Every man his own doctor; or The poor man's family physician: prescribing plain, safe, and easy means to cure them-selves, of the most disorders incident to this climate with very little charge, the medicines being the growth of this country, and about almost every man's plantation. / By Thomas Johnson.

THE POOR MAN's FAMILY PHYSICIAN.

HEAD ACH

COMMONLY proceeds from colds, and from the sun, or from a foul stomach. The Sun pain commonly rises and falls with the Sun, which may be known after one or two days; and if this should be the cause, cup on each tem|ple, and on the mould of the head, and take Snuff prepared as followeth: take half an ounce of common snuff, add to it one hundred drops of the compound spirits of lavender, and fifty drops of camphorated spirits; mix them well together, and take plentiful as common snuff, but for the common head ach, only take the above mentioned snuff; either of these drops may do, but best mixed together.

SORE EYES:

Take Roman vitrial, commonly called the blue stone, about the sixth part of a nutmeg: burn it as you do allum, then take a hen's egg, roast it in embers very hard, careful without bursting open one end, take out the yolk, pound the blue stone to fine powder, and put it in the egg, fill it up with clean spring water, let it st••nd twelve hours to dissolve, then poor it off very gently in a clean vessel, sover it close again and let it stand six hours, then pour it off again very gently into a clean glass vessel clear from all drugs, let it stand six hours longer, then pour it

into a clean phial and let it stand for use; let the patient, when in bed, have a drop dropt on each eye, keeping them shut till morning to pre|vent smarting; but if from many years standing, or proceeded from any uncommon cause, bleed 12 oz. next morning take a purge of Exdubes, the white walnut pills of the upland country will answer the same purpose: let this be done once a week for three weeks, drinking the following decoction, viz. take white Shoemake root, the inside of white oak bark, the inside of poplar root bark; one handful of each, the same as Woods Ditiny, put them into a gallon of water, reduce it to two quarts over a slow fire, let the patient drink a tea-cup full night and morning, let his diet be light wheat bread, and drink Mo|lasses small beer, or pure spring water.

QUINSEY.

This is a fearful disorder and hurries people speedily to their long home; this is known by various ways, sometimes a swelling on the outside of the throat very much, and very sore within; sometimes swelling within, and sometimes swel|ling about the palate of the mouth, and decaying if it should swell outwardly o•• inwardly, apply the following poultice: take old sheep dung, boil it in milk, apply it to the outside of the throat, for the inward application take two handfulls of red rout, called by some reds hank; wash them clean, boil them in two gallons of clean water till reduced to half a pint, strain it through a cloth very clean, add to it three table spoon••u••ls of the juice of sage, the same of sharp vinegar, the same of good rum, three thimbles full of fine salt, the same of the flower of allum,

and three table spoonf••lls of honey; simmer it a little over a moderate fire, then bottle it up for use; let the patient have his throat wash••d three or four times a day, very clean, with a mop made of a fine linnen rag: this will not only heal the ulcers, but stop the mortification also— and will cure all kinds of sore throats

N. B. It will also be proper in the quinsey, to bleed in the foot.

SCURVY IN THE GUMS.

Take one handful of black jack bark, the in|side, two handfuls of red root, one handful of bamboo brier root, one ditto black brier root, one handful of golden rod root, or tops; add to this four gallons of clean water in a copper vessel; reduce it slowly over the fire to one pint, strain it off clean, and add to this two spoonfuls of sage juice, half a spoonful of the flower of allum, three spoonfuls of apple brandy, and three spoonfuls of sharp cydar vinegar; mix these well together, and bottle it up for use to dress the teeth, pour a little in a spoon, wrap a rag round your finger, and dip it in this balsom, and rub your teeth and gums well, three times a day for three days, then take a penknife, and before a glass press down your gums as close as you can, and then scrape off the black scarf, if there be any on the teeth, then wash again as before mentioned for three days, and this being done will effect the cure.

WHIT TOW.

Chew the bark of Sassafras root, and apply can poulties constantly. This will draw, break, and

cure it the soonest, safest, and easiest of any thing that I know.

CHOLICK.

This is a kind of dry gripes. The patient is generally costive and feverish, though sometimes neither; but a griping in the bowels or stomach, and sometimes shooting into different parts of the body, shoulders, and back. For this grievous complaint, take as follows: the inside of white oak bark, the inside of poplar root, root bark of each, one small handful, the same of woods ditiny, properly called bitiny, put these in two gallons of water, and reduce it over a slow fire to one; then bottle it up for use: of this take a teacup full as hot as you can drink it, adding to it fifteen drops of the compound spirits of lavender: if it doth not give ease in five or six minutes, take a second in like manner, and also to the third, which will certainly give ease; but to root out the disorder entirely, take the same medicine about three times a day for three orlour weeks; living only on what is fresh, light and easy of digestion, and abstaining from spirituous liquors during said time.

RHEUMATISM.

In the first place, plunge yourself all over in cold water, the colder the better, early in the morning: let the patient be taken out immediate|ly, and covered with five or six blankets, to sweat for three hours. As soon as in bed, give the patient half a pint of rosemary tea very warm, if to be had; if not, give a pint of cold

water. If the patient should not sweat freely, cover the head, which will be more effectual af|ter swea••ing; for the space of the above mentioned time, take of the blankets one at a time until the sweat is sufficiently abated, and the patient co••d. Then be careful of catching cold, and take the following preparation: viz. haf a pint of the flower of black mustard seed, put it in a pint of wine, and the longer it steeps the better; let it be well shook together, and give the patient a table spoonful morning and night, and prepare the following oil for the part effected: viz. half a bushel of sassafras roots washed clean, put them into a copper still, fill the still with clean water, and still it off, from which you will draw an oil; bottle it up for use, and rub on the part effected two or three drops at going to bed: be very cautious in using this oil, l••st you do more harm than good; for it is exceeding strong and pene|trating. This will also cure the Sc••••ttle, or hip Gout▪

PUTRID FEVER.

This is so much like the pleurasy, it is hard to distinguish; therefore it doth much da|mage before it is discerned; but remember the pleurasy pain: it generally flies from place to place, some hours before it settles; but the camp fever generally strikes in one fixed place: either head, neck, shoulders, breast, side, or back, and attended with a very high fever; and wherever it strikes, it decays in a few hours if violent, without immediate remedy for this disorder. When discovered, give a tea spoonful of the spirits of camphire, with twenty drops of the compound spirits of lavender, three or four times

a day; give also 〈…〉〈…〉 times a spoonful at •• time of the flower of china, viz. any broker china ware pounded to powder, or take the following preparation; take of whi••e oak bark and p••plar root bark, of the inside of each a sma••l handful, the same of woo is bitiny, called ditiny; put the whole in two gallons of water, reduce it over a small fire to one, and bottle it up for use. Give the patient a tea cup full four times a day, let his constant drink be water fresh from the well or spring. It will be good in the last prescription, to give a vomit of good tartaramattick, and should the patient at first have a very sick stomach, work it off with warm water, and apply a plaister of the flour of mustard feed to the feet and hands, mixt with with sharp vinegar, till the fever a|bates. If the patient should be very low-spirited, as they generally are, and to every teacup fifteen drops of the compound spirits of lavender.

SLOW FEVER.

In this disorder a person is commonly taken as with the pleurasy, must commonly wi••h an ague, though not always, and then followed with a very high fever which is never off during his sickness; but only turns inwardly and then outwardly again, which you may discover by a very low quick pulse, and then a very high one; sometimes one cheek red, and then the other for this dis|order bleed when the fever is high ten ounces. The evening following give a sweat of rosemary tea, at least a pint, and half if the patient can take it; increase the sweat in the night by giving a little more of the same, and if need be the next day, give the patient as followeth: viz.

take of white oak bark, poplar root bark, of the inside, one small hand••ul of each, the same of woods bitiny, by some called ditiny; put the whole in two g••llons of water, and reduce it over a slow fire to one. Give the patient a tea-cup full every three hours in the day, adding to every cup fifteen drops of the spirits of lavender, if to be had, let his drink be balm or sinquefoot tea, or water fresh from the spring, and diet light, and easy of digestion.

HICKUP.

Take dill leaves or seeds, boil them in water, and give the patient a table-spoon full as often as you shall see an occasion. The seed is like fennel, but of a blue green colour; but the growth is not half as large, and the leaves much smaller.

CANCER.

Take a pound of the bark of sassafras root, half a pound of the bark of dogwood root, a pound of the bark of shoemaker root, a pound of the bark of Spanish oak, and a handful of black snake root; put them in a pot with a gallon of best rum, co|ver it close, let it stew half away, then take it off, and cool to blood warm, then strain it thro••••h a coarse cloth into a clean b••s••n, then take 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vitriol as large as a nutmeg, and take the bigness of a small walnut in allum; beat them fine to|gether, and add two spoonfuls of honey: mix them well together, then mix it with the afore|said decoction, and every time you dress the wound shake it well together. Take 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and add to it one third water, and it will be fit

for use; with this touch the part effected with a feather, and then put lint on the wound, dipped in the aforesaid compound medicine, and cover it with a sheet of lead inclosed in linnen. A cancer must be was••ed with ••••m, and water must not touch it. This is the surest, safest, and easiest that ever I found out.

CANCER.

Take the inside of red o••k bark, and burn it to ashes in a clean place; put this in a pot with water, and boil it very strong; let it settle clean, and let it settle again and again, till it is very clear: then boil it away to a salve, and of this spread a plaister the exact size of the cancer, which will take it out in twelve hours. Then wash it with rum and honey, and cover it with a dry lint and a plaister of dry lead pretty stiff.

CANCER.

This may be taken out only with soft soap, ••age, and ••a••t, and cured with common salve, or as any other sore is cured.

YAWS.

Take half a pound of sassaparilla and half a pound of china, which may be had from a doctor or apothecary's shop. Take and boil it one whole day in three gallons of water, let your pot lid be nicely fitted, and plaister round with wheat flower dough. Give the patient a gill and a half

if grown, morning and evening before and after he eats, let his diet be light wheat bread, and nothing else; and drink nothing but molasses beer, and continue six weeks. Take a purge be|fore and after.

WHITE SWELLING.

The first symptoms of this disorder appears with a large swelling, and a redness with a white spot in the middle, easily to be discovered. The best way to treat this fatal disorder, is to scatter it at the first appearance thereof, which is done as follows; take James town weeds and bruize it, add to this the flower of brimstone and a little hogs lard, of which apply as a poultice, which will certainly scatter it if the matter is not col|lected; but if it will not scatter, chew the bark of sassafras roots, and apply it as a poultice con|stantly; which will bring it forward, ripen and break it, and afterwards cure it; but if it should prove fatal, and will not break, let it be lanced and linted, and sullenged every day with weak lye until it is thoroughly cleansed, then sullenged with a little rum and honey, after the lime wa|ter. Let the patients diet be light and easy of digestion, and drink molasses small beer, and take a purge once a week But if it be an old swelling which appears mortal, by which the bone may be damaged, apply a pledged dipt in weak lye, which will scale the bane in ten or thirteen days, and bring a callous. During this cure let the patient take the following decoction to keep under the fevers and prevent a mortification: take one handful o•• the inside of white oa•• bark, one handful of the inside or poplar root bark, and one handful of bitiny, put them in a gallon of

water and reduce it to two quarts in a copper vessel, of which let the patient take a tea cup full three times a day.

CHOLICK.

Take one ounce of Jerusalem oak seed, an ounce of common snake root, each in fine pow|der, put them in one quart of honey, stew it to a sirrup, of this take the quantity of nut|meg night and morning. Be cautious of taking cold while taking this medicine, for it will keep you in a continual sweat.

CHOLICK.

Steep indian turnip and cumphrey root, and poplar root bark, one ounce of each in one quart of whiskey, of this drink a dram every morning till well. This will cure the most inveterate cholick though ever so long stand|ing.

DRY GRIPES.

Take half an ounce of rheubarb, half an ounce of jallop, one ounce of cream of tarter, one ounce of tarter, one ounce of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, two spoonfuls of sweet anniseed or fennel seed; pound all these together in a mortar, and put them in a quart of good rum or brandy: sat them in the sun or by the fire shaking it well two or three times a day, and give a dram glass morning and evening: but first give a vomit of hypecacuana or tarter.

DRY GRIPES.

This is a violent gryping in the bowels with a sick stomach and vomiting, and high fevers, and very costive; so that nothing can go through them. For this violent disorder take two or three spoonfulls at a time of Bears oil, or according as their stomach will bear till it goes through them; if this is not to be had, take half a pint of linseed oil, the same of honey or molasses, stew them together, of this take a spoonfull at a time till it goes through, and if this is not to be had, boil one handful of mullen seed in molasses or honey; take a spoon|full at a time till it goes through, and if this should fail, take a quantity of mulberry root, boil it to a strong decoction, and of this take two or three spoonfullls at a time till it goes through. To cool the fevers, if any, take the following decoction: take the inside of white oak bark, the inside of poplar root bark, of each one handfull, and of woods bitiny the like quanti|ty; boil them in two gallons of water till re|duced to one; and let the patient take a tea-cup full three times a day.

GRAVEL OR STONE IN THE BLADDER.

For a sudden it of the gravel take a small hand|full of camomile flowers, boil them in posset, and of this take a tea-cup full once in an hour. Pos|set is milk turned with wine, rum or brandy; but wine is best. You will take out the curd and boil them in the whey; but to root out this disorder, catch the water from under a grind|stone where tools are ground, and take a tablespoon

full two or three times a day, or take Turlingtons balsom of life three or four times a day, twenty drops at a time in a glass of wine; but it is better in the above mentioned posset.

INWARD FEVERS.

This is the most troublesome disorder of any, because attended with a deal of laziness, which brings on poverty, and frequently ends in a drop|sy. For this troublesome and shameful disorder, take as followeth: one handfull of white oak bark, one do. of poplar root, one do. of woods bitiny; boil them in two gallons of water down to one, let the patient take half a pint three times a day, and let his diet be light wheat bread, and drink molasses small beer.

N. B. Let the patient first bleed and take a purge once a week till well.

AGUE AND FEVER.

Take half an ounce of Jesuits bark in fine powder, salts of steel and black pepper, of each the eighth part of an ounce, mix these well to|gether with molasses or honey, mix it well into a thick mush, and take as much as will lie upon the point of a large case knife three or four times a day when the fever is off. The same will care the intermitting fever: the intermitting fever in what is commonly called the dump ague.

DROPSEY AND KEEKSEY.

Take the inside of white oak bark, of poplar root do. of each one handful, the same of woods

bitiny, put them into two gallons of water, and reduce it to one over a slow fire; let the patient take half a pint three times a day; let his diet be light wheat bread, and drink molasses small beer. Water must not be drank on no account whatever; but remember always to take a purge once a week. When the swelling is entirely gone, let the patient eat any thing light and fresh, and drink hard cyder, adding to every quart two tea-spoonfulls of allum, and quench a hot iron in it: it is good to ride about and be much shook in a cart or rough going carriage. During the cure let the patient take every morning early, when there is no purge taken, a small thimble full of the following powder mixt with sugar, or as you please: take old rusty iron, lay it on a clean harth, and make on it a fire of good hickory wood; when the wood is burnt out, take the iron and beat off the rust on a clean place; then brush up the rust and beat it to a fine powder, and keep it for use, giving as above mentioned: this will not only enripen the bleed, but cause a good wind, and colour also. The Keeksey may be cured the same way.

BLOODY FLUX.

First give a purge of peach syrrup, prepared thus: take half a peck of peach leaves, 〈…〉〈…〉 a gallon of water till reduced to a quart, 〈…〉〈…〉 it well with molasses or a little brown sugar stew it again a little, and give the patient two large table-spoonfulls if a grown person: if this should not work in an hour, give another spoonfull; this continue till it purges, and continue the working of the purge for twenty-four hours.

This will cure, if taken in time; but if the f••ux should return after the purge is worked off, and the patient should be much griped, take a tea-spoonfull of common snake root, the same of ginger, the same of calamas, (called by some cin|namon flag) and the same of poplar root bark, all in fine powder; put them in a half pint of rum or brandy, and a half pint of water, sweeten it with loaf sugar, and give the patient every time he is griped a tea-cup fall as hot as he can drink it, which will immediately give ease. When the griping is quite stopped, take one handful of white oak bark, the same of poplar root bark, of the inside, and one handful of woods bitiny, boil them in two gallons of water till reduced to one, give the patient a tea-cup full blood warm four or five times a day for three days; then take one handful of sweet gum root, one do. of presimmon bark, the inside, one do. of red root, boil them in two gallons of water till reduced to one, and give in like manner as in the above mentioned decoction till well. Yet if the patient finds no amendment in four or five days, but grows worse at night, let him eat a slice of cheese; then give one grain of gum opium made in a pill with brown sugar: after taking this pill, perhaps the patient will rest all night; in the morning let the patient eat a little thickened milk and bread, and another slice of cheese; then give one grain of opium, again continue this three days; then let it alone twenty-four hours to see if the lax is stopt; if it is not stopt, give one grain of the opium in like manner night and morning till well: opium will as when the pre|paration of the gum roots will not. If the patient should be troubled with a sick stomach and vomiting when first taken, give a vomit of

tartaremetick, or ipecacuana, and work it off with water gruel, and then proceed as above mentioned. But if the patient should be costive, (called in common bound) give the above men|tioned purge of peach syrrup; let the patient drink the peach leaf, or sage tea; let his diet be salt beef, salt bacon, salt fish, or mutton broth; but be sure touch not fresh beef, fresh fish, chicken broth, nor colewortks; and eat and drink no|thing but what is warm, and eat as often as possi|ble, though against the appetite; but touch no kind of fruit nor any thing that is four; but if a woman with child falls under this dangerous dis|order, to prevent her miscarriage, let her take one handful of tansey, one do. of life everlasting, steep them in a quart of wine, rum, or brandy; but I prefer wine as best; let her drink a small dram glass of this mixture three or four times a day, which will certainly prevent a miscarriage in this and most all other cases.

It is good for every person strictly to watch their children when they are getting well of the flax when it draws near the full or change of the moon, for the worms are apt to rise and kill the child, perhaps when thought out of all danger, which may be known by a hacking cough, or the child often putting the hand to his throat, or complaining of something choking them. In this case, give the child without delay, a tea-spoonfull of the juice of sage, or the same of the juice of tausey or wormwood eight or ten times a day, till the danger is over; for I have cause to believe that as many children die by the worms in the flux, or on the first full or changing of the moon is die by the flux.

If a person should be troubled with a fainti|ness, which is often the ease in the flux, give the

patient twenty drops of the compound spirits of lavender on a little piece of loaf sugar, if to be ••ud, if not, give the same quantity of drops in a little warm tea, or ten drops of the essence of peppermint. These medicines you will get in the apothecary's shop. The gum opium will do when the preparation of sweet gum root and per|simon bark will not, and sweet gum root and persimon bark will do when the gum opium fails: therefore where the flux is very bad, give two grains of the gum opium in the evening, and the gum root and persimon bark in the day, as is above mentioned.

VENEREAL DISORDER, OR CLAP.

First bleed ten ounces, and then take a purge of pelexdiobous, then take one handful of Spanish oak bark, the inside, two handfuls of white shoe|make root, two haddfuls of pine bark, the inside, two handfuls of blue burtleberry roots, beil them in two gallons of water, and reduce it to one; let the patient take half a pint of this three times a day, take one ounce of roman vitriol, commonly called bluestone, beat it to a fine powder, put it into two quarts of good rum, give the patient a wine glass full every morning, take a purge of pelexdiobous, or salts, once a week; let his diet be light wheat bread, and drink molasses small beer, and be cautious of getting cold. Let his sores, if any, be carefully washed with the above mentioned decoction.

SORE LEGS, OR ULCERS.

Bleed, then take a purge of exdubes, and if there be any dead or rotten flesh, apply the fol|lowing

powder: take paltoon root, by s••••e called indian paint, wa••h it dry, beat it to a f••••e powder, with this powder cover the sore close, lay on it a lint, and then a plaister, dress it once in twenty-four hours, washing it with chamber lye and allum salt as hot as can be borne. If the dead or rotten flesh is clean out, then apply a dry lint, and cover it with a plaister of white lead; but if there still remains any rotten flesh, apply the powders again, until it is clean; but if it be in deep ulcers, ••••••••enge it with the afore|said chamber lye and salt; but if the bone be de|cayed to scale it, apply a pledges dipt in weak lye, this will scale the bone and bring a calls in fifteen or eighteen days: then wash it with the above chamber-lye, and salt, and apply lint co|vered with a plaister of white lead; but if white lead cannot be got, make a salve as followeth: take mellowle••, white plantain, and pars••••y, mut|ton suet, soft tur••••••••ip•• and bees wax: stew them together till the herb is crisp, and be cau|tious of burnings of this spread a plaister, and cover the wound as aforesaid. For a common sore leg or green wound, wash with chamber-lye, and allum salt. This will also cure any ulcer or carbuncle.

BITE OF A SPIDER.

Take hedge mustard seed, or common mustard seed, grind it to a fine powder, put in a quart of wine if to be had, if not, rum or brandy grog will do: give a table-spoon full three or four times a day. Hedge mustard is nearly like com|mon mustard, but smaller leaf, and seed grows in waste ground and hedges.

TO PREVENT CATCHING THE FLUX, O•• OTHER DISORDERS.

Take the inside of white oak bark and of pop|lar root bark, of each one handful, one handful of woods bitiny, boil them in two gallons of water till reduced to one, and take a tea-cup full three times a day. The flux may be taken and lie in some people fifteen days before it breaks out; therefore if any persons have been with the flux, they may not think themselves safe till that time is past, though they have taken those medicines agreeable to the directions, and continue so to do, they may go in amongst it day by day, without the least danger; and so I believe that they may amongst any other disorders.

IMMODERATE LAX.

Take maple bark, called by some butterwood, boil it in milk, let the patient drink half a pint three or four times a day, or he may use it for his constant drink: let his diet be mutton broth, or of chicken, or of any dry food that is not salt, and eat biscuit at any time, burn oyster shells or bucks horn in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and beat them to powder; of this let the patient take dry four or five times a day; but if he does not choose the above milk for his constant drink, let him have wine and water, claret is best▪

GRAVEL.

Take red onions and horse mint, the juice of each a table-spoon full three or four times a day: this will bring 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and small stones.

HEART-BURN.

Take magnessia, the quantity of a nutmeg, or as much as will lie on the point of a case knife in a half pint of warm water.

FRETS IN CHILDREN.

This is occasioned by wind, either in the bowels or stomach. For this take as followeth: one handful of white oak bark, the same of poplar root bark, of each the inside, and the same of woods bitiny; boil them in two gallons of water, and reduce it to one. You may give a child of twenty-four hours old a tea-spoon full at a time, and of a month old, half a table spoon full, sweetened with sugar once a quarter of an hour, for three or four times. This will assuredly cure them, and you may give it with the greatest safety.

TO DRAW OUT THORNS OR SPLINTERS.

Apply snake skin soked in water.

LOOSE OR ACHING TEETH.

Boil a decoction of sullendine, gargle it in your mouth, and if it is hallow, put a little of the powder in the hollow; perhaps it will cure sooner than you would suppose.

YELLOW JAUNDICE.

Steep black cherry bark in hard cyder, and

drink a tea-cup full of it three times a day. This I believe will cure the black jaundice also.

FELMS ON THE EYES.

Drop in them the juice of sullendine two or three times a day, and if it be too sharp mix with it a little breast milk.

BLEEDING PILES.

Boil the juice of nettles and sugar together, and take two ounces of it at a time.

PAIN IN THE BACK.

Bleed in the calf of the leg, or take bean shells and burn them in a clean place, mix it with hogs lard and anoint the back therewith: it will soon cure, and strengthen it too; but if this should fail, make a scarcloth of elecampane root and ••••••••ock root boiled in water, bind this on the back three or four days, then take it off and anoint the back with the above ointment again.

BITE OF A RATTLE-SNAKE.

Take the juice of green plantain, a spoonful at a time; it will assuage the swelling almost as fast as it swelled, or St. Andrews cross in like manner, or wild sage boiled in milk.

HISTERICKS.

Take one handful of the inside of white oak bark and do. poplar root, and the same of woods

bitiny; put them in two gallons of water, and reduce it over the fire to one: take a tea-cup full four times a day, adding to every cup twenty drops of the compound spirits of lavender. Live on light and fresh food.

POLYPUS IN THE NOSE.

Sauff the flour of allum often in the day, dis|solve allum in brandy, dip a rap in it, and put it up the nose at going to bed every night.

BLEEDING AT THE MOUTH AND NOSE.

Take water flag roots, dry and beat it to fine powder, and snuff it up the nose, or put it in the mouth. Cord the thighs and arms; perhaps the thighs will do, or snuff the flour of allum, or let a person blow the flour of allum up the nose with a quill.

VOMITING, OR SPITTING BLOOD.

Take St. Johns wart leaver, flowers or seeds; boll them in vine and drink often in the day.

FITS, OR TURNING OF THE BRAINS.

Take lavender when it is in flour, hore-••ound, fennel, and asparagus roots; boil them together, and take a tea-cup full three times a day.

FAINTNESS.

Take twenty drops of the compound spirits of lavender, on a piece of loaf sugar as big as a nutmeg, or five drops of the essence of pepper|mint, in a spoonful of water.

FITS, OR FALLING SICKNESS.

Take two tea-spoons full of the flour of missettor in a glass of wine three or four times a day for forty days together.

SHRUNK SINEWS.

Stew a quantity of earth worms in hogs lard, or fresh butter, and bathe therewith, rubbing it wel.

WEAK BACK.

Fry clary in pancakes, and eat them every day, or boil a decoction of the same, and drink often.

BRUISE OR FRESH WOUND.

Mash comphrey roots, and apply a poultice of the same immediately; but it is far better boiled in milk.

BROKEN BONE.

Beat camphrey roots and the white of an egg together, spread it on toe, and if you mix a little

of the spirits of turpentine, the better; lay it all around the limb, and wet it often with sharp vinegar. This will cure without any further application.

N. B. Be sure to first set the bone; then, if you please, the white of an egg and sharp vine|gar well beaten together, so lay it round the limb, and often wet it with vinegar.

MELANCHOLY DISORDERS.

Take a handful of dodder, steep it in claret wine, and of this give a glass four times a day. This is also good for the trembling of the heart. Dodder grows in high as well as low grounds or bushes, without root or leaf, called by many love vine.

GOUT, TO EASE.

Make a poultice of comphrey, and spread it on leather, and by it on the part effected.

CONSUMPTION AND ASTHMA.

The cause of this disorder generally proceeds from cold, which throws the person into a fever; it is for want of timely application that it settles on the lungs, and impears them, which encreases until they ulcerate for this charming disorder; strike first at the root, thus: take white oak

bark, poplar root bark, the inside of each one handful, and the same of woods bitiny; put them in one gallon of clean water, and reduce it to two quarts; of this take a tea-cup full four times a day sweetened with brown sugar; take this for two weaks, eating nothing but what is fresh and light and easy of digestion. Then make a syrrup as followeth: take white oak bark, pop|lar root bark, of each one handful of the inside, one handful of beach bark, one do, elecampane roots, the same quantity of stick liquorice, the same of sage, featherfew, hore-hound, sweet fen|nel seed, sweet anniseed, colts fool, mullin, and woods bitiny, of each one handful, and make a syrrup as followeth: put them in a clean copper or bell-metal vessel, adding two gallons of clean water; reduce it over a slow fire to one, strain it off through an oznaburg cloth, and add to this measure for measure of good brown sugar; dis|solve it well, and strain it again; put it in a clean vessel and stew it to the thickness of honey, which you will know by cooling it a little in a spoon: of this syrrup you will take a large tea-spoon full four or five times a day, and always break fast on acorn coffee, thus: take white oak acorns when fully ripe, and peal off the shells and split them: dry them in a pot carefully with|out burning them, prepare and make use of them as coffee, and dine on nothing but what is fresh and light: drink pure water fresh from the spring or well; but if the patient has been much accustomed to strong drink, let him live entirely on milk and light wheat bread, adding always to his food a little good rum or breakfast on tea, made thus: take the inside of timber white oak bark that is soft and sweetened carefully, dry it before the fire, and make use of it as other tea. It is best in March or April.

BURN, OR SCALD.

Plunge into cold water two or three hours, or apply a cloth dipped in milk and water, and change it often as it gets warm. Either of these are safe and easy.

CHOPT LIPS.

Rub your finger behind your ears or any other part of the head where it is greasy, and rub them frequently: it will keep them well, soft, and smooth.

BLEEDING AT THE NOSE.

C••rd the thighs tight, or go into cold water.

CORNS TO CURE.

Apply a piece of dry cotton every morning, keeping them close trimmed.

COUGH.

For an old dry cough, or a cough after the meazles, take one spoonfull of linseed oil, three spoonfulls of molasses, and three tea-spoons full of the flower of allum: mix these well together, take one tea-spoon full at going to bed, and be careful of taking it too fast. This will certainly cure.

HOOPING-COUGH.

This same syrrup that is prepared for the con|sumption or any part, is the preparation.

TETTER, OR RING-WORM

Anoint over with the spirits of sulphur; and if it proves painful, wash it with milk and water.

SWOONING OF FAINTY FITS.

Take a handful of burnet, and steep it in a bottle of wine, (claret is best) and of this drink a glass two or three times a day. The constant use of burnet keeps the body in health, and the spirits in vigour.

INWARD WOUNDS.

Boil comphrey in wine, and drink a glass two of there times a day, or as you shall see occasion. Woods bitiny is also good, taken in like manner.

WORMS.

Boil four ounces of quick-silver in a quart of water an hour, and bottle it up for use, and give a gill morning and night. You may use the quick-silver again and again.

LOATHING OF MEAT OR COLD STOMACH.

For a cold stomach that cannot digest the food kind, drink bitiny tea for breakfast, or for a constant drink, or eat it in broth daily, or take it in a syrrup. It it good for inward bruises oc|casioned by falls from horses, or other ways taken inwardly as aforesaid. It is also good for rup|tures or busonness. The decoction gargled in the mouth easeth the tooth ach, and is very good for

women in child bearing, causing a speedy deli|very,

POISON.

Woods bitiny, wild hore-haund, green plantain, wild plumb roots, ground ivy, angelico, black brier ••oots, allocampane, velvet mallow leaves or roots hedge mustard, rue, southernwood, quince roots or leaves, ground pine, and common hore|hound, or any of those that can be most con|veniently got: boil them in two gallons of water till reduced to one, give the patient half a pint three times a day, and eat nothing salt or greasy, nor sweet milk; but let their diet be light wheat bread and drink molasses small beer, and nothing else, and this continue until the patient is entire|ly well. If the patient should smell a qince often it will strenghten his head and heart.

PLEURASY.

This comes various ways, sometimes with an ague, followed with a sharp fever, and pain in the side, back, breast, head, or neck, and some|times without an ague, but with a pain and fever; Bleed ten ounces, apply a plaister of red pepper to the place effected, if it be not the head, and drink linseed tea: let your diet be light and easy of digestion; but if it proves obstinate, bleed a|gain, and if the fever continues high, and the pain too, take a sweat of seneca snake root; but if it seems to be fatal, blister the fleshy parts of the arms above the elbows, and sweat again; but it is very seldom bleeding and sweating▪ will do without blisters; but i•• in the head and neck, cup on the mould of the head; but when

there happens violent pain in the breast, with cold flesh, a low pulse, and a great weakness, fore bear bleeding, but give a sweat of seneca snake root, and endeavour to raise a sweat, and after a sweat, bleed, if the pain continues. Prepare your snake-root thus: boil half an ounce pretty strong in water, then add a little rum and sugar, and give a table spoon full at a time, once in half an hour till the patient sweats. When the pain ceases, give for the fever the following de|coction: take white oak bark, poplar root bark, of each the inside, one handful, and of woods bitiny the same; boil them in one gallon of wa|ter till reduced to two quarts; of this give the patient a tea-cup full three times a day, and if you think proper you may sweeten it. If you will add fifteen drops of the compound spirits of lavender it will be the better.

SPRAIN.

As soon as possible put the part effected into cold water for half an hour, then cover the place with a poultice of clay, well tempered with sharp vinegar: when the first grows dry, add a second, and then a third. In the mean time, take sharp vinegar, or neats-foot oil, and brandy; stew them together, then take off the poultice with a brown paper, with the mixture; and lay it all over the joint, thus continued till well.

WORMS IN CHILDREN.

Take a thimble full of the powder of the leaf of bearfoot, for a child of a year old: it is a strong purge, and will work itself off▪ The child must not touch any thing salt or greasy, nor

drink cold water for two days after. This is a sure cure for worms; but it must be given on the full and changes of the moon. Bearfoot is a garden herb, and has a leaf like a bear's foot.

PAIN IN THE BACK.

Make a scarcloth as followeth: powder the dryed root of comphrey and common snake root, and take the ashes of bean hulls; mix them with as much turpentine as will spread a plaister for your back, and lay it on hot, and it will soon give ease,

PAIN IN THE EAR, AND DEAFNESS.

Take out the pulp of a large onion, and a good deal of the inside; fill it half full of rattle-snakes oil, and place it on a grid-iron over life coals, stew it, then strain it off, and at going to bed drop two drops in the ear, very warm, and stop it with black wool; repeat it six or seven times and you will find relief.

TO STOP BLOOD.

Take half a gill of brandy, casteel s••op the size of a hickory nut, and potash the size of a nutmeg; scrape the soap first, dissolve it in the brandy, add the pot ash, shake it well together, and keep it close stopt in a vial for use. Apply a little warm on a lint to a bleading vessel, and the blood will immediately congeal.

WORMS.

Give a tea-spoon full of camphorated spirits, three mornings before and after the full and change of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉▪

INFLAMATION.

Apply white oak mush or wormwood, boiled in milk, or swamp moss boiled in milk, or dry Indian corn meal, or swamp lilly leaves fresh from the herb, or red pepper stewed in water, and bathe therewith.

TO PREVENT A MORTIFICATION.

Take Jesuits bark, a tea-spoon full at a time, five times in the day in a glass of milk; but if this cannot be had, take white oak bark, poplar root bark, of each one handful, and woods bitiny the same; boil them in two gallons of water till reduced to one, and of this drink a tea-cup full five times a day. This will answer equally as well as the bark.

SWELLED BELLY AND STOMACH, with bad complection of old or young KEEKSEY.

Take old rusty iron hoops, or any rusty iron, lay it on a clean harth and make a good fire on it with green hickory wood, let the wood burn out, and the iron cold; then take it up, and with a hammer beat off all the rust in a clean place, then take up the rust and beat it fine in a spice mortar, then put it up for use, and give the pa|tient a thimble full nine mornings, then omi: three mornings, then give nine mornings more, then omit three mornings again, then give nine mornings more, and the patient will be well. During the first nine days the patient must eat nothing but light wheat bread, and drink nothing but molasses small beer, the other days he may

eat any thing fresh, if it be not greasy, nor milk, and drink beer as aforesaid; if beer is not to be had, put a little white oak bark in a bason, a little poplar root bark, and a little bitiny; steve this a little, and drink it instead of beer.

APPETITE LOST.

Give the aforesaid rust in the same manner, only the patient may eat any thing he pleases.

WORMS IN CHILDREN.

Take one handful of chaney root, boil it well, and give the child half a tea-cup full two or three times before and after the full and changing or the moon.

WORMS IN CHILDREN.

Boil honey-locusts in water, very strong; a little child will eat this with bread morning and night. Before thi•• is a safe and easy cure, if the locusts are not to be had: the roots will do as well, sweetened with brown sugar or molasses.

GRAVEL.

Take sumack root that bears berries, a large double handful, red oak bark, a small handful, rich weed or rattle-weed, three small roots, four or five inches, sassafras roots, two small pieces, each four or five inches. Boil all in three gallons of water until they are boiled better than half,

and let the person drink as much as he can, and use this drink two days; then take common red plantain, one small handful, white plantain and large assinart, one handful of each, make it into tea, and drink one gill every day for some time, or until the persons water comes freely: then quit this last tea, and continue using the first for some considerable time

WHITE RING-WORM, OR SCALD HEAD.

Take two leaves of green tobacco, one table|spoon full of the flower of white ginger, and half a pound of fresh butter that n••••er was salted: stew them well over a slow fire and keep it for use, anointing the place therewith.

RHEUMATIC PAINS.

Take a beet's gall, and a spoonful of black pepper in fine powder; put them in a pint of good rum, set it by the fire twenty-four hours, and shake it often; then bathe the part effected before the fire night and morning, wrapping the part effected in warm flannel.

INWARD FEVERS.

Take a tea-spoonful of the flour of brimstone at going to bed, and in the day drink sinquefoot tea,

HEAD-ACH.

Take a handful of wormwood, tansey, or rose|mary; fry it in sharp vinegar, wrap it in a fine cloth, and apply it to the place effected as hot as it can be endured, and it will give immediate relief.

TOOTH-ACH:

Put it the hollow, if any, a little powder made of agrimony roots and spread a plaister with the salve made with agrimony root, white plantain, and blood-wart, and lay it on the outside of the face against the tooth, This generally cures in a short time; and the plaister frequently cures of itself.

BACK-ACH, OR PAIN IN THE BACK.

Make a searcloth of elecampane and burdock root, lay it on the back three days before it is removed, then take it off and anoint it with ointment made thus: burn a quantity of bean hulls on a clean place, and mix up the ashes with hogs lard, and anoint the back twice a day for ten days.

MALIGNANT FEVER.

This fever comes with a vomiting and lax, and and a pain in the head. This hurries men to their long homes very speedily; therefore it calls for an immediate relief—for this violent disorder give the salts of wormwood, the size of a large pea dissolved in vinegar and water: if it doth not stop, repeat the dose till it does stop, then for the pain in the head, take a handful of wormwood, rosemary, or tansey, and fry it in vinegar; then wrap it in a linnen cloth and bind it to the head as hot as it can be borne, and for the lax boil red root in water till it is very strong, and give the patient half a tea-cupful

three or four times a day, and after if need be, which will stop the lax: you many add to the dose, or take from it if you please, or according to the age of the patient. Then for fevers, look for the drink prescribed for fevers.

AGUE AND FEVER.

Take Jesuits barks in fine powder, half a table spoonful at a time, put it in a wine glass, put to it as much spirits of any kind as will wet the bark, then fill the glass with water, and drink it off, and do this two or three times a day when the fever is off. This will cure in two or three days, and oft times in one: the intermitting fever, called by some the dumb ague, is cured the same way. If they should be troubled with the casting of the stomach or vomiting, give them the size of a pe•• of the salts of wormwood in a spoonful of water, and repeat it till it stops.

GRAVEL.

Take a bandful of silk-weed root, and boil it in a quart of hard cider till reduced to a pint, and of this drink a tea-cupful three times a day. Silk weed grows with a round stalk two or three feet high with two leaves, one set against the other; at the top grows a large bunch of white flowers, and in the middle of every flower is a small black speck: often the flowers come with one or two long pointed pods, inside of which is when ripe, a quantity of fine white down like silk, covered over with a ••••t seed, like scales in the winter when the weed is dead; the bark will peal of, and is as strong as hemp.

ULCER, OR SORE LEGS.

If there be dead or rotten flesh in it, boil post oak bark, and wash it with the water; sprinkle a little posipet in it till the dead flesh is clean out, then wash it twice a day with the spirits of camphire made with whiskey, and lay over it a plaister of salve made in the following manner: take a small handful of agrimony roots, the same of white plantain, the same of blood wart, a quarter of a pound of mutton suet, two ounces of soft turpentine, and the some of bees wax▪ stew them together till the herbs are crisp, and then keep it for use. This will cure any sore leg or old ulcer, provided the patient will bleed and purge once a week, and eat nothing but light wheat bread, and drink nothing but molasses small beer, and take a tea-cupful of the decoction of white sumack root, and Spanish oak bark, boiled strong, every morning and night. Agri|mony is a wild herb, the nearest like single tan|sey of any thing I know; and bood-wart is about the size of white plantain, and grows much like it, only the underside is of a deep purple colour, and grows on poor ground, as plantain also doth.

PILES.

The piles are little knots swelling up around the fundament, and sometimes inside, with violent pains running up in the bowels. For this disorder take half a pint of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cider vinegar, an ounce of salt, and a tea-spoonful of the flour of allum; with this pickle wash the fundament four or five times a day, till well.

TO TAKE FEVERS OUT OF WOMENS BREASTS.

Take a large handful of herb truelove and boil it in two quarts of water till half is boiled away, then take out the herb, and put in the water a pound of fresh butter that never was salted, and then boil it till all the water is clean boiled out, then keep it for use, and if any woman's breast is inflamed, (called in common a fever) and if she will anoint with this oil, it will immediately ease the pain, and take out the fever, and dissolve the curdled milk; and if they be ulcerated, it will cure in a little time: yea, it will give case in pain in all kinds of swellings, and scatter the swelling to this herb. This is so great a friend to nature that it may well be called truelove: it is a garden herb, and must be sowed every year, and gathered when the under leaves begin to drop off. I know of none of this herb in all these states, not the feed, but what I have got, and one person more; which seed I intend to have sowed, and give away; and I hope that every one, into whose hands it may come, will do the like till it be spread over the United States: yea, over the whole world. This is so sweet an herb, that it will perfume the whole garden where it grows.

TO STOP A MORTIFICATON.

Give Jesuits bark in fine powder, two larg•• tea spoonfuls at a time in milk, whey, or milk or water, five times in a day; and every nigh•• give a pill of opium the size of a large ••uch shot

or a very 〈…〉〈…〉. This pill may be made up with a little brown sugar.

CONSUMPTION AND ASTHMA.

Take white oak bark, and poplar root bark, of both the inside, one handful, c••mphrey root, and elecampane root, of each one handful, and elder roots the same; hyssop and spice wood one handful; to every handful add a pint of spring water, boil it till half the water is boiled away, then add to every pint of this decoction, a pound of good brown sugar, then strain it through a cloth and stew it again to the thickness of honey, which yon will know by cooling it a little in a spoon, then keep it for use, and of this syrrup take a table-spoonful three or four times a day. Let the patient eat nothing but light wheat bread and milk, let the milk be warm from the cow, and drink milk and water in like manner: and for this purpose put a red 〈◊〉〈◊〉 up in your yard, and feed her well on cut rye, and rye meal, mixt together, If the patient has been much used to spirits he may put a little in his drink. Always remember to ride out in the fresh air as much as i•• convenient, in fair wea|ther; and in the mean time, take Indian turnip ••ry it, and put two ounces in a quart of good whiskey, and of this take a small dr••m morning and night.

TETTER, OR RING-WORM.

Anoint with a feather with the spirits of ••lphor, and if it should give much pain, w••t it

with a little milk and water. Spirits of sulphur is to be got only of a doctor or apothecary's shop. On anoint it with the same ointment prescribed for the white ringworm or scald head.

SPRAIN.

Apply fine tow wet with the white of an egg and sharp vinegar, then cover that with pumpkin guts, or scraped pumpkin.

INFLAMATION.

Apply scraped pumpkin as a poultice, and when it dries apply a fresh, till the fever is cut.

GRUBS IN HORSES.

Bleed in the mouth first, then give the follow|ing preparation: take indigo, the size of a nut|meg, pound it to powder, put it into a pint of milk, and give him this mixture before he is done bleeding.

GRUBS.

To know the grubs in horses from a common belly-ach: when a horse has the grubs he will not eat, and will frequently lay down, and will lay his head to his side. When this is the case, bleed in the mouth immediately; and as soon as done bleeding, or before, give the following p••eparation: take half a pint of apple brandy,

add to this two shoots of gun-powder, and half as much the flour of allum; mash the powder, and mix it well together. This I expect will save the horse.

GRUBS.

Take a gallon of hard cider, or vinegar, put to this a handful of tansey roots, a gil•• of fine salt, and two table-spoonfuls of the flour of allum; put them together, and boil the cider away to half a gallon: first bleed the horse in the mouth, and before he is quite done bleeding, give him half a pint of this preparation.

SLEEPY STAGGERS.

Bleed in the neck three times in a day, take a large quantity at each time for two days, third day twice, and give the following decoction: take of white oak bark and poplar root bark, the inside of each a handful, and the same of woods bitiny; boil them in two gallons of water down to one, give a pint at a time three times a day for three days, and if they live they will be mending the fourth day. If you cannot get the mouth open, pour it in at the nose; and if you choose, you may give a decoction of St. Andrews cross▪

SLEEPY STAGGERS.

Bleed freely, and give a table-spoonful of the spirits of turpentine two or three times a day.

MAW WORMS.

They are frequently discovered by the horses stamping in the stable in the winter. For this take a pint of new milk, a pint of sweet oil, and a pint of molasses; mix them well together, first bleed in the mouth, and then drench the horse with this mixture. This will also cure grubs in horses.

GRUBS IN HORSES.

Steep one pint of hen-dung in three pints of ••hamber lye all night, keep the horse up all night also, and in the morning bleed him in the mouth; and while he is bleeding, pour off very clean, half a pint of the chamber-lye, add to this half an ounce of indigo, and drench the horse before he is done bleeding.

GRUBS.

Give one table-spoonful of the flour of indigo in any kind of spirits

HOOKS.

When first discovered, beat allum salt fine, and blow in the eyes with a quill, or spirt spring water in his eyes.

BAD STOMACH,

Give in ounce of copperas dissolved in a pint of vinegar and water, or hard cider, or frequently put copperas and vinegar in their food.

SWEANEY.

This is a wasting away of the flesh from off the bones, both in man and beast, without pain or much soreness. Either the leg, thigh, or arm of, man, and in the shoulder of a horse, so wasting the flesh away till they lose the use of the limb. For this stew a good handful of earth-warms in fresh butter that never was salted, with a little green rye, or rye flour, or mashed rye, and anoint the place once a day, and the flesh will come again, and the limb will be well as before; but it will be as long getting well as it was coming.

YELLOW WATER, OR DROPSY IN HORSES.

The yellow water, or dropsy in horses, is known by the horse becoming very sluggish and apt to stumble; his hide will be fast to his ribs, and his mane and tail will put out much easier than common. When this is the case, delay no time; but put your horse up in the stable all night without any food, and in the morning give the following mixture▪ take a table-spoonful of indigo, and strike it smooth off, the same of cop|peras, the same of salt-petre, and the same of allum: put these into half a pint of any kind of spirits or vinegar, or hard cider, and drench the horse fasting. Then put him in the stable again,

and as soon as it can be prepared, give him three times a day a pint of the following decoction, with half a table-spoonful of salt-petre and cop|peras in it: take a handful of dogwood root, the same of sassafras root, the same of poplar root bark, the same of elder root, the same of spice wood, the same of woods bitiny, and four handfuls of peach leaves, root, of bark, boiled strong. His food must be oats, or cut straw mixt with a little rye meal, if to be had, if not, corn meal will do, and wet it with the same decoction. A vessel with the same must be set by him to drink, for he must drink no water: neither let the rain or dew fall on him. Let him be at liberty in a lot in the day time, if fair.

HOOPING-COUGH.

Take one pint of honey, one pint of water, one handful of polly podum, of the oak, one handful of missettor of the honey laeast tree, if to be had, if not, any other will do; s••ew these to a syrrup, and give the patient one table-spoonful morning and night, or four times a day if occasion shall require.

FAINTNESS.

For this, either in sickness or without, give the person when fainty, twenty drops of the com|pound spirits of lavander on a piece of loaf sugar, or in any kind of tea; or ten drops of the essence of peppermint.

GOLD.

I would advise every body when they first dis|cover a cold, to bleed eight or ten ounces, which

is half a pint or three gills, and at going to bed, take a sweat of rosemary or hyssop tea, with a little spirits in it sufficient for a grown person. In the low country yeopon toddy will answer the same purpose. This will preserve health, when if let alone might prove fatal. Or, at going to bed put your feet six inches deep in water, as hot as you can bare it, bathe them well; then, take them out wipe them dry, get into bed without your feet touch any thing cold, then take the abo|ve mentioned sweat, this will do without bleeding.

ULCER OR OLD SORE.

First bleed, then for three nights at going to bed, take two grains of calamin•• eating no milk, nor nothing salt nor greasy; in this time the teeth and gums will get very sore, then the third morn|ing take a dose of salts, and work it off; and if there is any dead or rotten flesh in the sore, cut a quill like a tooth pick, with this take a little pissippet and jarring it with the point of a knife, springle a little over the sore, which will cleanse the sore and cause it to ma••••er: in the sore lay a little line, or a little fine toe finely carded, over that toe a plaister of the following salve: take four ounces of mutton feet, two ounces of soft turpentine, and as much beeswax as will make it stiff ••nough for a plaister, add to this one hand|full of white plantain, one handfull of bloodwort, one handfull of agrimony, stew them all together till the herbs are crips, then keep it for use.— Agrimony is the nearest like single tansey, their any wild herb I have ever seen, and bloodwort grows on poor ground, as well as white plantain and is nearly of the same size, but the underside i•• of a deep purple colour. During the cure eat light wheat bread and nothing else, and drink molasses 〈…〉〈…〉, if to be had, if not take one

handfull of white oak bark, one handfull of pop|lar root bark, of each the inside, one handfull of woods bitiny, stew it a little on the coals and keep it for your constant drink, during the cure drink every morning half a pint of the following diet drink; boil a strong decoction of spanish oak bark poplar root bark, and sumake root, and keep it for use. If the sore should be troubled with an itching, rue it with a little canphire steep it whiskey, which will kill the itching humour.

TOOTH-ACH.

Take white plantain, bloodwort and agrimony of each one handfull, mutton suet four ounces, soft turpentine one ounce, and as much beeswax as will make it fit for a plaister, stew these toge|ther till the herbs are crips, then squeeze them out, and keep it for use, of this spread a plaister of the size of a dollar, and lay it on the face against the tooth that achs, and it will cure it in half an hour, that is more or less. White plantain is well known almost by every person, bloodwort is about the same size, only the under side of the leaves is of a deap purple colour, agrimony is the most like single tansey, of any wild herbs I know, and always buds at the root for the next year.

PAIN IN THE STOMACH.

Take an english pipe that is very black by smoking, break the stem close to the bole, and break the ba••e o••f close to the black ring, then take the black part of the pipe, and beat it to a very fine powder, put the powder into half a pint of worm water, stew is well and drink it off.

BELLY-ACH IN CHILDREN.

Give a table-spoonfull of salt and water, make it very strong, this will give immediate ease.

VOMITING OR CASTING OF THE STOMACH.

Give the size of a pea of the salts of worm-wood, disolved in a spoonfull of water or vinegar and water, if it does not stop the first time, give the second and third time till it does stop.

CONSUMPTION.

Take timber white oak bark, poplar root bark, sassafras root bark, of each the inside, one handfull; of woods bittiny one handfull, beach bark the same, boil them in two gallons of wa|ter till reduced to one, keep it for use, take a tea-cupfull three times a day, sweetened with the following preparation: split a nutmeg, toast it well beat it to a fine powder, add to it a quarter of a pound of loaf sugar well ground together in a mortar: let his diet be light rye bread, and milk warm from the cow, (red cow milk is the best) and drink milk and water, and if the pa|tient has been used to spirit, put a little in his drink, but if he has not been used to spirits, touch none, and be sure eat nor drink nothing cold and for this purpose keep a red cow in the yard, and fe••d her on cut rye and rye meal, and be sure you ride in the open air in fair weather.

COSTIVENESS.

Take one table-spoonfull of jesuits bark in fine powder, one tea-spoonfull of rhubarb in fine pow|der, grind them together in a mortar, take one tea-spoonfull morning, noon, and night.

ITCH.

Take a double handfull of dock root scrapt clean and beaten, itch-grass, called by some cow itch, by others bullfilick, scrape it clean also, for it is the outside skin that terrifyes: boil them in one gallon of water till reduced to one quart, add to this one quart of a pound of mutton suet, boil them together till the water is all gone, take it of the fire, then add to that one ounce of sweet gum, then stew it till it is well mixt; with this anoint the sores till well.

BROKEN BONE.

If it be a leg, thigh, or arm, be sure to sett the bone as soon as possible before it swels, for after it swells it can not be done well, if it can be done at least, and for this prepare as follows: let one or two persons take hold of the patient, and hold the foot if it be a leg or thigh, and pull till one leg is as long as the other, let another hold the broken bone, and carefully place the bones together, when it is set wrap it up till the following bandage is prepared: stitch two pie|ces of linen together with a nice white oak split between them, about half an inch a sunder; like stays, are made making holes along the edges, then prepare and dress it as followeth; take the white of an egg and sharp vinegar, and beat them well together, card fine toe well in bats, dip them in it and lay allround the wound then wrap the bandage round, and lace it as stays are lac••b then prepare a box with a bottom and two sides, and carefully laying it in and dress it with the white of an egg and vinegar, as it gets dry.— If it be hot weather keep it cool, and if it is

cold weather keep it warm, if the bone breaks through the skin, so that it cannot be got in again saw it off, and then put in the remaining part carefully, observing that the limb is straight, then add to the above mentioned egg and vinegar a little tincture of mirrh, to heal the outward wound. And to prevent an inflamation, give the patient half a table-spoonfull of jesuits bark in fine powder, four times a day, and every other night one grain of opium, as long as there is any danger.

PLEURASY.

Boil a pot full of broom-straw, and pine tops and life—everlasting, then put it in a tub, place the patient by it with his head over it, cover him over with a blanket, let him sweat a few minutes then put him to bed cover him up, be carefull he gets no cold; if need be you may do this two or three times a day.

WIND-CHOLICK.

Take for a month a gill of good molasses' morning and night, and I make no doubt but you will find relief.

INTERNAL WOUNDS IN THE BREAST OR BOWELS.

Boil comphrey roots in claret wine, take a table-spoonfull four times a day.

FEVERS.

In all fevers if the patient should be costive, called in common bound; it is expedient to give a glister, which may be prepared thus: boil creeping mallows in clean water, sweeten it with brown sugar or molasses, add to this a little hogs grease,

It is expedient that every house-keeper, should keep by him a lancet, clister-pipe, and sullenger, that the time may not be spent in getning them, at ought to be spent in using them.

Thus: having gone through the most of the common complaints, to which the inhabitants of our states are subject to, and prescribed such safe and easy cures, as will generally succeed if timely applyed. Yet I am far from pretending that any of them are infallible, we all know that death strikes so strong in some cases, that all physick are in vain; yet if curable and you will follow these directions, you need not doubt a cure, in the mean time I make no question, but some of my brothers Quacks will make themsel|ves merry with these prescriptions; remember well what the wise man sayeth, I said of laughter i•• i•• ma••, and of mirth it is a folly! —Again, some men are so proud and invious, that they would have no body to know any thing but them|selves, the one I hope will shortly learn better manners, and the other be a burden too heavy for the earth long to bear. Tho' after all, it is not impossible that they may do by some of these medicines, just as the English do by the French fashion, laugh at them first, and make use of them afterwards. The within mentioned dis|orders, are the most fatal and troublesome we are afflicted within these states. I have been as short as I could, the remedies I have prescribed are almost all of our own growth, there being very few imparted medecines, and them are so cheap, that if it happens to not cure my patient, I am sure it will not ruin himself, and surely man cannot say, he does very unfairly, when there is so little to pay, either to the doctor or apothicary; neither do I make my patients belly an apothicary's shop.