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and used as we have directed in the different 

 compositions of part first of this work. A tea- 

 spoonful of the fine powder/ with half that quan- 

 tity of ginger;, may be taken in a tea-cup of 

 warm water^ sweetened^ on going to btuly to re- 

 move cold and produce a moisture on the skin, 



Rattle-iocecL This plant is well known a- 

 mong the people of the western country hy the 

 name of papoose root, and squaw weed, and is 

 said to have taken the latter name from the ex- 

 tensive use the Indian women make of it;n fe- 

 male complaints. It will he found growing to 

 the height of four or five feet on almost any fer- 

 tile land along the foot of ridges, or mountains, 

 and near small streams. Tiie stalk is about the 

 thickness of a large goosB-quill, nearly round, 

 and about two or three feet from the ground it di- 

 vides into several parts, with many leaves ou 

 each, about the size of an apple tree leaf; the 

 stalk which bears the flowers, shoots out from the 

 main stalk some distance below the leaves, pnd 

 continues up above the leaves sometimes two or 

 three feet, bearing many flowers at the top, 

 which form a capsule or seed case, containing 

 many seeds, and when they become dry, make 

 a rattling noise, which has giveajt the nlme of 

 rattle- weed; the leaves are of a deep green 00 





top and lighter underneath; the 6j»e at Uie tm\ © 

 each main leaf stalk, is mostly three Inbecfc aud 

 all saw-toothed. The root is the part made hs? 



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