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Koarhound, elecampane, chamomile, wormwood, 

 tansy, mullen, wake robhi or Indian turnip, 

 spearmint, hoise-mint or mountain balm, bor^set, 

 or thoroushwort, skunk cabbage, ft-cilherfew, 



snakeroot.ginseng, slippery ehiijblack birch bark 

 balsam firtree, niu^i-^id, balm of gilt >1, a species 

 of poplar, hovseretkiish, prickly a^ih prickly 

 sumach, pipsiseway, spikenard, goUlenrod, yel- 

 low dock, wild cherry tree, peach i.^e. burk. 

 All of these plants and others which are ver^ 

 common both in gardens md fields, ruay be use- 

 fully employed in many diseases, as colds, 

 coughs, hoarsness, sore throat, bruises, prsin^-, 

 obstinate and hard sn'ellin^s, ulcera, for sweat- 

 ing, in steaming water, infevnf^, rg-ie ai ' Tev^r, 

 rhumatisms, sciurulofM*ruptioni*,*«*/-sum; * un=, 

 complaints of the lungs, and kid..ie5, and ..'?.uy 

 other diseases common to mankind ia 'his conn- 

 trv, all of which, almost any old lady or some- 

 one of each family ^rill know how, when and 

 fer what purpose to use them, 



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