A teaspoonful is a dose, night, morning and night; then miss the like times, and take it again; and so continue the course till nature is braced & strengthened. This is a cure for obstructed menses, wasting fluor. See No. 44 how to give it.

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With this medicine many have been relieved: the barren have become fruitful; and those despairing of life, have been restored to health by taking this.

The prescriptions No. 25 and No. 44 were devised after the pattern of this, for which I am ever indebted to the friendship of Dr. Elijah Reeder, of Franklin, on the big Miami.

No. 28.

Warner's blood-purging pills.

To prepare take one pound of ipecac. No. 1, of dry roots, or two pounds of green roots, four pounds of green horse radish roots, and two inches of blue flag root; put them into a pot and boil them in stale cider until you gain the strength of the roots; then strain and wring out the liquor; boil it down to a quart; then add half an ounce of aloes and half an ounce of myrrh, and simmer it down to a mass for pills then put it by for use in a vessel or galley pot.

This kind of pills, my father used to make and keep in my day of living with him, and long before I was born. He used always to sell them at three prices. He used to give them in his cures of old ulcers, and sores, frequently two or three times a week. Those who took them said they generally made them hungry.

I believe they give the blood a lively circulation. I have given them to my patients inoculated with the small pox, a few hours before I expected the fever, having given nothing before it; the effect

was favorable, beyond all expectation; for they then had little or no fever at all.

Three or four pills of common size, is a common dose; it is expected only to be a slow purge, but it will sometimes puke a little. Take care to give little enough, and you are always safe.

No. 29.

Porter's ointment.

To prepare-take four pounds of square-stalk leaves, No. 8, two pounds of elder leaves, and one pound of catnip leaves; beat them well in a mortar and mix them up in fresh butter or good hog's fat, put them in a brass kettle or an earthen pot, and heat it or stew it moderately, keeping grease enough in it to cover the herbs; keep it about the fire, and simmer it at times for a week; then wring out the ointment, and put it by for use.

The Green Ointment, or tent salve, is made by taking of the above ointment and Venice turpentine, of each half a pint; put them in a saucepan or some suitable vessel, not iron; add of blue stone the size of two grains of Indian corn, and the same quantity of verdigrease; both are to be powdered and stirred in the whole is to be boiled or simmered on the fire until it looks like green glass. This tent ointment cleanses ulcers and old sores to the bottom, and keeps out proud flesh or fungus. My father used to say it would scrape a bone. The cure may always be looked upon as sound, where this is used.

The first ointment is to be used for fomenting benumbed and withered limbs. Such have been often restored by it, when many other applications had failed.

Sores are to be anointed with this first ointment, around, even when the tent ointment is put in; and it is very excellent to anoint a woman's sore breast.

No. 30.

The Red Lead Sear Cloth Salve.

To prepare-take three half pints of Sweet Oil, or in case that cannot be had, take the like quantity of fresh butter when boiled & skimmed; one pint of Linseed oil: boil them in a skil let, so hot that it will burn a feather; then add one pound of pulverised Red Lead to be stirred gently into it, while hot, (but the oil must be somewhat cooled or it will foam and run over) until it becomes like soft wax.

This is to be spread on thin leather, and ap plied as a Sear Cloth or Plaster; which is not to be taken off, until it comes off of itself. If matter should gather in a sore, it must be let out by an awl through the plaster.

This plaster I have heard was formerly in the possession of a German whose name I do not recollect, who lived latterally in Kentucky. He performed many astonishing cures with it. I saw one of his patients, who had been wounded at the Germantown battle, 1777, in the Revolutionary war; one of his legs had been broken and shattered, while he was one of the forlorn party sent to tear down the fence and palings about Chew's house. He told me that due care had been taken in setting the bone, and trying

to cure the humours, but all in vain, he had to endure grievous sores, every application being of little or no avail; until in about twenty years, he fortunately fell in with this German, who by the means of this plaster, cured his leg. It was then sound and well, when I had this story from his own mouth.

Since the secret has been disclosed, I know families who keep it and use it on all occasions, and speak in the most absolute terms in its praise.

Before this disclosure, there were people who would have paid twenty dollars for this receipt, as willingly as any of you would pay twenty dollars for a horse worth an hundred.

Put this plaster to a fresh wound or cut, it keeps all close, and you have no trouble with it as a gaping, freting and running sore.

No. 31.

Common Salve,

May be made by taking Horse balm leaves, (No. 13.) Burnet, Mallelet, Spikenard Root, or any two or three of them; beat them well in a mortar, and stew them in tallow and fresh butter, equal quantities; and when you get the strength of the herbs, strain and ring out the grese, and add equal quantities of Rosin and Castile Soap, until your salve becomes a right consistence.

No. 32.

Wild Pursley Ointment,

There is in our western country, near our creeks, on places overflown in high water, a little wild Evergreen, much resembling Pursley. It is one of the Indian medicines for Snake-bites, and other poisons; they use it inwardly and outwardly; but when an ointment or salve is made of it, I have found it very cool and pacifying to freting, smarting sores; it is the best for blistering humours, of any thing I have ever tried. I have proved it on sore lips and other inveterate smarting sores.

A little Tar put into this ointment will add to its excellence.

No. 33.

A Tent Salve for Fellons,

May be made, by taking equal quantities of Brimstone, Bluestone and Allum; rub them in a brass mortar, and when powdered, moisten it with spirits, honey and white of an egg, mixed, equal quantities; rub all together fifteen minutes with a brass pestle, and make it of a right consistence.

The property of this tent salve is to destroy fungus or inflamed flesh, by turning it quickly into matter; and if followed up and attended rightly, it will bring out the core, and get to the bottom of any rising in two or three days. Cancers may be destroyed and eaten out by it.

This will answer all the ends of what is called caustic, with less anguish.