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ed with other ingredients, for mating different 

 medicines, as you will find under the head of 

 beer for consumption^ and other medicines des- 

 cribed in this work. 



We have so far given a description of all ths 



most important vegetables made use of in the 

 present system of practice^ together with the 



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-and the way in which they are to be used; but 

 there are many other plants made use of, for the 

 purpose of restoring the sick to healthy which 



every person living in this country, is already 

 acquainted with^ and would therefore be useless to 

 describe. It may, however, beremarked^in this 



place, that many plants, of late years, have been 

 discovered; proving eminently beneficial in the 

 arC of healing, which has hitherto been known 

 only to the w andering tribes of w estern Indians, 

 and from them purchased; or remained hidden 

 in the mor^ ?^c' laded recesses of the western for- 

 zsiy till the energetic spirit of research, in the 

 |>resent age, dispelled the dark cloud of medical 

 immolation, and revealed their healing virtues to 

 a suffering and afflicted people. Such has been 

 the result of the exertions and researches of a 

 few philanthrophic patriarchs of the age in which 

 we live, and the dark vail of mysterious dura- 

 tion which has so long concealed the natural fea- 

 tures of medical kuowledi^e from the view of 



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