of oxygen* is not so much to be feared, and occurs but seldom; but deficiency of oxygen happens very often, and I expect always in consumption, dropsy, jaundice and palsy; but I leave it to future observation more accurately to determine this. I have however observed, that blacksmiths, or those working in iron, seldom if ever have the consumption or dropsy.

A late patient of mine, who had been a year or two in a state of melancholy, told me that the electrical machine had been tried on her, but the same charge that would shock other people hard, had little or no effect on her. I leave it to those who have opportunity to observe, whether the electrical shock will not be the same in the cases of consumption, dropsy and jaundice; and whether it does not announce a deficiency of oxygen.

But the great question with me is how to restore the oxygen in a consumptive person; iron or a preparation of it being my alternative. Two things I fear-1. An increase of the pulmonary, or pain in the breast; 2. Bleeding at the lungs. My prescription No. 44, I conceive will not expose the patient either as to pulmonary or bleeding at the lungs; but will gently increase the oxygen, and innocently prepare good blood: the issue will be a recovery to good health, if such a thing be possible.

* I have noticed that blacksmiths are very subject to rheumatic pains: the cause, I conceive, is an excess of oxygen: and this may most generally exist with, and be the root of the diathesis of plethora and irritation. The remedy most probably will be No. 39 and 72.

My children and friends after you look over this, when you see a person with a white face, male or female, you will be ready to say "That person wants Father Smith's chalybeate oxymel" No. 44.

No. 45.

Dr. Tiffin's prescription for derangement, or

mania.

Get gum myrrh, asafoetida, aloes and castor, of each a quarter of an ounce, opium and camphor one drachm each; powder them separateÎy, and mix them all together with oil of amber sufficient to make them up into pills the size of garden peas. Get at the same time two ounces of Peruvian bark, red or yellow, and half an ounce of rust of steel; mix them well together into a powder. Give two of the above pills morning, noon and night; give also a teaspoonful heaped up of the powder every day, an hour before breakfast and dinner, which is twice a day. The diet may be any thing that the patient likes best, and which will best agree with the stomach.

This prescription I was honored with by Dr. Edward Tiffin, late governor of the state of Ohio. I used it for my daughter, Nancy John, who had been four months in a state of alarming mania, or derangement; when she had taken it about two weeks, she suddenly came to her reason; and after using agrimoney tea a few weeks, became very stout and healthy.

The Doctor, in his letter to me, states, her diathesis "I take to be great debility, and (to use a common expression) the nervous system unstrung."

I think to apply in such a case No. 44 and 26, also No. 9, will likely prove a cure.

No. 46.

Syrup for the Dysentery.

I have for a long time, perhaps 30 years, prescribed in the following manner, and it has nearly always been used with success: Take a handful of garden rhubarb, or patience, or horse dock roots, or any one of these, and shred them. up green or dry. Also, a handful of persimmon or wild cherry bark (either will do) put the root and the bark together into a quart mug or pitcher that will bear the fire, and put in with them four tablespoonfuls of sugar, and fill up the quart with boiling water; set it on the coals until it is drawn like tea. The patient is then to begin to take it, a tablespoonful at a time (if a grown person) every fifteen minutes, until ease begins to take place in the bowels; then not so often, and so by degrees break off; yet take some until good health takes place.

This syrup should be boiled every day, and a little spirits put into it to keep it from getting sour; and may be filled up and sweetened to the taste, or renewed as there is occasion.

Give at the same time a flour coffee (wheat or rye meal fried brown) boil it with milk and su

gar in it, to fill up the belly and promote sweat by a plentiful drinking of it hot or cold: this will greatly assist the cure.

By this course the fæces, or lumps in the illium guts (which occasion the dysentery) will be gradually dissolved, and the cure be permanent; but the first effect or sympton of cure, is ease in the belly. See No. 25, 9, and 41. This syrup may be given in any diarrhoea or flux.

No. 47.

The Croup, or Bold Hives,

that so alarmingly choak children to death, being a swelling or stoppage of the lungs, I have cured by the following syrup for 12 years past: the success has been truly singular; it is a discovery of my own, by mere accident.

Take a handful of John's wort, No. 22, and a handful of sage, and sugar sufficient; make them into a syrup, in the manner directed in the foregoing number. The dose for a child six months old, should be only a teaspoonful; but to one six years old, a tablespoonful. The times and continuance may also be like No. 46. See No. 18.

No. 48.

Syrup for the Quinsy, catarrh, and ulcerated sore throat.

To prepare-Take one ounce of squaw root dried, or a like quantity of green, No. 17, half

as much blueberry root, No. 16; boil the roots in three quarts of water to less than one, add alum and honey to make it rough and palatable. Gargle the throat, & swallow some pretty often.

Report is, that a noted root doctor of Jersey, near Elizabethtown, made use of this with the greatest success. I had it from Dr. Hole, who highly recommended it; but as these complaints scarce ever have prevailed where I have lived, I have never put it to the trial. A tea made of the root No. 16, will probably be a relief and cure in the most of such cases.

No. 49.

For the Canker.

The canker is a hot humor which has its seat in the stomach; shows itself in whitish sore spots on the tongue, palate, and inside of the mouth and lips, that will sometimes eat and consume away the palate. It is generally attended with fever and great thirst, uneasiness and distress. Children have been mostly the subjects of it, but sometimes it goes thro' the whole family; and to small children it has sometimes proved very mortal.

A Mr. Huston, from whom I obtained the receipt, cured it easily and certainly, if applied to in time. His prescription is as follows: lignum vitæ chips or dust, black snake root, No. 10, squaw root, No. 17, Virginia or Seneca snake root, black haw bark, John's wort, No. 22, beech drops, of each a tablespoonful powdered: of blue