350 . RULES FOR GIVING MEDICINE. 
preparation I generally give three times a day, a short time 
before eating, for two or three days ; after that I follow up_ 
the practice with Blood Purifier, root syrups and powders of 
various kinds, to meet the case, and many times outward 
bathings and baths, tepid and cold. Sometimes I use the 
Bath Liniment clear, sometimes in warm water, and at others — 
in hot water, combined with Bath Powders—say one ounce 
of Bath Powders to one Hable-speonfal: of Bath Liniment, in 
one gallon of hot water. — 
In chest difficulties I alle wet a cloth with Bath Lini- 
ment and warm water, equal parts, and lay it on, and have 
the petient sleep.with it on. Sometimes I use the Pain Ex- 
‘tractor, clear, in the same manner. I many times follow up 
these applications with a strengthening plaster: varying my 
Indian Physic sometimes by mandrake roots, pulverized— 
say to a common dose four grains, and sometimes, in case of — 
fever and ague and chill fever, Tadd to a dose blood root, 
pulverized, two to four grains, which makes it still more pow- 
erful; but in female cases, where they are pregnant, it will 
“not do to add blood root or lobelia; although I add some 
times, in cases of inflammation of the lungs, one or two 
grains of lobelia, and in cases of inflammation of the bowels 
Tadd six or eight grains of smartweed powders, and in such 
eases: Rs leave out the blood root and lobelia. 
aver disease i is removed in any way, it is necessary 
‘weir wmathiag es” heal the wound, of whatever kind it 
may be. TI generally give Cordial first, but it requires judg- 
ment and experience to give medicine with safety, and a 
proper knowledge of man—physically and mentally—to 
_know properly how to give medicine of any kind. There are 
failures of effecting cures, many times, in consequence of the 
arelessness of the patient, ¢ even if the. skill and medicine or- 
