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No. 34.

The Tooth-ache, to cure by Sympathy.

The process-The patient is enjoined not to narrate what is done to him, or the Tooth-ache will return, (but a repetition will restore the cure.)

All the finger and toe nails are to be trimmed, the pieces off of each are to be laid on a rag or paper; to which also is to be laid a lock of hair taken from the head; then the gum of the tooth is to be gouged or pierced, to add some blood to the nails & hair; then the whole is to be wraped together in the bank of some creek or gulley, at a place where no creature crosses. The operator may keep the putting away to himself, if he pleases.

Indians they say have queer notions. Hah! but I have tried this for perhaps fifteen years, on myself and many others, and seldom without immediate success. The tooth, it is believed, when it becomes easy, will never ache again. If the pain remains, chew root, No. 2, or No. 16.

If you are willing to try this, you may rest assured, it will do you no hurt.

No. 35.

The Ear-Ache,

Will often be cured by the application of Spikenard Root. Take the green Spikenard Root, beat it and add a little water to moisten the root; then squeeze out the juice and put it into a phial; drop this into the ear, morning and

evening, a drop or two at a time, and continue it as long as you please.

This is likely to help a deaf ear, if any thing will, and is a real Indian cure. The Oil of Spikenard, used in like manner, might perhaps be better than the above.

No. 36.

The King's Evil,

Has I know been cured by the Pond Lilley Root; I mean those of a slender stem, a floating leaf, shaped like a horse's foot; often growing in water eight or ten feet deep; the Lilley is the most delicious, also floating on the water, held by a slender flexible stem. The root is knotty and oval, like a Calamus root, and as large nearly as a chair-post. This root should be boiled, beat soft in a mortar, and moisten to a poltice with the liquor; a little of which should be drank morning and evening, and the poltices repeated.

These boils and risings in the glands of the neck, called the King's Evil, have been also digested and cured, by applications of green Frogspawn, taken out of springs, and applied as a poltice.

I would recommend the root and bark, No. 7 and No. 14 to finish the cure.

No. 37.

Cold Water Applications,

I reckon among the choicest of my discoveries.

The following I recommend:

When the accident of a bruise, piercing of a nail, a cut, a broken bone, an eye knocked out and put in again, &c. takes place, immerse the part in cold water as quick as possible, and then dip a large soft linen cloth into cold water and apply it, and keep out the air. This cloth should be kept close; aid this by dropping cold water upon it for fifteen minutes, and continue it close for twelve hours. The inflamation by this means will be kept back, and the cure by any thing else, will be almost forestalled; and then a bruise, a strain or broken bone, will scarcely swell at all; and a like application to a burn will have a similar effect. In about fifteen minutes the first pain will be over, and the future ease will be stedfast.

I have tried the foregoing applications of cold water, with full demonstrations, for forty years past.

No. 38.

The Poor Man's Medicine.

Boil four ounces of pure Quicksilver in an iron pot, with two quarts of water, until half is evaporated, and bottle the water for use.

The same Quicksilver will serve, again and again, as often as you want a fresh supply of

the water. This medicine is said to be as simple in taste, and as safe in using as so much simple water, and may be drank as often and as much as you please. The virtues are many: it may be used externally or internally; it destroys worms, purifies the blood, opens obstructions, scours the glands, cures all impurities of the skin, ulcers, scald-head, &c.

The yellow water in horses, we have often cured, by boiling only one ounce of Quicksilver in a large pot of water; letting the horse drink a gallon at a time, or mixing his feed with the water; continuing the course for about ten days, and boiling the Quicksilver again and again; and I have found them cured, of imposthumes, following the throat-distemper, by the same

means..

No. 39.

A Sweat of Virginia Snake Root and Sage Tea, Is one of my old remedies for fevers.

Take one drachm of Virginia Snake Root, and make it into a decoction, say half a gill; let the patient drink it and cover warm in bed; then have ready a coffee-pot of weak Sage Tea, say three pints; let the patient begin to drink in ten or fifteen minutes, as warm and as much as he can, out of the spout, not rising or uncovering.— By this drinking keep up the sweat for four hours; then cool moderately and take care of all exposure and excess for the first twenty-four hours. Follow it with No. 9 or 25.

This sweat I have often given (after a puke or purge) in obstinate fevers, such as the nervous, the intermittent, the fever and ague, &c.

I have used this sweat in old second or third day agues, always with success. I have chosen to begin about an hour before the ague, and take up the hour of ague in the sweat. In other cases, I have chosen the wellest time, and never omit it when pain or sickness attend the rise of a fever.Chips or blocks of wood taken out of a pot of boiling water, may be wrapped up and put in the bed with the patient, to set the sweat agoing.

This sweat should be repeated again, after two or three days, if there is not manifest signs of re

covery.

Such a sweat has appeared to me, to move off the obstructions to a right circulation, and to take away the very offending matter out of the blood.

Persons very weak, and especially those who have pain in any part of the body, or all over them, ought to try this. But it should always be followed with bracing medicine, such as the above cited or No. 4. Dont omit, even if the patient seems fairly well by the sweat.

No. 40.

To cure the Jaundice.

1. Give the Emetic No. 1.

2. Give the Pills No. 41, every night, what the stomach can bear.

3. Make a diet drink of wild Cherry bark, and use it constantly till well.

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