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quantity may be added to a dose of either of the oth- 

 er numbers, when given, & also added to the clys- 

 ters. It may here be remarked that this is a 

 medicine of great value in nervous disorders, 

 and is particularly useful in epilepsies proceeding 

 from a debility of the nervous system; it is also 

 very serviceable in affections of the hyster- 

 ical kinil, and highly useful in procuring sleep, 

 even where laudanum and opium fails. In cases 

 of nervous affections, it may, therefore, be usciT 

 with great success, and should always be em- 

 ployed, both internally, v/ith other medicines, 



and a proportionate quantity administered wifli 

 the injections. 



JJoa:- Wood. This is such a common and well 



tree throughout the United States, as to 

 need no description whatever. A tea made of 

 the inside bark of this tree, and used as a com- 

 mon drink, three or four tea cupfuls a day,' is 

 a most excellent remedy for clap. This, with a 

 tea made of the bark of black aider, (sometimes 

 called also, candle alder, a small shrub about ten 

 or twelve feet high, which grows common along 

 all of our small water courses,) used as a wash, 

 and also as injections several times during the 

 day, will, in the course of a very few days, ai- 

 fectually cure that very common and disagrec- 

 bly filthy complaint. 



Siveat Weed. This plant is sometimes calletl 

 wild tansey, which it somewhat resembles in ap- 



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