—_—_— 20 BRING DOWN SWELLINGS =. HORSES. Bo sorrel i in chamber-lye,, rub with a woolen rag when and d a in with a hot brick, Do it twice a day. a RECIPES, = 367 FOR A HORSE FOUNDERED BY DRINKING WATER. Give immediately one-half pint of strong camphor ; if of a few days’ standing, repeat the dose three or four times, Add to it one-half ounce pulverized saltpetre, ‘Then take one pound salts, three-fourths of an ounce nitre, one and | half gills elderberry syrup, three gills vinegar, one-half p nt molasses, one-fourth ounce oil of anise cut in alcohol, shake all together, and turn it down ; immediately. after give one ~ pint of sweet milk. — Hate tiem ‘stand knee deep in water one or two hours every day, and grease their hoofs and legs — with the Pain Extractor—when dry, grease them with mut- ton tallow. Wash them once a day with soap ‘suds and chamber-lye. Follow ‘this up six or = beta Exercise a little. * This will ied pe FOR SOFT SPAVINS. ‘Take three eusebos* fat, one pound poke root, and one TO CURE A SPAVIN. Take one ounce oil origanum, one ounce oil of spike, one ounce camphor gum, one ounce spirits turpentine, all cut to- gether in one and a half pints of alcohol, and dissolve two ounces alum in one-half pint vinegar. Bathe lightly with it twice a day. The above will cure ankle sprains, Ifa blood spavin, let out the blood and matter, and syringe it out with warm chamber-lye and alum, (one-fourth ounce to a gill,) well simmered together. : 368 RECIPES. FOR POLE EVIL, OR THISTELOW. Make a strong decoction of sweet flag roots, and syringe out the wound well with it twice a day till cured. Or take one-half ounce corrosive sublimate, one ounce potash, pulver- ize them together—make a probe of whalebone or tough hickory, wind the end with ravelled silk, moisten it, role it in the powder, and run it down the tube. Be sure and get - some of the powder to the bottom of the pipe. Probe it and put in the powder till you can pull out the pipe, Then put in one table-spoonful of spirits turpentine, and wash it out with castile soap suds a few times. Then wast once a day with the Pain Extractor, = -- FOR WIND AND BLOOD sPavins. ~*~ Bleed the horse in the leg below the gambrel joint ; then boil salt, let it cool, and take one-half pint of the scum, one- fourth pound tobacco, and one-fourth pound southern wood, and boil them together in one quart of water. Wash the joint with it four or five times a day. They have been cured in three weeks, You must put it on hot, but not to scald. oe ae FOR THE POLE EVIL, OR THISTELOW. = Drop in the pipe a few drops of the oil of vitriol, and re- peat it till you: pull out the pipe. Be careful and get it all out. Then wash it with cold water once a day, and anoint it with the Pain Extractor once a day. After ten minutes, anoint it with an ointment made of two ounces of sweet el- der bark steeped i in one pint of sweet cream, with two ounces of white pine bark and one-half ounce of alum. Follow this up and it will effect a cure, TO CURE BONE SPAVIN ON HORSES. Dissolve blue vitriol in oil of. spike, and rub the spayin with it twenty days. Or wash the spavin well with soap suds, and put one cent’s worth of corrosive sublimate i in two spoonfuls of vinegar. Rub the afflicted part with it a few times, and oil it with eel‘oil. Or put one ounce of in one quart of alcohol, « cork it up tight, ‘and rub it on ar d bathe it in every night. When first put on it causes more lameness. Don’t use the horse ‘much. Or simmer one pound of poke root in one f ho Ys lard or fresh but- ter, strain, and add one-half pint white pine turpentine, Put it on one or two days. Be careful and n ‘the cords. After that make a tea of white oak bark, put in one ounce alum to a pint, and y wasg with nit five oF ten minutes, for two or three days. After that, pu for a day or two, and then eee: as Sacre so continue till cured. [ARES Oi a Aba : R PRPOP FOUR, EO. a ctw son, cll bell, mng-co take year at lf a radon the ewe ll thio on a pail of water as soon as she is covered.” Use her care- fully, and keep her from the smell of fresh blood. Milk her before the colt sucks. If you want a horse colt, put your mare when the sign is in the head, neck, arms, breast or heart; if the wind is west or north when your have your mare coy- ered it never fails—-west wind is best. If you put your mare when the sign is below the heart, she will have a mare colt. If your mare has conceived, she will have a good stomach and be contented. * 370 = RECIPES, INFALLIBLE CURE FOR RING-BONE. Take two pieces of round lead, three-fourths of an inch in diameter and long enough to go around the horse’s ankle, © and bind it on tight above the ring-bone on the upper part. It is best to make your loop in two parts; it can be madeto” fit better, and can be tightened with a leather string or strap. Make regular loops and holes in your leather straps, which will enable you to fasten it on easier and better. You must _ have your loop around before. Anoint the ring-bone and hoof two or three times a day with tanners’ oil. You must not use the horse while you “have the lead on. “You may have to keep the lead on six months. If the lead makes the hoof sore, anoint it with mutton tallow. Or cut into the heel after the fetter-lock, up and doWM, pull out the bladder, anoint or bathe the ankle with the Pain Extractor, wash it frequently with chamber-lye and alum simmered together hot, and grease the hoof with. dog’s grease. Or take two ounces spitits tur- pentine, six ounces tanners’ oil and one ounce oil of vitriol, mix them together in an open glass jar, rub on a table-spoon- ful every other day, dry the medicine in with a hot brick, and every other day rub with soap; keep the hoof dry and grease it with dog’s grease. Make a boot for the horse’s foot, tie it above the hoof and fill the boot around the ring-bone with new-burnt lime of oyster shells. . Place the horse’s foot in a tub of water or in a pond for four or five hours, repeat this five days, and after that poultice the foot with a turnip poul- tice for four or five days. Observe to chafe the part before you apply the poultice. After apply a plaster of white pine turpentine for two or three weeks; or wash twice a day with — a hot strong sua toy and wet a cloth wih tan lag it on till well. RECIPES. 371 .TO CURE RING-BONES ON HORSES. Cut the ring-bone in two three or four times, wash it with the Pain Extraetor and anoint with dog’s grease; or dissolve blue vitriol in oil of spike, rub it without cutting, and grease it with eel oil; or bathe it with tanners’ oil fifteen ninu with a hot shovel, do this once a day for three weeks, then bathe it with sweet oil as above. Take one-half ounce oil of spike and one-half ounce aqua-fortis, mix the two together, droping in. the oil _of vitriol drop. by drop until the phial is quite warm, but not to blaze; cast the horse and cut from the knape of the fetter-lock joint, skin deep about two inches, and if a ring-bone, you will find a small cord running round the ankle very close, draw that with nippers as fast as you can and cut it off both ways; put on the above liquor and let it remain two hours; then apply the oil of angle-worms all around the foot and in the sore, twice a day until well. Or when it first comes, anoint it with cusk oil two or three’ times a day; or take toads, split them open and bind them on the ankle tight, fasten them on and turn the horse out till he gets well; or bind on stink-weed in the same manner. Take one pint tanners’ oil, One pint spirits turpentine, two ounces verdigris, dissolved in one-half pint vinegar, and two ounces oil of spike; mix them all together, and once in two days anoint the ring-bone with a spoonful and bathe it in - with a hot iron till the ring-bone is eaten arers afterwards rub it with mutton tallow till well. ; : — FOR A HARD SINEW SPRAIN, THOUGH PAST CURE. Take shoemaker’s thread, melt the greasé of it, and rub it in hot with your hand—heat it in with a hot iron. 372 REOIPES. FOR THE YELLOWS OR JAUNDICE IN HORSES. Steep celandine and black cherry bark, one pound each, strong, and mix it one-half cider; add to it one ounce salt- petre to one gallon of the syrup; give the horse one pint at a time, morning and evening. You may put to every gallon two pounds sugar and oné ounce oil of anise cut in one quart alcohol. Before you give him the syrup, give him one pound Epsom salts and three ounces elderberry syrap; or dissolve it in one pint vinegar, and cut one-fourth ounce oil of anise in one gill alcohol, and add one-half pint molasses; put all together, shake it well, and give the horse one-half at night and the other in the morning. After that give one pint of - the cherry bark syrtip in the morfing and one pint at —_ for — or fonrteen es il “ - Sop Bla sherry tree bark in cider, strong, and give your beast one pint a day for tet or twelve days. —— THEVORICK IN A HORSES-BAOK. ae ma wt a new f tinctured with ‘alum. “To WEAN cuawes eotins;: ‘OR CHILDREN. Wean them when the sign is in the feet. ‘Sin _ 20. CURE SWINE OF SCURVY. _ “Wash theta well with’ soap suds meee eT PULSATION OF A HORSE. In a healthy rencladitesdiiiabiaamaial to forty times a minute, and may be felt distinctly on the left side, or in the artery which lies over the lower jaw bone. When the De ute, | _is but little help. 3 setae “ TO-HAVE YouR. sows PREGNANT! Give them eight or ten cars of roasted com, scammers FOR THE GLANDERS. ‘Take one-half ounce flour benzoin, caakall ieaaiin ether, one ounce spirits of lavender, and one ounce highwine —1mix all together, and keep it in a bottle well stopped. Shave off the hair between the ears, and put it on in a liquid - form twice a day until cured, gar, one quart aleohol—put them all derives with two ) quarts cider, and give the horse one pint for a dose twice a day. Or make a strong tea of tamerack and black. cherry bark, equal parts, and give them one quart of it with fifty drops of oil of anise cut in alcohol, once a day for six or eight days. os FOR CALVES ‘THAT SCOUR. Boil one pint new milk, put in two ‘spoonfuls of rennet, and pour it down the calf. GG 374 REOIPES. f TO MAKE A STAR IN THE FOREHEAD OF A HORSE. ‘Take pickled mackerel and bind it on any shape you wish, for three or four days, repeating, and it will produce a white spot. Rub a white spot made by the saddle (in the spring, before he sheds his coat,) with bacon grease, and it will be tinal; or have its natural color. FOR BRITTLE HOOF. Anoint them with dog’s Bheape and turpentine — to- gether. ~< ee va STRING HALT, "Take up the middle vein above the thigh, and under the — vein you will see a string: eut the — Sons's and anoint the wound with fresh ee = . = "FOR CRAMP IN THE BOWELS OF A HORSE. = “Give one-half ounce of camphor gum in one pint of hot water, as hot as the horse can bear it. : cuar IN THE BACK SINEWS OF A HORSE, BETWEEN - THE GAMBREL AND FETTER-LOCK SOINTS. | : = Goi the same ointment wees * for a a and bathe ‘tim the seme way. ti eee tga FOR A SORE BACK, ; Bathe your horse’s back with Pain Extractor, and vib on alittle white lead ground in linseed oil. This method will — - tre the breast of a horse by a meee: ing, and. coon! and greasing it. ene fog . 4 FOR THE SCOURS IN HORSES OR CATTLE. Boil white oak and white pine bark (equal parts) together, and give one quart morning and evening; or give one pint of Health Bitters and one pint sweet milk immediately ; or give them strong mullin tea once an hour ; or give one table- spoonful spirits turpentine once in three hours till cured ; or. give one ounce bitter walnut meats, pulverized, and steep in one pint water, and sweeten with two ounces brown sugar. © Repeat the dose every three hours till cured. Boil one pound of black cherry tree bark and two ounces rock soot in two quarts water to one, strain, and add one quart well worked cider and one quart molasses. Give your horse or cow one pint every morning till gone. If not entirely well, prepare and repiet se he ee This: dad cure the scours or murrain, : ii ae = TO TAKE WARTS OFF FROM OATTER pees or horse hair on tight as you can around the 1 or ten days, and if it don’t 1 fall off, tie ti it is off, heal it with unslacked lime and _ ee .f wart barn Tt with’ hotirod, and Keal it as above. a whi the sinews or veins, eat it out with corrosive sublimate, and heal it as above described. — os FOR WORMS IN THE TAIL OF CATTLE. Split the tail under side above the worm, prick the vein, and take = butter and salt, and bind 3 on. y ilcccemenmenel = rt CURE OATILE POISONED wit 'BOREEL Give one pint good rum and one-half pint sweet cream. Repeat the dose if needed. Me ’ we ; RECIPES, TO KEEP FLIES FROM TORMENTING HORSES. ‘Take the leaves of garden pumpkins or cucumbers, pound, strain out the juice, and wash your horses with it; or wash them with the juice of mallows ; or take pulverized verdigris, boil in vinegar, and wash with “ite Be vandal and keep it from the. sae Soy FOR STOPPAGE IN THE M MANNEFOLDS IN NEAT CATTLE. Take « one pint of melted hog’s lard, one pint molasses and -one pint ground mustard seed, mix all together, and give them blood warm. Wait three hours, and if there is no movement, give one-half to one pound of salts in warm wa- - ter with one-fourth ounce oil of anise, cut well in ‘alcohol, both together. After waiting three or four hours, if no move- ment, repeat the dose of salts. . —_—_—_—_— Hy = La pie se = ad ‘blow it inthe eyes; or pulverize burnt alum and loaf sugar, and put it in the eyes; or burn salt in a wet cloth, take out the middle, pulverize it, and put it in the eyes; or mix it with the juice of celandine and drop it in; or put in pimpernell; or mix burnt alum and honey, and b pat iin ape or put tobacco eee TO PREVENT THE GARGET IN THE HEAD OF CATTLE. _ Bleed them in the spring and. fall, and give them two Sees areas coranonitint ppp ak TO TIGHTEN TEETH OF CATTLE MIE He en ame om; Sapa — — er: —_— ee Loa werinlbic sh. clo 39¥E FOR RAISING dairvmse ta iidd ay £ Boil for two oa one . Pa of flax seed ten gone a ik, warm. Give saw, warm, "FOR STOPPAGE IN mi "ATER. Take two spoonfuls of honey bees, two ounces currant buds, steep them in hot water yery strong, and give two ta- ble- ssp? ores) hour rill relieved. , : oe FOR SORE EYES. Take one-fourth ounce white vitriol, one-half ounce sugar of lead, one-half ounce gunpowder, one quart rain water, ; together, : and wash the eyes three times a wae ree ate a FoR aneebint( ki rene cUNek Take one gil! of gin sling and grate on one-fourth ounce of nutmeg. : os : ___ FOR OLD SORES. _ . Wilt gactets ind fay them on asa poultice. —a TO TIGHTEN THE TEETH OF CATTLE WHEN LOOSE. Rub the teeth and gums well with fine salt. GG2 we 2 : RECIPES. FOR WIND GALIS. | Open them carefully and squeeze out the wind or matter ; syringe them out with Pain Extractor, or ehamber-lye and alum simmered together, one-half ounce to a gill. Bathe _ with Pain Extractor or with chamber-lye hot. Wet a cloth a few thicknesses, lay it on, and lay on a piece of sheet lead and bind it on over the wind gall. Wet it with either of the ove washes twice a day for six or eight days. Any swell- ing on a horse or man can be cured in this way. You can cure a hip sprain, or any sprain, or almost any sore, by using either of the above liquors—but I prefer the Pain Extractor, as it needs no drying in. _ MURRAIN IN CATTLE Bleed a little, and then take rue, featherfew, sage, hyssop, thyme, marjoram, marigold, fennel, tansy, lavender and spike- nard, two ounces each, and boil in one gallon water to one uart; ‘strain it, and add two quarts of ale. Give the sick ones a a pint, and the well ones half a pint. Add to it one ounce red pepper, four ounces green pounded anise seed, four ounces peas, four ounces salt, one quart molasses, four ounces _ liquorice (powdered) and one-half pound fresh butter—all before giving. FOR HORSES FOUNDERED BY EATING GRAIN. Pour spirits turpentine i in the frog of each foot immediately, _____ and hold it till it dries in ; or pair down the secs re in tan- = a oil, and heat it in with a hot iron. RECIPES, ~~ 379 : GARGET IN THE TONGUE AND THROAT. Bleed them in the neck and under the tongue—make a slit in the skin under the tongue, lengthwise, two inches long, - and wash PMB Te AP fase = hob — ic ae ae ee 2 : ‘sy fo EE ee eh oie - hale : STIFF HORSE. Put the white of three eggs in three spoonfuls of hog’s lard, and rub them together till they become an oil ; then bathe with it one-half hour, and heat it in with a hot brick or shovel. Repeat it three times. Ce ee FOR BOTTS IN HORSES. ’ Mix one-half gill of spirits turpentine with one-half pint of gin, and turn it down the horse; or take two ounces of pulverized alum, two ounces saltpetre, one pint sweet milk, one pint molasses, and shake all together—is a sure cure ; or bleed in the as and after the blood stops 6 give two ounces of alum in cider. _ HOOF BOUND. - _ To prevent it, keep the hoof cool and moist; to cure it, open the hoof at the edge of the hair, and grease it with woodehuck, skunk, or dog’s grease. 5 FOR BROKEN HORNS. Put them on properly and fasten them; then wind them with a strong bandage, well daubed with tar or pitch, and keep it on four or five weeks. * 380 eee RECIPES. FOR GRAVELLED HOOFS. — Dig out the gravel carefully and turn in spirits turpentine ; then put on a little tar, heat it in with a hot iron, fill it up with tow thoroughly, and fasten it in. Or make a poultice of turpentine, put it on a few times, and when the gravel is out fill it as above directed. “Or prick out the gravel, put in hog’s lard and turpentine hot, stop up the hole well, and put on the shoe. Keep this foot dry. FOR THE GRIPES IN HORSES. Take eoehalt pint rum, one-half pint molasses, one-half pint new milk (hot), one-eighth ounce oil of anise cut in al- cohol, shake all togethers and give to the horse. It will cure soon. Cee * FOR CANKER IN HORSES MOUTH AND. THROAT. Make ‘a strong tea of wild willow (bark of the toot), § and wash his mouth with it four or five times a day. TO STOP BLOOD IN THE NOSE OR ELSEWHERE. Pound the tender tops of hyssop and put them in the nose, or va them on the ~~ : F ae = FOR THE TETTER, OR RING-WORM, Wash with. precipitate two drachms with one gill of wa- ter, and keep it stopped close, Sa EEaneE _TAPPING TO Le = WIND. is on the ee : | BROKEN LE@s. ‘Take two ounces Solomon’s isis auntie aie horn, two ounces comfrey root, boil them ——, choles ele sr is is bax Take a eindeas warm water, one vit gin, one ial | mo- lasses, two gills powdered mustard seed, pour it down, and drive the creature around | pene “10. STOP CATTLE ‘VOMITING. ee: ‘Boil tansy and mint, equal eg and give one hast once an ‘hour till it stops. ——- TO CURE WENS ON CATTLE Puta atx rowel through yes and wash them daily. in soft soap. — . aan oe ie SS gs Or ee oo Loss OF CUD. : “Dake one-half the cud of oeller creature, ‘ha put the mouth. warm. eran FOR A COUGH IN SHEEP. " Take colt’s foot, lungwort, and maiden hair, each two ounces, boil them in one quart water strong, sraien, with honey, me Pr he ae eee Dissolve, one-half ounce caoltcaise’ in one sail water and one _ gill vinegar, and give it to them. 382 RECIPES. 3 va TO CURE THE BITE OF A MAD DOG. Take raw onions, green rue, salt, and the powder of ele- campane root, beat them well together, and apply them to the wound. Renew it as occasion requires. Or take 4 wild pigeon, chicken or hen, open it, and lay it hot to the wound. It draws out the venom. Heal the sore with turpentine and hog’s lard. _Or scrape the wound and put mashed garlic and salt on it, It will draw out the poison. FOR THE STAGGERS IN SHEEP. Dissolve one-half ounce of asafcetida in one-half gill warm water, and put one-half spoonful in each ear. TO PRESERVE SHEEP FROM ROT. Wash the mouth of the sheep once a week with the above - + - $0 KILL MAGGOTS IN SHEEP. Take one-half pound of sweet elder bark, two ounces tar, two ounces goose oil, boil them all together, strain while hot, stir in one ounce of the flour of brimstone, and anoint them wie at Sc Give one ‘yom of tae: ayer It gives irindadinte relief, Or one-half pound of salt ‘iesolved't in water. STOPPAGE OR DRY BLEACH IN A HORSE. Make two quarts of strong clover hay tea and one-half Pint of molasses, = ——— 3 : RECIPES. : 383 CURE FOR URINABING OR STAILING. Dissolve one ounce of saltpetre in one quart of ale or beer, and give it blood warm; or one-half pound juniper berries © boiled in two quarts water to one quart, and given warm ; or pulverize and give one-half ounce rosin in his provender. a few days ;.or pound and ae one pint of pumpkin Wo 5 _ SHOULDER STRAIN IN. HORSES. Ae-ono pint slaohol ans gil i of pike, one gill pig's foot oil, one ounce camphor gum, simmer these together over a slow fr, and apply it warm to the diseased part, and hes : it in with a hot iron trei0e a aay _ FOR INWARD HUR TS OR ULCERS. i. Take comfrey, elecampane, spikenard, angelica, masterwort and ginseng roots, one pound each, balsam boughs two pounds, and chamomile one pound—put them in a tin kettle or lined copper vessel, and boil them with two gallons water down te ous gatben. ” aes wera morning and eve- FOR THE SCRATCHES, Cut away the hair and wash it with hot Bs an a cob till raw, then wash it with chamber-lye, soap, alum and salt; then boil the buds or’ bark of elder, sweetwort and green brier leaves. Add to the tea alum, and wash the legs two or three times with it. Oil them with sweet cream. “LOSS OF CUD. | ’ Give the sheep one-half the cud of another sheep, warm. 884 ‘RECIPES. TO FEED AND KBEP HOGS RIGHT — Give them small doses of brimstone occasionally, feed them but twice a day, keep them in a grass yard in-summer, and in winter give them a cool, warm, and clean nest; give their meal dry, and turn their slops on it. If you boil potatoes, drain off the water and mix the meal with it while hot. —s TO CURE MEASLES IN SWINE. Rub them well with a brush dipped in’ cold water; boil parsleyjroots and rue in salt es and give them to drink. = FOR FEVER IN SWINE. Bleed them in the tail; give them boiled parsnips, well peppered, with water and all that it is boiled in, twice a day— ett eae ounce ee — i , your mare Before the fall of ie moon and whee the sign is below the heart. 7 ‘TO KILL MAGGOTS IN SHEEP. ‘Take elder bark or leaves, make a strong tea of them, and if in a wound or the nose, put it in. Add to it fresh butter and a little tar, simmer it —— to an Prmbegies and anoint them with it. SWINE POX. : _ Take one ounce saltpetre, pulverize it, and add to it one sr, one-half pint sweet oil, and one spoonful ny: an cade in three doses, luke-warm. - _ RECIPES. = FOR 1 THE ROT IN SHEEP. Take rue juice and salt, mix]it, and give them a table-_ spoonful once or twice a week. en F FOR THE PLAGUE IN SHEEP. Wash them in alum and salt water, and give ee a tea made of rue and balm leaves to drink. % POISONED SHEEP. ~ Take sweet oil, aedk butter or hog’s lard, one gill of either, mix it with one pint of sweet milk, and give it to = Bes one dose, TO CURE CATTLE OVER- HEATED, Give them one quart of gin, or-West India rum, with one ounce of — Pepper eb “FOR ' ‘CASTORATED HORSES. — ~ Anoint with skunk, dog, turtle or vwoodchuck’s icese. "Hither will take down the swelling. a TO INCREASE MILK. Give the sheep beans, corn-or potatoes, and change their pasture often. SCAB OR TICK. Anoint them with tar and fresh butter mixed together; or! wash them with pennyroyal tea. Ms Ss f RAISING AND TREATMENT OF POULTRY. — Corn is the most congenial food for domestic ee of all kinds. It ought to be fed as much without cracking to the young as soon as possible, and always have food by them. Eight quarts of corn will supply the wants of fourteen dung- hill fowls for seven days in winter. If you wish your fowls to lay in winter, you must house them warm, and in~ cold weather give them plenty of slops made of potatoes and wheat bran, once a day, and have a box of sand, lime, gravel, and pounded earthen, to go to when they please. Change your fowls often, and see that they have boxes with plenty of nesting. If you wish them to hatch, set them as much as possible on the ground, and as early as possible in April and May. Set three or four hen’s at once, if possible, and when they hatch put all the chickens to one hen, and coop or yard | them separately, on loose ground, where there re plenty ‘of angle-worms. Spade the ground a little every day. Give them in winter, now-and-then, some fresh meat. Roasted bones, powdered, will facilitate their laying, and make them healthy. Never yard your chickens on a chip yard. Keep plenty of wind-mills around your house and the hawks will not trouble your fowls. If you wish to keep off foxes and skunks, keep a hound dog. If you wish to make turkeys profitable, yard them in a pasture till they get able to run well—then let them run and catch grasshoppers and flies. If you wish to keep geese and ducks, have a small pond or marsh, with a small outlet, and let them runin sum- mer. Let them have dry resting places, and in winter house ~ 388 RAISING AND TREATMENT OF POULTRY. them warm in a dark house, over a spring of water, where they can get gravel plenty, and set in water. Throw their grain in the water. A goose, in this way, will live well. on fifty kernels of corn a day, and you can pluck their feathers as well in winter as in summer. - RECIPES FOR MAKING wer BEER, &C. INDIAN WINE. Take one gallon of wel] worked cider, put in two pounds sugar, one pint Health Bitters, and’ one pint black raspberry biti py it well, and it is fit for use. Bie. ~ Sain CIDER WINE, | es MEE ee Take twenty-six gallons of sweet cider tein the fen, dy: two pounds sugar, one gallon cider brandy, five pounds raisins, put in a clean barrel, and keep full with the bung open to let it work off. After it is worked, - draw it off in a clean barrel, and bung it up tight. CURRANT WINE. Take one quart currant juice, three pounds sugar, and add. __ water enough to make a gallon; put it in a clean cask, fill it up full, and let it stand till it works itself clear. “Add sugar and water from time to time to keep it full, till it works it- self clear, then rack it off and bung it up tight. You can make black currant, raspberry or strawberry wine in. the same way. —_— ~~ BLACK RASPBERRY WINE, Can be made by adding two pounds sugar to one wD of © the juice, You can make elderberry wine in the same way you do this. HH2 ~ ~ ~ 390 RECIPES, TO REFINE CIDER. Take four ounces powdered alum, six eggs, two pounds clean sand, two ounces slacked lime, one pound loaf sugar, ‘and one quart spirits, and put them in one barrel of cider. BEST ROOT BEER. \ Take one-fourth pound American sarsaparilla roots, one- fourth pound burdock roots, one-fourth pound balsam boughs, boil them well in one and a half gallons water to one gallon, then strain the syrup; add one pound sugar and one-half ounce root ginger, bottle i and let it stand twenty-four hours till it works, or SPRUCE BEER. Take one ounce hops, one-half ounce ginger and one gal- : lon water, boil it well, and add one pint molasses, one-half ounce essence of spruce; when cold, add a tea-cupful of yeast and put it in a clean, tight cask; let it stand twenty-four hours, and then bottle it. TO SAVE EGGS. Seald them one minute and pack them in salt, the little end down; and dip them in ——- lime water, dry, and pack ilien 3 in salt. ¢ U _ TO FIT CORN TO PLANT. Soak your seed in warm water and saltpetre twelve hours, turn off the water, and put on hot water—stir it, turn it off, "put in a little tar, and stir it; then zt — as long as. t _— : < Ss RECIPES. 391 SMALL BEER. Boil one ounce of hops, one ounce ginger and two quaris- molasses in two gallons water, strain and keg it, and when blood warm put in your yeast. ANOTHER, Take one ounce ginger and three pints molasses to uix. perk lons warm water, put them all together, shake them ones —_ in six or eight hours it will be fit for use, —. TO PREVENT BLACK FLIES FROM DESTROYING GARDENS. Plant buckwheat among your other seeds, and let it stand till the plants are out of their way. meena TO PRESERVE CUCUMBERS AND SQUASHES om FS AND WORMS. Make a strong tea of hops and elder leaves, and mix a lit- tle flour and mpierain the plants. — ‘0 DESTROY CUT WORMS AND HESHIAN FLIES. Take the water that you boil potatoes i in and sprinkle your grain and plants. It destroys insects from the egg to the fy. TO KEEP INSECTS FROM CUCUMBERS AND SQU ASHES. ‘Sprinkle them with weak hen dung water; or wet a quill riers greenest , _ TO DESTROY CATERPILLARS ON FRUIT TREES, Smoke them well with sulphur, pitch or rosin, and it will _ destroy them on herbs and flowers. 392 : RECIPES. “TO SAVE BEEF, AND KEEP IT SWEET AND TENDER ONE Take one-half bushel salt, eight pounds brown sugar or molasses, and one-fourth pound saltpetre, to one barrel of beef; lay a laying of salt’ and sugar, then a laying of beef, till your barrel is full. Put in one quart of salt to three gal- lous of water; put in your saltpetre, and fill up the barrel _ with brine made as above described. Beef cured in this way - is worth twice as much as the old way. - TO PRESERVE FRESH. MEAT. Put fresh meat in a close vessel containing vinegar. Put tainted meat in potash water for three or four days—then dip it in vinegar, ts . ree it in salt-before Bes cook it. PUTRID OR ‘TAINTED MEAT. Throw away the old pickle and repack your meat ; place — between each layer birch or maple charcoal; make a new pickle, and add a little saltpetre—four ounces to a barrel. PICKLE FOR BEEF OR PORK. Take six pounds salt, one-half pound brown sugar, six ounces saltpetre, dissolve them by. boiling in four gallons of water, and skim ; when celd, put in it any sortof fresh meat. It will save and be ge and fit for use - without freshening. —e TO DRIVE RATS AND MICE FROM BARNS. ' | ake the plant called dogsnnane: pound it with asham- t grainery, or barn, or in your.celler, vill leave “very “quick. = ; = REGIPES, 393. TO PRESERVE BEEPS GALL. ‘Put it in spirits, or dry it in smoke. If dried, it makes a powerful dxawing salve. diced fo: TO PREVENT FLIES AND BUGS FROM BLOWING MEAT. Bruise elder leaves, moisten them with water, and rub them on the flesh side of the meat; let a little of the juice _- run into the holes, = ah ale TO PRESERVE POTATOES, APPLES, AND ALL KINDS OF Put them in a box or barrel, and fill up all the crevices with dry sand, ee TO SAVE POTATOES SINSUMMER =—isy “ Scald them in hot. water. TO SAVE POTATOES AND APPLES. an airtight ca, ‘They will gp the Z ie —— ole year. TO PRESERVE PEACH TREES FROM MILL-DEW, : In March or April take away all the turf and dirt you can and not hurt the roots, and put fresh rotten turf in its place. : TO PRESERVE FRUIT TREES, Pour hot soap suds around your trees, and wash them with thin soap in the fall and spring; scrape off the moss and rough bark, and cut off the nubs and gummy spots. 3 Ecicigestatecea a year. $94 | - RECIPES, TO CUT HARD WOOD TIMBER TO MAKE IT DURABLE. Cut it in October, November, December and January, in the old of the moon, when the sap is down. Cut all kinds of timber that sheds its leaves in the fall, in the third quarter of the moon—but, if possible, in the winter. It is more du- rable when cut in the month of December, which is the best month, Evergreen timber snust be cut in the second quarter of the moon, and in the fall and winter. All kinds of tim- ber cut in December, as above-stated, will last as - again as it will cut in June. TO KILL CANADA THISTLES. Sprinkle them with blubber oil and it will kill them; or cut them in June, July and August, when the sign is in the heart, in the old of the moon. TO SAVE B BUTTER. Rake: ‘two ounces salt, one ounce saltpetre, one ounce loaf sugar, beat them well together, and it is enough for four pounds of butter. It must be well mixed with the butter, and the butter well packed down. Keep it from the air, and TO SAVE BEES. i ee hogs) About the first of ave raise your hive es, lay salt under the edges of the hive, 9 ~~ camel _TOQ KEEP SKIPPERS FROM CHEESE, Mix fresh butter with red. Pepper, put itin a im wah rub your _ with’ it. RECIPES, 995 TO SWEETEN STRONG BUTTER. Take one ounce of saltpetre and two ounces of loaf sugar, ~ dissolve them in watet--aN hake —— the butter,and ~ pone it in, J —_—— INDIAN BREAD. Take one quart wheat flour, one quart Indian meal, wet it With warm “water, put in yeast, saleratus and salt to season it, and add one-half pound sugar; make a thick batter of it, let it stand warm till it begins to raise, and = neko it well. ’ ———os , DYSPEPSIA BREAD. Take three quarts unbolted flour, one quart soft wae one gill fresh yeast, one gill molasses and one tea-spoonful salera- tus. Let it remain in the oven two hours. _ It will take from - to ten hours to raise. he 4 CUP CAKE. oupfat of sugar, one of butter, th ree of doen: =" Gres eggs, and season to suit the taste. To make it into a fruit cake, lay a laying of the batter in the pan, then ‘a laying of strawberries, then a laying of batter, and so on till the pan _ is full, and cover it with batter. oe eee “COLD WATER: CAKE. = Taken co eatetel Glee cone of molasses, 5 il ~ table-spoonful of butter, one tea-spoonful of saleratus, three tea-cupfuls of flour, and season with ginger and a little salt. You can use buttermilk instead of water. ies j 7S + * = lees aes tiie ~ ON HUNTIN ‘ ae G, AND CATCHING GAME. ts finny | kind are so numerous and differ so much in size, shape, appearance, and mode of living, that it would require a large volume to give their minute. > particulars ; therefore I shall be under the necessity of making but a £48 brief re- ‘marks. - In the first place, it is evident that all kinds of big. fshes that have wide, open mouths, live more or less on the sma fish. The aborigines in this wilderness—North America— _ before it was discovered by the celebrated Christopher Colum- bus, found various ways to trap and take what of the finny kind they wished. They would sometimes snare them by a slip-noose of elm and other kinds of bark, or shoot them with _ their stone arrows as they did the elk or reindeer, and some- mes they would spear them with sharp sticks, and on ra: whip them to death with poles, They were so plenty that they could (in that age of the world) take what they wanted, for they never caught more than to supply their wants. And so with regard to hunting. They trapped by snares, dead-falls, and cutting long holes in hollow trees, and placing bait in the hole where foxes, wolves and bears could get their head i in so high,that when they jumped for the bait and fall- _ ing back, they would hang fast by their head in the narrow hole below. In taking wolves, they would build low pole yards with narrow tops, and place a deer or some fresh meat in the yard, and the ravenous — would run up on the - * 398 HUNTING, FISHING, &C, poles terthe top and jump in, and when there they could not jump out. In taking bears in summer and fall, they would set dead-falls or traps, with two heavy logs, one over the other, with a figure 4, and place the bait in such a position that the instant they touch it the upper log falls, and they are eaught. — But since the white men have settled this country, and brought with them hooks, lines, nets and spears, and have “sought out many inventions to take the finny kind and quad- rupeds, they use the fire-arms and steel traps, and various stratagems, such as hooks of various shapes, baits and instru- ments of various kinds. Some use in taking fish the harpoon, tow-lines, lances, hooks and baits, such’ as the spoonfly or worm baits—seins, scoop and- -gill- nets, and thereby have made a trade and traffic of it, aiid have so thinned out the deer, elk, bear, moose, wolf and buffalo, and all kinds of game, : and fishes of all kinds, and the feathered Sit — She wide mouth fish that inhabits the streams 3 of “fresh water, the flesh or worm bait: ‘tay be scented with the oil of anise or asafcetida, and in n deep and sluggish waters ‘qnat tities. The testicles of a female of ¢ any of Bete kind can be used to a good advantage in scenting bait.. The beaver, otter and muskrat ean be caught by set- g ting steel traps by the edges of ponds and running streams, under water, with chains attachéd to them, 0 that when they jump into the water after taken, they will sink and drown You : may bait them with sweet apples or parsnips, | just over the trap. Minks may be taken in the same . er only bait with meat. The white man, when RUNTING, FISHING, &C. 0s ae hunting foxes with a hound and gun, when the fox appears he will squeal like a mouse, and the fox will stop his pace © and look around—in the meantime the hunter will fire upon him, and, if a good marksman, the fox is taken. In hunt- ing the reindeer, the hunter will. bleat like a fawn or whistle, and the buck or doe will cease jumping and look ar = whieh gives the hunter time to take deliberate aim and drop him in an instant. When the snow is deep anda sharp thin crust on it, the deer, elk and m moose tread a yard, and live on what browse and bark they ean get—but when disturbed they will bound into the snow, and before. they run, many times, one-half mile, are so cut to pieces and worried out that. a man can out-run them on snow shoes, and beat gut their brains with a club or axe. When the snow is deep and loose, without a erust, foxes can be easily taken, for their fur and tail will soon fill. with loose snow and they cannot run far. To take skunks, you will select a bright,, moonlight night, and a good dog, and stay around farm yards and hen roosts, armed witha long pole or fire-arms, and when they appear, : or punch with your pole a few times till they hav: used all of their ammunition—then you may chase and catch them by the tail, and carry them home alive; not let their fore feet touch the ground and they can’t scent your clothes. The coon can be taken in moonshiny nights in the fall of the year, by being around corn fields with good guns and dogs. The bear, many times, is found in corn fields in thenight, and can be shot or trapped in the same -way the, coon is taken. The martin can be snared» by nooses attached to a staddel, bent so that. when they touch the bait they will be taken by the. neck and hoisted from the ground. The weasel and forse are cunning, saucy animals, and are hardto trap, The hare can be taken by snares and box traps. The woodehuck op ground-hog can be shot, or holed and dug out. 400 - ' HUNTING, FISHING, &0. ‘To destroy and get. rid of rats and mice, lay bufdock burs in and around their holes. Or take a barrel or tub and fill it ——_ eighteen inches with water, and hang a swing cover on it— tie a piece of cheese one side, and as they jump on they will tumble into the water. But the quickest way, in cold _ Weather, is to bait them a few nights with Indian meal and stir in a little arsenic with the meal, put it in their way, and - you will sweep them all off in one night. — ‘The panther, wild cat, catamount, linck and common aut are the most ferocious, sly and subtle kind that inhabit North America—are hard to trap. They are very daring, and the light of fire will allure them, and many times they will ven- ture close upon you before you are award of their near ap- proach, and there is no better way to take them than to use the fire-arms. The cat kind and panther will crawl softly towards their prey till they are close upon it, and make one. tremendous mone oat = their a or —_ ae go no In hipaa, of the pen whoria ee ow, ashe iahab- ited this now thick-settled, fertile country, they made use of birch bark canoes to traverse and cross the streams, rivers, lakes and ponds, and as occasion required, they carried them from river to river, and from lake to lake, on their shoulders, to enable them to cross and float at their leisure—to enable — them to-fish and catch game. When they werein pursuit of the reindeer, near some river or lake, the deer would, to avoid their grasp, plunge into the water a short distance all but the nose, and the Indians, in order to take them, would launch’ _ their bark canoe and follow them, and when coming up would beat their brains out with their paddles. In taking the bear er, they would traverse the woods, and if happily they low tree well scratched up, they cut it down, and many times found: a een fat bear in a —_ senseless state HUNTING, FISHING, &C. 401 —which, if not killed by the fall of the tree, are very easily dispatched, the prize is secured, and the Indians have a feast. They never throw anything away. “They formerly eat en- trails, flesh and all, only scalded and took off the hair or feathers, I have seen them empty the entrails of large ani- mals of their dung, reanse them in cold water, boil or roast the em, and feast on them with as much ‘satisfaction as the white man would an oyster soup, roast pig, beef, or turkey. pis smaller auirpialy, sink as eeapices, ent rats and Pome) ad feathers, cook them wae and if ay h of them, flesh, guts, and all, many times. wie Me ag =| Soe As touching their medicinal operations, it appears,¢in’ short, as though they: had instinct equal to their sphere, planted i in them by the God of Nature, to enable their medicine men (as then called) to prepare from the Vegetable Kingdom such medicines as would cure any disease that they happened to be afflicted with ; and it appears that the fathers taught their children from generation to generation as they passed off, $0 _ that there was no necessity of using quack-salver, or any of “the mineral drugs, and thereby rob and destroy each other. But since the white man has come among them, who has for several hundred years studied the art of the poison mineral drags, and how to use them in such a dark way so as to cheat and destroy one-another, and carrying into their wig- wams liquid fire, and all kinds of poisonous mineral drugs, seatt rin fire-brands, diseases of various kinds, and death, among them, they have passed almost entirely away, and their blood will be required at the white man’s hands, at the great day of retribution,. But when the pure ‘gospel i is carried to and preached to them, they receive it in good and honest hearts, and bring forth, some thirty, some sixty, and some an hundred fold. ; Ii2 INDEX. wy GH Por Fairey, Agriculture, Manufacture of Wine, Beer, &c., see Index y, Agr = wa Fhae ine, &e., B, -Abortion, to prevent, «00s sees ieee seveedecsecenes« Pace 140 SPOUSES EC SS se VIG V VENT TECUNE VC rece bb esas cide Seep eos COE a Piss ¢ BER VE ust Ss Cee eee te tas eee Stim Se ee Giwnes ++ -179, 187, 215, 278, 334 Saiives: ee Se ee Nee ee pe. weakness ei ee ee eee ‘Appetite, GMNING OF ePAVING,. . 5 ose. ve bones ote er ee i i Cor OPBNGS Bi 9S ES 5 oak ces 0 ae Apoplexyys 56.5 i iS ink. as SWER putas sees Pius P08 DPTOW WON et Nes 56 os Se po cd og ous few we ea es . 283 Asthma,..... 1. 1 BB, 162, 178, 194, 214, 248, 259, 271, 294, 311, 316 : dry or conyulsive,........ se ae Spain. Pyvesy eee 138, 189 eure for, of long standing,...-.....+.++++++- ppeiin cane, MOM ates Sepik eee be eh he . pill Atrophy, searbutic, tebe e were cere eevee eee 4 - + 2 - =, S| ee inmates x eS —— p in in ae ee ee Se oe 6 a a eee eer eee eee wePers ei e100 eaageain i. I ig i aa ae wren tae, Oe Bed sore on man or beast, to heals he iviw PATS eIv PERG . 284 Bee sting,.. Pees co bay Su as Oe, pees HE EO TREES -. 320, 337_ Bite of a’ mad Og, . sees eeewees +s. «159, 198, 229, 287, 305, 312 rattlesnake, fi os eee 171, 194, 236, 981, 313, 316, 322 oe Le ae cde ath = oe a a eaeioes og: Race ot 260, 286 ret SPRING OO. SSS OH ALLA eee aes 287 AZ) eee ee Seek eee ee eT ee ee Te ped er Vee ties ose kb bs as boy 5s eork Oly Bie, See By ee coli, 000820... 111, 146, 160, 247, 250, 252, 290, 327 fevers, cure and preservative against,............-163 : complaints, ... ee ieee Ter eB Real, 3 ieee @eeee See ATE FIR BO aR 348 ee her ere tee eee gravel in Wee iw encase aus wen codec ees 1 LOE UO es Ves ised oe tenet ete rt veve oo aw 4 PUtaN, F0-MOPi isa oes BN Foes de oak 50228, 313 nose, to (Prevent, .... see eeeseneeeeceneencreeh 7 Preeeescgeeeeeeeeer eres ce s1 BAB, 267 elma eet cs idccaeetaneeceeasets 164, 343 INDEX. ‘ 403 . en ee 159, 807 “ulcers in the leg)... ssceneeseeeseeecerecsreer cnc 00 Q0T Blind DUCE. case es wo pie peepee eer nigeetiiares wena, ae Blindness,........ kines ap Wludi va gees weg Caw onwns o1 00h. Lee Blue flag root. ....scssvseevecseerevssescesnsscesnesees o]B6 Bl60d, to atopy. cos 00 155 os s0cavecuses sate Uxqy ue cccedee ees + 210: co ted, to pen SREP ES peri cers eee purifier, how to make 4,..........+.+4+- cess eeu _—_ eee Si vvrcvsresssseeteees eminem “i? 3 cia op aa ee ern FE 5 GES 2 for humors in peer e rete ene pees eeer eee eee oeeveenre Bloek AaSe teen eo ee Bloody AUK so cee 680 08s er einer es find eis ae Black alder batk,.... 5. 6. ves eves ceeaemewetaen anes 000s tees DE, Blackberry root,..... ieee Raed bein haa Bloatin snake root,... aeeeveeee weet eee cows ouneeceeunas tena PCCCSH RSET SC CHD CSE HEC VGH EHO OE US ECHOES ET Er ay a Bliater how to draw, it Boils, savews tue oe eee eee revented, . Sys weed wax ee Oe eos y sa Cie va eee OW. 40 GURU tO NORD, soe ccc cess sews Gee vesvesseess 182 Bowel complaint in children and OE EE ve teeee LDS Bowels, to give action to the,........eeeseceeeeeeeseereees LOL Bones, MAR POS Ee Macc een crane 5 eee | Mx. G0 GOW Ol, vesccrescees avetivs lore iere ee ney! Broken skin, HITE arias eae avn a pesunne wee ewes Bee ee 203 RRM es ida dete aw ce ercesrieys Se evcuss - en ae Breasts, swelled itd sore... cscs cusses cosssscvsseseerdOh, 281 WN ae tumors in thé,. 20... eee LOA ee Bruise in the eye,......-seeeeeeeseeteres seen veees ag i Bruises, liniment or oultice for,. “109, 118, 266, 386, 303, ‘i, 38 Bruised blood, poultice for,..... Goo ime se a on Breaches,:to cure,..... Burns,.....116, 144, 164, 299, 285, 936, 243, 250, 260, 273, 286, 312 Ce OS ree err peeeer. ve Ceersie eee ae TRAP ih vines ese ie ive ose ve ve nes ve eerie eee ea Ee* -214 os Bg ee inpevwy ee ee ed 109, 166, 178, 186, 198, 217, 258, 260, 263, 272, 277, 285, “990, 295, 815, 328, 288 ve for,. eoeeeree Be ee Gt ae ak aes ate Reh or iso e AG ee NT en aI OG Bs ee eee ree a. oSes Oeeetres thes; 140 cy aE SS a ea senggrssavss caabes sl 48, 270 any other part,........ sd Vise yey eVe Te os eae tumor, to reduce B,...+- se eeee reer rere ve reeeneeee Uxrosvemsisigiclis reese a acme i sine eeeenes sean 146, oo ao AS REELS Sy Seeaen seprene e 7 — : - INDEX. ee 405 Colic, VOL eN tb, ...» cvveveess wes siiet mas WES Big see sPaGE 198 WING, ....cescsseeseerevsesseas sevesescsessetensees senseaeeansevreesceess300 in women and childrenj.......ccscescsseseserssvseseeroreeee 240 Gopeumnptton,....+--.-.-v-A TS 119, 128, 168, 196, 226, 235, 275, 305 remarks on,..... 857 medicines that Gils, cc areaemmete.. SAS of the D160 ao sacs cosscn - cs a deh tial ARE to test whether on the liver or lungs,...,.......2.. «4! Consumptive COUG, «..+sereeeeseervesseere sever tserrereerertrrers re EB Ay- i} P> Pee PO Meee TE Bee ee Here eee tee etree e ote Convulsions, .......00es-sseceeerree- Coico Sete, Leu oe ae >: gp ite df ghiivaee te AS. ci a A en Convuleion fife 2-42 ico s wee RA BE, 1A, GEM, ental 135, 144, 168, a, 228, 238, 262, - 289, 300 aa £0 PPevent,,.00-.veresseoass. - se eet ig 175 eres eee Pee re ea take 0: Cold in the Be en tee SO ~ Lt eee saeeeeeneses FR eed ELLIS SOP TREES, 166, 208, 275, Us Coldness of the stomach,...........s+.+9+- ities TS y oe tee eee nee 173 Genter to oe a Soria rae stesrrsveereeessereek OL Cram is prevent OB Ee ate Be ee cv] 173 FO se ined Siig Oe ecses 0405545 ¥s8S00-0 5 seeyeansesearerssseseeah 5 ; 4 rintegyaens aban = _any in scorn Silage Chis 10Gb 25S eR ae ee ee ee Cracked seis ener ieeteestangens IE See ieee 187, 826° Cut of a vein or sinew,...........5. EEE 1S "are sk pea Care-all, universal,....i...ciccccseseecsse: WM a Currant Leaves, ...sseicsseeecesesseesees ceseseesearese piieeLy igs Ee Pane root Gr branehy,. 1... ++ cvioes sees: cid ccinceecoh MD S ee 218, 260, a 296, 814 ae tee ee iteeee pina-ctes aad Gemini conta ancicencla. AV from WEE Frac ctwoie Beene eeeeee , wie vires 123 Delivery, tO CAUSE AN EASY... niseerrsenrereseennveeerse ees +0145, 809 Debility, ........eee sees AEE AE 5 PAGO AME Deiat Fremont is even eiesiccsui Bn Aa Baines. .818 Diabetes,..........144,176, 178, 181, 191, 215, 228, 242, 244; 270, 285 Diarrhea, LER DE DI LAS : 406 : INDEX, Doctors, modern, the common Practice of oy i..5 ass steaee Pace 105 = = Bite Of a ae ee scasecrisvichadeu, 280 - Dropsy,....124, 142, 162, 173, 176, ‘190, 220, 288, 241, 272, 288, 291, Heme e eee Renee eeeee eer eee eee eee wee windy, ... : " Drinking, ¢ eure for hard... Sik nuntaannneSTREERIOR Co > COm DLS Drowning, to recover from, .. antinane sinoressnijeaiil iateiies <+>+ st Oey Sa Lo sgl claw, or fever rock; eee ge eae eee oer 187 Dumb e, cordial BR as ees 1 a eto wes Fs 201, 268 Dwarf elder herbs and berries... siohiew Lot bY Lajeriat © a 247, — 278, O77, 979, 287, 204, 297, 307, 824, 325, sind : 9, 389, 3 ee ae PMP OES: 255.365. .6a0c as KS RA Rice ccc eee Wren Dard. <3 ee oh caves svomees BB long standing, wivacheincassscoseesaciuralieing cage ianeee 2 on pse,. See ssvseseasnndienscan donee ..169 — distinction between, . ai yet Hew-sthe,-. PoP eee ee ee eee ee eee ees 188, 16, 182, 268, 270 5 from sa panes spin tk Sea Rig To ve ava ae emo 129 : = wana iets tetsegiu sss cceess: saweni dulesboconmaebeanuers seo ig = wee tere wereee Per Pena ee etn ee PIA SRE EP F Ears, hard sian’ in soon jinctee Rae Ree AK: s _ noise in aoe rs weterses ieee : AD... esereeee SPSS ee PS a = regeta it Eeeee veseel 5, 325 --. of vitriol, how to ses ogee ee SS ge a ST AEE OES 327 Elecampane roots....... aoa Seat digs: obs ag eee Elder blows, bark and berries... RA ee ROR ORR oe Se ot Jubcbin sbayeustaxeus -, ces ured tbeiriees eee eee -196 Oo Se eee posepban ene “181, 195, 219, 245, +202 Essences, true way tomake, . ipa oe ee geet ee 3383 ~ Eyan’s or chocolate root, .....0....0-.ccseeeseeee beat Poona pac. tg Extract of sarsaparilla,...... suse minvarakceuaeeere Bier gm Bye, hein Riese eT ees Oe errr pone oes $4 hot or sharp humors i: in the,...... srvenntevveincnsnes BL pmlee kh Fav Camis setae ease sas 5 sean bs pons engaged oko aceon PEASE white specks in city easier dcnnmtens AAS tisnvinbadiees y+ contol DE _ Spe-ates, ES eee 39, 126, 180,.2 216, $11 ayes, bl pies ci dicaaas cixaceudonunr -ivmas apagst an alibes<.. «ce blood-ahot,.... ag pe tas eS ne So dim or decayed... Siieais Sis pi ieee ee ae valk hot rheum and burning,. spoons Shinkei sess anaes oe eerie Deters Uh. os. oo nacs Oi iiag S33 Sd pt het thee Stamatis ‘Sirs icsetectoasen BB] Chou, 2. sies ectseeticcevsssccesscss cvssccssesereveratessversres BeNOR EOS, BOG in the foot or ahi ees eniieabitraceimemetionere rater 71 __Ripy:sssssionivenronniteveneevenrenrssereeresonsb hp Q26, $29 shih ALS Reetuecee eRe cogent = any prsorepgecttiel ptt @ Webs saa ater: 5 108- 181, 187, 195, 918, 249, 955, in the bladder or OF WIGHOYR Seri. 6 Heo oo COSTE oo 164 Gieerr parca: CGO Lo are Guts, twisting OP Che hres ree sete 885-0 8004 1 ORNS 6 18D breasts,....... Siang A hae seep Pepaienes ise cass vae ROD Hands, a Matias cin draniceedinga die» deseeesce 166 —— eeereeeewe +187, 326 CHAP POT nike wns viene: eer ee eee ee eee ee eee es a vee 207 s to VERE Seskeeas ee tense eo tseese high pidereengidervanwecckeD : Es to prevent a SHB, 55..s anna ceapenteninnds dpererteeeesT ; Corning Brey ps6 sinevcewivnsncsccmennstecetteetecceet Head, dropsy i Pe iG ee woteneessrsatareesenens DED sont 8 Sie ee 201 : g of te. 5 | eek ee erence | 186, 205 from aaa ee INDEX. 409 Hend-oghe seh, -ccsssnstechoassagcteuiavtaibiies pig ee 14 Health, how Connery PAR, 3 pe . for decline Sia ise tee, 100, .119 Heart, ——— Te yrseeeeseeersenecerenseneensen - +155, 180, 245, 326 Healing nar was Sreiomennopne penmmeramnrerrcme Fee Herbs, roots, plants and flowers, and their medicinal uses, alpha- motock be arran: : 4 POCOSH SSO DERSES CEHELETES COE SEF CODES pueegee Reekescecceccbhcctayiens conch} settee +54 soutensecesciie aeearnene 4 a ete eene cok eda vesehs sbaksaecectesgumes ale ee 186 Pp ia ep eee OR EY epee Sensanonewsnearensapressvenseencet a2 198, 219, 348 | : . a Tee , . eas he a : ‘ eeteee Hoarhound, ...... ass Eh - aaGaierepbeipeatoveresserapees ess qx on's SED scbageSéCesshusesuace eaguoesentereey Bi So a, Horseradish, ... Dee O eee eee renee eee ene eER eRe ees see see , = * +228 Hungary ees sap sapeeseenecens Perretrerretreerectrer a +04 Fumors, cure f0r,...,.-rsere-searcersees seosaeeeenaetesseis nee Hy drophobia, .........ssessseerercsseneseessre pose semene ae eensensreses Ee onan ¢ draft for the feet to cure,. SOC e s al disorders,....++ maurewsgreetediesse be 168, 178 berical disorders,,..eseressen sresrsesesssnesrnnee sssseee QT, 178, 842 eric COLIC, seeserenensrentensnessseessee® eee tere rhe ween ee -114, 299 Pe OPT errr are. eee” 192, 282 FIYSE0p,-seeeeseesereensnanenneesesseeennansssenssenznns «OB Latah. obildron, diet ap treatment EAE LMI IES ei ag Inflamed ¢. srecnecetonesscenscserernsemessen sl aDy, 259, 309 poe cece eee e seer ree seseresresseeeesenee Siesta ee v E ‘ pothesis ccersiceessnnessnsitnees ag a chiecundc4ensn0ukbeusasauues tee ‘of the CY OE, woe seer rseeeesesseenrtesnnessr ae BORA ns nso 202 nronarenaennennsnonrshenaraie ana Indian hemp,.......-..cceevenceceenereeceses ete: isteene op AB Tnfltuenza,.......2ssccrsseversreeeneesrernereresrccesesse ol OB cake adnan sees 50001055 Onna Gees eee : concn” = © sale epee mSRERNCRS RE -e 261 Toward. LEEK READ TODA EERE LO,O EA 6 TOE ORISSA HERO AE EMA pe ee re rer eee eS eee s,s pmomemcanmaommepnet Et | a 261, 328 1s watered. «63253 156 EG $8 176, 260, 300, 844 TrrrereeeLeeRe eee eee eee ed ee Ree eee eee ee eee ESTHET DO teS eee - wounds, syrup Gabeira, 199, 234, 339 Ttghing heels of féek. .. ccc. cs ci ccteccckeccecntsess+ 104, O64 KK ON eee ee) oes ee 410 “INDEX, Jaundice, ..118, 123, 124, 173. 189, 215, 289, 257, 280, 294, 314, 343 MW eee ere oer 317 In ehildr Bee ree ere e eis 60088 8s beh 6 08 bs 0s Gan Ge 123 oe » Searle rere ease eetere rey < ecien 216 Jellies, how to make, ..........eceeceeerevecesceeseueseces 334 John’s-wort 56 See ee, ee eet rr Joints NEWLY Sets. seer eeeeeeerteeveereweteesereceen sere y 11 284 pain in Se are rarer ri me PE pee, SURIPCE MUMS es cc ccvesc os cough deca ecteet beith ec arer ate Maamey Giseases eevee pores yrerr HTSUS UE ee ie cee AB Kidneys, stone in the,.......... VEIT 0 Pe 108 — stoppage in the. 2... csc. c cee cece eee e ee ce 16108, 199 onstage, ‘eae MARE ERR firs AE PS OVE Se Sis ss es E12, 182; 965, 269, 277, 279, 309, 340 Knot grass, WTS cee e eevee veseveveveereceeeuevess uee¥e Esthrymal fistule, cweverivevevs vevewewevevecsseesd tin TH (1S Edi y's slip pet pies iwc vewes ses eesveceswewvetis th OR Laudanum, how to make,.....+sssssseeeeeseeeneee esses el BT Tags-inflamed, . 40005000 cet AK es eveewewenssces + +200 AGNI sa oes + sss: StS eeee “304 55E ae ‘ “Fpantet'y eelie 503s Poe ete ee 1$ Palkied’ Ihe of ‘the heart, = 3.000. Ses oS cee "156, 180, 245, ae a ey eseeeer eee ee ee ee ee r — oy OEE Oe ee ee EC eeraes ee from working with white lead and verdigris,... re ct Ag Write BAN. oo oe oie vs re ee Series sh aie ~ in the ook Sewer es esse sss ass Seitt tennant eee Békrl in the-cyo, Perr eee CPR EEE PORTER Petinyroyal,; ,.33 3%; Ay) Gere rr pet ee ee eee ee foot. yo WANs tes Big ir eer a ye eT PR ee a ee 208 ee ee eeeeee 118, 162, 192, 196, 280, 283, 332 so oe Reformed Botanic and ee eS er 348 WORN, 5 5 e535 acc0 5 355 65525555 sectecscesesso +20], 833 iology and anatomy, rescence testes a: 13 -- 110, 298, 302 Thorn-a é tea... Pee ee ieee eee eee eee ree ree eee vevee2286 Thorns, ow to draw din ees catia sess venese wees sveecmennecger thor eG | URES eee vse 152, 194, 217, 268 Tic doloreux,....... Seneeaicceienssagese sy ears noose $s Siieneinaenn ek sea B80 Tineture of life, how to meres: ssc sessencessesicasene ss ee Tenety See _ London, sist sn\teeaig alll + oer eee w ean. teree aeeeee , inte: ee so ewes : — cure TOP ice eee eee es $10, 827, 348 Venereal diseases, cure ss SedhGS Seb ngne veins a iecscuecsucst We Tn Venomous meng ere et ree 4 Gee Veevine...ene--.s+siosonsscsesebb nace iabeaedonses